Main Event Day 2 | 2017 Poker King Cup Macau

05-24-2017 16:01 UTC+8

Gu Plays Back at Hu

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Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Haoyu Hu is leveraging his monster stack and has been pressuring the rest of his table relentlessly. Eventually it looked like big blind Zhenyu Gu had had enough and decided to defend his big blind from a Hu button raise.

Hu had just taken down the previous two pots uncontested pre-flop with some aggressive betting and was attempting to make it three from three, making his standard open to 5,800.

Gu looked sceptically over at Hu, peeked at his cards and then counted out some raising chips, making it 15,900 to go, leaving himself 74,000 behind. Hu checked out Gu’s stack and with chips to spare decided to take a look at a flop and made the call and the dealer spread the community cards.

That’s a pretty wet board for an out of position raiser, but Gu did not look scared at all, quickly leading out for 19,000 and Hu sat back in his chair to think things over. Hu’s stack is so big it’s a wonder he can see the rest of the table from behind his chip castle and he can afford the call easily.

However, he clearly didn’t have much as chose to let it go leaving Gu to rake in a decent pot and climb to 90,000. Hu, however, has been a busy little bee and while he has his chips stacked up unevenly he still has a lot of them and looked to still be sitting on a stack excess of 400,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Haoyu Hu	400,000	65,000
Zhenyu Gu	90,000	30,000

Tags: Haoyu Hu Zhenyu Gu

05-24-2017 15:38 UTC+8

Post-break Stacks

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Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

It looks like the active Haoyu 'Rain' Hu is currently leading, but here's how some of the field is stacking up:

Player	Chips	Progress
Haoyu Hu	335,000	197,800
Longyun Li	332,000	250,000
Liang Fu	317,000	161,600
Li Zujie	285,000	233,300
Zhao Ting Ting	255,000	158,200
Alex Lee	245,000	53,500
Lin Zhi	220,000	110,500
Yah Loon Lim	180,000	2,700
Lin Yong	180,000	20,000
Richard Ma	180,000	30,000
Yang Fan	177,000	109,000
Zhao Jianpeng	172,000	26,900
Justin Chan	150,000	10,900
Weizhou Zha	148,000	-17,000
Raiden Kan	135,000	-10,500
Qiang Liu	125,000	50,600
Tony Cheng	118,000	43,200
Bobbie Suri	110,000	-75,000

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

05-24-2017 15:00 UTC+8

Break Time

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The 151 remaining Main Event players are on their first 10-minute break of the day.

05-24-2017 14:57 UTC+8

Xu Shoves on Zha, Jiang Yet to Show

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Weizhou Zha has been busy, running his 93,200 starting stack up to the giddy heights of 170,000, though some of this has just gone the way of He Xu. Pre-flop it was Zha who was the aggressor, making it 4,500 to go from under-the-gun.

Action folded around to Xu in the cutoff and he quickly shipped his remaining 34,500 into the middle of the table. Action folded back around to Zha and he had a decision to make. The fact he did not call instantly can only be a good thing for Xu, who began to look a great deal more comfortable.

Zha eventually decided to give it up, dropping down to 165,000 while Xu climbed to 45,200.

One man who has not got anything going so far today is China’s Jiang Sihai who has yet to turn up. Sihai’s 53,500 starting stack has been blinded down to 34,500 so far and his seat is still conspicuously empty.

Player	Chips	Progress
Weizhou Zha	165,000	71,800
He Xu	42,500	-30,700
Jiang Sihai	34,500	-19,000

Tags: Jiang Sihai Weizhou Zha He Xu

05-24-2017 14:53 UTC+8

Cheng Flushes Out Shaoming

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Another big pot was brewing on Kosei Ichinose’s table, though this time the Japanese poker pro is just a spectator. The action was three-way between Macau’s Sam Cheong, China’s Li Shaoming and Taiwan’s Chiu Tzu Cheng with a sizable amount of chips already in the pot with the flop spread .

Cheng, sitting in the big blind, had checked the action over to Cheong, who led out for 11,000 with Shaoming making the call before Cheng check-raised all-in for 56,600.

While this was enough to get Cheong to bow out Shaoming thought it over. It was a big call for his tournament life, but eventually, he chose to make it and the cards were turned over.

Li Shaoming:
Chiu Tzu Cheng:

Shaoming had the best of it with top pair but would need to fade Cheng’s diamonds, but as you can probably guess from the title of this post, that did not happen. The was a nice safe card but the river saw Cheng get there and she stacked up to 120,000 while Shaoming headed for the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chiu Tzu Cheng	120,000	79,600
Li Shaoming	Busted

Tags: Shaoming Li Sam Cheong Chiu Tzu Cheng

05-24-2017 14:38 UTC+8

Ichinose Busts Bo

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We arrived at Kosei Ichinose’s table in time to find the Japanese player involved in a big pot against Xu Bo. While we do not know what any of the pre-flop action was we do know that all the chips went in on the river on a board reading .

Bo’s hand is already face down in the muck and Ichinose had face up on the felt next to him and the stacks were being counted down. It looked like Ichinose had Bo covered and we lose another as the Japanese player stacked up to 140,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kosei Ichinose	140,000	101,800
Xu Bo	Busted

Tags: Kosei Ichinose Xu Bo

05-24-2017 14:27 UTC+8

Suri Bluffs Zongge

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The Suri express is building up steam once again with Zheng Zongge the man tied to the tracks in this particular hand. Pre-flop it was Zongge who was the aggressor, making it 3,500 from the cutoff with Suri and the big blind coming along for the raid.

The big blind checked the flop over to Zongge, who seemed a little gun shy and chose not to continuation bet and the action was on Suri.

Needing no further encouragement the Indian player made it 6,500 to go. While this was enough to get the big blind to bow out Zongge made the call to take play heads-up to the turn.

Now Zongge chose to lead, firing out a bet of 12,000 and Suri hit the think tank for a minute or so before pulling the trigger and moving all-in. Now it was Zongge’s turn to tank but after thinking it over he decided to wait for a better spot and threw his hand away. Suri obligingly turned over for a stone cold bluff.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bobbie Suri	185,000	23,800
Zheng Zongge	70,000	-64,100

Tags: Bobbie Suri Zheng Zongge

05-24-2017 14:14 UTC+8

Kun and Luyckx Chop, Chan Busts

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

An interesting hand played out between Wang Kun and Bart Luyckx over on table four, with Yuan Li sparking the fuse with a pre-flop min-raise raise from the cutoff.

Kun cam over the top from the button for 30,000 and action folded around to Luyckx in the big blind, who peeked down at his hold cards and then moved all-in for around 95,000.

Li quickly got out of the way and Kun had a decision to make as the call would be for his tournament life should he chose to make it. Make it he did however and the cards were turned over.

Wang Kun:
Bart Luyckx:

Kun found himself in bad shape but the flop was an extremely sweaty to give him the open-ended straight draw to go with his two jack outs. Luyckx looked distinctly unhappy when the rolled off on the turn to give Kun the lead but the poker gods were just toying with both player’s emotions and the river gave both players’s the straight and they chopped up the pot.

An unhappy looking Arnold Chan then wandered past the table as the pot was being divvied up and was kind enough to tell us his tale of woe.

Chan had got his last 40,000 in pre-flop with pocket tens and been looked up by Richard Ma, who had ace-queen. The flop came low and raggedy and while there was some paint on the turn it was a king to keep Chan in the lead.

However, disaster struck on the river with an ace hitting the board to crush Chan’s Main Event hopes and Ma stacked up to 150,000.