With 1,200 in the pot and a flop of 
, Norway's Tore Lukashaugen checked from the big blind and Victor Chong bet 550 from the button. Lukashaugen woke up with a check-raise to 1,650, but Chong was having none of it and three-bet to 3,625. It did the trick as Lukashaugen quickly released his hand.
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
With the board reading 
and roughly 7,500 in the middle, we found Randy Lew betting out 5,500.
His opponent deliberated for a few minutes before making the call.
Lew tabled his 
for a flush and was pushed the pot to move close to 50,000 following a muck from his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
48,500 | 11,000 |
Yujung Choi opened for 250 from early position only to have Dong Guo three-bet her to 950 from the small blind. Choi put in the additional 700 and then called a bet of 1,350 on the 
flop. After the dealer burned and turned the , Guo bet out 3,000 and Choi quickly folded her hand.
Choi dropped to 26,000 after the hand, while Guo is still down a bit from the starting stack with 29,000.
We happened by Table 4 just in time to discover a big pot brewing. There was already 12,250 in the middle and a flop of 
when Jian Yang led out for 2,925. Tom "hitthehole" Middleton, who you may recall won the European Poker Tour Barcelona back in September, then raised to 7,000 and put the action on the defending champion, Xing Zhou.
Zhou thought for a few moments before using both hands to commit his entire stack of 17,600, which prompted Yang to hit the tank. Eventually he folded, and then Middleton snap-folded his hand behind.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,300 | 10,300 |
|
16,650 | -13,350 |
|
10,000 | -20,000 |
Following Jian Yang's victory in the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Warm-Up for HK$1,700,000 he has now jumped to the top of the Asia Player of the Year ranking on the back of a victory he had in the ACOP: Platinum Series II Main Event in September.
However with numerous events remaining on the ACOP schedule, anyone could take that top spot from Yang with an impressive result or two.
| Rank | Player | Country | Points | Winnings | Final Tables | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jian Yang | China | 3,922 | HK$2,040,100 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | Japan | 3,515 | HK$425,552 | 7 | 3 |
| 3 | Ryan Nan Yu | China | 3,460 | HK$608,600 | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Terry Yun-hsiang Fan | Chinese Taipei | 3,400 | HK$1,973,840 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Neo Li Han Chen | Chinese Taipei | 3,375 | HK$935,400 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | Alexandre Chieng | China | 3,292 | HK$2,407,600 | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | Sparrow Cheung | Hong Kong | 3,265 | HK$483,925 | 7 | 1 |
| 8 | Gie Angelo Reyes | Philippines | 3,120 | HK$1,325,200 | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | Yoshitaka Okawa | Japan | 2,671 | HK$1,123,000 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Chris Yeow Chung Chong | Singapore | 2,653 | HK$246,350 | 4 | 0 |
*Standing as of day ending October 27th, 2013
Hung-Sheng Lin opened to 300 from the cutoff and Tom Grigg made the call on the button to see a 
flop fall.
Lin continued for 400 and Grigg made the call as the 
on the turn would be greeted with a 550-chip bet from Lin. Grigg again made the call as the 
completed the board on the river with Lin firing again; this time for 1,650.
Grigg tossed in a yellow 5,000-denomination chip while announcing a raise of 4,000. With Lin in the think-tank for a couple of minutes, he would splash the pot with a re-raise amounting to 13,500 which forced Grigg to eventually toss his cards into the muck while slipping to 17,700 as Lin moved to 33,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000 | 3,000 |
|
17,700 | -12,300 |
It has just come to our attention that the first player of Day 1b has been eliminated.
Occurring on Tom Grigg's table, he informed us that Jun Hu flatted a four-bet holding 
and then flopped top set. His opponent, Andrei Kaigorodtcev, got all his chips in the middle holding 
, and when no ace came on the turn and river, Hu was left to stack up the pot sending him to over 42,000 in chips.
