Yasuhiro Ojiri Leads Entering Day 2, Ronaldo Just Misses

Day 1b of the 2015 PokerStars.net APPT ACOP Main Event is in the books.

There were several players jockeying for the chip lead during the last level, but Yasuhiro Ojiri ended the 94 survivor's as the tournament's overall chip leader with 149,900.

The Day 1b field saw a few of the PokerStars Team Pros bust in the second half of the day, including Team PokerStars SportsStar Ronaldo busting PokerStars Team Online Pro Randy Lew.

It happened when Lew, who had been battling a short stack for hours, moved all in for 5,725. Ronaldo was the only caller and the cards were on their backs.

Lew:
Ronaldo:

The board ran to see Ronaldo come from behind. The two players shook hands and off went Lew.

Unfortunately, Ronaldo hit the rail himself a short time later when he got all in with pocket sixes against pocket aces. PokerStars Team Asia Pro Celina Lin was also eliminated on Day 1b after a series of unfortunate run outs and a bad turn card ended her day prematurely.

Meanwhile a majority of the PokerStars Pros booked their seats into Day 2. Isaac Haxton (71,800), Aditya Agarwal (12,800), Kosei Ichinose (18,100), Bryan Huang (38,900), Yaxi Zhu (28,600), Vivian Im (53,500), and Mikhail Shamalov (100,500) will all return tomorrow as part of the 157-player field at 2 p.m. local time.

This year's ACOP Main Event turnout (255 entrants) is slightly behind last years, which saw 291 entries and yielded a $6.3-million HKD ($810,000 USD approx) first-place prize. Registration for the single-entry tournament will remain open for the first 90 minutes of Day 2, so the exact player count and prize pool will be released after registration closes.

Be sure to join the PokerNews reporting team then, but while you wait, check out this video with a tour on all things Cotai:

Player	Chips	Progress
Yasuhiro Ojiri	149,900 149,900	149,900
Ningdan Shi	131,000 131,000	131,000
Tse Jui Tsai	129,600 129,600	129,600
Matthew Wakeman	128,200 128,200	128,200
Shinobu Tanaka	127,200 127,200	127,200
Wei Zhang	123,000 123,000	123,000
Yan Li	120,500 120,500	120,500
Billy Argyros	112,700 3,200	3,200
Mikhail Shalamov	100,500

Russell Thomas	97,000 -9,500	-9,500
Sergey Lebedev	90,700 90,700	90,700
Tom Alner	75,200 24,700	24,700
Kai Yat Fam	74,100 74,100	74,100
Isaac Haxton	71,800 9,800	9,800

Wenlong Jin	70,600 70,600	70,600
Wai Leong Chan	68,300 68,300	68,300
Zhenru Xie	66,900 66,900	66,900
Mikhail Rudoy	66,000 66,000	66,000
Wenyao Bao	64,300 64,300	64,300
Hsien Yuan Yang	63,000 63,000	63,000
Carlos Chadha	62,700 -800	-800
Joel Micka	59,600 59,600	59,600
Ping Huang	56,800 56,800	56,800
Dong Zhao	56,400 56,400	56,400
Qiao Heng	56,200 56,200	56,200
Ka Cheong Wong	54,900 7,100	7,100
James McCarty	54,900 54,900	54,900
Steve O'Dwyer	53,600 2,300	2,300

Vivian Im	53,500 22,600	22,600

Vladimir Schemelev	52,500 52,500	52,500

Mikita Badziakouski	52,300 4,300	4,300

Raymond Wu	50,900 50,900	50,900
Anson Tsang	49,600 49,600	49,600

Stevan Chew	49,400 13,400	13,400
Soonil Kweon	49,100 13,100	13,100
Chao Li	49,000 49,000	49,000
Jordan Westmorland	47,300 9,200	9,200
Zhikui Shi	47,300 47,300	47,300
Qi Luo	47,300 47,300	47,300
Guoliang Wei	47,100 47,100	47,100

Ivan Luca	44,100 -2,700	-2,700

Gary Thompson	43,900 43,900	43,900
Fan Zhao	42,200 42,200	42,200
Chunlei Zhou	39,900 39,900	39,900
Andy Chan	39,700 39,700	39,700
Ziyang Zhao	39,100 39,100	39,100
Bryan Huang	38,900 11,400	11,400

Andrew Gaw	38,700 38,700	38,700
Guang Pu Lu	37,500 37,500	37,500
Wai Wa Chan	36,800 36,800	36,800
Hsien-yuan Yang	36,600 36,600	36,600
Dario Sammartino	35,800 -36,200	-36,200
Sparrow Cheung	34,400 4,800	4,800
Stephen Zhou	33,500 33,500	33,500
Junjie Wang	33,000 33,000	33,000
Dmitry Kataev	32,900 32,900	32,900
Zdravko Duvnjak	31,800 31,800	31,800
Victor Hon	30,600 30,600	30,600
John Juanda	29,800 10,125	10,125

Thomas Ward	29,500 29,500	29,500
Alexander Kuzmin	29,300 29,300	29,300

Yaxi Zhu	28,600 -2,100	-2,100

Wen Lin Wang	27,900 27,900	27,900
Du-ming Tsai	27,800 27,800	27,800
Jintian Xu	27,600 27,600	27,600
Connor Drinan	25,100 8,700	8,700

David Wang	24,900 24,900	24,900
Yoichi Fujiya	24,900 24,900	24,900
Devan Tang	24,000 24,000	24,000
Henry Wang	20,900 20,900	20,900
Pratyush Buddiga	20,800 -11,200	-11,200
Zhifeng Zhao	20,000 20,000	20,000
Bobo Daoxing Chen	19,700 19,700	19,700
Anton Astapau	18,400 2,900	2,900
Kosei Ichinose	18,100 -700	-700

Wenxiong Luo	18,000 18,000	18,000
Shawn Buchanan	18,000 -24,000	-24,000

Raiden Kan	17,200 17,200	17,200
Munkhbayar Nyamsuren	17,000 17,000	17,000
Longjie Li	15,400 15,400	15,400
Alvan Zheng	15,000 15,000	15,000
Yuefeng Pan	15,000 15,000	15,000
Oystein Kristoffersen	14,800 14,800	14,800
Maria Lampropulos	13,600 13,600	13,600
Kitson Kho	12,900 12,900	12,900
Aditya Agarwal	12,800 400	400

Markus Garberg	12,700 12,700	12,700
Alex Ward	12,000 12,000	12,000
Manny Stravropolous	11,400 11,400	11,400
Dean Blatt	11,400 11,400	11,400
Christoph Vogelsang	11,300 -700	-700
Terrence Chan	9,600 9,600	9,600

Leon Hsu	9,300 9,300	9,300
Hon Cheong Lee	6,600 6,600	6,600