HK$16,500 Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2018 Oriental Poker Championship
HK$16,500 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 Oriental Poker Championship
Buy-in
16,500 HKD
Entries
513
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Ivan Leow Goes From Day 1c Boss To Day 2 Chip Leader, Tops Final 58 In OPC 2018 Main Event
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Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Today was a field merging, money announcing, bubble bursting kinda day. It’s hard to believe we only played seven 60-minute levels.
When all was said and done, Day 2 of the OPC 2018 Main Event was owned by the same guy who owned Day 1c last night. Ivan Leow had a steady day, gaining the chip lead early on when his pocket kings held up against Zhao Zheng Lin’s ace-king. From there, the OPC High Roller champ remained one of the top stacks throughout, and despite stiff competition from Day 1a chip leader Yan Shun Feng at the top of the counts, Leow ultimately bagged the most with 739,000, leading the 58 survivors.
Second in chips is Chuanshu Chen, who would be responsible for bursting the bubble (more on that in a moment). He finished with 712,000. As for Yan Shun Feng, he seemed to quietly amass an absolutely enormous stack (at one point sitting with 900,000), always without attracting media attention (OK - so we just kept missing his action. Happy now?). Feng bagged up 625,000.
At the beginning of the day, the survivors of Day 1a and 1b began Level 12 at 1pm, while the Day 1c survivors returned at 2pm. The two starting flights were then merged for Level 13, and it was around that time we also got information regarding the prize pool and payouts. The OPC 2018 Main Event smashed its HK$5million guarantee, ultimately collecting a massive HK$7,464,200 (US$951,442). Everyone returning tomorrow is guaranteed HK$27,600, but here’s a reminder of what they’re aiming for:
OPC Main Event Top Ten Payouts
| Place | Prize (HKD) | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,451,000 | $184,946 |
| 2 | $1,016,700 | $129,589 |
| 3 | $653,900 | $83,346 |
| 4 | $483,700 | $61652 |
| 5 | $362,800 | $46,242 |
| 6 | $291,100 | $37,103 |
| 7 | $242,600 | $30,922 |
| 8 | $193,300 | $24,638 |
| 9 | $145,600 | $18,558 |
| 10 | $106,700 | $13,600 |
The last player to leave with nothing was Iceland’s Adalsteinn Karlsson. He shoved for 93,000 over a 17,000 cutoff raise from Chuanshu Chen, which the latter snap-called with pocket tens. Karlsson had pocket nines, and failed to improve. In the half hour that followed before the chip bags were brought out, Chen shot up the chip counts by winning a big pot from Yan Shun Feng at the bitter end of the day.
Along the way we lost plenty of familiar names. The likes of Victor Chong, Benjamin Hamlett, Wenling Gao, Yuefeng Pan, James Austin, Dong Guo, Xixiang Luo, Dmitry Rabotkin, Phachara Wongwichit, Carson Wong, and Alvan Zheng all failed to make it into the cash.
We’ll have full end-of-day chip counts for you ASAP.
PokerNews will be back at The Venetian tomorrow at 1pm for Day 3, as we continue to play down to an inaugural OPC Main Event champion. Join us then, and in the meantime scroll down to catch up on all of today’s action.
End of Day 2 Chip Counts (full)
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
739,000 | |
|
712,000 | |
|
|
625,000 | 625,000 |
|
598,000 | 452,300 |
|
584,000 | 124,000 |
|
530,000 | 530,000 |
|
|
522,000 | 212,000 |
|
|
514,000 | 114,000 |
|
510,000 | 29,000 |
|
485,000 | 485,000 |
|
479,000 | 239,000 |
|
380,000 | 255,000 |
|
|
370,000 | 205,000 |
|
338,000 | 338,000 |
|
337,000 | 85,000 |
|
|
322,000 | 286,600 |
|
309,000 | 251,300 |
|
|
308,000 | 308,000 |
|
303,000 | 185,000 |
|
300,000 | 300,000 |
|
|
273,000 | 273,000 |
|
|
264,000 | 222,000 |
|
255,000 | 200,900 |
|
252,000 | 252,000 |
|
|
247,000 | -28,000 |
Last Gasp Action
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
A lot of chips changed hands in the last four hands and former frontrunner Yan Shun Feng dropped a chunk of chips to tablemate Chuanshu Chen, who has been on a tear-up since sending Adalsteinn Karlsson to the rail empty-handed on the bubble. We missed how he did it, but Chen bagged up 712,000 with Feng dropping down to 625,000.
Ivan Leow got busy around the bubble and directly after and looks to have edged into the chip lead once more with a stack of 739,000.
Day 2 is now done and dusted and there will be a full end of day wrap and official counts to follow shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
739,000 | 349,000 |
|
|
712,000 | 292,000 |
|
|
625,000 | -275,000 |
Last Four Hands
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The tournament clock has been paused and there are just four more hands left in Day 2 of the OPB Main Event.
No King Size For Tang
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Danny Tang has made it into the money, but with a stack of 80,000 - 14 big blinds - he was looking to make future plans should he bust.
"Is registration still open for the King Size Stack?" he asked the floor. That tournament - a HK$20,000 buy-in - started 7 hours and 45 minutes ago at 2pm. It's in Level 13. The starting stack of 40,000 is good for 20 big blinds. There are 34 of the 61 entrants remaining.
Alas for Tang, registration is not open. Tang was eliminated from the Main Event minutes later, so who knows where the night will take him?
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Karlsson Out-pipped to become Bubble Boy
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Hand-for-hand lasted for just 15-minutes, but for some of the shorter stacks like Lin Zhou on less than 10 big blinds that must have felt like an eternity. Eventually though, there was an all-in and a call with the action starting with a 17,000 cutoff raise from Chuanshu Chen.
Action folded around to the field's sole Icelandic representative Adalsteinn Karlsson in the small blind and he stacked up his last 93,000 and pushed it over the betting line, with Chen tossing out a single yellow 1k calling chip immediately.
The pair had to wait for an excruciating 5-minutes for the hands to finish playing out on the other tables, with both trying to discretely figure out where they stood in the hand until finally, it was showtime:
Adalsteinn Karlsson, 
Chuanshu Chen, 
Karlsson looked crushed when Chen rolled over a bigger pair, even if it was just by a single pip, and the Icelander got to his feet as the dealer spread his fate across the felt.
The run out came down 
and Karlsson give his opponent a sportsman's handshake before shaking his head and heading for the rail. That guarantees all 63 remaining players an HKD $27,600 payday and the floodgates will almost certainly open now as all the short stacks that have been hanging on for dear life attempt to go big, or go bust.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
420,000 | 270,000 |
|
Busted |
Hand-for-hand
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The clock has been paused and the OPC Main Event is hand-for-hand on the bubble.
Three off the Bubble
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Four quick bustouts have brought the 66 remaining players closer to the money, so here's how the field is stacking up as the bubble approaches:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
900,000 | |
|
|
575,000 | 418,600 |
|
503,000 | 503,000 |
|
|
481,000 | 76,000 |
|
|
460,000 | 35,000 |
|
|
400,000 | -80,000 |
|
|
310,000 | -35,000 |
|
|
275,000 | -100,000 |
|
|
252,000 | -8,000 |
|
240,000 | -125,000 |
|
|
170,000 | 92,000 |
|
|
125,000 | -60,000 |
|
|
80,000 | -35,000 |
|
|
75,000 | -43,000 |
|
|
40,000 | -125,200 |
Last Level of the Day
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
This is the last 60-minute level of the day and we have been informed that play will be stopping at the end of Level 18 whether we have burst the bubble or not. Seven players need to hit the rail in order for the rest of the field to make the money, so stick with us as we see whether we reach and breach the bubble, or come back tomorrow to burst it.