Arriving on the river of a board, there were already massive 50,000 chips in the pot and the opponent of Jordan Kaplan had checked. The American fired 33,000 and was called to roll over . "That wasn't a bad flop for me." he grinned to table neighbor Bryan Huang.
The field is growing and the screens have been updated to show 35 entrants. Among the last to take their seats were Scott Davies and Thomas Ward, who both final-tabled the HK$50,000 Freezeout here a few days ago.
With 7,300 chips in the middle four-way to a flop of , Jack Hu faced a bet of 2,300 and shoved his entire stack in. There were some laughs at the table but Hu got through with the move and avoided a showdown.
Jack Hu is already on his second bullet after losing pocket jacks to trips nines. "Yeah, it was against my cousin," the runner-up of the HK$50,000 Freezeout said. He is referring to Shunu Zang, the first player on 200,000 chips without taking any rebuy.
There are already 20 players at the start of the High Roller event and that is more than the previous year according to Fred Leung. In 2014, the event drew a total of 59 entries and this may very well be beaten this time.
The HK$14,000 Turbo Satellite saw a total of 86 entrants and is still running with four tables left. Among those in taking a shot at qualifying are Yaxi Zhu, Xiaohua Fu (after busting the Main Event), Elias Abou Saleh and Billy "The Croc" Argyros. The unfortunate bubble boy still takes home juicy HK$84,460 while the top 10 spots get a ticket for the event with the biggest buy-in on the schedule.
The HK$100,000 High Roller Event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour at the "PokerStars LIVE Macau at City of Dreams" comes with a whopping 100,000 chips starting stack and levels of 40 minutes each. Play will run nine-handed and all participants are allowed do purchase a maximum of two rebuys.
This means, a rebuy can be taken straight away if you have starting stack or less and even a double rebuy after busting for the first time is an option. Late registration as well as the rebuy period closes with the completion of level six.
Action gets underway in an hour from now at 17:00 local time and among those expected to likely participate are Steve O'Dwyer and Bryan Huang. The latter has also made it into Day 2 of the HK$5,000 Knockout event as well, though the turbo structure made for an average of 13.5 big blinds for the restart at 15:30 local time.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to provide all key moments until a winner is crowned tomorrow and you can also check out the simultaneous Main Event updates as well.
board, there were already massive 50,000 chips in the pot and the opponent of Jordan Kaplan had checked. The American fired 33,000 and was called to roll over 
. "That wasn't a bad flop for me." he grinned to table neighbor Bryan Huang.
, Jack Hu faced a bet of 2,300 and shoved his entire stack in. There were some laughs at the table but Hu got through with the move and avoided a showdown.
