APT Macau Main Event Day 1a | 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau

08-20-2009 21:34 UTC+8

Break Time

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Players are on their last 15-minute break of the night.

08-20-2009 21:34 UTC+8

The Deja Vu of Andrew

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With Andrew Scott in the big blind, action folded around to the button. He limped in before the small blind folded.

"Didn't this happen before once?" Scott asked the button. "And I bet the flop and you raised." Scott's opponent said nothing.

"Let's have another crack at it." Scott rapped the table to decline his option, prompting the dealer to produce a flop of {10-Hearts}

. Both players checked.

The turn was the {8-Clubs}

. The button bet 3,000 out of turn.

"I'll check," said Scott. He then considered his action and called the 3,000 chips. The river was the {9-Hearts}

.

"Are you gonna bet?" Scott cheekily asked the button. This time he got a response.

"I'll wait for your decision."

"I check then," Scott replied. His opponent quickly bet 4,000. Scott flashed the {K-Spades}

and mucked.

Tags: Andrew Scott

08-20-2009 21:33 UTC+8

Great Wall of Steicke Starts Production

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David Steicke is renown for accumulating chips at a rapid rate and building what we affectionately refer to as the "Great Wall of Steicke". Many players like to build pyramids with their chips, but Steicke prefers to build the wall - a single row of chips banked up against the side of the table.

During some events we've witnessed Steicke accumulate so many chips that his wall has literally taken up over a third of the table. We believe one of his life-long poker goals is to one day accumulate enough chips to circle the table in its entirety.

The "Great Wall of Steicke" has just started production here at the APT Macau as his 60,000-plus chip stack is starting to make his neighbours nervous!

Tags: David Steicke

08-20-2009 21:29 UTC+8

Only Happens Online

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Michael Woo opened with a raise to 1,800 and the action folded to a short-stacked player on the button who moved all in. The small blind then came over the top of for a few thousand more as Woo raised his eyebrows but plonked a stack of yellows into the both to call.

Woo thought his {Q-Spades}

was strong but wouldn't you know it, his opponents flipped {A-Diamonds}

and

!

"Lucky they weren't deeper!" said one player to Woo who replied, "I guess so, but I'd probably call anyway!"

The board bricked out {9-Spades}

(where's the 9-2 big blind special this time?) and the short-stacked aces finds a triple up, as Woo slips to 55,000.

Tags: Michael Woo

08-20-2009 21:20 UTC+8

Value-Bet Bluff Fools Kinkade

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Oh, the pain of being bluffed. It is a fresh pain for Jay Kinkade.

With about 16,000 chips already in the pot, Kinkade was facing a suspiciously small bet of 4,500 from his opponent on the river of a {J-Spades}

board. Kinkade thought things over for a minute. Then he picked up his cards.

"It's a sick bluff if it's a bluff," he said as he pitched his cards into the dealer.

"Since you called it, one time," said Kinkade's opponent. He opened {4-Spades}

for a busted flush draw. He was playing the board.

"Ahhhhh," groaned a disgusted Kinkade. "So sick. I almost called you with a ten." Kinkade's opponent grinned the grin of the cat that ate the canary.

"It would have been such a sick call," continued Kinkade. "But you bet the exact same amount on the river as you did on the turn and no one ever does that on a bluff. If you had bet 5,300 I would have called."

Casey Kastle added his own two cents. "I knew you were on a bluff," he told Kinkade's opponent. "I wasn't 100% sure but I was about 97% sure. I would have called you in a second with his hand."

Kinkade didn't give any reaction to Kastle's remarks. He seemed too busy wallowing in his own pit of bluffed-out pain.

Tags: Casey Kastle Jay Kinkade

08-20-2009 21:06 UTC+8

All-In Confusion Dents The Kastle

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After a raise from Rasmus Akerblom in middle position, the action folded to a player in the small blind who moved all in for his last 10,000 chips. The action was then with Casey Kastle, who grabbed the special "All-In" disc, which is used by the dealers at the APT events to indicate when a player is all in, and tossed it in front of him saying nothing.

The dealer then attempted to confirm with Kastle that he was indeed all in, and Kastle hesistated - perhaps just realizing that the big stack of Akerblom was still to act behind him.

Again Kastle was asked for confirmation and he asked what his options were at this point and if he was to be held to an all-in since he had said nothing.

The floor was called and the ruling was simple. Since Kastle had thrown the "All In" disc in from of him, that was binding as an all-in move.

After the confusion, Akerblom quickly stepped aside and the cards were tabled.

Kastle: {10-Hearts}

Opponent:

The board fell {8-Clubs}

and Kastle loses the race to slip to 22,000.

Tags: Casey Kastle

08-20-2009 21:03 UTC+8

Seal on the Move

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Well we can add another 7,000 chips to Emanuel Seal's count. We caught Mr. Seal calling the all-in of a shorter-stacked player. His {A-Diamonds}

was well-positioned for a double-up against his opponent's {A-?}

and secured it on a non-threatening board.

Seal started the day off strong but hasn't been able to keep pace with the raging monster, Jay "SEABEAST" Kinkade, or the poker god, David Steicke.

Tags: Emanuel Seal

08-20-2009 20:57 UTC+8

Almost a Big Blind Special

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We just witnessed an interesting situation with two random short stacks moving all in, and Maksim Shuts in the big blind folding his cards. The two short stacks then revealed their cards - {k-Hearts}

and

- and Shuts quickly grabbed his cards which were yet to hit the muck and turned over {9-Spades}

pretending to still be live in the hand. The dealer quickly grabbed the cards and mucked them as the table got a chuckle from the attempted maneuver.

However they roared when the flop landed {9-Clubs}

which would've given Shuts a full house! It didn't stop there as the turn was the {2-Diamonds}

! The river bricked and the kings take it down as Shuts simply shook his head.

08-20-2009 20:43 UTC+8

Welcome Back

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Casey Kastle took some beats earlier in the tournament but he's back now in a big way. He opened from early position and watched as action passed all the way to the big blind. That player jammed all in and Kastle silently called.

Kastle: {A-Diamonds}

Big Blind: {Q-Diamonds}