Final Table Day
The final table for the 2010 APPT Macau Main Event was set last night at about 8:00 p.m. local time with the elimination of Wee Yee Tan in 10th place. Cole Swannack finished out the day as the chip leader, but he's only 39,000 chips ahead of Jeppe Drivsholm. Both players have over 1.2 million chips while no one else is surpassing the one-million-chip mark.
The final table does very well in representing the global poker world as it includes one player from Hong Kong, the United States, the Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom along with two from Denmark. Here's how the they stack up.
Seat 1: Victorino Torres (Northern Mariana Islands) - 396,000
Seat 2: Kai Paulsen (Norway) - 528,000
Seat 3: Jeppe Drivsholm (Denmark) - 1,223,000
Seat 4: Keith Hawkins (United Kingdom) - 174,000
Seat 5: Albert Kim (United States) - 436,000
Seat 6: Chong Cheong (Hong Kong) - 904,000
Seat 7: Cole Swannack (New Zealand) - 1,262,000
Seat 8: Brian Green (Costa Rica) - 970,000
Seat 9: Kenny Nielsen (Denmark) - 791,000
The average stack is approximately 742,666 and the blinds will be starting at Level 21 which is 8,000-16,000 blinds with a 2,000 ante. That's roughly 46 big blinds in the average stack.
All of the remaining players are guaranteed at least HKD $254,608 and the winner will take home a few million more than that at HKD $3,246,200. Play kicks off at 12:15 p.m. local time today. PokerNews will have all the coverage from the final table to let you know which player (and country) walks away with the title.