11-12-2009 15:56 UTC+8

"Like the Underwear"

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Despite being fairly remote from the U.S.A., there are a handful of Americans in the room. One of them is Johnny Hanes -- "like the underwear," he told us as we scribbled down his name.

Hanes is an incongrous guy, as he's dressed in a Montreal Expos baseball jersey and a University of Texas cap but claims to hail from Alabama. Hanes took shot at playing one of the hyper-turbo super-satellites on PokerStars that funneled into a qualifier tournament for this event. He said he managed to double up early in the qualifier and then coasted from there.

Hanes arrived earlier in the week and played in the Cebu Cup, finishing as the bubble boy. He's hoping to cash in the Main Event so that he can claim that he is the first player from Alabama to cash in the Philippines.

Hanes is off to a good start, having already managed to double his stack.

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