Main Event Day 2 | 2017 Poker King Cup Macau

05-24-2017 19:30 UTC+8

Siu Man Hin and Farrington Double

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

The action is coming to the boil here in the Poker King Cup Macau Main Event and the 73 remaining players are swapping chips left, right and center.

Haoyu Hu has recently taken a hit at the hands of Siu Man Hin with the two getting all the chips in pre-flop.

Haoyu Hu:
Siu Man Hin:

It looked like Hin was on his way out when the flop fell but the turn gave the Hong Kong player some additional outs. The hit the river to bring a fist pump ‘yeah!’ from Hin and he doubled to 160,000 while Hu dropped to 260,000.

Then a massive pot developed between Denmark’s Frederik Farrington and China’s Dong Kimi that saw the two swap places in the pecking order.

While Kimi started the hand with a little over 500,000 Farrington now has this much while Kimi has 250,000.

Kimi was the initial aggressor, opening to 12,000 and picking up a middle position caller before Farrington re-raised to 35,000 from the button. Kimi made the call and the other player bowed out to take the action heads-up to a flop.

Kimi checked it over to Farrington, who fired for 30,000 and Kimi then check-raised to 75,000, which the Danish player called.

A hit the turn and Kimi moved all-in with Farrington making a speedy call and Kimi was in a spot of trouble, his ace-jack trailing to Farrington’s pocket aces, and while he had a gutshot straight draw it did not come in on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frederik Farrington	500,000 477,600	477,600
Haoyu Hu	260,000 -80,000	-80,000
Dong Kimi	250,000 178,200	178,200
Man Hin Siu	160,000 94,000	94,000

Tags: Frederik Farrington Dong Kimi Haoyu Hu Man Hin Siu

05-24-2017 19:38 UTC+8

Break Time

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

There are 67 players still in the running, meaning we are just four bust outs away from the hallowed money spots, though play has paused while the purple 500 chips are taken out of play.

05-24-2017 19:47 UTC+8

Stacks at the Break

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

While we could not get all of the big stacks before the players went on break we got enough to know that the current chip leader is Anson Yan Shing Tsang who easily has over 600,000, though his chips are stacked so haphazardly we cannot be sure exactly how much he has exactly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anson Tsang	600,000 165,000	165,000

Frederik Farrington	535,000 35,000	35,000
Weizhou Zha	430,000 -5,000	-5,000
Lin Yong	400,000 -67,000	-67,000
Quan Zhou	400,000 22,000	22,000
Liu Lifu	325,000 45,000	45,000
Linh Tran	275,000 205,200	205,200
Michael Soyza	220,000 162,000	162,000

Justin Chan	220,000 -46,000	-46,000
Chen Sheng	215,000 -55,000	-55,000
Soojo Kim	200,000 5,000	5,000
Dong Kimi	190,000 -60,000	-60,000
Simon Burns	185,000 -105,000	-105,000
Kosei Ichinose	175,000 -125,000	-125,000

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

05-24-2017 19:51 UTC+8

Last Level of the Day

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

This is the last level of the day and we are just four bust outs away from the money spots so it is looking increasingly likely that the players will be making the money today, though four of them will be leaving empty handed.

05-24-2017 20:00 UTC+8

Tsang Cements Lead

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

We have just caught Anson Tsang involved in a hand and now the stacks have been coloured up we can see that he had quite the lead, which he has just increased at the expense of Liu Lifu.

With over 100,000 in blinds and antes in the pot already we caught the action on a flop of just as Tsang led out for 60,000 from the small blind. Lifu, sitting on the button did not think long before pitching his cards into the muck and the rich get richer. Lifu dropped to 250,000 after the hand and Tsang now has 800,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anson Tsang	800,000 200,000	200,000

Liu Lifu	250,000 -75,000	-75,000

Tags: Anson Tsang Liu Lifu

05-24-2017 20:12 UTC+8

Soyza Flushes One Out

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

There are now 66 players left in contention with Malaysia’s Michael Soyza the man to thin the field. We are not sure who Soyza’s unfortunate opponent in the hand was as he left so quickly we did not have a chance to catch his name and judging by the big scowl he was wearing that’s probably for the best.

What we do know however it that with the board reading Soyza had put his opponent all-in and the player in question was in the tank. Eventually, he elected to call off his last 80,000 for his tournament life and looked upset when Soyza rolled over for the turned flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Soyza	350,000 130,000	130,000

05-24-2017 20:28 UTC+8

Zhou Clocks Zha

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

With the bubble fast approaching the tension is rising and two of the fields remaining big stacks Quan Zhou and Weizhou Zha have just played a decent sized pot.

We picked up the action on the river with 130,000 in blinds, antes and bets already in the pot with the community cards spread and Zhou, sitting in middle position, had just checked the action over to Zha, who was in the cutoff.

Zha counted out a small stack of blue 5k chips and tossed in a 25,000 bet, only to see Zhou move all-in for 263,000 in total. Zha rocked back in his chair like he had just been slapped and now had a decision to make. With 510,000 behind he had Zhou covered, but the call represented a significant proportion of his remaining chips.

Zha counted out the call but seemed unsure of what to do and eight minutes ticked by. Eventually, Zhou got sick of waiting and called for the clock. It looked like Zha was on the fence about calling but the full minute ticked by before he made up his mind and his hand was declared dead, leaving Zhou to rake in the juicy pot unopposed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Weizhou Zha	510,000 80,000	80,000
Quan Zhou	420,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Quan Zhou Weizhou Zha

05-24-2017 20:46 UTC+8

Lim Sets Up Hand-for-Hand

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Korea’s Yohwan Lim set up hand-for-hand play 40-minutes into level 18, getting all the chips in pre-flop holding ace-queen against an opponent’s pocket tens.

Lim paired his ace on the flop to end the race quickly and with no ten making an unwelcome appearance we are now down to 64 players and are on the bubble, meaning play is now hand for hand.

Tags: Yohwan Lim

Level: 19

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000