2009 Asian Poker Tour - Manila

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 Asian Poker Tour - Manila

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$185,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$635,500
Entries
262
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
2,000

Yea Approaches One Million

Yea the first to a million?
Yea the first to a million?
Steve Yea opened to 25,000 and Neil Arce called next to speak. With it folding round, Yea led for 30,000 on a flop of {A-Spades}{Q-Clubs}{10-Clubs}. Arce passed, flashing pocket kings, with Yea raking in the pot pushing him close to a million in chips while flashing the {A-Clubs}.

Tags: Neil ArceSteven Yea

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

Liz Lieu Eliminated in 7th Place ($22,000)

Liz Lieu - 7th Place
Liz Lieu - 7th Place
Steve Yea opened from early position for 21,000. Action passed to Liz Lieu, who moved all in for roughly 100,000. Yea asked for a count, but when he realized Lieu didn't have more than 100,000 chips he called before the dealer had completed the count.

Lieu: {2-Diamonds} {2-Spades}
Yea: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}

Lieu shook her head slightly when she saw what she was up against. The flop of {10-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} didn't bring her any help. When the {9-Spades} hit the turn, Lieu was down to her final chance at hitting a deuce. The river came "no sides," but it wasn't a deuce. It was the {A-Diamonds}. As such, Lieu became the seventh-place finisher, walking away with $22,000 in prize money.

Tags: Liz LieuSteve Yea

Yea Takes One From Kastle

Casey Kastle opened to 26,000 from under the gun and with it folding round to Steve Yea in the cutoff, he made the call.

The blinds passed and on a flop of {7-Hearts}{2-Spades}{6-Diamonds}, Kastle checked to Yea who led out for 30,000. Kastle looked Yea up and down while glancing back and forth at the flop before letting go of his hand.

With Yea taking down his third pot of the final table he is already up to 850,000 in chips.

Tags: Casey KastleSteven Yea

Yea Takes Another Pot

Yea unstoppable
Yea unstoppable
Sometimes final tables start with cautious players who refuse to take flops. Not so this final table. We had a flop for the fourth hand in a row, between Steve Yea and Neil Arce, who were in for the amount of the big blind. Action checked all the way to the river on a board of {6-Spades} {6-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {A-Spades} {K-Clubs}. Yea bet 20,000 at that point. Arce surrendered.

Tags: Neil ArceSteve Yea

Yea Pressures Lieu

Liz Lieu opened to 19,000 and Ron Kluber made the call from the button as did Steve Yea from the big blind.

On a flop of {Q-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{2-Spades} Yea checked to Lieu, who fired out a bet of 25,000. Kluber let go of his hand to see Yea put in a reraise to 65,000. Lieu deliberated for over 30 seconds before laying her hand down.

Tags: Liz LieuRon KluberSteven Yea

Vesa Leikos Eliminated in 8th Place ($16,000)

Vesa Leikos - 8th Place
Vesa Leikos - 8th Place
We had barely settled back into our seats after the stunningly quick elimination of Kim Tae Hyung when Vesa Leikos opened all in from early position for 92,000 chips. Action passed to Casey Kastle, who asked for a count. Once the amount was confirmed, Kastle called. Everyone else folded.

Leikos: {A-Spades} {K-Clubs}
Kastle: {9-Diamonds} {9-Spades}

It was almost a carbon copy of the Hyung elimination hand, and it brought similar results. It was a nine in the window for Kastle on a flop of {A-Clubs} {6-Spades} {9-Hearts}. Leikos was drawing dead on the {3-Clubs} turn. Once the river fell {5-Diamonds}, he was escorted off of the stage to the payout window.

Two hands, two eliminations! Can we go three for three?

Tags: Casey KastleVesa Leikos

Kim Tae Hyung Eliminated in 9th Place ($12,000)

Kim Tae Hyung eliminated in 9th place
Kim Tae Hyung eliminated in 9th place
On the first hand of the day, Cicurel Didier opened to 17,000 from under the gun and Neil Arce made the call. With the action on Kim Tae Hyung he moved all in for 167,000.

It was folded back round to Didier, who threw away his hand putting the action on the local Arce. Arce sat there for over 90 seconds before announcing, "Call" and the cards were tabled.

Hyung: {A-Clubs}{J-Hearts}
Arce: {9-Diamonds}{9-Spades}

With the crowd on the edge of their seats with this being the first hand of the final table, the flop {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} would put Arce further in front. The {K-Diamonds} took a few outs away from the Korean, and when the {7-Diamonds} landed on the river Hyung headed to the rail in ninth place for a payday of $12,000.

Arce raked in the pot, sending him a few thousand short of 600,000 to the pleasure of the strong Filipino crowd.

Tags: Cicurel DidierKim Tae HyungNeil Arce