Then he made it to the river in a hand with Ronaldo and the board read . Lew led out for 1,800 but admitted defeat and folded once Ronaldo raised to 4,000.
Team Asia PokerStars Pro Celina Lin couldn't get much going today. She has been playing a shorter stack most of the day and scraping together chips where she could. After several hours things were finally looking up when she doubled up with queens against .
However, within an hour of posting that tweet, Lin was on her way to the rail. K.C. Wong, who is currently #2 in the APOY rankings, raised from the hijack 1,100 and Lin defended her big blind. The flop was and Lin checked to Wong.
Wong bet 1,700 and Lin raised all in for 12,400. After some thinking, Wong called the all in. Wong showed for bottom pair and a flush draw and Lin showed for two pair.
The turn sealed the end of Lin's day when it came the . The river was the and that was it for Lin.
Shorlty after being left short, Kitty Kuo was seen exiting the poker room after her bust. She tweeted after her big hand that she would need some magic, but was unable to find any. Shortly after that tweet she shared her bust out hand.
PokerStars SportsStar and Former World Cup Champion Ronaldo kicked off the Asian Championship of Poker Main Event yesterday, by wishing the players good luck. He followed that up by winning his own invitational sit-n-go. He will join the Day 1b players in today's flight and will be looking to add another win to his resume.
Day 1b begins at 3 p.m. local time today. This is the second starting flight for the $100,000 HKD ($13,000 USD) buy in event. Last year's champion, Gabriel Le Jossec bested a field of 291 players to claim the $6.3-million HKD prize ($820,000 USD approx). This year Le Jossec was unable to make it out of Day 1a when he was eliminated by Andy Andrejevic (136,200), so there will be a new ACOP Main Event Champion.
Zhengye Yao snatched the Day 1a chip lead from Andrejevic by 300 chips right during the final hands of the night, when he eliminated Jonathan Karamalikis.
Stephen Chidwick was among the Day 1a casualties, he busted not long after he got all in with pocket queens against Yat Wai Cheng, who was unfortunately holding pocket kings. PokerStars Team Pros Naoya Kihara and Chen An Lin were also eliminated in the Day 1a flight. Other PokerStars Team pros will be looking to do better today. Celina Lin, Bryan Huang, and Aditya Argwal are expected in the field today. They will be trying to join the 63 players who qualified for Day 2 tomorrow at 2 p.m local time. Lin has already cashed twice in the ACOP and is looking for more.
Yesterday's starting flight got 110 entrants and today expects to see closer to 200 with a packed field. Aside from the PokerStars team pros mentioned above, three-time bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche and the reigning EPT Barcelona champion John Juanda are also expected to play today.
It's shaping up to be an exciting day with a field full of strong players all vying for the first place prize and the ACOP Championship. Stay tuned to pokernews.com for all the day's action.