26 Players Remain for Day 2 of the APPT9 Macau 50K Freezeout
After 12 levels of play on Day 1, the field of 81 entrants in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour HK$50,000 Freezeout of Season 9 at the "PokerStars LIVE Macau at the City of Dreams" has been whittled down to its last 26 hopefuls. Only the top 10 spots get paid at least HK$ 110,790 whereas the winner gets a shiny silver trophy and the first place payout of HK$997,100. Atop of the chip counts is Sheng Sun with 365,000 after plenty of aggression and a huge hero-call with ace-high that was good.
Other big stacks include Allen Wang (318,000), Rajeev Raut (274,000), Kim Wittendorff (242,000), Jack Hu (223,000) and 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event champion Scott Davies on 173,000 chips. Thomas Ward is just around average (158,000) while David Steicke (93,000) has a flipping stack to get back into serious contention.
Action resumes in approximately one hour from now at 15:00 local time with blinds at 3,000-6,000 and a running ante of 1,000. The structure of the event is very aggressive, thus expect plenty of action early on. The PokerNews live reporting will bring you all the key hands until a winner is crowned and you can also check out the coverage of the HK$25,000 Main Event Day 1A as well that kicks in as of 14:00 local time.
flop provided some chop outs, yet the 
turn changed nothing. It was the 
river that let the bubble burst and get all remaining 10 players into the money.
and Sheng Sun looked him up with 
and they shook hands.
turn, Davies asked for a six and sure enough the dealer burned and turned the 
river.
. Tang continued for 30,000 and was called before the 
turn slowed things down and saw two checks. The 
river provided a bet of 50,000 by Tang and Davies called with the 
. The board ran out 
, the Dane check-raised from 55,000 to 200,000 and Sun had quite a decision once again.
instead. So close but yet so far. The American still laughed and heartily shook the hands of his two opponents, leaving the tournament area with a smile on the face. He takes home HK$443,100 and the heads-up seems very one-sided at the start.