Ivan Leow Eliminated in 2nd Place (HKD $1,016,700/$129,589)

Malaysia's Ivan Leow came close to making history, but could not scale the mountainous slopes of Xiaobo Zhou's monster chip stack and heads-up was a brief affair.

Leow dropped a chunk of chips the first hand of heads-up when the two battled over a flop. Leow, holding made two pair on the turn, but Zhou improved to trips on the river and Leow did well to avoid going bust right there. However, the Malaysian had the nous to check back the river.

Three hands later it was all over. Leow moved all-in for his last 1.2 million from the button and feeling fortune on his side Zhou made the call.

Ivan Leow:
Xiaobo Zhou:

While Leow held a slender lead, all the momentum was with Zhou and the flop came down a decisive to leave Leow drawing dead. The turn and river were merely a formality and Xiaobo Zhou is the inaugural Oriental Poker Championship Main Event Champion.

Zhou came over to give Leow a big hug, before celebrating with his friends on the rail and posing for his winner's photo. Leow gave a wry shrug as if to say 'can't win 'em all' and headed off to collect his HKD $1.01M runner-up prize money, leaving Zhou to bask in the glory of victory.