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APPT Macao Day 4

15 players came back to the felt for the last day of the APPT Macao Main Even. This turned out to be a long day full of action. Sangeeth Mohan began the day in the chip lead however despite all expectations he did not manage to win the title at the end. The winner was Randy Lew who, despite starting the day with a relatively short stack, made it up to the top and came over Jimmy Pan in the heads up for HKD$3,772,000 prize.

Sparrow Cheung became the first elimination of the day, followed by Josh Barrett, Tsugunari Toma, Daoxing Chen and Baton Fung. Then the action came to the point of the final table bubble when 5 players at two tables were fighting for their places in the final table.

The start of the day chip leader Mohan became the unfortunate bubble boy. With the blinds at 25,000/50,000/5,000 level Mohan, on the button, raised to 110,000, Kai Yat Fam, on the small blind reraised to 380,000. Big blind folded and the action returned to Moham who reraised to 710,00 and Fam called.

The flop brought Qd, 10d, 4h. Fam checked, Mohan moved all-in and Fam called. Mohan opened pocket queens for a set against Kd, Jd of Fam’s. However 2d on the turn changed everything and awarded Fam with a flush. The river was of no help to Mohan and he left just one step away from the final table.

Final Table Chip Counts

David Steike became the first contestant to leave the final table. Despite having most of final table experiences of all other players he was quickly crippled by the big blinds and had to put his last chips on 7d, 4h. Daniel Nordstrom called with pocket aces. At first the flop of 5c, 3c, 2d was favorable to Steike and gave him a straight draw, however the turn of 9s, and the river of 10d finished the APPT for him and sent him to the rail in the ninth place.

Zheng Tai Tan was the next one through the door when he pushed all in preflop with pocket twos and met Jeff Rossiter’s pocket eights. The board of 5d, 5c, 4d, 10d and 9d eliminated Tan in the eighth place.

Nordstrom became the next victim of Rossiter and finished seventh. Fam hit the rail next in the sixth place by Lew. He was soon followed by Zuo Wang in the fifth place and Fabian Spielmann in the fourth.

At that point in the three handed game Rossiter started in the chip lead but it was soon to change after just one huge hand of 9,000,000 chips when Lew’s pocket tens came across Rossiter’s As, Jh and the board of 8h, 6d, 2c, Ks, and 8d. Rossiter was finished in the very next hand as he pushed all in with 10h, 9s  against Jimmy Pan with Ah, Qc and the board of As, Kh, 5s, 6c, 9d.

In the heads up Lew began with 9,000,000 chips against Pan’s 8.25 million. At some stage Pan increase his chip count up to over ten million but Lew remained fully focused on the game and carried on fighting. Despite some set back Lew managed to get back in the lead when his pocket sixes held against his opponent’s Ah, 9s and Lew flopped a set being all in preflop. This hand brought his chip stack up in the lead to 13 million.

In the last hand Pan was all in on the flop of Qh, 10s, 8s. Lew showed Qd, 10c against Pan’s Kd, Qs. The turn opened 5c and Jc on the river finished Pan in the second place and crowned Lew the champion.

This is the biggest win in Lew career. Although well-known in the online games his biggest win in the live events was the 10^th place in the Aussie Millions Main Event when his earnings were AUD$100,000.

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