Lim Leads Poker King Cup Macau Day 1C, Lee Still Tops Leaderboard
With a stack of 177,300 in chips, Singapore’s Yah Loon Lim finished at the top of the final starting day’s leaderboard in the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event at the Poker King Club at Venetian Macau.
However, the man to catch is still Day 1A frontrunner Alex Lee from Singapore, who bagged up a massive 191,500 on the first of the three starting flights.
Day 1C was by far the biggest of the three, with 290 players anteing-up the HK$15,000+$1,500 buy-in though, with the format offering up unlimited re-entry until the start of level nine, some of these were re-entries with Hong Kong’s Nick Wong and China’s Qiang Liu just two of the players who chose to re-enter.
After eleven 40-minute levels, the last of the three starting flights finished just after 9pm local time (GMT+7) with a slew of players falling as the day progressed with Malaysia’s Victor Chong just one of the many casualties, running a flopped straight into the flopped flush of Guanglun Huang.
Another player who fell at the final hurdle was Hong Kong’s Kwok Chun ‘Derx’ Lai whose last gasp shove with pocket sevens ran into the ace-ten of Richard Jin, who paired his ten to end Lai’s Main Event.
The man dominating much of the early action, however, was Bobbie Suri. After a less than stellar Day 1A that saw Suri retire early the Indian player was in the thick of things for the majority of Day 1C, gunning players down left, right and center. In fact, Suri was running so hot he busted the same player twice.
While Suri got off to a slow start he exploded into action midway through the day, sending the unfortunate Qiang Lin to the rail after a pre-flop aces versus kings confrontation – Suri had the aces of course – to climb over the six-figure chip mark and take the chip lead.
Suri cemented this still further after flopping top pair and rivering a gutshot in a huge 100,000-chip pot against APPT 2015 Main Event Champion Tony Cheng to climb to the giddy heights of 210,000. Unfortunately for Suri, he lost a few pots on the last level of the day to drop just below Lim in the pecking order.
Both PokerStars Championship Macau HK$206,000 High Roller Champion Quan Zhou and Danny Kwok took bites out of Suri’s stack before the close of play though he still bagged up a very respectable 161,300.
Other notables to make the cut included Hong Kong's Justin Chan (139,100) and Nick Wong (42,600), Korea's SJ Kim (98,700), the Philippines Flo Campomanes (72,600) and Lester Edoc (51,500), Vietnam's Linh Tran (69,800) and Japan's Kosei Ichinose (38,300).
A total of 139 players survived the Day 1C carnage to lock their Day 2 seat up and will join the 92 Day 1A and Day 1B survivors meaning 231 players will be returning on Wednesday 23 May when Day 2 resumes at 1pm.
The level length will be extended to 60-minutes with play concluding at the end of level 18 and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action as it happens so join us then.
and first to act, Zhou led out for a ½ pot sized bet. While this was enough to fold out the original raiser Suri had other plans and re-raised big.
turn. Zhou checked it over to Suri, who checked it back and the dealer slid out the river.
was an innocuous enough looking card it brought a pot-sized 18,000 bet from Zhou and action was on Suri, who thought it over before thowing in a single black 100 chip to represent the call.
face up on the table to a rather rude exclamation of dismay from Suri who disgustedly threw his cards into the muck.
Kei had pocket kings for the flopped full house, but this is shockingly no good as Kun, holding 
, had just rivered quads.
and Huang did, in fact, have a hand, turning over 
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flop. That was not the flop Wong was looking for and he was left drawing to the decks three remaining aces. Unfortunately for the Hong Kong player the 
river were of no help and he hit the rail while Huang stacked up to 61,500.
