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“It is fantastic to see an Australian champion in the APPT Grand Final for the second year in a row. Amongst a great international lineup it represents the calibre of poker in this country,” commented APPT President Jeffrey Haas.
When the tournament got down to the final table, it was easy to tell
these players played more with skill and less with luck. There were lots of
different playing styles that lead to big hands, which meant it was an all
out battle for first. Eve Lin played very well and rolled over the last half
of the final table players and took the chip lead. Lin was one of the Patron
HKPL Season #1 women’s points’ leaders. She got heads up against Christophe
Baleyte for the championship playing very smart and aggressively until she
moved all in with J 10 Clubs against Christophe’s 7 10 diamonds, with a flop
of 8 clubs – 10 hearts – 3 diamonds. She was feeling confident when the turn
card brought a 6 of diamonds, giving Christophe a flush draw which he didn’t
end up needing after the river card was a 7 of hearts. That hand took Eve
out of the chip lead. Christophe, finally, after a long heads up match, called
Eve’s all in with A 8 off to his pocket 4’s. The pockets held up and that
was the final blow to Eve’s stack. 
You had better
start deciding how you will spend all that money. But first you must
get a seat in the tournament of Asia Pacific Poker Tour. Which shouldn’t
be nearly as expensive or difficult as you might imagine, all you
have to do is enter to win one. One lucky winner of the freeroll will
get a free seat to try their luck against the greatest players in
the game today with a prize pool estimated over 5,000,000hkd you think
you can beat them? Well there is only one way to find out. 
The
chip counts were as follows to start the final table: 
. Derick Hernandez quickly called with pocket queens, but an ace
on the flop doubled up Sato and left Hernandez with a big dent in
his stack. Hernandez' streak continued on the very next hand, when
he pushed all-in over the top of Brett Parise's pre-flop re-raise.
Parise called, and tabled 
. Hernandez held 
, but was drawing thin when the flop came 
. Feldinger check-raised Sato all in, and Sato called after a
moment's thought. Sato's 
was no good against Feldinger's 
, and Sato was crippled when no help came on the last two streets.
. Sato couldn't catch up and went to the rail in eighth place
($14,981). Bas van Liere was the next to fall, as he ran his 
. No ace arrived for the Dutchman, and he was eliminated in seventh
place for $20,974. 
, doubling through Parise's 
on a final board of 
. Still the short stack, Spets shoved again on the very next hand
with pocket sixes, running into the pocket jacks of Ira Blumenthal
to depart in sixth place for $26,966, a good return for his first
foray into live tournament play.
, which missed the board of 
, and fell to Nicholas Bamman, who had called Feldinger's push
with 
. The board brought 
, and the flop of 
, and the 
on the river was irrelevant, sending Bamman back to Princeton,
NJ in third place ($62,921). 
A
professional poker player whose astounding luck at the felt fails
to translate into his love life attempts to win the World Series
of Poker (WSOP) while simultaneously earning the affections of a
Vegas singer is the story behind "Lucky You", the latest
movie from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson and Munich screenwriter
Eric Roth. 
The
movie: Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore) is the young singer from Bakersfield
with more heart than talent. Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) is the pro
poker player whose emotions at the table often undermine his exceptional
skill, especially when he is heads up with his estranged father,
poker legend L.C. Cheever (Robert Duvall). 
