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The flop landed
and Cheong fired out 85,000. Timoshenko moved all in over the top. Karian folded and the action was back with Cheong. He also folded and Timoshenko continues his aggressive ways to take it down and move up to over 400,000 chips.
2008 Asian Poker Tour - Macau
APT Macau Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 Asian Poker Tour - Macau
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
257
Level
24
Blinds
12,000 / 24,000
Ante
4,000
The flop landed
and Cheong fired out 85,000. Timoshenko moved all in over the top. Karian folded and the action was back with Cheong. He also folded and Timoshenko continues his aggressive ways to take it down and move up to over 400,000 chips.
, Nguyen fire out a continuation bet of 38,000. Pedley didn't really have enough left in his stack to just call -- it was a raise or fold situation. He elected to raise all in for a total of 107,000. Nguyen made a quick call and the cards were opened.Pedley:
Nguyen:
Pedley had the better hand with a pair of sixes, but Nguyen had a huge draw: two overcards, a backdoor straight draw, and a flush draw. The turn killed all suspense in the hand: it was the
, making Nguyen the nut flush and a lock hand. The river completed the board.Pedley walked out of the tournament area as quickly as he walked in, $26,250 richer. With that pot, Nguyen has taken over the chip lead.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko at only 20 years of age already has $240,000 in live tournament earnings to go with his online success. A win in the Irish Open and two Aussie Millions preliminary event cashes, sees him as one of the more seasoned players at this table, despite his years.
Michael Pedley has an Aussie Millions preliminary event title to his credit as well as a final table at this year's New Zealand Championships. He has $170,000 in career earnings but will need to fight from the short stack today.
Our remaining players do not have a lot of live tournament experience to rely on but have already proven their abilities to reach this point! It's a interesting blend of youth and experience and should make for an entertaining final table!
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Seat 1: Casey Kastle - 456,000 chips
Seat 2: Michael Pedley - 132,000
Seat 3: Joon Hee Yeah - 160,000
Seat 4: Chong Wing Cheong - 454,000
Seat 5: Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 318,000
Seat 6: Quang Nguyen - 315,000
Seat 7: Julio Diaz - 315,000
Seat 8: Rober Karian - 419,000
Who will walk away with the trophy and US$500,000 in prize money?
Stay tuned to PokerNews for live updates as the final table unfolds!