Monday, October 6, 2014

2014 WSOP APAC Day 3: Danzer Takes Over Player of the Year Lead; First Final Table



The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific continued its third day of action on Saturday. The AU$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator completed its second day of play, and the AU$2,200 No-Limit Hold'em kicked off within the afternoon.

AU$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator

Day 2 of the outlet AU$1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Accumulator event from the 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific has reached its conclusion on Saturday night. The third and final day of play is only one night's sleep away, and that is the day when someone can be crowned the primary gold bracelet winner from Down Under this year. Also awaiting the champion is AU$131,365 in prize money.

The man best positioned to capture the highest prize is Luke Brabin. He bagged up 336,000 in chips and can lead the rest 10 competitors into Day 3. That is an all-Australian final 10, and every player is guaranteed a minimum payday of AU$9,831.

Joining Brabin are Ryan Hong, Stephen Lindeblad, Brian McAllister, Didier Guerin, Kahle Burns, Zane Ly, Daniel Murphy, Piyush Gupta, and David Profaca.

More than 90 players began Day 2, including the large chip leader Scott Clements. Unfortunately for Clements, though, his run fell in need of the cash. Paul Sharbanee also fell wanting the money, and he was the tournament's bubble after busting out in 55th place.

One player hitting a cash was Brandon Shack-Harris, but he could only muster a min-cash. Entering this event, Shack-Harris led the WSOP Player of the Year race, but that's up to now. George Danzer — the person closely trailing Shack-Harris by lower than 10 points — worked his approach to a 22nd-place finish on this event and took over the pole position. Shack-Harris' run led to him earned 8.5 points towards the WSOP Player of the Year, whereas Danzer picked up 17 points. Danzer now leads the race with 762.2 points to Shack-Harris' 760.5.

Other notables to complete within the money were Antonio Esfandiari (45th - AU$2,560), Dan Heimiller (31st - AU$3,159), Julius Colman (25th - AU$4,094), and Jeff Madsen (19th - AU$5,591).

Day 3 will definitely be an exhilarating day at the felt. Just nine eliminations stand within the way between the crowning of the primary gold bracelet winner from the 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific, and it couldn't be a more exciting time at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.

The action will commence at 12:10 p.m. local time with PokerNews live coverage plus a final-table live stream, and naturally PokerNews could have a recap upon completion of play.

AU$2,200 No-Limit Hold'em

On Saturday, the 2014 WSOP APAC continued with Day 1 action from Event #2 $2,200 No-Limit Hold’em. The tournament – one of the crucial new events added to the WSOP APAC schedule – attracted 215 players, but after ten one-hour levels of play, just 31 remained with Sam Ruha and his stack of 122,000 leading the way.

Ruha got a few of his chips in Level 7 (200/400/50) when Daniel Negreanu opened for 950 from middle position and Ruha called. The  3-Hearts  7-Clubs  2-Spades flop saw Ruha call a gamble of 1,600, after which he called one among 2,800 when Negreanu bet the  A-Hearts turn. Both players then checked the  6-Diamonds river and Negreanu rolled over the  7-Diamonds  10-Diamonds for a couple of sevens. It was no good though as Ruha held an overpair with the  10-Hearts  10-Clubs . Negreanu would fall later within the night while Ruha went directly to bag up the chip lead.

Others who made it through with big stacks included Tim O’Shea (100,200), Michael O’Grady (82,200), Bill Zahris (82,100) and Sam Nee (68,400).

Event #2 Day 1 chip leader Sam Ruha

Straight out of the gate the tournament was characterized by something – eliminations. The reigning WSOP champ, Ryan Riess, was a few of the first to move when he ran kings into aces, but he was removed from the last. Among those to exit on Day 1 were Vanessa Rousso, Jack Salter, Jonathan Dimmig, Jonathan Duhamel, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Shack-Harris, Jackie Glazier, Jonathan Little, Scott Clements, Bruno Politano, and George Danzer.

After finishing in 22nd place in Event #1 and surpassing Shack-Harris atop the 2014 WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard, Danzer jumped into Event #2 just as registration came to an in depth. Danzer managed to work his 6,000 starting stack as much as 15,000 or so, but that's as high as he'd get.

Danzer lost a great deal of his chips when he raised from the button after which called a shove from the player within the small blind. Danzer was ahead with  3-  3- against his opponent's  k-  q- , but a king at the river saw the German fall to 6 big blinds.

He got it very quickly later after two players had limped, one in every of which called him with  10-  10- . Danzer held  a-  9- but did not improve. He confirmed that he'll be playing Event #3 $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha on Sunday.

While dozens fell, a lucky throng of players made it through to Day 2 including Dan Heimiller (55,200), Kitty Kuo (45,400), Russell Thomas (13,000), and Jeff Gross (13,000). The latter two could have their work cut out for themselves in the event that they hope to make the money on the top 24 and contend for the $107,500 first-place prize.

The remaining 33 players will return to action at 12:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, and the plan is to minimize to the overall table of nine. In fact the PokerNews Live Reporting Team might be there every step of how to bring you all of the action in our live reporting blog.

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