HK$100,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2018 Oriental Poker Championship

05-23-2018 19:31 UTC+8

James Chen and Devan Tang Enter

RazorSharpPro

Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

The field is now up to 20 entrants, 18 of whom are still in the running with Taiwan's James Chen the latest arrival. Chen is a regular in some of Macau's biggest cash games but is also a dab hand at tournaments with five high roller titles to his name for live tournament winnings of over US$2.5M putting him in second on the Taiwan All Time Money List.

China's Devan Tang is recently returned to Macau after taking part in the massive Triton Super High Roller Montenegro event and is another new arrival in the OPC High Roller.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Chen	50,000 50,000	50,000

Devan Tang	50,000

Tags: James Chen Devan Tang

05-23-2018 19:35 UTC+8

Chen Makes His Presence Felt

[user357898]

Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

When James Chen sits down at your table, you'll soon hear from him. Ying Jinghui certainly did just now.

Action folded to Jinghui on the button and he opened to 700. Chen then put in a three-bet to 3,100 from the small blind, and when it folded back to Jinghui he wasn't done. He four-bet it to 9,000, and Chen began to think.

A minute or so later, Chen tossed out four 5,000 chips, five-betting it to 20,000. Jinghui would let it go. A nice, aggressive start for Chen, then.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ying Jinghui	70,300 -5,700	-5,700
James Chen	59,000 9,000	9,000

Tags: James Chen Ying Jinghui

05-23-2018 19:38 UTC+8

Breaktime

RazorSharpPro

Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

The OPC High Rollers are on their first 10-minute break of the day.

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

05-23-2018 19:58 UTC+8

Wei and Leow In

RazorSharpPro

Level 4 : 200/400, 50 ante

There have been two more recent arrivals with Malaysian's Ivan Leow and Webster Lim Chin Wei the two in question. We caught Wei in action in a hand against Wenling Gao, with the former making it 1,000 to go on the button and the latter defending from the big blind.

The flop came down with both players checking to bring in the turn. Gao checked again and Wei delayed continuation-bet 1,500, which was enough to get it done and Gao folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lim Chin Wei	51,300
Ivan Leow	50,000

Tags: Wenling Gao Lim Chin Wei

05-23-2018 20:05 UTC+8

Wang gets paid

[user357898]

Level 4 : 200/400, 50 ante

Yang Wang's stack is on the up, courtesy of this pot against Fabian Spielmann.

There was already a board out there when we arrived, and after Spielmann checked from the big blind seat, Wang led for 3,100 in the under-the-gun seat. Spielmann made the call to see the river, on which he'd check again. Wang continued for 7,300, and Spielmann tossed in the chips as he announced a call.

Wang revealed for top pair, and that was good when Spielmann mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yang Wang	89,600 14,600	14,600
Fabian Spielmann	37,000 -13,000	-13,000

Tags: Fabian Spielmann Yang Wang

05-23-2018 20:15 UTC+8

Stacks

RazorSharpPro

Level 4 : 200/400, 50 ante

There have been 22 entries in the OPC High Roller, 19 of whom are still in the running so here's how they are stacking up:

Player	Chips	Progress
Cyril Andre	101,000 -13,000	-13,000
Yang Wang	79,000 -10,600	-10,600
Yia Qing Ji	71,000 71,000	71,000
Ye Wang	65,000 33,500	33,500
Hongjun Zhao	60,000
Hao Su	58,000 8,000	8,000

Wenling Gao	53,000 -4,000	-4,000
Chung Yuan Yu	50,500 5,500	5,500
Dmitry Rabotkin	50,000
Jichong Lei	49,000 -2,000	-2,000
Devan Tang	48,500 -1,500	-1,500
Lim Chin Wei	47,100 -4,200	-4,200
Ying Jinghui	45,000 -25,300	-25,300
Jiaming Zhang	42,500
Matthew Moss	41,500 2,000	2,000
Tony Yat Wai Cheng	41,200 -8,800	-8,800
Phachara Wongwichit	41,000 -9,000	-9,000

Fabian Spielmann	38,300 1,300	1,300
Steven Zhou	9,700 -7,800	-7,800

05-23-2018 20:23 UTC+8

Double up for Zhou

RazorSharpPro

Level 4 : 200/400, 50 ante

Steven Zhou's stack got just what the doctor ordered: a full double up.

After Jichong Lei opened under the gun to 1,100 in a big-blind only pot, it folded to Zhou on the button and he three-bet to 3,000. Back to Lei, he made the call to see a flop. Lei checked it, after which Zhou continued for 5,000. Lei then shoved with the bigger stack, and Zhou quickly called off his 19,250.

Lei -
Zhou -

Only an ace or running cards would end it for Zhou, so the turn and river were no danger to him. He doubles to 46,000, while Lei drops to 30,100.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Zhou	46,000 36,300	36,300
Jichong Lei	30,100 -18,900	-18,900

05-23-2018 20:29 UTC+8

Moss Tickles Out Zhou

RazorSharpPro

Level 4 : 200/400, 50 ante

Some of Steven Zhou's newly won chips have found their way over to Matthew Moss' stack after the two played a recent pot together. It was Zhou who was the initial aggressor, making it 900 to go from under-the-gun with Moss (small blind) and Cyril Andre (big blind) making the call to take the action three-way to a flop of .

Moss and Andre checked the action over to Zhou, who fired for 1,400 with Moss the only caller to take the action heads-up to the turn. This saw both players check and the river completed the hand. Moss now led for a tickly little bet of 700 and Zhou laughed to himself before having to throw his hand away.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Moss	80,000 38,500	38,500
Steven Zhou	33,000 -13,000	-13,000

Tags: Matthew Moss Steven Zhou

Level: 5

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50