ACOP Main Event Day 1b | 2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker

Player	Chips	Progress
Satrya Teja	83,300 3,300	3,300
Praz Bansi	79,950 4,950	4,950

Chane Kampanatsanyakorn	78,900
Kumimaro Kojo	77,350
Chongxian Yang	75,000
Saehoon Lee	70,475 40,475	40,475
Cheryl Peng	70,025
Ted Wang	69,475
Yifan Zheng	69,150 24,150	24,150
Edward Chun Ho Yam	63,450
Zhou Xing	62,350
Jan Julius Petzholdt	61,675
Kevin Schulz	61,475

Yang Xi	59,525
Edmund Hoi Ting Lee	55,800
Michael Tureniec	53,700 6,700	6,700

Yu Kurita	52,525 -4,475	-4,475
Anson Yan Shing Tsang	51,025
Jim Sue Pan	49,375
Adrian Gray	47,050
Yat Wai Cheng	46,475
Randy Lew	44,900 -13,100	-13,100

Mervin Chan	44,600 2,600	2,600
Andy Ying Kit Chan	44,225
Neo Li Han Chen	43,675

Player

Chips

Progress

Satrya Teja

83,300

3,300

Praz Bansi

79,950

4,950

Chane Kampanatsanyakorn

78,900

Kumimaro Kojo

77,350

Chongxian Yang

75,000

Saehoon Lee

70,475

40,475

Cheryl Peng

70,025

Ted Wang

69,475

Yifan Zheng

69,150

24,150

Edward Chun Ho Yam

63,450

Zhou Xing

62,350

Jan Julius Petzholdt

61,675

Kevin Schulz

61,475

Yang Xi

59,525

Edmund Hoi Ting Lee

55,800

Michael Tureniec

53,700

6,700

Yu Kurita

52,525

-4,475

Anson Yan Shing Tsang

51,025

49,375

47,050

46,475

44,900

-13,100

Mervin Chan

44,600

2,600

Andy Ying Kit Chan

44,225

Neo Li Han Chen

43,675

Day 1b of the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event kicked off at PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams with 110 hopefuls looking to join the 77 Day 1a survivors on Wednesday for Day 2.

The HK$100,000 (approximately $12,900) buy-in and whopping prizepool guarantee attracted from all across the world as Brandon Meyers, Keith Gipson, Joel Micka, Michael Tureniec, David Vamplew, Praz Bansi and Tom Middleton joined the likes of Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin, Raymond Wu and Randy Lew, Macau veterans Kitty Kuo, Hung-Sheng Lin, Yu Kurita, Akira Ohyama and Roger Spets as well as reigning champion Xing Zhou.

The Team PokerStars Pros would all endure the tournament in different ways as Lew chipped up early and never looked back as he finished the day with 44,900. Early Lew cold four-bet and got two streets of value on a board before flopping a set of tens on Tureniec. For Lin she would be put to a potentially tournament ending decision early and then hover around average for the majority of play before bagging 15,425. Wu on the other hand had the worse of all three Team Pros as he was log-jammed on a tough table that featured Vamplew and Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson. Wu’s day came to an end after committing all in holding on a flop but unfortunately ran into Liang Shi’s .

Speaking of Aussie Millions Champions, there would be three of them in the field as Nelson arrived late before ending with 36,850 as Mervin Chan quietly built his stack to 44,600 by days end. Oliver Speidel however wouldn’t be so fortunate as he lost a big pot after bet-folding the river only to run his into all in preflop, and once the was spread he was sent to the rail.

Joining Speidel on the rail throughout the day included Ivan Zalac, Raj Ramakrishnan, Micka and Meyers. However Day 1b would belong to Satrya Teja who bagged an impressive 83,300 in chips to top the 89 players surviving into Day 2. Also sneaking in were Praz Bansi (80,100), Kunimiro Kojo (77,350), Xing Zhou (62,350), Michael Tureniec (53,700), LuLu Tang (54,000), Yu Kurita (52,525), Tom Grigg (40,425), Billy Argyros (39,925), Kitty Kuo (38,850) and Devan Tang (18,225).

Day 2 will see 166 players return to the felt at 5:00 p.m. local time with the PokerNews Live Reporting team providing all the live updates from PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams. But until then … there is a player party to attend! In the meantime, check out Sarah Grant's guided tour of Macau:

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