Daniel Lee was the initial raiser from middle position and Eugene Khoo led the flop for 6,500 into a pot of 15,000. Lee raised to 20,000, which represented a large portion of his opponent's stack, and Khoo tossed his cards into the muck.
Longjie Li raised from under the gun plus one before Zhi Yun moved all in for 11,000 from the hijack. With the decision folding back around to Li, he made the call.
Li:
Yun:
Yun was in great shape to double with his pair until the board ran out seeing Li spike an ace to take down the pot.
The action folded around to Yee Lap Lai on the button who moved all in for his last 11,300. Wang-chia Tsai was seated in the small blind and made the call before the big blind mucked his hand.
Lai:
Tsai:
The board ran out to see Lai miss everything as he was sent to the rail.
In a preflop all in situation, Tao Fang got the remainder of his 20 big blind stack in with the and was called by Feng Wen Chen with the . The flop was all good for the short stack, but turn and river completed a backdoor straight for Chen.
Joining the action on a flop of , Chane Kampanatsanyakorn check-raised from 3,100 to 9,000 out of the big blind and initial raiser Wai Leong Chan called from the button. On the turn, Kampanatsanyakorn led for 16,000 and was called before giving up the hand on the river. His opponent won the pot with and we could not see the cards of Thai anymore.
Jeffrey Iok Seng Kat shoved from under the gun for his few big blinds he had carried into Day 2 and Yifan Zhang reshoved from a few seats over to get everyone else out of the way. Seng Kat held the but found his master in the of Zhang on a board of .
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Within the first two starting days the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Season 9 stop at the "PokerStars LIVE Macau at City of Dreams", an overall field of 493 entries has been created. After eight 60-minute levels, only 188 hopefuls remain with the top 59 spots being paid at least HK$43,600 whereas the winner on Sunday walks home with a payday of HK$2,525,000.
Another eight levels are scheduled for Day 2 and the action gets underway in about half an hour from now at 14:00 local time with level 13 at blinds 600-1,200 and a running ante of 100. When bagging and tagging takes place around 22:30, the money might be reached already or is just a few eliminations away.
Leading the field of the survivors is Day 1b top dog Jia Liang with 198,200, who jumped into the top position in the last level of play. He is followed by the Day 1a leaders Zhifeng Yao (174,700) and XiaoHua Fu (172,000). Other notables with above-average stacks include Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (133,800), Nicolas Cardyn (101,500) and Guiseppe Reina (66,200) whereas none of the Team PokerStars Pros made it through Day 1. Steve O'Dwyer (50,900), Sunny Jung (43,400), Lester Edoc (41,100), Winfred Yu (29,000) and Henrik Tollefsen (17,800) are still in contention as well.
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