Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Buy-in
6,600 HKD
Entries
221
Level
28
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
75,000
Wingkei Chan Clips Leung
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
Sometimes things just don’t go your way at the tables and that seems to be the case for Chunkit Leung today. Leung had been pretty quiet all day and the majority of the hands he did play someone either pushed him off or had a better hand.
It was the latter in this particular case, with Wingkei Chan opening the action with a raise to 2,000. Leung peeked down to see 
and with close to 17 big blinds remaining in his stack, he decided this was enough to get it in with.
Unfortunately for Leung, Chan actually had a hand and his 
dominated that of his opponent. There was no jack or miracle chop on the runout and just like that we are down to four.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
51,000
14,000
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14,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Battle of the Chans
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
With the field now down to four, the short stack is currently Fat Cheong Wong, who has significantly less than the other three with around 10 big blinds to his name.
Sam Cheong is still table captain, and while we don’t see that changing anytime soon both Justin Chan and Wingkei Chan are just one double up away from the chip lead themselves.
The two are pretty close in chips and are currently taking it in turns to try and steal each other’s blinds and pressure Wong, though they seem to be battling it out against each other more than most.
While there have been no particularly huge hands recently, the small ones can all add up too and both Chan’s seem eager to get their hands on all the chips they can.
Wingkei Chan has limped his small blind into Justin Chan’s big blind for the last couple of orbits and both times Justin has responded with a raise, which Wingkei has called both times and the two have fought it out over the table.
It is Wingkei who has had the best of these exchanges so far, setting a trap with a flopped top pair with 
on a 
flop and check calling Justin all the way to the river, though Justin did save himself some chips by checking the river back, mucking when Wingkei turned over his hand.
Wingkei won the next encounter as well, with Justin the aggressor from under-the-gun, making it 1,200 to go and Wingkei choosing to defend his blind. The action was checked to Justin on the 
flop, and he bet out 1,300, which Wingkei again called, doing so again on the turn after Justin fired for 2,300.
The 
river paired the board and saw Wingkei lead for close to full pot (5,500) and Justin quickly let it go. Here’s how the four players are stacking up:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
51,400
400
|
400 |
|
40,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
8,600
-7,400
|
-7,400 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
New Level, New Blood
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The start of the new level has brought some fresh blood with Taiwan’s Pete Chen joining the action to bring the total number of entrants up to 13 and bring the field back up to five.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
15,000 | |
|
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Chan and Chen Get There on the River -- Wong Out
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Two big hands have recently played out that have changed the playing field, at least for the middle of the pack as Sam Cheong still holds the chip lead.
In the first, it was Justin Chan and Wingkei Chan battling it out once more, with Justin opening the action from under-the-gun for 2,200. This is the third hand in a row Justin had raised and rather than just calling Wingkei chose to play back at him and re-raised to 6,200 in total, leaving himself around 33,000 behind.
While Wingkei had Justin covered it was pretty close between the two and after mulling it over Justin chose to play the hand in position and made the call.
The 
flop saw Wingkei fire for another 6,000 and Justin thought things over for a few minutes before deciding to call again to keep the action heads-up to the 
turn.
That did not look like it changed much so Justin looked as surprised as we were when Wingkei checked the action and while Justin looked sorely tempted he decided to not to shove and checked it back – after at least 4 minutes in the tank.
The 
river saw both players check once more and Wingkei turned over and looked less than impressed when Justin rolled over 
for a rivered top pair to take down a decent sized pot and climb into second on the chip stack rankings.
Pete Chen got his last 8,000 in from the cut off the very next hand and was looked up by Fat Cheong Wong, who re-shoved to isolate from the button.
The cards were turned over with Chen’s 
trailing to Wong’s 
. It was all looking good for Wong when the board ran out 
. However, having covered Mr. Chen before we know he gets there on the river a lot of the time, and this time was no exception with the giving the Taiwanese player a double up and putting Wong on life support.
Wong was left with just 2,200 in chips and could not recover, departing right before the 40-minute dinner break with the rest of the field stack up as follows:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
101,200
21,200
|
21,200 |
|
|
52,300
12,300
|
12,300 |
|
|
23,600
-27,800
|
-27,800 |
|
|
20,400
5,400
|
5,400 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
Dinner Break
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The four remaining players are on a 40-minute dinner break with late registration closing when play resumes.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Registration Closed
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
With late registration now closed for Day 1B of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau the field will not increase more than the 13 runners who have entered today. Just four of those remain in the running and two of those will be leaving empty handed while the other two will make HK$6,000 and lock up a Day 2 seat worth HK$38,000.
Social Poker
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The four remaining players are all Macau regulars and have played so many tournaments together we have lost count. That makes for some interesting table dynamics and banter and we are getting treated to both.
As the shortest stack Pete Chen tried to get something going with a raise to 2,500 from the button, but was looked up by both Wingkei Chan and Justin Chan in the small and big blinds respectively to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
Action was checked around to Chen on the button and he continuation bet another 2,500, only to see Wingkei Chan check-raise all-in. Both Justin Chan and Pete Chen folded immediately leaving Wingkei free to rake in the pot.
Justin Chan limped from the small blind the next hand when the action was folded around, and Sam Cheong seemed happy to take the free 
flop, folding as soon as Chan reached for betting chips.
Cheong won the next one after shoving into Pete Chen from the small blind and showing the table 
when everyone else folded.
A couple of hands later and it was another blind on blind hand between Justin Chan and Cheong, with Chan choosing to mix it up a little and raise to 3,500 this time around.
Cheong responded with a re-raise to 9,500 but folded as soon as Chan moved all-in, flashing the latter the with a chuckle as he did so.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
85,500
-15,700
|
-15,700 |
|
|
64,000
11,700
|
11,700 |
|
|
30,000
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
|
11,200
-9,200
|
-9,200 |
|
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