In one of the early confrontations, Huang Hanshi defended his big blind against a button raise and the flop saw him as well as the opponent invest 600 chips. On the turn, Hanshi led for 1,150 and his opponent raised to 3,000 after approximately one minute of consideration.
Hanshi was having none of it and reraised to 6,000, enforced a fold and flashed the for everybody to see.
Two of the four PokerStars Team Pro’s expected today have taken their seats early in proceedings.
Vivian Im has had great success throughout Asia with her notable results including taking down the APPT Philippines Main Event in 2010 then narrowly missing out on a Red Dragon title the following year.
The other is Celina Lin. Lin has one many titles including two Red Dragon events back in 2009 and 2012 making her the only two time winner. Last month Lin went agonisingly close to capturing an APPT main event title in Seoul were she finished 4th. She’ll be looking to go a few places better in this event.
The PokerStars LIVE Macau at the City of Dreams ran a HK$3,000 Turbo Satellite and there are currently 10 out of 59 entries remaining. The top seven spots will get entry to the Main Event and join the stating field as soon as the winners have been determined.
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. Yesterday's Day 1a field saw 207 players come out to action. At the end of the day, 76 of them advanced to Day 2. It was China’s Zhifeng Yao leading the way at the end of the day with 174,700 in chips.
With an expected field of around 300 players today, it would mean that this event will have in excess of 500-runners, which is great considering the popularity of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) that is about to get underway over in Las Vegas.
Play is set to kick off at 2:00pm local time here at the City of Dreams Macau. Be sure to stay tuned for all the live coverage straight from the floor, it's going to be another great day on the felt.
flop saw him as well as the opponent invest 600 chips. On the 
turn, Hanshi led for 1,150 and his opponent raised to 3,000 after approximately one minute of consideration.
for everybody to see.
