It has taken a week's worth of poker, but the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event has concluded with Korea's Sunny Jung being crowned the champion!
Starting on Monday over two Day 1 flights, 203 players took to the felt for the second running of the ACOP Main Event that was won by China's Xing Zhou last year. With one of the biggest buy-ins of the region being complemented with an incredibly generous and slow structure, a stellar field of players from across the world made the trip, but that didn't slow down the speed of play as eliminations flew out the door over the first few days. The money-paying top 25 was reached by the end of Day 3, and once play resumed on Day 4, it would be just a matter of hours before the final table was reached.
That final table of nine would see the average stack sitting at an incredible 112 big blinds meaning that players, staff and media were in for a long day. Quick eliminations occurred as Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (9th) and Chenxiang Miao (8th) were first to go before PokerStars Team Online member Randy "nanonoko" Lew was unable to claim the second leg of the Macau triple crown as he fell in (7th). From then onwards though it would be an exhausting battle for the players as chips swirled back-and-forth with eliminations on the rarity as Jonathan Depa (6th), Yoshitaka Okawa (5th), Yat Wai Cheng (4th) and Yifan Zheng (3rd) all fell to the rail before the heads-up battle between Jung and Tang would last roughly 45 minutes before play was halted for the evening.
Returning today, Jung held just a slight lead over Tang but both players had stacks of 134 and 120-big blinds respectively. Action began with Jung wearing down and steam-rolling Tang as he pushed his edge out to a two-to-one advantage. Although Tang made a slight comeback, Jung launched to a three-to-one advantage when his made a four-flush on a board before furthering that lead to an eight-to-one advantage. Fortunately for Tang he started to fight back for what seemed like the first time today as he slowly clawed his way back into the heads-up battle. A mix of aggression and some hands helped Tang before he managed to take the lead when his bested Jung's on a in a four-bet pot.
The two then traded pots back-and-forth for the better part of 90 minutes before Jung put his foot down and began furthering the gap between the two to take a three-to-one lead before the final hand played out. With Tang beginning the hand with roughly 35 big blind, he raised to 100,000 (at 25,000/50,000 blinds) and Jung three-bet to 300,000. Tang made it 500,000 and Jung instantly moved all in with Tang making the call holding to be dominated by Jung's . With the first called all-in of heads up play upon us, the board would see Jung's dominance improve to a flush to be crowned the second ACOP Main Event Champion and recipient of HK$4,352,000 in prize money.
Final Table Payouts
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1st
Sunny Jung
Korea
HK$4,352,000
2nd
Devan Tang
Hong Kong
HK$3,667,000
3rd
Zifan Zheng
China
HK$1,980,000
4th
Yat Wai Cheng
China
HK$1,485,000
5th
Yoshitaka Okawa
Japan
HK$1,188,000
6th
Jonathan Depa
USA
HK$990,000
7th
Randy Lew
United States
HK$792,000
8th
Chenxiang Miao
China
HK$594,000
9th
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn
Thailand
HK$495,000
PokerNews would like to congratulate Sunny Jung on a fantastically played tournament as he displayed great aggression and use of pressure once reaching heads-up play to eventually be crowned the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker HK$100,000 Main Event Champion!
Devan Tang opened the button with a min-raise to 100,000 only to have Sunny Jung three-bet to 300,000.
Tang contemplated his decision for nearly a minute before cutting out a four-bet min-raise to 500,000 as Jung instantly called for the all-in button which signaled a five-bet all-in for over 4.1 million.
Tang fell back in his chair, dropped his shoulders and then picked up some red 25,000-denomination chips and began to shuffle them before slamming them over the betting line and on the chips he already had committed to the pot to signify that he was all in for his 1,780,000 total.
Jung:
Tang:
With Jung having the lead in both chips and hand strength, the flop changed little apart from opening up backdoor outs for both players.
As the rail increased to roughly 35 people watching on for the result, the dealer delivered the on the turn to give Tang outs to a chop with a five but also see Jung gain outs to a flush.
With even more people now watching on, the dealer would slowly peel the on the river to give Jung a flush and send Tang to the rail in 2nd place for HK$3,667,000 while launching the Korean into ecstasy as he was now the ACOP Main Event Champion and recipient of the HK$4,352,000 first prize.
Devan Tang opened the button to 80,000 and Sunny Jung three-bet to 180,000 from the big blind. Tang responded by making it 340,000 and Jung called as the dealer dropped a flop.
Both players checked and the landed on the turn with Jung leading for 400,000 as Tang called before the dealer dropped the on the river.
Jung checked, as did Tang before Jung tabled his . Tang tabled his for the same pair but with a superior kicker to take the pot and send Tang into the chip lead.
Devan Tang opened the button to 60,000 and Sunny Jung three-bet to 180,000. Tang made the call as the dealer spread a flop and Jung continued for 250,000.
Tang made the call as the landed on the turn and Jung checked to Tang who opted to bet 400,000. Jung made the call, and when the landed on the river, both players checked.
Jung tabled his for a flush to scoop the pot and move just shy of 4.9 million as Tang dropped to 1.2 million in chips.
Sunny Jung raised to 60,000 from the button and Devan Tang called as the dealer dropped a flop and Jung's 90,000-chip continuation-bet was check-called by Tang.
The turn of the saw Jung bet out 140,000 with Tang calling once again before the landed on the river and both players checked.
Tang tabled his , but it would Tang's that would see him capture the pot.
Welcome back to the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event for the resumption of heads-up play between Korea's Sunny Jung and Hong Kong's Devan Tang.
Yesterday an ACOP Main Event Champion was supposed to be crowned, but following fast play on the previous days and a starting 100-big blind average chip stack at the final table, everyone knew that the final day may not be so final by day's end. Although there were some quick eliminations of the short stacks, play slowed down considerably mainly due to the great structure of the event.
After nearly 12 hours of play, the tournament would be halted as both players, staff and media knew that a further six hours of play was a real possibility. Returning today sees Jung and Tang locked in a near even heads-up match with stacks that are 134 and 120-big blinds deep respectively.
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
BBs
3
Devan Tang
Hong Kong
2,877,000
120
5
Sunny Jung
Korea
3,213,000
134
There will be no exceptions today as a winner will be crowned in the ACOP Main Event as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team provides all the live updates from 2:15 p.m. local time while also providing updates of the $250,000 High Roller event that is now down to a final 15.
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board before furthering that lead to an eight-to-one advantage. Fortunately for Tang he started to fight back for what seemed like the first time today as he slowly clawed his way back into the heads-up battle. A mix of aggression and some hands helped Tang before he managed to take the lead when his 
bested Jung's 
on a 
in a four-bet pot.
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. With the first called all-in of heads up play upon us, the 
board would see Jung's dominance improve to a flush to be crowned the second ACOP Main Event Champion and recipient of HK$4,352,000 in prize money.
flop and Jung's 90,000-chip continuation-bet was check-called by Tang.
landed on the river and both players checked.
