HK$50,000 Freezeout winner Sheng Sun started pretty well but before the last hand he was already down to less than the starting stack. The board was already rushed away but Haifeng Xue celebrated after the river and Sun had to leave his chair. According to the Chinese, he flat-called a raise to 700 and so did Xue to see a flop of rainbow.
After two checks and the 1,200 bet of Xue, the other player in the hand raised to 3,400 and Sun just wanted to call before putting in too many chips. It was counted as a raise and Xue jammed with , which Sun called with . A queen on the turn left Xue drawing to four tens only and sure enough one of them popped up on the river to bust Sun.
We arrived at the table to find the board spread out . Bryan Huang was on the losing side of the hand with his coming up short against his opponent’s .
All the money went in on the turn with Huang’s opponent committing his remaining 13,325 when the nine came.
Another 8,000 pot had slipped out of the fingers of PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang, after his opponent made a flush on the river of a board with . Huang was unable to beat that and mucked the cards to fall back below starting stack.
"I am out," Seng Yee Leow said after he just walked past us in the tournament area. Jack Hu was chatting with a friend nearby and seemed very relaxed, in fact too relaxed after he had been among the shorter-stacked players lately. The HK$50,000 runner-up confirmed his elimination in the Main Event and thus makes it two notables less to watch out for.
We ran into Steve O'Dwyer in the first break of Day 1b of the APPT Macau Main Event. O'Dwyer choose Macau over Vegas, and isn't really sure he's going to Vegas at all this year, not even for the Main Event.
With about 8,000 chips already in the middle, Leon Li-ta Hsu led for 2,700 with all his small chip denominations and only left himself a T-5,000 chip behind after a flop of . Kwok Chun Yip moved all in and had his opponent covered to receive a very reluctant call by Hsu with .
The top pair was no good, as Yip had flopped a set with the . On the turn, a glimpse of hope with the gutshot appeared but the river bricked.
PokerStars Team Online member Randy "nanonoko" Lew just experienced a roller coaster of emotions when his pair of aces got cracked by an opponent with a pair of tens and the American received a "nitroll" as per his Twitter feed. Down to 6,000 chips and 20 big blinds, he flopped two pair against two opponents and his final jam on the river wasn't called to get him back up to 12,000.
Registration is open for another half an hour and the field for Day 1b has grown to 283 entries, of which more than 40 already lost their entire stack of 20,000 chips. The overall number of entries is now 490 and that is just 4 shy of the 2014 result. Will it be cracked? After the next break, the answer will be right here on the blog.
Yoshiro Nagata's stack has slipped a bit down to 45,000 but he is still among the bigger stacks in the tournament room. On the very same table is now Aaron Lim after registering late while Eddy Liang busted from one table over. Elias Abou Saleh is down to half the starting stack there, too.
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. Huang was unable to beat that and mucked the cards to fall back below starting stack.
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