Longmore Leads Advancing 31 Players; Watson & Shack-Harris Survive
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific continued Friday evening with the Day 1c flight from Event #1 $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Accumulator. The flight attracted 187 players – which meant with Day 1a’s 197 players and Day 1b’s 227 – the total field unofficially stands at 611 entries.
Day 1b had taken place earlier in the day, and WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimiller finished as the chip leader among the surviving 33 players with a stack of 50,700, which was slightly more than Peter Longmore, who finished the surviving 31 Day 1c players as chip leader with 43,875. However, both of those players trail the Day 1a chip leader, Scott Clements, who bagged an impressive 76,575.
Longmore got some of his chips in Level 7 (150/300/25) when Stephen Lindeblad raised to 600 and got two callers before the action reached Longmore. The latter three-bet quite large to 3,100 and only Lindeblad went along to see the flop of 
. Longmore bet 4,000 and had another 6,800 behind, which caused Lindeblad to move all in. Longmore called quickly and both turned over their cards:
Longmore: 
Lindeblad: 
It was a cooler for Lindeblad and he failed to improve on the 
turn and the 
river. With that, Longmore doubled and was on his way to capturing the chip lead.
Day 1c was the last chance for players to accumulate chips for Day 2, and three players who were in action were the three players atop the 2014 WSOP Player of Player leader board — Daniel Negreanu, Brandon Shack-Harris, and George Danzer. Negreanu busted early, while both Shack-Harris and Danzer made deep runs. Shack-Harris was actually in desperate need of keeping pace with Danzer, who had already advanced to Day 2 after bagging up 24,625 in the first starting flight.
Danzer ultimately fell before the end of the night, but Shack-Harris managed to survive, albeit with a short stack of 6,925. Regardless, there could be some major WSOP POY implications if either player is able to make the money on Day 2.
Of course not everyone was so fortunate. Among those to fall on Day 1c were Tam Truong, Graeme Putt, Jonathan Duhamel, Ryan Riess, Tino Lechich, Ray Henson, Ami Barer, Jeff Gross, and Phil Hellmuth.
While many fell, a strong list of players made it through the minefield. They include Thomas Gleeson (32,500), Rory Young (32,425), Mike Watson (21,450), Stephan Lindebald (19,175), Oliver Gill (10,475) and Yaxi Zhu (9,550).
The Day 1c survivors will join those from the first two starting flights on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. local time for Day 2 action. During that time the players will make the money as they look to play down to the final table of nine. Of course PokerNews will be providing updates the entire way, so be sure to check back then.