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Day 4 Completed

11-14-2015 03:25 UTC+8

ACOP Main Event Day 4 Ends With 7 Remaining; Connor Drinan Leads

MarcC

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

The aim for Day 4 of the 2015 Asia Championship of Poker Main Event from Macau was to make the final table of nine and then play on until six remained. The first half of the target was reached, but, 30 minutes into Level 26, play was suspended with seven remaining. The eliminations were sparse, and that had a lot to do with the even spread of chips across the remaining players.

At the end of play, Connor Drinan was on top. He started the day as chip leader and ended it on 1.755 million in the same position.

Drinan won lots of little pots on Day 4, but also benefitted from winning two big ones, both with full houses.

He took most of Wat Yai Cheng's chips when he flopped a set and rivered a full house. Cheng turned a straight and couldn't get away from it on the river.

Then, Drinan flopped a set and rivered a full house versus Patrick Mahaoney. Drinan managed to get in a river raise that was called, and that landed him another pile of chips.

Mahoney started the day third in chips, but he was left short after the confrontation with Drinan. From there, he earned the unfortunate tag of "final table bubble boy" when he moved his short stack in with pocket threes, but Hsien Kui Yang was behind him with pocket jacks.

Guoliang Wei was the first player out at the final table. He ran queens into aces to be left with fumes and busted the very next hand. The only other player to fall from the final table was the last Russian standing, Sergey Lebedov. He three-bet all in with ace-queen, but couldn't come from behind to beat Thomas Ward, who had raised with pocket jacks.

Play will resume on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m local time tomorrow and will continue until a champion in crowned. Join the PokerNews Live Reporting team back here for what promises to be a fun day on the felt.

Tags: Connor Drinan

11-14-2015 03:11 UTC+8

End-of-Day Chip Counts

Brentharrington

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Connor Drinan	1,755,000	308,000
Nan Tu	1,370,000	-520,000
Thomas Ward	1,335,000	75,000
Zhou Zhou	1,210,000	310,000
Qi Luo	980,000	-238,000
Xixiang Luo	780,000	160,000
Hsien Yuan Yang	370,000	-407,000

11-14-2015 03:06 UTC+8

Last Hand of the Night

Brentharrington

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

It looked like there might be an elimination on the last hand of the night, when Zhou Zhou shoved all in with his last 480,000.

Zhou raised to 70,000 preflop and Xixiang Luo reraised to 175,000. Zhou called and three hearts hit the flop . Zhou checked and Luo bet 140,000. Zhou raised all in and as the final seconds of the day had already ticked off, Luo folded and ended play.

Stay tuned for a recap of today's action as well as a brief wrap up of the Super High Roller.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhou Zhou	900,000	340,000
Xixiang Luo	620,000	-265,000

Tags: Xixiang Luo Zhou Zhou

11-14-2015 03:04 UTC+8

Super High Roller Day 1: Vladimir Troyanovskiy Leads

Brentharrington

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

There were 32 entrants and seven reentries on Day 1 of the HK$500,000 Super High Roller. At the end of the first day of play, Vladimir Troyanovskiy led the talented field, with Phanlert Sukonthatchartnant finishing in second.

John Juanda, Stephen Chidwick, Zuo Wang, Mustapha Kanit, and Mikita Badziakouski all reentered once, while David Peters was the only player to use both of his available reentries on the first day.

Troyanovskiy's stack of 1.601 million leads the way, Sukonthachartnant finished next with 1.476 million, and then Steve O'Dwyer, who is no stranger to success in Macau, bagged up the third-largest stack of 1.393 million. Behind them, Christoph Vogelsang (1.385 million) and Kitson Kho (1.263 million) rounded out the top five.

Play will resume on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 2:30 p.m. local time. PokerNews will bring you any major updates throughout the day, with full coverage of the final table on Sunday.

11-14-2015 02:38 UTC+8

Zhou Zhou Takes it Down on the River

Brentharrington

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Qi Luo raised to 55,000 preflop in early position. Zhou Zhou called from the big blind. Both players checked the flop of . The turn was the and Zhou bet 75,000. Luo called. The river was the and Zhou led out for 175000 leaving only about 105,000 behind.

Luo seemed like he had a big decision. He went into the tank for quite some time and eventually had the clock called on him. He decided to fold and Zhou took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Qi Luo	1,218,000	-140,000
Zhou Zhou	560,000	140,000

Tags: Zhou Zhou Qi Luo

11-14-2015 02:26 UTC+8

Play Extended by 30 Minutes

MarcC

Level 26 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Tournament Director Danny McDonagh had planned to end the day's play at the end of this level but Conor Drinan wanted to carry on until six remain as that's what the structure stated. The two came to a compromise that play will be extended 30 minutes into level 26 to see if they can lose one more player. If not, play will stop then and resume tomorrow at 2pm tomorrow.

Level: 26

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 5,000

11-14-2015 02:07 UTC+8

Tu Slows Ward Down

Brentharrington

Level 25 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Just when it looked like Thomas Ward was going to make another massive jump up the leaderboard, Nan Tu won a 1.2-million chip pot.

Ward raised to 55,000 and Tu called, leaving the two players heads up to the flop of . Ward led out for 75,000 and Tu called.

The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and Ward checked to Tu. Tu bet 375,000. Ward didn't take too long to call, but when Tu turned over for a boat Ward too far less time to muck his after showing it to Tu.