Main Event
Day 1b Started
2017 Poker King Cup Macau
Main Event
Day: 1b
Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event Day 1B
The second of the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event’s three starting flights begins shortly at 1pm local time (GMT+7) at the Poker King Club in the illustrious Venetian Macau.
Day 1A saw 69 entrants ante-up the HK$15,000+1,500 buy-in and battle it out at the baize, with 34 of these locking themselves a seat up for Day 2 on May 24.
Singapore’s Alex Lee topped the chip count after finishing Day 1A on an impressive 191,500, closely followed by the USA’s Benjamin Hamnett (180,900), with Hong Kong’s Arnold Chan (123,800), the UK’s Simon Burns (105,500) and China’s Zhao Ting Ting (96,800) rounding out the top five. You can read a full recap of the Day 1A action here.
Day 1B will follow the same format and entrants will have eleven 40-minute levels in which to grow their initial 30,000 starting stack, with play concluding around 9pm.
With the format offering unlimited re-entry, any player who failed to make the cut from Day 1A can still re-enter, as can those who did make it through as multiple entries are allowed with a player’s best stack being carried forward to Day 2.
So far the Poker King Cup has awarded over HK$2.9 million in prize money, with Taiwan’s Chung Yuan Yu emerging victorious over the 37-strong field to take down the HK$80,000 High Roller for a cool HK$1,020,700 and China’s Pu Weiran taking down the first of the No Limit Hold’em side events for HK$59,100.
Cards will be in the air shortly and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action as it happens so keep your eyes glued to your computer screens as we see who has what it takes to win their way through to Day 2.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Cards in the Air
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
And we are underway. So far there are 20 players seated with China's Gui Dong coming back for a second shot at making Day 2 after failing to make the cut yesterday. While Dong is the only face we recognize presently it's still early and there is plenty of time for the field to grow.
Jiang and Sun Play Big Early Pot
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
We are now up to 49 runners with Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung another who wants a second chance at making Day 2 after busting near the close of the first starting flight.
Cheung had not long taken his seat before a big pot played out on his table, but the Hong Kong player was just a spectator as Yunsheng Sun and Qifeng Jiang became embroiled in a sizable early pot.
Pre-flop it was Sun who started the ball rolling with an under-the-gun raise to 300, only to see neighbor Jiang re-pop it to 900. The rest of the table got out of the way and Sun made the call to take the action heads-up to a 
flop.
With Sun losing the pre-flop initiative he opted to check the action over to Jiang, who fired for 1,100. Sun made the call and the 
landed on the turn.
This brought a second check from Sun and a slightly larger bet of 2,100 from Jiang, which Sun again called.
The 
river saw Sun attempt to get creative as he first checked the action over to Jiang, who loaded up the third barrel and shot out a 3,500 river bet. Sun now chose to check-raise to 12,800 in total to send Jiang deep into the think tank, where he remained for a good minute or so.
Eventually, he decided that he was willing to go all the way and moved the remainder of his chips into the middle of the table for an all-in bet of 25,700.
Sun folded extremely quickly, tapping the table as he did so and dropped down to 10,200 while Jiang stacked up to 51,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
51,500 | |
|
10,200 |
Wong Wins from Dong
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Action folded around to Gui Dong in the cutoff and he made it 275 to go, only to see Hong Kong’s Yapsen Wong pump it up to 700 from the button.
After both blinds folded out Dong eyed up Wong’s stack – and the latter had evidently not been running all that well initially as he only had 16,000 of the 30,000 start stack left. Dong chose to make the call and it was heads-up to a flop of 
.
Dong checked it over to Wong, who quickly tossed out a yellow 1k chip, which was enough to win the hand and he recovered some of his earlier losses to climb to 17,000 while Dong dropped to 29,300.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
29,200 | -13,800 |
|
17,000 | 17,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Liang Turns Turns Top Two
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
We are now up to 84 entries in the Poker King Cup Macau Main Event Day 1B, with Hong Kong’s Ben Lai and Malaysia’s Raiden Kan just two of the many new arrivals.
Lai seemed eager to get into the action and made it 300 to go from middle position and picked up four callers with China’s Jiakun Liang and Xiaojie Liu making the call from the cutoff and button respectively and both blinds coming along for the ride as well.
The 
rainbow flop was checked around to Liang, who took a stab for 1,000 with Liu the only caller and the action went heads-up to the 
turn.
Liang fired again, throwing out a single yellow 1k chip with Liu making the call once more.
The 
looked like a blank and Liang led out for a third time, making it 2,500 to go and Liu made a quick call but threw her hand away quickly when Liang turned over 
for top two.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
29,300 | |
|
|
28,500 | |
|
|
28,200 |
Cheung and Wong Battle
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
An interesting hand just played out between Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung and fellow countryman Charles Wong. It appeared Cheung was the initial aggressor from the cutoff and while we do not know what his initial open was for we do know that Wong had re-raised to 2,000 from the small blind and Cheung had three-bet to 5,400.
Wong chewed over his decision but evidently came to play some poker and threw in the call and it was off to the 
flop. Keen to re-seize the initiative Wong led for 3,500 and Cheung eyed him up dubiously before sliding out the call.
That slowed Wong down somewhat and he checked the 
turn over to Cheung, who took his time over his decision before electing to bet 6,000. Wong folded fairly quickly and Cheung scooped the 18,000 pot to climb to 44,000 while Wong slipped to 21,300.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
44,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
21,300 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0