$50,000 Freezeout
Day 1 Started
$50,000 Freezeout
Day 1 Started
Macau is a place where dreams can come true, be it hotels and attractions showing up left an right or high-stakes cash games running and with Millions to be won. The new "Las Vegas of Asia" already boasts unique places such as the Venetian, but the "City of Dreams" hotel complex and casino on the Cotai Strip surely showcases the ambitions of the small peninsula in mainland China. The "PokerStars Live Macau" poker room is in here and that's also the host of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Season 9.
All thirteen events count towards the Official Asia Player of the Year ranking and the festival has kicked off a few days ago on May 20th with everything leading up to the final on May 31st 2015. The buy-ins range between HK$ 1,500 and HK$ 100,000 and the two-day HK$ 50,000 Freezeout is the second-most expensive event on the schedule. In fact, the tournament has just been introduced and takes place for the first time ever.
The action gets underway in about one hour from now at 18:00 local time (six hours ahead of CET) and the first nine 40-minute levels will then see an increase of the duration per level to 60 minutes each. Late registration on Day 1 remains open for six hours with a maximum of eight to nine hours being played and the tournament will resume tomorrow as of 15:00 local time. May 27th also features the first starting day of the HK$ 25,000 Main Event and the PokerNews live reporting team will be there to deliver updates from both events simultaneously. Same also applies for the HK$ 100,000 High Roller event on May 30th and 31st as well.
Among the familiar names expected heading to Macau are Randy "nanonoko" Lew of Team PokerStars Online, Kitty Kuo, 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event champion Scott Davies and the Team PokerStars Pros Bryan Huang, Celina Lin, Kosei Ichinose, and Aditya Agarwal
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The $50,000 Freezeout is underway after an introduction from the tournament director.
Team PokerStars Team Pro Bryan Huang has been spotted early in today’s proceedings.
Huang went narrowly close to capturing a title at the last stop of the APPT, coming second to American Jason Mo in the APPT Seoul Main Event.
Yet to cash here in Macau this series, Huang will be looking to change that here in the Freezeout before he attempts to go one better in the Main Event starting tomorrow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Huang | 50,000 | |
On the same table as Bryan Huang, some early fireworks saw the player in seat 3 reduce his stack to only 19,000 chips after less than 10 minutes of pkay. On the river of a board, Liang led and then faced a raise to 16,000 which he called. The opponent wasn't too happy about that and reluctantly turned over his for king-high whereas Liang tabled to scoop the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eddy Liang
|
81,000 |
Several notables players have commenced play including 2012 ACOP Champion Xing Zhou, reigning Asia Player of the Year Pete Chen and PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pete Chen |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Xing Zhou | 50,000 | |
Celina Lin |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Nick Wong |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
KC Wong |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Thomas Ward |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
After a raise to 450, Bryan Huang called from the button and the two of them saw a flop of . The Team PokerStars Pro check-called a continuation bet of 1,100 before leading the turn. His opponent wasn't willing to pay the 2,600 and Huang raked in the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Huang |
51,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
In a four-way pot to the flop, Geoff Mooney led for 1,000 out of the big blind and was called just by the player on the button. The Australian continued for 2,000 on the turn and received a call before 10,000 on the river took down the pot without showdown.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Geoff Mooney |
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
We arrived at the table just as the player in the hijack raised it up to 450. The option fell on KC Wong on the big blind who made the call .
The flop came down and Wong check called a continuation bet totalling 500. When the fell on the turn, Wong checked then snap called another bet worth 1,300.
After the dealer produced the on the river Wong checked for the third time and watched as his opponent casually threw out another 3,700 in chips. Wong quickly called but mucked his hand when his opponent tabled for two pair.
Wong drop down to 42,000 following the hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
KC Wong |
42,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |