A hand on the stone-bubble of the PHP 150,000 (USD $2,600) Excessive Curler on the Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila Basic took fairly the dramatic flip after the flop.
The one-day no-limit maintain’em facet occasion on Feb. 13, which attracted 85 gamers, had a PHP 11 million prize pool (USD $190,000 roughly). Kunal Patni gained it for simply over $50,000, his second victory and fourth money of the collection. He defeated Nopparut Piyatassakorn heads-up for the title. However this occasion gained consideration due to one wild unhealthy beat.
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The event had approached the cash bubble with 12 gamers remaining. Sparrow Cheung, the brief stack, moved all in with A♦A♠. Patni known as from the small blind with AxQx, solely to make a disciplined fold when the large blind moved all in with Ok♥Ok♣, in line with the account of Lloyd Fontillas on Fb.
Cheung, who has over $2.7 million in dwell event cashes, was in nice place to earn a double-up to assist him survive the bubble. Issues bought even higher for him when the flop got here out 2♦J♥A♣, leaving the large blind drawing completely to some unlikely runner-runner mixtures or the brief stack would survive.
The Ok♦ on the flip gave the participant with pocket kings a little bit of hope, however nonetheless solely with a few 2% likelihood of profitable the hand. However the Ok♠ on the river created the runner-runner quads, sending Cheung house in twelfth place, one spot shy of the cash, on a hand that will qualify for the bad beat jackpot in lots of money video games. However not in event poker.
The APT Manila Basic started within the Philippines Feb. 7 and runs till Feb. 16. Russia’s Ivan Govorov took down the Important Occasion on Saturday for PHP 11,069,680 (USD $190,201). He outlasted an enormous discipline of 1,202 entrants, making it the most important APT Important Occasion held within the Philippines. Govorov, at one level through the closing desk, was down to only three huge blinds earlier than happening a heater.
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*Characteristic picture courtesy of Lloyd Fontillas/Fb.
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