2017 Poker King Cup Macau

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2017 Poker King Cup Macau
Final Results
Winner
Longyun Li
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
1,225,500 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
15,000 HKD
Total Entries
490
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 490
Filter

Filter

Filter By
Sort By

Gu Plays Back at Hu

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 {4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{7-Spades} 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.

Tags: Haoyu HuZhenyu Gu

Post-break Stacks

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:

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

Xu Shoves on Zha, Jiang Yet to Show

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

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.

Tags: Jiang SihaiWeizhou ZhaHe Xu

Cheng Flushes Out Shaoming

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 {4-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}.

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: {a-Hearts}{q-Clubs}
Chiu Tzu Cheng: {a-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}

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 {3-Clubs} was a nice safe card but the {6-Diamonds} river saw Cheng get there and she stacked up to 120,000 while Shaoming headed for the rail.

Tags: Shaoming LiSam CheongChiu Tzu Cheng

Ichinose Busts Bo

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

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 {3-Diamonds}{j-Hearts}{4-Spades} {8-Hearts} {6-Spades}.

Bo’s hand is already face down in the muck and Ichinose had {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades} 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.

Tags: Kosei IchinoseXu Bo

Suri Bluffs Zongge

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

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 {j-}{8-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds} 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 {k-Clubs} 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 {a-Spades}{3-Spades} for a stone cold bluff.

Tags: Bobbie SuriZheng Zongge

Kun and Luyckx Chop, Chan Busts

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

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: {j-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}
Bart Luyckx: {a-Spades}{a-Hearts}

Kun found himself in bad shape but the flop was an extremely sweaty {q-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{10-Spades} to give him the open-ended straight draw to go with his two jack outs. Luyckx looked distinctly unhappy when the {j-Spades} rolled off on the turn to give Kun the lead but the poker gods were just toying with both player’s emotions and the {8-Clubs} 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.

Tags: Arnold ChanRichard Ma

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300