Main Event
Day 1a Completed
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Macau
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Macau
Buy-in
25,000 HKD
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
10,000
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Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The first of two starting days at the 2014 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event ended with 87 of 212 players seeing Day 2. The day consisted of seven and a half hour-long levels, and Bo “Box” Xie emerged as the field's chip leader with 166,000 in chips.
Alvan Zheng, who led the field most of the day, finished just behind Xie with 151,400. Not far behind that you will find Jaswinder Suri with 149,500 to round out the top three.
The day saw plenty of familiar faces come out to play at the PokerStars LIVE poker room in the City of Dreams. Some of the most notable players moving on to Day 2 include Christian Haggart (65,200), Victorino Torres (50,000), Iori Yogo (37,500), Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang (31,300), Daniel Laidlaw (24,400), Akira Ohyama (18,800) and Kitty Kuo (18,000).
Probably the most famous player in the room today, Johnny Chan, will not be making Day 2 as he was eliminated when his flush draw failed to complete against Liu Xiao.
Some other players you might know that failed to advance are Oliver Gill, Ashley Warner, Dean Blatt, Sunny Jung, Percy Yung and Team PokerStars Pro Vivian Im.
Day 1b kicks off Thursday, again at 3 p.m. local time, with a bunch new faces including Team PokerStars Pros Raymond Wu and Celina Lin. Join PokerNews as we continue to bring you all the action as it happens. Until then, good night from the City of Dreams.
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
166,000 | |
|
151,400
151,400
|
151,400 |
|
149,500
149,500
|
149,500 |
|
142,800
142,800
|
142,800 |
|
|
105,700
105,700
|
105,700 |
|
|
100,100
100,100
|
100,100 |
|
98,300
98,300
|
98,300 |
|
|
90,300
90,300
|
90,300 |
|
88,900
88,900
|
88,900 |
|
|
82,600
82,600
|
82,600 |
|
|
80,800
80,800
|
80,800 |
|
|
76,600
76,600
|
76,600 |
|
|
71,100
52,100
|
52,100 |
|
|
68,600
68,600
|
68,600 |
|
68,300
68,300
|
68,300 |
|
67,100
67,100
|
67,100 |
|
66,200
66,200
|
66,200 |
|
65,200
8,200
|
8,200 |
|
|
64,700
64,700
|
64,700 |
|
64,200
64,200
|
64,200 |
|
|
64,200
64,200
|
64,200 |
|
|
62,500
62,500
|
62,500 |
|
61,500
61,500
|
61,500 |
|
56,900
56,900
|
56,900 |
|
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Bo "Box" Xie might've done enough to finish the day as the chip leader after taking out another player in the final few hands of play.
After he and another player both committed 2,300 pre flop, a flop of 
sparked a betting war between the two before both players committed all their chips.
Xie: 
Opponent: 
Xie was in trouble, after his opponent had flopped the straight. However, running 
and 
gave Xie the unlikely flush adding another 30,000 to his stack to sit atop the rest of the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
166,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The action started with Bo "Box" Xie opening to 2,000 before Vivian Im threw out 3,000 in chips. Xie then made it 6,000 before another raise to 11,000 followed. Xie had enough and moved all in which had Im covered, who called.
Im: 
Xie: 
The board did not help Im who was eliminated from the tournament in the dying minutes. Xie moved up to 135,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The clock has been paused with just about 15 minutes left and it was announced the players will be playing five more hands to conclude today's play.
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Action folded to Billy "The Croc" Argyros who bet 2,500 from the button. The player in the small blind folded and Akira Ohyama was put to a decision. Some table talk happened that we didn't catch but was implied that Ohyama made the call because of what was said and the fact the Argyros said he only looked at one.
The hands looked like this when they were tabled:
Ohyama: 
Argyros: 
Ohyama couldn't find any clubs when the board ran out 
. Ohyama asked Argyros if he only looked at one. Argyros said yes. Akira said, "that is running really well. When I had an ace with a jack I thought I was good."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
44,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
14,800 | |
|
||
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
61,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
57,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
|
|
48,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
||
|
40,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
32,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
23,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
|
|
21,000
7,800
|
7,800 |
|
20,000
800
|
800 |
|
||
|
16,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Level 7
: 400/800, 100 ante
We came upon the table with a 
board showing and a bet of 3,000 in front of Kitty Kuo who was UTG. Action was on Christian Haggart who was giving the situation some serious thought before finally making the call. Kuo quickly checked when the 
river was dealt and Haggart hesitated as if he was contemplating a bet but ended up checking behind.
Kuo quickly revealed 
which was dwarfed by Haggart's . Following that hand their table broke which means Vivian Im, Percy Yung and Kitty Kuo are going their separate ways with just 30 minutes left to play.