November 27 2011, Donnie Peters

The 2011 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event completed on Sunday after a long day of action. Fifteen players returned to action on the last day of play, which made things last a tad bit longer than normal. To begin the day, Sangeeth Mohan was the man in charge. He held the chip lead to enter the day, but was not the one to walk away with the title. That man was Team PokerStars Online’s Randy Lew. He topped Jimmy Pan in heads-up play to claim victory and earn HKD$3,772,000.

Sparrow Cheung was the first player eliminated on Day 4 and he was followed out the door by Josh Barrett, Tsugunari Toma, Daoxing Chen and Baton Fung before the tournament came to the final table bubble. Two tables were stacked with five players each with the final nine making the official APPT final table.

Falling on the final table bubble was the start-of-the-day chip leader Mohan. With the blinds at 25,000/50,000/5,000, Mohan opened from the button to 110,000. Kai Yat Fam was in the small blind and reraised to 380,000. Action moved back to Mohan and he four-bet to 710,000. Fam called.

The flop fell , and Fam checked to Mohan. Mohan bet all of his chips and Fam quickly called with the . Mohan had flopped top set with , but wasn’t in the clear yet. Fam held a big draw and spiked it on the turn when the fell to give him a flush. The river failed to pair the board and Mohan was eliminated to officially set the final table.

Final Table Seat Draw and Chip Counts

The first player to be eliminated at the final table was the man with the most major final table experience, David Steicke. Steicke was crippled to just a few big blinds before getting the last of his money in with . He was up against Daniel Nordstrom and his . Despite flopping a straight draw on the board, the turn and river failed to give Steicke what he needed.

Next to go was Zheng Tai Tan in eighth place. He was all-in preflop with pocket deuces, but crushed by Jeff Rossiter’s pocket eights. The board ran out and Tan hit the rail.

Nordstrom went out in seventh place and he fell at the hands of Rossiter as well. Then, in sixth place, was Fam. He was eliminated by Lew. After that, Zuo Wang fell in fifth and Fabian Spielmann in fourth.

When three-handed play began, Rossiter held the chip lead, but it would all soon disappear. Rossiter got into a battle with Lew that saw the two flip for nine million chips. Rossiter five-bet all-in and Lew made the call to put his tournament life on the line. Lew held and Rossiter showed . A clean board of followed and Lew secured a double up.

Rossiter was eliminated on the next hand when he shoved the button with and ran into Jimmy Pan’s. The board ran out .

When heads-up play began, Lew had the slight edge. He was up 9 million to the 8.25 million for Pan. At the beginning of the match, Lew began to pull away, but then Pan doubled up to take the lead ten million to seven million. Lew stayed focused, though, and fought his way back in front. But then, he lost the lead again and was back up against the wall.

Lew came storming back to the lead after his pocket sixes held up against Pan’s . Lew was all-in preflop for around 6 million and flopped a set with a six in the window. That win gave him a big lead of 13 million to 4.25 million, and the match ended shortly thereafter.

On the final hand, Lew and Pan got all of the money in on the flop. Lew held the for top two pair and was up against Pan’s . The turn brought the , which left Pan needing just a king on the river. The fell and that was it. Pan was eliminated in second place while Team PokerStars Online’s Lew took home the title.

This win is by far the largest of Lew’s career. Prior to this score, his largest live cash came in January when Lew took 10th place in the Aussie Millions Main Event for AUD$100,000.

Final Table Results

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November 26 2011, Josh Bell

Day 3 has come to an end at the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event and what an eventful day it was. When the day began, 96 players were in contention, but by the end of the day, only 15 remained. Of those players, India’s Sangeeth Mohan will start Day 4 with the chip lead.

Coming into Day 3, Nathaniel Seet had the most chips, holding a staggering lead over Dan Park who was second in chips. Seet and Park did not hold on to their chips all day however, and were eliminated in 38th and 28th respectively.

Seet and Park may have been lucky enough to finish in the money, but it wasn’t the same story for Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero. The demise of Barbero came after several brutal hands, which left him with only 5,000 in chips. Barbero’s last chips were sent into the middle holding against an opponent’s . No help came for Barbero and he was sent to the rail.

Some prominent players who did manage to make the money, but failed to make an elusive deep finish, were Julian Powell (69th), Andrew Scott (61st), Johnny Chan (60th), Terrence Chan (56th) and Grant Levy (25th).

Of course, what everyone wants to know is who is still in contention for the title. Mohan will return on Day 4 with the chip lead, bagging up a huge 2,425,000. Mohan is on a bit of hot streak at the moment, having taken down an Asian Poker Tour event in Goa, India, just a few weeks ago.

Also returning for Day 4 is Team PokerStars Online’s Randy Lew. The player well known as online super-grinder “nanonoko” will start the final day of play with 845,000 in chips.

Also taking the felt on Lew’s table will be David Steicke, who had somewhat of a roller coaster day, seeing his stack ebb and flow from being the chip leader several times, to at one point having a short stack. In the end Steicke bagged up a healthy 886,000.

On the one other remaining table will be prominent Australian players Jeff Rossiter and Josh Barrett. Rossiter and Barrett will both return with seven-figure stacks and are in contention to take an APPT title to the shores of Australia.

See below for the full final day table draw:

The 15 remaining players are guaranteed at least HKD$124,000, however it is the HKD$3,772,000 that all the players are gunning for. The prize equates to almost US$500,000 and the top five players will be set to earn at least six-figures. Below is a list of the final table payouts, with the approximate equivalent in USD.

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