Hong Kong’s Justin Chan has just narrowly missed out on the money ladder, departing in 28th place for HK$43,000. All remaining 27 players are now guaranteed at least HK$49,000.
It was chip leader Anson Tsang who was applying the pressure pre-flop with a raise to 35,000 from the cutoff. Chan, sitting on the button, looked down at his hole cards and moved all-in for 103,000 in total and action folded to Weizhou Zha in the big blind.
Zha glanced over at Tsang, who easily had him covered, and decided to flat call. Tsang gave a little chuckle and threw in the extras and the flop fell . Both Zha and Tsang checked the whole way with the turn and river running out and respectively.
Chan turned over but could not beat Zha’s , Tsang mucked and we lose another. Play has paused for a redraw now we are down to three tables.
Zhu Qi kick-started the action with a raise to 27,000 from the hi-jack with the UK’s Simon Burns making the call from the button before Jun Wang fired out a tickly little re-raise to 56,000.
The action was back on Qi and he thought long and hard about his decision, tanking for a good 2-3 minutes before deciding to raise again, making it 136,000 in total.
Burns quickly folded and the action was back on Wang, who gestured at Qi to lift his arms so he could get a gander at his remaining chips – Qi had 450,000 behind. Seemingly satisfied that he had Qi covered Wang made the standard Macau all-in triangle motion with his hands and shoved for 550,000.
This sent Qi deep into the think tank, where he remained for a good five minutes as level 21 ticked over into level 22. It was a big decision for his tournament life so Qi was given some leeway by the rest of the table, who waited patiently for the Chinese player to make his decision.
Eventually, Qi chose to wait for a better spot and slid his hand face down into the muck and Wang won 170,000 without showdown.
Bluffing the chip leader is never a good idea, a fact that Korea’s Lim Yohwan has just discovered to his cost.
It was a battle of the blinds and we arrived during the aftermath as the stacks were being counted down but Tsang was more than happy to fill us in on the details.
We are not sure what the pre-flop action was but the flop was and Tsang check-called a Yohwan continuation bet and checked the turn. Yohwan shoved and Tsang called instantly. The Korean player held offsuit, and while this was slightly ahead of Tsang’s pre-flop the Hong Kong player had smashed the flop and Yohwan was drawing dead.
The river gave Yohwan a meaningless pair of nines and we lose one more and Tsang strengthened his already commanding lead and now has over 2 million in chips.
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Hong Kong's Anson Tsang leads coming into Day 3
Just 63 players remain in contention out of the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event’s 490-strong field.
While all 63 are now guaranteed a payday of at least HK$26,000 ($3,338) when play resumes at 1pm on Thursday May 25 it will be the trophy, title, and lion’s share of the HK$7,129,000 (~$915,295) prize pool all will have their eye on.
The man best positioned to scoop the HK$1,389,500 (~$178,333) first prize is Hong Kong’s Anson Tsang, who bagged up over a monstrous 1.1 million in chips.
Denmark’s Frederik Farrington (704,000), Korea’s Lim Yohwan (687,000) and China’s Yang Song (557,000) round out the top five.
Other notables still in the running include Day 1A frontrunner Alex Lee (96,000), High Roller Quan Zhou (177,000) and Hong Kong’sJustin Chan (286,000). You can read a full recap of all the Day 2 action here.
Day 3 of the Main Event will play down until the final table is reached, however long it takes, and the PokerNews' live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to provide live updates of all the action. Keep your browser locked on this page to stay up to date as the tournament progresses.
. Both Zha and Tsang checked the whole way with the turn and river running out 
and 
respectively.
but could not beat Zha’s 
, Tsang mucked and we lose another. Play has paused for a redraw now we are down to three tables.
offsuit, and while this was slightly ahead of Tsang’s 
pre-flop the Hong Kong player had smashed the flop and Yohwan was drawing dead.
river gave Yohwan a meaningless pair of nines and we lose one more and Tsang strengthened his already commanding lead and now has over 2 million in chips.
