Amit Varma Leads APPT Main Event, Sameer Rattonsey 11th In Chips

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  • PG News April 28, 2012
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The end of Day 2 at the main event of this year’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour saw PokerGuru Team Pro Amit Varma (cover image) emerge as a massive chip leader in the PHP 100,000 tournament. The tournament taking place at the Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino in Cebu, Philippines, started with 246 entries and is now down to 28 players, all of whom are in the money. Varma with an impressive stack of 545,500 chips leads his nearest challenger Ho Anh Do (330,000 chips) from Vietnam by more than 200,000 chips. Varma accumulated chips throughout, and was responsible for the elimination of cult hero David Steicke late in the day. Steicke lost a race with against Varma’s pocket sevens, it was all over for the Hong Kong based Aussie. The bubble burst on Mikko Turtiainen in brutal fashion, his pocket queens cracked by pocket sixes and with that, day 2 was done with just ten minutes left in the eighth level of the day.

Varma, Wang and Hoang Anh Do held the heaviest bags in the room and will be keen to push on towards a breakthrough live victory but it won’t easy with the field still including several highly credentialed players. ANZPT Sydney champion Michael Kanaan, ANZPT Canberra winner Sammy Huang, previous Asia Player of the Year Kitty Kuo, MPCC champ Julian Hasse, online gun Carter Gill and High Rollers crusher Nick Wong are all still in contention.

Another Indian contender Sameer Rattonsey ended the day deep on 11th position with 191,000 chips.

Sameer Rattonsey
Sameer Rattonsey

The two Indians will look to play the day out tomorrow to make it to the final table on Monday. Varma has several domestic titles to his name including wins in the 15k Headhunter of the Asian Poker Tour series, the 12K Headhunter of India Poker Championship in 2011 and a runner-up finish in the PGT February Edition 5K rebuy event. Sameer Rattonsey won the India Poker Championship in December last year.

The final 28 will be back at 12:15 pm tomorrow to play down till the final table. Follow the complete live coverage on the PokerStars blog and follow Team India’s progress on the PokerGuru Forum.

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