Over on the feature table on the stage, Malaysia's Ivan Leow has been busy building his stack to extend his lead to 790,000 in chips. We were unable to catch Leow in action but caught Wayne Wei Yi Zhang and Jiayu Ruan tangling in a hand.
It was Zhang who was the initial aggressor, making it 18,000 to go from the lo-jack, only to see Ruan pop it up to 51,000 from the cutoff. Zhang gave him a surreptitious sidelong stare and counted out the calling chips and it was off to a flop of .
The power of both position and a continuation bet of 55,000 was enough to award Ruan the pot when Zhang checked the action over, with the Chinese player sliding his cards into the muck after a few seconds thinking it over. Zhang dropped to 480,000 while Ruan has almost doubled the stack he began the day with and is now sitting on 350,000.
Up on the feature table Peng Cheng Cai is a happy man right now. When the dealer laid a flop, Cai led for 40,000 from the under the gun seat only for his sole opponent - Jiang Ling Yun - to raise it up to 110,000. Cai gave it a lot of thought before eventually making the call.
The turn was then the , and when Cai checked Yun checked back instantly. There was three to a flush out there, and the river then completed the board. Cai checked again, and Yun gave up, checking back. Cai showed for top pair, before slamming the table and shouting “Yes!” as he raked in the pot.
Cai is up to 380,000, while Yun is down to 120,000.
We caught Chang Bo Feng and Wei Guo Liang embroiled in a sizable pot, picking up the action on the turn with the community cards spread with close to 80,000 in the pot just as Liang (big blind) checked the action over to Feng (cutoff).
Feng counted out a bet of 35,000 and the action was back on Liang, who cut out a big stack of chips and slid out a chunky check-raise of 90,000. This sent Feng into the tank as he counted down his stack before sliding out the call and the river completed the hand.
Liang had close to 180,000 left and bet 100,000 of his remaining chips, with Feng moving all-in immediately and getting called just as fast. Anti-climatically the pot resulted in a chop when both players revealed they had the same hand – queen-jack for the nut straight and the pot was divvied up.
One player who is having a bit more success at chipping up is Xiaobo Zhou, who just pushed Chuanshu Chen off a decent sized pot. We caught the two in action on the turn with the board spread and close to 100,000 in the pot. Chen had checked the action over to Zhou (hi-jack) and the Chinese player counted out a sizable bet of 84,000, which was enough to get Chen to give it up.
The short-stacked Lin Zhou has become one of the early casualties, falling at the hands of Hong Kong's Ho Chi Chung. Zhou only came back with 60,000 and this was all in the middle as we arrived, with the Chinese player shoving with from late position.
Unfortunately, neighbor Chung woke up with the dominating with the board running out to bring Zhou's Main Event run to an end and see Chung stack up to 150,000.
There are two no-shows presently, with High Roller Albert Paik and Hong Kong's Jackson Chan both yet to take their seats and their stacks are being blinded down with no player to pilot them.
Hong Kong's Wing Kei Chan came into play today on the shorter side of things. However, he took down a pot to increase his stack from 96,000 to 153,000, and then he managed to double up through Xiaobo Zhou.
Zhou opened under the gun to 19,000 and Chan then shoved for the aforementioned 153,000 from the UTG+1 seat. When it folded back to Zhou he made the call with , a hand which was dominated by Chan's . The best hand held after the runout, doubling Chan up and dropping Zhou's stack to 332,000.
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Yan Shun Feng will be returning as one of the larger stacks
Welcome back to the PokerNews live coverage of the penultimate day of the Oriental Poker Championship Macau Main Event. The 513-strong field has been whittled down to a more manageable 58, and these survivors will be returning to the poker tables of the Venetian Resort & Hotel all set on reaching the 10-handed final table, which the field will be playing down until.
The money bubble was reached and breached at the close of Day 2, and all remaining players are guaranteed a payday of at least HKD $27,600 (~$3,520). However, it is the HKD $1,451,000 (~$185,000) top prize that all will have their eye on.
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 man leading the charge is Ivan Leow, who bagged up an impressive 739,000 to top the Day 2 chip counts. The Malaysian player also topped the Day 1C counts, having already taken down the HKD $100,000 OPC High Roller for HKD $1,442,300 (~US$183,740) and Leow will be eager to add yet another trophy to his cabinet.
Leow seized an early Day 2 lead before China's Yan Shun Feng made a play for the top of the table. However, Leow remained near the top of the counts and re-seized the lead before the close of play to return for Day 3 with a stack of 739,000.
Ivan Leow holds the chip lead
China's Chuanshu Chen is returning second in the counts after bursting the money bubble and sending Iceland's Adalsteinn Karlsson to the rail empty-handed and will be coming back with a stack of 712,000.
Feng still remains one of the larger stacks, and will be returning with 625,000 in chips. Other notables still in the running include China's Dong Liang Cheng (598,000), Thailand's most successful tournament player Phanlert Sukonthachartnant (584,000), China's Yuefeng Pan (530,000) and High Roller third place finalist Albert Paik (479,000).
Day 3 kicks off at 1pm local time (GMT+7) and blinds will be re-commencing at 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 running ante, with the average stack in the region of 265,000 so there is still plenty of play left.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to bring you all the action as it happens so let's see who has what it takes to successfully traverse the road to the final table.
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flop, Cai led for 40,000 from the under the gun seat only for his sole opponent - Jiang Ling Yun - to raise it up to 110,000. Cai gave it a lot of thought before eventually making the call.
, and when Cai checked Yun checked back instantly. There was three to a flush out there, and the 
river then completed the board. Cai checked again, and Yun gave up, checking back. Cai showed 
for top pair, before slamming the table and shouting “Yes!” as he raked in the pot.
with close to 80,000 in the pot just as Liang (big blind) checked the action over to Feng (cutoff).
river completed the hand.
and close to 100,000 in the pot. Chen had checked the action over to Zhou (hi-jack) and the Chinese player counted out a sizable bet of 84,000, which was enough to get Chen to give it up.
from late position. 
runout, doubling Chan up and dropping Zhou's stack to 332,000.
