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25/05/2012

Date:

26th May 2012

Venue:

Casino Royale, Goa

1. 50K Main Event Day 2 - Level 17 to Level 18

 

11.10pm Final Table Set at APT Asian Series Goa!

With Abrahams bowing out in 11th place, play has been stopped for the night as we have at last got down to our final table 10 players. The seat draw for tomorrow has already taken place and they will be lining up as follows:

Seat 1: Rahul Byraju (India) - 119,500
Seat 2: Nikhil Maheswari (India) - 207,500
Seat 3: Manan Khetan (India) - 161,500
Seat 4: Sameer Rattonsey (India) - 325,000
Seat 5: Hisashi Ogi (Japan) - 100,500
Seat 6: Aditya Agarwal (India) - 284,000
Seat 7: Ravi Goel (India) - 225,000
Seat 8: Sonu Singh (India) - 121,000
Seat 9: Martin Nilsson (Sweden) - 347,000
Seat 10: Prabhat Mukherjea (India) - 73,500

That’s it from us here for the live updates. We’ll see you all again tomorrow starting at 5pm for the final table. Goodnight!

11.05pm Abrahams Bubbles Final Table

It was an easy call with for Hisashi Ogi on the big blind as Ben Abrahams moved all his chips in on the small blind. Abraham’s was short-stacked and held looking for the double up. But the board of well and truly had him beat and he departs in 11th place. However, a fat paycheck of INR 100,000 will definitely help him get over his near-miss of an APT Asian Series Main Event final table.

Kristian Faering

10.55pm Faering and Kalia Tumble in 13th and 12^th

The slew of eliminations keep on coming and there was one from each table in the form of Denmark’s Kristian Faering and India’s Pulkit Kalia.

In Faering’s hand, he shoved his 33,000 stack holding but ran into Nikhil Maheswari’s . The board delivered to give Maheswari a set of kings and rail the Dane in 14th place for INR 83,000.

Kalia, meanwhile, took a big hit earlier with against Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal’s . Agarwal paired his ace on the flop and never looked back. A short time later, Kalia shoved for around 100,000 over Agarwal’s 13,000 UTG raise. After the call was made the race was on with Kalia’s needing to hold versus Agarwal’s . But a board of gave Agarwal aces-up and railed Kalia in 12th place to pocket INR 100,000.

10.50pm Bhatija Falls in Coin Flip, Jhunjhunwala is Next

In another quick elimination, it was a flip between Pranav Bhatija’s against Sonu’s Singh’s with Bhatija’s tournament life on the line. The first three cards are no good to Bhatija. Only a non-diamond ace or queen can save him but the turn and river sealed Bhatija’s date with the rail. He gets INR 83,000 for his efforts finishing in 15th place.

Shortly after, the Day 1B chip leader of Rishabh Jhunjhunwala goes out in 14th place to also pocket INR 83,000, but with so much action to cover we didn’t see his hand. We will see if we can track him down later to get his story.

Kanishka Sawant

10.45pm Sawant Busts in 16^th

Kanishka Sawant open shoved in early position and when the action got to Ravi Goel in the middle position, he immediately re-shoves. All the other players quickly folded and Goel is pretty excited to see that he’s got Sawant totally dominated with his over Sawant’s .

The board comes and Goel wins the hand with a pair of aces as Sawant goes home with a paycheck of INR 71,000 for his 16th place finish.

10.35pm Level 18: Blinds 2500/5000 Ante 500

10.34pm Miracle Man Byraju Comes Back From 1k

After doubling up another short stack and then losing an all-in preflop pot with against , Rahul Byraju was left with just one yellow chip equating to 1000. With ante of 500, he was of course all in the very next hand but managed to win the pot after the big blind isolated with a shove.

Another win after that and he had 17,500 in the big blind when the button player put him all. Byraju made the call and his was in trouble against the button’s . However, a board of gave him a straight to take it down.

One or two blind steals later and he was up to 56,000 when he got it all in with against Hisashi Ogi’s . A board of gave Byraju a full house and around `120,000 in chips. This will be a true chip and a chair story if Byraju can somehow survive and make his way to the top at tomorrow’s final table.

Manjeet Asrani

10.20pm Manjeet Asrani Eliminated in 17th

A player in early position makes a raise of 8500 and was smooth called by Sameer Rattonsey in the cutoff before big blind, Manjeet Asrani, moves all-in with his remaining 87,000 chips. The initial raiser folds and the action is back on Rattonsey who tanks for a considerable amount of time. The clock was called on him and in the last few seconds Rattonsey makes the call and sees that his is a huge favourite against Asrani’s .

The dealer sends out on the board to give Rattonsey a boat and he now sits high above the rest on a stack of more than 350,000.

Sailesh Lohia

10.05pm Lohia Out Before Dinner Break

In all the excitement of the bubble hand we missed our first bustout in the money. Apparently Sailesh Lohia went out just after play was broken down to two tables. He takes home INR 71,000 and we are down to 17 players in the tournament.

10.00pm Rattonsey in the Lead

Sameer Rattonsey is now our chip leader. After the beatdown he gave our bubble boy, Rattonsey’s stack is up to 275,000 and he’s followed by Martin Nilsson on 225,000 and Rahul Byraju on 180,000.

9.50pm Cards are back in the air. Blinds going up to 2000/4000 Ante 500 (Level 17)