ACOP Warm-Up Champion Jian Yang began the day as one of the short stacks, and already he has seen his chip stack on the rise.
Recently Yang called a raise from the big blind to see a flop fall. His opponent bet out 1,200 and Yang called before the and was checked through on the turn and river.
The ACOP has been playing out for the better part of the week, and we thought it'd be worthwhile to bring you the results from some of the preliminary events. Enjoy!
Cards are in the air here on Day 2 of the 2013 APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker. The plan for the evening is to play five 90-minute levels with a ten-minute break after every two hours.
Welcome back to PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams for Day 2 of the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event!
203 players took to the felt over the two Day 1 flights to form a HK$19,800,000 prize pool that will the see top 25 players guaranteed a HK$198,000 payday. Keith Ferrera topped Day 1a and the 78 survivors while Day 1b saw Satrya Teja top the 92 survivors as 169 total players survived into Day 2. Ferrera holds a substantial chip lead over the field with 117,825 while PokerStars Qualifier Aidan Tam sits second with the only other stack in the six-figure club.
Rounding out the top ten are two WSOP bracelet winners in Praz Bansi from the UK who won a 2006 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event and Ben Lamb who won the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship as well as the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year.
Top Ten Chip Counts
Player
Country
Chip Count
Keith Ferrera
USA
117,825
Aidan Tam
Canada
102,375
Peter Ping San Chan
Hong Kong
99,550
Satrya Teja
Indonesia
83,300
Praz Bansi
UK
79,950
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn
Thailand
78,900
David Martirosyan
Russia
77,675
Kumimaro Kojo
Japan
77,350
Chongxian Yang
China
75,000
Ben Lamb
USA
74,425
Also surviving into Day 2 include Xing Zhou (62,350), Ami Barer (60,850), Michael Tureniec (53,700), Mervin Chan (44,600), Billy Argyros (39,925), David Vamplew (36,875), Jarred Graham (33,700), Aaron Lim (25,275) and Tom Middleton (31,275). Team PokerStars Pros Eugene Katchalov (49,325), Vivian Im (36,900), Naoya Kihara (36,875), Randy Lew (44,900), Bryan Huang, (23,500) and Celina Lin (15,425) also survived along with Full Tilt Poker Ambassadors Tom Grigg (40,425) and Jonathan Karamalikis (40,150).
Day 2 is set to begin at 5:00 p.m. local time to give every play (along with staff and media members) a chance to recover from an epic player party last night that featured a beer pong competition, boat racing and lots of food and drinks. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to provide extensive live updates, so make sure to keep your browser locked on to PokerNews.com for all the ACOP Main Event action!
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flop fall. His opponent bet out 1,200 and Yang called before the 
and 
was checked through on the turn and river.
and scooped the pot.
