Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
Last Name | First Name | Table | Seat # | Country | Player Status | Chip Count |
Tsai | Tse Jui | 14 | 1 | Chinese Taipei | 153,500 | |
Luo | Qi | 14 | 2 | China | 57,500 | |
Haxton | Isaac | 14 | 3 | USA | Team PokerStars Online | 77,200 |
Tureniec | Michael | 14 | 4 | Sweden | 94,200 | |
Gu | Huidong | 14 | 5 | Macau | PokerStars LIVE Qualifier | 113,500 |
Dours | Romain | 14 | 7 | France | PokerStars Qualifier | 73,300 |
Suzuki | Takuya | 14 | 8 | Japan | PokerStars LIVE Qualifier | 31,400 |
Tu | Nan | 14 | 9 | China | 103,500 | |
Seidel | Erik | 15 | 1 | USA | 96,800 | |
Thomas | Russell | 15 | 2 | USA | PokerStars Player | 109,200 |
Zhou | Stephen | 15 | 3 | China | 71,400 | |
Li | Longjie | 15 | 4 | China | 103,900 | |
Bao | Wenyao | 15 | 6 | China | 76,900 | |
Li | Chao | 15 | 7 | China | 84,200 | |
Wong | Wah Cheong | 15 | 8 | Hong Kong | 89,100 | |
Zhang | Wei | 15 | 9 | China | 23,000 | |
Argyros | Billy | 17 | 1 | Australia | PokerStars Player | 261,300 |
Gaw | Andrew | 17 | 2 | Philippines | 110,300 | |
Liu | Peiran | 17 | 3 | China | 201,000 | |
Heng | Qiao | 17 | 5 | China | PokerStars LIVE Qualifier | 121,800 |
Tanaka | Shinobu | 17 | 6 | Japan | 126,500 | |
Ward | Thomas | 17 | 7 | New Zealand | 105,400 | |
Buchanan | Shawn | 17 | 8 | Canada | PokerStars Player | 48,400 |
Lebedev | Sergey | 17 | 9 | Russia | PokerStars Player | 130,600 |
Drinan | Connor | 18 | 1 | Mexico | PokerStars Player | 112,200 |
Cheng | Tony Yat Wai | 18 | 2 | Hong Kong | APPT Macau Champion | 288,500 |
Kuzmin | Alexander | 18 | 3 | Russia | PokerStars Player | 173,100 |
Shi | Ningdan | 18 | 4 | China | 254,000 | |
Brion | Adrian | 18 | 5 | Philippines | 61,000 | |
Liu | Jiaxiu | 18 | 6 | China | 113,000 | |
Andrejevic | Andy | 18 | 7 | USA | 159,600 | |
Badziakouski | Mikita | 18 | 8 | Belarus | PokerStars Player | 42,100 |
Yum | Ryan | 19 | 2 | Hong Kong | 111,200 | |
Zhang | Yang | 19 | 3 | China | 37,200 | |
Luo | Xixiang | 19 | 4 | China | 107,400 | |
Li | Yuguang | 19 | 5 | China | MPC 22 Champion | 440,300 |
Westmorland | Jordan | 19 | 6 | USA | PokerStars Player | 69,000 |
Huang | Bryan | 19 | 7 | Singapore | Team PokerStars Pro | 54,300 |
Zhou | Zhou | 19 | 8 | China | PokerStars Player | 294,400 |
McCarty | James | 19 | 9 | USA | 46,800 | |
O'Dwyer | Steve | 20 | 1 | Ireland | PokerStars Qualifier | 47,600 |
Zang | Shunu | 20 | 2 | China | 207,100 | |
Yang | Hsien Kui | 20 | 4 | Chinese Taipei | 103,900 | |
Vogelsang | Christoph | 20 | 5 | Germany | 127,100 | |
Hon | Victor | 20 | 6 | Australia | 77,900 | |
Mahoney | Patrick | 20 | 7 | USA | PokerStars Qualifier | 185,300 |
Chan | Wai Leong | 20 | 8 | Malaysia | 182,400 | |
Yao | Zhengye | 20 | 9 | China | 266,300 | |
Luca | Ivan | 21 | 1 | Argentina | PokerStars Player | 64,900 |
Alner | Tom | 21 | 2 | UK | 119,800 | |
Ojiri | Yasuhiro | 21 | 3 | Japan | 64,300 | |
Ko | Yuki | 21 | 4 | Korea | PokerStars Qualifier | 70,900 |
Wei | Guoliang | 21 | 5 | China | 87,200 | |
Shalamov | Mikhail | 21 | 6 | Russia | Team PokerStars Online | 161,400 |
Cheung | Sparrow | 21 | 7 | Hong Kong | PokerStars Player | 63,200 |
Demicki | Daniel | 21 | 8 | Poland | PokerStars Player | 97,300 |
Wang | David | 21 | 9 | Australia | 55,900 | |
Chan | Andy | 22 | 1 | Hong Kong | 178,100 | |
Wakeman | Matthew | 22 | 2 | Australia | PokerStars Player | 48,600 |
Chan | Wai Wa | 22 | 3 | Hong Kong | 67,700 | |
Addamo | Michael | 22 | 4 | Australia | PokerStars Qualifier | 227,200 |
Wu | Raymond | 22 | 5 | Chinese Taipei | 113,200 | |
Wang | Chen | 22 | 6 | China | 135,100 | |
Allain | Adrien | 22 | 7 | France | 60,800 | |
Tedeschi | Paul | 22 | 8 | France | 106,500 |
Yuguang Li (440,300) comes into Day 3 140,000 chips above the next closest stack. Li is poised to make a deep run and possibly put himself on top of the 2015 Asia Player of the Year rankings.
The 64 other players returning today will obviously have something to say about that. Christoph Vogelsang (127,100) spent most of the first two days nursing a short stack. He was even down to 2,700 before he doubled up with against a player with .
Day 1a chip leader Zhengye Yao parlayed his lead into the fourth largest stack coming into today with 266,300.
Carrying the Team PokerStars flag are; Mikhail Shalamov (161,400), Isaac Haxton (77,200), and Bryan Huang (54,300).
Haxton lost some steam late in Day 2, when he called Andy Andrejevic's (159,600) river shove. The board read and Andrejevic shoved for his last 56,600. Haxton called and Andrejevic won the pot with two pair, .
The players will play six 90-minute levels today and the field should be into the money before the end of play today. The top 27 places will be paid, with a min-cash being worth $193,000 HKD ($24,900 USD approx)
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Cards are in the air for Day 3.
Qi Luo lost more than half his stack early on but went into shoving mode and found a double.
No one called his under-the-gun shove but they did the very next hand. Michael Tureniec raised from early position before Tse Jui Tsai three-bet from the small blind. Luo then four-bet all in for 20,700 and Tsai called after Tureniec folded.
Luo:
Tsai:
The board ran to make Luo a straight.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tse Jui Tsai
|
130,000
-23,500
|
-23,500 |
Qi Luo |
48,000
-9,500
|
-9,500 |
Billy "Croc" Argyros just got all in preflop against Thomas Ward. Ward's tournament life was at risk within the first few hands of Day 3.
Argyros had and Ward had . The board ran out and Ward doubled up.
"Not the way I wanted to start," said Argyros, who still has a comfortable chip stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Thomas Ward |
210,000
104,600
|
104,600 |
Billy Argyros |
156,000
-105,300
|
-105,300 |
Erik Seidel changed his chair and immediately lost a pot. The players are lucky enough to have high-backed comfy chairs but Seidel seems to prefer the smaller, harder option.
KC Wong opened to 4,200 and was called by Seidel and Thomas in the blinds. All three checked the flop before Seidel led for 9,000 on the turn. Wong called and both players went on to check the river. Seidel opened but Wong had slow played his and raked in the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ka Cheong Wong |
101,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
Erik Seidel |
82,000
-14,800
|
-14,800 |
|
Christoph Vogelsang just doubled up in a huge pot with the Day 1a chipleader Zhengye Yao when both players had an overpair.
Shunu Zang opened the action with a preflop raise of 4,000 from under the gun. Vogelsang three bet to 11,000 and the action fell to Yao into the small blind.
"Raise," said Yao, before making it 20,500.
Zang folded and Vogelsang took a few moments before calling. The flop came and Yao bet 20,500, the same size as his preflop four-bet. Vogelsang took his time again, before eventually calling. The turn was the and Yao went into the tank. He settled on a bet of 30,000, which was a little less than half of Vogelsang's remaining stack.
Vogelsang leaned forward and looked directly down at his chips, possibly trying to count his remaining stack. He then stacked his chips and put them over the line, going all in for 70,200. Now the pressure was on Yao, it was only 40,200 more to call, but Yao seemed torn. Eventually the clock was called and Yao tossed in a call. He turned over , but would lose the pot to the of Vogelsang.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Christoph Vogelsang |
246,000
118,900
|
118,900 |
Zhengye Yao
|
142,000
-124,300
|
-124,300 |
Bryan Huang would've seen worse flops than the one that enabled him to double he.
He and Ryan Yum saw a flop that hit them both hard. The chips went in and their holdings were exposed.
Huang: for a flopped straight.
Yum: for top pair and open-ended straight draw.
The board ran out to hand the Team Pro a full double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Huang |
134,000
79,700
|
79,700 |
Ryan Yum |
21,700
-89,500
|
-89,500 |