There are several familiar faces already seated with 62 entries so far including Xixiang Luo, who is firing his third bullet. Another who is trying his luck for the third time is Sparrow Cheung, and while the Hong Kong player has made the Day 2 cut already it was only with a stack of 24,200. Cheung will be hoping to run a little better today than yesterday.
India’s Bobbie Surie is in attendance and is taking his second shot at fortune and glory, as is Vietnam number one All Time Money List leader Linh Tran. We have also spotted Doaxing Bobo Chen in the field for the first time so it looks as though Day 1C is shaping up to be an action-packed one.
RazorSharpPro
The third and final starting flight of the Poker King Cup Macau gets underway today
The third and final starting flight of the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event begins shortly at 1pm local time (GMT+7) at the Poker King Club in the cavernous Venetian Macau.
So far a total of 200 players have anted up the HK$15,500+1,500 entry fee in an attempt to lock their Day 2 seat up with a total of 92 players making it through so far – 34 from Day 1A and 58 from Day 1B. You can read a full recap of the Day 1A action here, and the 1B action here.
With the format supporting unlimited re-entry some of those 200 players have tried more than once to make it through, and while Xixiang Luo is one of those who has fired two bullets the Chinese player has yet to make it through the Day 1 tournament minefield.
Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung and China’s Guo Dong are two more who have fired twice, though both of them bagged up chips on Day 1B, though Cheung is quite short after a brutal kings versus kings pre-flop confrontation saw his opponent run out a flush to take a big bite out of his stack.
Day 2 begins on Wednesday, May 24 at 1pm local time with the final concluding on Friday, May 26 at 1:30pm.
So far the man leading the charge is Day 1A chip leader Alex Lee from Singapore, who bagged up 191,500 at the close of the first starting flight with the USA’s Benjamin Hamnett (180,900) and China’s Wei Guoliang (179,100) rounding out the top three.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor all day to bring you all the action as it happens so stay tuned as we find out who will rise and who will fall as Day 1C gets underway.
