Chan successfully lobbied last night for play to be consolidated into one ten-handed table rather than two five-handed tables. He will start the day with just 20 big blinds and will need to chip up aggressively if he hopes to take down this tournament.
2008 PokerStars.net APPT Macau
High Rollers Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Chan successfully lobbied last night for play to be consolidated into one ten-handed table rather than two five-handed tables. He will start the day with just 20 big blinds and will need to chip up aggressively if he hopes to take down this tournament.
Ma has played this tournament quietly but effectively, chipping up without drawing much attention to his increasing stack size. He will start the final table in third place, behind only Andrew Scott and chip leader David Steicke.
A relative newcomer to the poker scene, in less than 12 months Steicke has already etched himself as a force in the Asian poker region. With cashes at the Aussie Millions and WSOP, including a fourth-place finish in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event worth $166,000, Steicke returns to the table where he first came to prominence. Last year in this same event Steicke collected third place and over $110,000, and will be looking to go a couple places better today. Steicke also finished tenth in the 2008 APPT Macau Main Event just a few days ago.
Steicke has demonstrated some amazing reads and unpredictable play at the table that has thrown off his opponents and ensured his place at the top of the chip count leaderboard throughout the entire tournament. This Australian, who now resides in Hong Kong, enters as our chip leader with 391,000.
Quinn's victory in the $2,500 Limit event in 2005 kick-started a career that now includes six WSOP cashes and three WPT cashes, with his biggest score coming earlier this year when he finished runner-up to Phil Ivey in the WPT LA Poker Classic worth $900,000.
Quinn has been another quiet accumulator in this tournament to enter today's final table with a comfortable 105,000 chips.
Nam credits everything he knows in poker to his cousin, Tuan Le.
Nam has made steady progress throughout the tournament without being involved in too many big clashes. He starts the day in the middle of the pack with 107,000 chips.
Seat 2: Quinn Do - 105,000
Seat 3: David Steicke - 391,000
Seat 4: Wei Will Ma - 186,500
Seat 5: Johnny Chan - 60,500
Seat 6: Charles Chua - 47,000
Seat 7: Ivan Tan - 61,000
Seat 8: Andrew Scott - 226,000
Seat 9: Van Marcus - 43,000