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

05-23-2018 19:31 UTC+8

James Chen and Devan Tang Enter

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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 19:23 UTC+8

Big Overbet From Andre

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Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

Cyril Andre has extended his chip lead up to 114,000, making him the first to sit with a six-figure stack.

After Xia Qing Ji opened under the gun to 600, Matthew Moss three-bet to 2,700 two seats over before Andre called in the hijack. Ji would come along too, making it three-ways to the flop. Ji checked, and Moss didn't c-bet. Andre led for 2,300 when checked to, which got a call from Ji and a fold from Moss.

The turn then landed and Ji checked again. Andre didn't take long to fire a massive bet of 20,025 - around 1.5x pot. Ji gave it some thought before laying his hand down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cyril Andre	114,000 18,000	18,000
Yia Qing Ji	74,000 74,000	74,000
Matthew Moss	39,500 -8,000	-8,000

Tags: Cyril Andre Matthew Moss Xia Qing Ji

05-23-2018 19:15 UTC+8

Moss and Wang Battle Again, Gao Nuts Ye Wang

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Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

We caught Yang Wang and Matt Moss battling in another pot, with the community cards spread just as Wang fired a roughly two-thirds pot sized bet of 5,700 from the cutoff. Moss (big blind) made the call and the came in on the river.

That was it for the betting in this particular hand, with Moss taking the pot down with to get close to starting stack while Wang dropped some to 75,000. Fabian Spielmann joined the action while this hand was going down and the field has now climbed to 17 entries, 15 of whom are still in action.

Talking of action, we picked up Wenling Gao and Ye Wang embroiled in a hand immediately after the one above played out, over on the second table.

It was Gao who was the pre-flop aggressor, making it 700 to go from middle position with Yang the only caller in the big blind. The flop fell , with Wang check-calling Gao's 800 continuation bet to keep both players in action to the turn.

Wang decided to seize the initiative when the third heart came in, firing for 1,100 and getting called. The river completed the hand, and Wang now checked it over to Gao, who now tossed out a bet of 4,500.

This sent Wang into the think tank, where he remained for several minutes before throwing out the calling chips, but could only flick his cards into the muck when Gao rolled over for the stone cold nuts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yang Wang	75,000 -8,000	-8,000
Wenling Gao	57,000 9,800	9,800
Fabian Spielmann	50,000
Matthew Moss	47,500 10,000	10,000
Ye Wang	31,500

Tags: Wenling Gao Ye Wang Yang Wang Matthew Moss

05-23-2018 19:07 UTC+8

Cheng Returns

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Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

With only a couple of minutes lost, Tony Yat Wai Cheng is back in on his second bullet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tony Yat Wai Cheng	50,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Tony Yat Wei Cheng

05-23-2018 19:04 UTC+8

The Ji Comeback Sends Cheng Out

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Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

It wasn't the best start to this High Roller for Xia Qing Ji, nor was it for Tony Yat Wai Cheng. But luckily for Ji, he's just won two consecutive pots to more than triple his stack. Unfortunately for Cheng, he wasn't so lucky. He's outta here.

First, Ji opened the hijack to 600 and was three-bet by Steven Zhou in the big blind to 2,200. Ji made the call, and then both checked the flop. The turn landed and Zhou checked again, before calling a 2,450 bet from Ji. Finally the river hit the felt, and when Zhou checked a final time Ji led for 5,750. Zhou would make the call, before mucking when Ji turned over for trips.

A hand or two later and we heard a lot of commotion at the table. It turned out there was a three-way all-in, with Cheng holding , Matthew Moss holding , and Ji holding . The runout gave Ji the best of it, tripling his stack up to 83,000. Moss is down to 37,500 now, while Cheng made his exit with the option to re-enter.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xia Qing Ji	83,000 62,000	62,000
Matthew Moss	37,500 -20,500	-20,500
Steven Zhou	17,500 -8,500	-8,500
Tony Yat Wai Cheng	Busted

Tags: Matthew Moss Steven Zhou Tony Yat Wai Cheng Xia Qing Ji

Level: 3

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

05-23-2018 18:49 UTC+8

Pan Becomes First Casualty

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

There has been an early elimination, with the short-stacked Yue Feng Pan the man to get stacked, though we missed all the gory details. Pan's seat is now empty, but with unlimited re-entry available until level 13 on Day 2 he still has plenty of time to re-enter should he so desire.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yue Feng Pan	Busted

Tags: Yue Feng Pan

05-23-2018 18:46 UTC+8

Gao and Lei on the Scoreboard

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

There has been another new arrival in the form of Jichong Lei, who has announced his entry by winning a small pot from Steven Zhou. It was Zhou who was the pre-flop raiser, making it 600 to go on the button, with Lei choosing to defend from the big blind to take the action heads-up to a flop of .

Lei checked it over to Zhou, who tossed out a single yellow 1k chip, but quickly folded when Lei check-raised to 2,300 leaving our new arrival to rake in his first pot of the day.

Over on the second table Wenling Gao raised it up to 600 on the button, with Chung Yuan Yu making teh call from the big blind to take both players to a flop of . This saw Yu check the action over to Gao, who bet out 800. Yu min-check-raised to 1,600 and Gao made the call to keep the action heads-up to the turn.

Yu did not appear to like the diamond, looked like betting, and then checked. Gao needed no more encouragement and flicked in a bet of 2,500, which was enough to take it down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jichong Lei	51,000
Wenling Gao	47,200 -2,800	-2,800
Chung Yuan Yu	45,000 -5,000	-5,000
Steven Zhou	26,000 -3,000	-3,000

Tags: Wenling Gao Chung Yuan Yu Jichong Lei Steven Zhou

05-23-2018 18:39 UTC+8

Trips For Jinghui

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

Chung Yuan Yu opened from the UTG+1 seat to 600, which got a call from Ying Jinghui in the cutoff. It folded to Yue Feng Pan in the big blind and he three-bet squeezed to 2,700, and both players came along.

The flop came and Pan continued for 3,000, which got a quick fold from Yu. Jinghui called though, and the dealer burned and turned the . Now Pan fired 5,500, but Jinghui didn't budge.

When the river landed, pairing the board, Pan slowed down and checked. Jinghui tossed out a bet of 13,000, and after around 20 seconds Pan made the call. We wouldn't see his cards though; he mucked after Jinghui showed for trips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ying Jinghui	76,000 26,000	26,000
Yue Feng Pan	13,200 -36,800	-36,800

05-23-2018 18:28 UTC+8

Wang Gets Stuck In

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

Yang Wang has wasted no time getting stuck into the action, and we caught the tail end of a sizable hand that played out between Wang and Matt Moss. We picked up the action on the river with close to 7,000 already in the pot with the community cards spread just as Wang (early position) led out for 5,800.

Moss was on the button and slid out a re-raise as we arrived, making it 23,400 to go. Wang looked surprised but made the call and Moss flipped over . However, this was behind to Wang's with the Chinese player winning the hand with a straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yang Wang	83,000 33,000	33,000
Matthew Moss	58,000 -23,700	-23,700

Tags: Matthew Moss Yang Wang