HK$16,500 Main Event Day 3 | 2018 Oriental Poker Championship

05-27-2018 17:40 UTC+8

Recent Eliminations

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jianwen Mao	Busted
Jiang Ling Yun	Busted
Terrence Wu	Busted
Ming Huang	Busted
Xia Qing Ji	Busted
Qiu Shun Yang	Busted
Kin Fai Chung	Busted
Yue Peng Cheng	Busted
Pei Yan	Busted

Level: 23

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

05-27-2018 17:20 UTC+8

Break Time

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

The final 21 players are now on a 10-minute break. We'll be back soon.

05-27-2018 17:19 UTC+8

Mao Falls To Leow

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Ivan Leow's firmly in the chip lead now having eliminated Jianwen Mao.

The hand started with a hijack open from Wayne Zhang to 35,000 which Mao then called in the cutoff. It folded to Leow in the small blind and he squeezed it up to 110,000, which got a fold from Zhang and a shove for not much more from Mao. Call.

Mao:
Leow:

Leow had a dominating hand, and it only got stronger after he picked up a flush draw on the flop. The turn was the though, which meant it would be a chop pot should no club or queen hit. Mao could win it with a non-club ten, but alas the river was the to give Leow the flush. Mao made an exit, and Leow now sits with 2.17 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Leow	2,170,000	570,000
Wei Yi Zhang	1,440,000	-250,000
Jianwen Mao	Busted

Tags: Ivan Leow Wei Yi Zhang Jianwen Mao

05-27-2018 17:14 UTC+8

Pics From Day 3 of the OPC Main Event

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05-27-2018 16:58 UTC+8

Leow Gets Yun, Chan Busts Huang

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

There have been two more quick bust outs within seconds of each other to further thin the field. In the first, it was Malaysia's Ivan Leow who was the pre-flop aggressor from early position with China's Jiang Ling Yun making the call from one seat over.

Leow checked the flop over to Yun, who quickly jammed the last of his chips in, and was just as quickly called by Leow. While Yun, holding was drawing live, he was trailing to Leow's and the turn and river were both the wrong color and suit. Yun hit the rail while Leow stacked up to 1.6 million.

While this was going on there was an all-in and a call over on the feature table and we arrived in time to catch the aftermath. While we do not know when all the chips when in, we do know the result, and it was that Xiao Ruo Huang, holding had tangled with Wing Kei Chan holding .

Stacked were being counted down and the board was spread meaning Huang's top pair was beaten by Chan's set of sixes. The former hit the rail and the latter stacked up to 500,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Leow	1,600,000	290,000
Wing Kei Chan	500,000	275,000
Xiao Ruo Huang	Busted
Jiang Ling Yun	Busted

Tags: Xiao Ruo Huang Wing Kei Chan Jiang Ling Yun Ivan Leow

05-27-2018 16:57 UTC+8

Zhang Soaks Up Some Sun

[user357898]

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Wayne Zhang's Main Event just goes from strength to strength.

Sun Bin opened to 35,000 from the UTG+1 seat only for Zhang to three-bet to 93,000 from two seats over. Back to Bin, he wasn't willing to give up without a fight. In fact, he wanted to play higher, and slid in a four-bet to 225,000. Zhang calmly and deliberately pulled out some stacks, and slid in a call.

The flop fell and interestingly Bin opted not to continuation bet. He checked it, allowing Zhang in for a bet of 200,000. Bin made something of a frustrated fold, and his stack takes a hit down to 685,000. Zhang, meanwhile, climbs to 1.69 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei Yi Zhang	1,690,000	230,000
Sun Bin	685,000	-415,000

Tags: Wei Yi Zhang Sun Bin

05-27-2018 16:51 UTC+8

Who Can? Pan Can

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Yue Feng Pan has just managed to double up through Yazhou Chen. It was a flip - Pan's versus Chen's - and all of Pan's 257,000 went in pre-flop. It was a race Pan would win after the runout gave him trips, and he's now up to 545,000 while Chen dips to 630000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yazhou Chen	630,000	469,000
Yue Feng Pan	545,000	-355,000

Poker Tactic:

Yazhou Chen Yue Feng Pan

05-27-2018 16:45 UTC+8

Mu Gets Wu

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

The OPC Main Event is now down to 24 players, with Hong Kong's Terence Wu becoming the latest casualty. Wu had been nursing a short-stack for quite some time and got his last 6 big blinds in from the cutoff with king-nine offsuit, running into the pocket fives of big blind Sen Mu. The fives held and Wu headed off to the cash desk to collect HKD $58,200, while Mu stacked up to 330,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sen Mu	330,000	120,000
Terence Wu	Busted

05-27-2018 16:30 UTC+8

Zhang Wakes Up With It

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Ming Huang could only laugh about this one.

Action folded to him in the small blind and with 168,000 in front of him he announced all-in. Wayne Zhang was in the big and peeked down at his cards. They were clearly good, as he snap-called and flipped over .

Huang gave Zhang a look, as if to say: "Aces? Really?" before having a chuckle with the rest of the table. Huang just had and actually had a chance when he flopped a straight draw on the . He couldn't find a six or ace on the turn or river though, and Huang's gone in 27th.

Zhang is up to 1.46 million now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei Yi Zhang	1,460,000	307,000
Ming Huang	Busted

Tags: Ming Huang Wei Yi Zhang