With about 8,000 chips already in the middle, Leon Li-ta Hsu led for 2,700 with all his small chip denominations and only left himself a T-5,000 chip behind after a flop of . Kwok Chun Yip moved all in and had his opponent covered to receive a very reluctant call by Hsu with .
The top pair was no good, as Yip had flopped a set with the . On the turn, a glimpse of hope with the gutshot appeared but the river bricked.
We ran into Steve O'Dwyer in the first break of Day 1b of the APPT Macau Main Event. O'Dwyer choose Macau over Vegas, and isn't really sure he's going to Vegas at all this year, not even for the Main Event.
"I am out," Seng Yee Leow said after he just walked past us in the tournament area. Jack Hu was chatting with a friend nearby and seemed very relaxed, in fact too relaxed after he had been among the shorter-stacked players lately. The HK$50,000 runner-up confirmed his elimination in the Main Event and thus makes it two notables less to watch out for.
Another 8,000 pot had slipped out of the fingers of PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang, after his opponent made a flush on the river of a board with . Huang was unable to beat that and mucked the cards to fall back below starting stack.
We arrived at the table to find the board spread out . Bryan Huang was on the losing side of the hand with his coming up short against his opponent’s .
All the money went in on the turn with Huang’s opponent committing his remaining 13,325 when the nine came.
HK$50,000 Freezeout winner Sheng Sun started pretty well but before the last hand he was already down to less than the starting stack. The board was already rushed away but Haifeng Xue celebrated after the river and Sun had to leave his chair. According to the Chinese, he flat-called a raise to 700 and so did Xue to see a flop of rainbow.
After two checks and the 1,200 bet of Xue, the other player in the hand raised to 3,400 and Sun just wanted to call before putting in too many chips. It was counted as a raise and Xue jammed with , which Sun called with . A queen on the turn left Xue drawing to four tens only and sure enough one of them popped up on the river to bust Sun.
At one of the outer tables outside of the main tournament area, Winfred Yu was spotted check-calling a bet of 1,050 on the flop. On the turn both players in the hand checked and the opponent of Yu also checked behind the on the river. Yu turned over and that won the pot.
Xing Zhou had lost some chips and was down to approximately 27,000 chips but things were about to become even more ugly. In a heads-up pot on the flop, Zhou check-raised from 1,400 to 3,400 and was called before the on the turn was checked through.
After the river, Zhou made a bet worth 3,000 and called off a raise to 9,500 to see his opponent flip over . An "oh ####" followed and Zhou mucked his now inferior for the worse full house.
Bryan Huang three-bet an open raise in late position and was called to see a flop of . After betting action, the PokerStars Team Pro got his remaining 14,000 in with pocket kings and was called by the sole opponent with for bottom pair and the flush draw. Two bricks later Huang had the crucial double and continued with lots of three-bets and four-bets, any major showdown didn't happen anymore since.
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. Kwok Chun Yip moved all in and had his opponent covered to receive a very reluctant call by Hsu with 
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. On the 
turn, a glimpse of hope with the gutshot appeared but the 
river bricked.
board with 
. Huang was unable to beat that and mucked the cards to fall back below starting stack.
. Bryan Huang was on the losing side of the hand with his 
.
rainbow.
, which Sun called with 
. A queen on the turn left Xue drawing to four tens only and sure enough one of them popped up on the river to bust Sun.
flop. On the 
turn both players in the hand checked and the opponent of Yu also checked behind the 
and that won the pot.
on the turn was checked through.
. After betting action, the PokerStars Team Pro got his remaining 14,000 in with pocket kings and was called by the sole opponent with 
for bottom pair and the flush draw. Two bricks later Huang had the crucial double and continued with lots of three-bets and four-bets, any major showdown didn't happen anymore since.
