HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event Day 3 | 2012 PokerStars.net APPT Macau: Asia Championship of Poker

HKD$100,000 ACOP Main Event

Day 3 Completed

11-10-2012 03:00 UTC+8

Day 3 Ends with Final 22 Players in the Money; Kanaan Leads

donpeters

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Day 3 of the 2012 Macau: Asia Championship of Poker Main Event has concluded with the bubble bursting on the very last hand of the day.

Just 22 players remain, and all of them are officially in the money here in Macau. With each player guaranteed HKD$173,000, Michael Kanaan leads the way by a narrow margin. His finishing stack of 627,500 just barely eclipses the 626,500 for Andrew Gaw.

Other notables still remaining are Mike Watson, Day 1 chip leader Gary Lam and Raymond Wu. Wu finished the day with 227,000.

The penultimate Day 4 will kick off tomorrow at 3:10 p.m. local time here at the Grand Waldo Hotel in Macau, and the goal will be to reach the final table. However long that may take, PokerNews will be right here with the coverage, so don't miss out. Until then, enjoy your night, but don't party too hard. We've got that taken care of.

Tags: Michael Kanaan

11-10-2012 02:59 UTC+8

Done for the Night

donpeters

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Play has ended for the night, and we'll have a recap posted shortly.

11-10-2012 02:57 UTC+8

Day 4 Seating Assignments and Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Jacques Zaicik	UK	159,000
1	2	Michael Watson	Canada	515,000
1	3	Gary Lam	Macau	296,000
1	4	Alan Sass	USA	100,500
1	5	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	108,500
1	6	Ying Kit Chan	Hong Kong	385,500
1	7	Yuri Ishida	Japan	99,000
1	8	James McCarty	Japan	104,000

2	1	Andrew Hinrichsen	Australia	82,000
2	2	Tom Alner	UK	158,000
2	3	Zhongwei Wang	China	241,500
2	4	Raiden Kan	Malaysia	441,500
2	5	Tri Huynh	Canada	84,500
2	6	Seungsoo Jeon	Korea	265,500
2	7	Xing Zhou	China	299,000

3	1	Paolo Compagno	Switzerland	256,000
3	2	Michael Kanaan	Australia	627,500
3	3	Aaron Lim	Australia	237,000
3	4	Andrew Gaw	Philippines	626,500
3	5	Raymond Wu	Chinese Taipei	227,000
3	6	Henry Hung Tu Wang	Chinese Taipei	145,000
3	8	Ping Lin	China	62,000

11-10-2012 02:52 UTC+8

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Happy_Freaked

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Kanaan	627,500 -32,500	-32,500
Andrew Gaw	626,500 -13,500	-13,500
Mike Watson	515,000 55,000	55,000

Raiden Kan	441,500 56,500	56,500
Ying Kit Chan	385,500 240,600	240,600
Xing Zhou	299,000 -86,000	-86,000
Gary Lam	295,000 10,000	10,000
Seungsoo Jeon	265,500 -44,500	-44,500
Paolo Compagno	256,000 6,000	6,000
Zhongwei Wang	241,500 6,500	6,500
Aaron Lim	237,000 37,000	37,000

Raymond Wu	227,000 62,000	62,000

Jacques Zaicik	159,000 4,000	4,000
Tom Alner	158,000 -12,000	-12,000
Henry Wang	145,000 -23,000	-23,000
Tsugunari Toma	108,500 -41,500	-41,500

James McCarty	104,000 4,000	4,000
Alan Sass	100,500 -24,500	-24,500
Yuri Ishida	99,000 -15,000	-15,000
Tri Huynh	84,500 -270,500	-270,500
Andrew Hinrichsen	82,000 -28,000	-28,000

Ping Lin	62,000 -43,000	-43,000

11-10-2012 02:42 UTC+8

Linh Tran Bubbles ACOP Main Event

donpeters

On the very next hand after James McCarty doubled through him, Aaron Lim finished off the day by bursting the bubble. In order to send everyone into the money, Lim eliminated Linh Tran on the following hand.

Action folded to Tran in the cutoff seat, and he raised all in for 38,000. Lim reraised all in from the button, and everyone else folded. Lim held the , and Tran the . Tran was the player at risk and looking to double up.

The flop came down and just about closed the door completely for Tran. He now needed running aces, kings or threes to double up.

After the hit the turn, Tran was officially drawing dead. The river completed the board with the , and the day was over.

Player	Chips	Progress
Linh Tran	Busted

Tags: Aaron Lim Linh Tran

11-10-2012 02:39 UTC+8

McCarty Doubles On the Bubble

donpeters

From the cutoff seat, James McCarty raised all in for 48,500. Aaron Lim requested a count from the small blind, thought for a minute, then called. Everyone else got out of the way, and it was McCarty's at risk against the for Lim.

The board ran out , and despite a heart sweat on the turn, McCarty doubled through.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Lim	200,000 -50,000	-50,000

James McCarty	100,000 30,000	30,000

Tags: Aaron Lim James McCarty

11-10-2012 02:25 UTC+8

Three More Hands

Happy_Freaked

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Just three more hands will be played before the day will be done. We are still on the money bubble

11-10-2012 02:19 UTC+8

Overtime!

Happy_Freaked

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

There were just five minutes remaining in the level, but tournament director Danny McDonagh just announced there would be added time. Hand of hand play has been going on for the last 40 minutes and that has chewed up quite some time off the tournament clock. An additional 15 minutes will be played before the day is done, regardless if the bubble bursts.

11-10-2012 02:16 UTC+8

Tran Dodges The Flush

Happy_Freaked

Linh Tran was down to just 22,500 when he moved all in from the small blind. Aaron Lim called almost immediately and took a shot at bursting the bubble. When the hands at the other tables were completed we witnessed the following showdown.

Linh Tran:
Aaron Lim: