Level: 6
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 75
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Main Event
Day: 1d
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
Kim straightens Out Yim
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
The last hand we caught was certainly an interesting one and we think Timothy Yim will remember it for quite some time, though probably for all the wrong reasons.
It was Gab Yong Kim who sparked the fuse with an under-the-gun plus one open to 1,000. It appears Kim has been fairly active and his early position raises apparently do not command much respect as Kim was called in four spots with a neighboring player making the call as well as recent arrival Victor Chong (cutoff) Timothy Yim (hi-jack) and Hazel Chui (small blind).
The action went five-way to a flop of 
and with so many players in the hand, no one seemed keen to bet and the action checked around to Yim who decided to take a stab for 6,500.
Chui folded and the action was back on Kim who now check-raised all-in for 12,675 in total. That was enough to fold out all but Yim, who threw in the extras and the cards we turned over.
Gab Yong Kim: 
Timothy Yim: 
Yim had been playing a dangerous game taking aces multi-way but it looked like it might all work out swimmingly until the 
completed Kim’s open-ended straight draw. The 
river saw the Korean player rewarded for his speculative early raise and he climbed to 36,500 while nothing is going Yim’s way today and he dropped to 8,600.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
36,500
19,150
|
19,150 |
|
14,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
8,600
-6,400
|
-6,400 |
Up to 61 Entrants
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
There have been more new arrivals and some old ones as several players are on their second (or third in some cases) buy-in to bring the number of entrants up to 61, of whom 41 are still in the running.
The returning players include Hong Kong’s Carson Wong, Jeffrey Lo and Justin Chan and Youngee Park is now on his third bullet.
New arrivals include Poker King Cup High Roller Champion Chung Yuan Yu, fellow countryman Yu Chung Chang, China’s Ye Wang and Jianfeng Xu and Hong Kong’s Yiu Man Lee.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
15,000 | |
|
|
15,000 | |
|
|
15,000 | |
|
|
15,000 | |
|
15,000 | |
|
|
15,000 | |
|
|
14,000 |
Xing Leads at Break
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
The 43 remaining Day 1D entrants are about to head off on their second break of the day, this time for 15-minutes as the green 25-chips are taken out of play.
Michael Chan's seat is conspicuously empty, but with the way his stack was yo-yoing that is not all that surprizing. Current table captain is Gao Xing who is sitting on a sizable 60,000 stack and while we saw her push Junzhong Loo off a hand pre-flop during the early levels we have not really seen her in action properly yet today – a fact we will rectify after the break.
Xing’s next closest rival is Malaysia's Chin Sun Tan and then there is a pretty big gap between the next closest stacks, which belong to Canlin Chen and Gab Yong Kim, but they have nowhere near as many chips as Xing. Here’s how the field is stacking up:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
50,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
34,200
19,200
|
19,200 |
|
33,000
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
|
32,500
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
30,100
-17,900
|
-17,900 |
|
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
28,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
21,700
6,700
|
6,700 |
|
|
20,100
1,800
|
1,800 |
|
17,100
2,100
|
2,100 |
|
15,500
500
|
500 |
|
||
|
13,200
-21,300
|
-21,300 |
|
|
12,200
-2,800
|
-2,800 |
|
|
12,000
-2,100
|
-2,100 |
|
Busted | |
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 100
Chen Rails Jing; Pan Busts Lee
Level 7
: 300/600, 100 ante
The action is coming to the boil now and we have witnessed several competitors play big pots for their tournament lives – and at least for 50 percent of them, it all worked out.
Poker being a zero-sum game means that when someone wins, someone loses and the winner and loser in this particular case was Chih Wen Chen and Luo Jing respectively.
It was Chen who was the initial aggressor in this particular hand, making it 2,500 to go from early position and Jing moved all-in over the top for close to his 15,000 starting stack. Chen called quickly and the cards were turned over.
Chih Wen Chen: 
Luo Jing: 
The board ran out 
to see Chen win the classic race and bink a set and while Jing paired his king it was not enough and he hit the rail while Chen stacked up to 35,000.
We arrived at Yuefeng Pan’s table shortly afterward in time to see another big all-in confrontation, though this time it was on the flop that all the chips went in.
With the flop spread 
and close to 7,000 already in the pot Hong Kong’s Alfred Lee had led for 3,000 from middle position and been raised by Pan to the tune of 9,000.
Lee thought it over and looked Pan up and down suspiciously before moving all-in for close to 20,000 and Pan called extremely quickly.
Alfred Lee: 
Yuefeng Pan: 
Pan’s suited gap connectors had hit the flop hard and his two pairs were leading Lee’s top pair and that did not change when the 
turn and 
river completed the hand. Lee hit the rail and Pan stacked up to 55,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000
24,900
|
24,900 |
|
|
35,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
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Busted |
Pics from Day 1D of the Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Duong Busts One
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
France’s Vu Chau Duong opened the action with a button raise to 2,400 and a player in the small blind moved all-in for his last 10,000 and Duong made a quick call.
The Frenchman had found on the button, which was in front of his opponent’s 
and stayed that way when the board ran out [
.
Duong stacked up his new chips and climbed to 25,000 while his unfortunate opponent headed for the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Xing Wins Without Showdown
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
We have been trying in vain to catch Gao Xing in action but so far no joy. We caught a hand earlier when she raised to 1,400 from the hi-jack on the last level, picking up two callers – a player in the cutoff and Bobby Zhang in the big blind – but the hand was over as soon as it started with Xing’s 2,700 c-bet on the 
flop enough to take it down.
Something similar happened the next time we walked past Xing’s table and she made it 2,000 to go from under-the-gun this time around and picked up two customers, a player in middle position and big blind Guangrui Meng.
The action went three-way to a flop of 
and Meng checked the action over to Xing, who continuation bet 3,500 with the middle position opponent her only caller.
The 
turn was the last card dealt as Xing quickly fired a second barrel, this one a larger 9,000. While he took his sweet time about it Xing’s opponent finally found the fold and Xing raked in yet another pot unopposed to climb to 75,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
75,000
15,000
|
15,000 |