The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour crowned its first female champion Tuesday.
2010 APPT Cebu winner Young-shin Im.
Korean Young-shin Im took down the APPT Cebu main event for PHP 5,810,000 (approx. USD $132,500) after qualifying for the event through a $22 3x Turbo satellite on PokerStars.
The win marked Young-shin Im’s fifth cash on the APPT in the last year and a half with her previous deepest run being a 15th-place finish in the 2009 APPT Macau main event.
Michael Fabiano from Australia finished runner-up after Young-shin Im’s partner of ten years, Kim Gap Young, took third place.
Considering their relationship, precautions were taken to prevent collusion at the final table.
The APPT Cebu main event drew 236 players to the Shangri-La Mactan Resort in the Filipino Island paradise.
A total of 23 players also entered the PHP 200,000 High Roller event in Cebu.
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Vanessa Selbst walked away a winner from a scandal tainted Partouche Poker Tour main event final table in Cannes this weekend.
2010 PPT main event champ Vanessa Selbst.
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For the second straight day the durrrr Challenge 2 was on but this time Tom Dwan was in the driver’s seat.
Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates seem to have a recently developed an interest in playing more and last night they logged on and played $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em for 1,440 hands.
There were technically two sessions played and Dwan absolutely crushed the first one for $195k.
Cates made a small comeback in the second session and posted a small win of $23,736k meaning Dwan finished his day with a $172k victory.
It was the first victory for Dwan in the durrrr Challenge 2 in months and it helped alleviate his overall losses to $585k.
jungleman12 appeared to be losing his cool with Dwan after the Team Full Tilt pro took a series of breaks near the end of the session.
Cates quit completely after this transpired in the chatbox:
“durrrr: foods”
“durrrr: might shower after”
“durrrr: but still shouldn’t b too long”
“jungleman12: good bye”
“durrrr: huh”
It was an all-around good day for Tom Dwan who also won $357k in the PLO games to finish up a total of $462k on the day. That puts Dwan on $3.4 million
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The 2010 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic drew a star studded field to the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Friday.
A total of 391 players entered the $10k event throughout the first day’s five 90-minute levels and more are expected with registration open until the end of the event’s eighth level at close to 5 p.m.
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