Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
2017 Poker King Cup Macau
Main Event
Day: 3
First Break of the Day
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
The 38 remaining Main Event players are on their first 10-minute break of the day, we will try and get some chip counts for you once play resumes but the tournament captain is still Hong Kong's Anson Tsang who has a stack over just over 2 million.
Tsang Busts Yohwan
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Bluffing the chip leader is never a good idea, a fact that Korea’s Lim Yohwan has just discovered to his cost.
It was a battle of the blinds and we arrived during the aftermath as the stacks were being counted down but Tsang was more than happy to fill us in on the details.
We are not sure what the pre-flop action was but the flop was 
and Tsang check-called a Yohwan continuation bet and checked the 
turn. Yohwan shoved and Tsang called instantly. The Korean player held 
offsuit, and while this was slightly ahead of Tsang’s 
pre-flop the Hong Kong player had smashed the flop and Yohwan was drawing dead.
The 
river gave Yohwan a meaningless pair of nines and we lose one more and Tsang strengthened his already commanding lead and now has over 2 million in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,000,000 | 897,000 |
|
Busted |
Yuan Hang Rockets Up
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Zhong Yuan Hang opened the action with an early position raise to 26,000 with Liu Lifu (cutoff) and Ni Xiangxiang (button) making the call before Yang Song squeezed to 106,000 from the big blind.
Yuanghang thought it over for all of five seconds before shoving for 257,000 bring quick folds from Lifu and Xiangxiang and the action was back on Song.
Song stared at Yuan Hang suspiciously, counted down his stack and tossed in the call and the cards were turned over.
Zhong Yuan Hang: 
Yang Song: 
Pocket jacks seem to have been doing the rounds recently but unfortunately for Song they were no good this time around and the community cards ran out 
to grant Yuan Hang the double and he climbed to 575,000 while Song dropped to 350,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
575,000 | 208,000 |
|
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350,000 | -207,000 |
Double for Loon, Triple for Cangsheng, Double for Longyun
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Level 20 has been nuts so far and we have caught several huge hands that have recently played out but missed several more while these were going on.
In the first, it was a battle of the blinds between Day 1C frontrunner, Singapore’s Yah Loon Lim and Day 1B frontrunner Wei Guoliang. Lim opened the action with a raise from the small bind and Guoliang quickly shoved from the big blind, Lim called immediately and the cards were turned over.
Yah Loon Lim: 
Wei Guoliang: 
While Guoliang was the man to apply the pressure it looked like Lim actually had a hand and the 
board saw him climb to 365,000 while Guoliang dropped to 144,000.
Another man pocket jacks were good for was Ni Cangsheng and there was a three-way pre-flop between him, Quan Zhou and Lin Tran. It looked like Cangsheng was the man to shove first from the cutoff with Zhou getting the last of his chips in from the button and the action had folded around to Tran in the big blind, who peeked down at his cards and called instantly. Tran had both players covered and the cards were turned over.
Lin Tran:
Ni Cangsheng:
Quan Zhou:
While the board ran out with four diamonds not a single player had one, meaning the 
board was a great one for Cangsheng’s fishhooks and he tripled up, Zhou headed for the rail and Tran took a bit of a hit, though still had a decent sized stack.
Cangsheng climbed to 531,000 after that spot of good fortune and Tran dropped to 579,000 after the hand.
While this was going on a big pot developed between Li Longyun and Liang Fu that saw the latter’s tournament come to a close. A player in the cutoff made it 26,000 to go and Longyun re-raised to 66,000 from the button before Fu three-bet to 175,000 from the big blind.
While the original raiser got out of the way Longyun was going nowhere and shipped in the rest of his chips. Committed to the hand after the three-betFu had no choice but to call the rest of his chips off and he did so and the cards were turned over.
Liang Fu held ace-ten offsuit but was trailing to Longyun’s and with both players missing the board by mile Longyun’s kicker played and he stacked up to over 900,000 while Fu headed for the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
900,000 | 549,000 |
|
579,000 | 144,000 |
|
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531,000 | 259,000 |
|
365,000 | 104,000 |
|
144,000 | -186,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Triple for Zhi
There has been a three-way all-in over on table one with Lin Zhi emerging the victor. We missed the pre-flop action, but with all three players sitting in the hi-jack, cutoff and button it looked like a pre-flop all-in.
Zhi was the man to shove first with 
, Zhen Zongge had also moved all-in from the hi-jack with 
and the short-stacked Li Bin decided the chance to possibly bag a triple-up was too good to pass up on and he made the call with 
.
Unfortunately for Zongge and Bin the flop fell 
to an excited shout of ‘Yessssssss!’ from Zhi who took the lead in the hand. The 
hit the turn to keep Zhi in front and he busted both other players when the landed on the river, though stacks were counted down just to make sure.
Both Zhi’s opponents were pretty short meaning he stacked up to a little over 200,000 so still has a long way to go if he wants to lock up a seat on the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | 91,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Action Underway
The 63 remaining Poker King Cup Main Event players have quickly become 58 with some of the shorter stacks attempting to chip up or bust, with the latter being the result for five of them. There were 30-minutes left to play on level 19 at the start of play and we will be playing down to the 8-handed final table, however long it takes.
Unfortunately, the action has been happening so fast we have not been able to catch any of the early exits so far, though we have seen several players heading toward the cash desk to collect the HK$26,000 on offer for a min-cash.
However, we did catch a few hands involving some of the players still in contention. One of the short-stacks who has survived an all-in confrontation is Bowen Du. We arrived at Du’s table just as stacks were being counted down with the board reading 
.
Du had moved his last 35,000 in chips all-in from under-the-gun, with Zheng Zongge making the call but his hand is already in the muck and Du’s mighty is face-up on the table and it appeared his top pair was enough to climb to 90,000 while Zongge dropped to 150,000 after the dust settled.
Linh Tran is making a spirited attempt to chip up and had just three-barrelled Lin Yong to take down a decent sized pot. We picked up the action on a flop of 
just as Tran, sitting in late position, fired out a pot-sized bet of 30,000, which both blinds Lin Yong and Liang Fu called.
The 
turn saw both blinds check and Tran fired again for 45,000 with Yong the only caller. The river completed the hand and Yong checked it over to Tran for the third time and he continued to tell a believable story and bet out 70,000, which was enough to get Yong to give it up. Tran climbed to 435,000 while Yong dropped to 200,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
435,000 | 135,000 |
|
200,000 | 200,000 |
|
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150,000 | -2,000 |
|
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90,000 | 55,000 |
Main Event
Day 3 Started
Poker King Cup Macau Main Event Day 3 All Set
Just 63 players remain in contention out of the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 Main Event’s 490-strong field.
While all 63 are now guaranteed a payday of at least HK$26,000 ($3,338) when play resumes at 1pm on Thursday May 25 it will be the trophy, title, and lion’s share of the HK$7,129,000 (~$915,295) prize pool all will have their eye on.
The man best positioned to scoop the HK$1,389,500 (~$178,333) first prize is Hong Kong’s Anson Tsang, who bagged up over a monstrous 1.1 million in chips.
Denmark’s Frederik Farrington (704,000), Korea’s Lim Yohwan (687,000) and China’s Yang Song (557,000) round out the top five.
Other notables still in the running include Day 1A frontrunner Alex Lee (96,000), High Roller Quan Zhou (177,000) and Hong Kong’sJustin Chan (286,000). You can read a full recap of all the Day 2 action here.
Day 3 of the Main Event will play down until the final table is reached, however long it takes, and the PokerNews' live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to provide live updates of all the action. Keep your browser locked on this page to stay up to date as the tournament progresses.