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.

Be sure to join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team at 1200 CST Monday (Sunday, 2000 PDT) as they bring all the action on the way to crowning the newest APPT champion in Macau!

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August 25 2011, Josh Bell

The final Day 1 flight at the 2011 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Queenstown Main Event came to a close on Thursday with another small field adding 23 more players to Friday’s Day 2 action.

Forty-three players entered Day 1c, but only 36 actually took their seats; however, there were no complaints. The seven no-shows left thousands of dollars of dead money in the prize pool.

After six levels of play, 23 players remained and will join the 20 and 28 players from Day 1a and 1b, respectively, to form the 71-player Day 2 field. Some players from Day 1c who won’t be making an appearance on Day 2 include Julian Cohen, Andrew Scott and Joel Dodds.

After taking down the 2011 APPT Melbourne Main Event a few weeks ago, Leo Boxell was looking good to continue his solid run in the APPT, but his Day 2 hopes in Queenstown were cut short late into Day 1c by the eventual chip leader, Alicia Sale.

Sale managed to work her way up the chip leaderboard throughout the day after falling early to 4,000 in chips. Her rise culminated in the double elimination of Boxell and Joshua Jurcic. Both players were all-in on the flop. Boxell was in trouble holding against Jurcic’s , while Sale held . She managed to hit the on the turn to make the nut flush and send both opponents to the rail.

Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts

Sale not only managed to top the counts after Day 1c, but she will return for Day 2 on Friday as the overall chip leader. Sale adds to the Kiwi domination of APPT Queenstown. The players with the top five chip stacks all hail from New Zealand.

The closest international player to Sale going into Day 2 is Germany’s Marcel Schreiner, while Australia’s Daniel Laidlaw and Austrian Octavian Voegele also sit close by the New Zealanders.

Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts

The returning players will take their seats at the felt at 1230 NZST (1700 PDT) on Friday all vying for the $94,300 NZD first-place prize. Join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team as they bring you all the action from Day 2 of the 2011 APPT Queenstown Snowfest.

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