2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

Main Event
Day: 1e
Event Info

2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k9
Prize
1,605,472 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
6,600 HKD
Entries
221
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
75,000

Cheng Profits from Three-way Carnage

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Nevan Cheng woke up with aces at the right time
Nevan Cheng woke up with aces at the right time

A huge three-way pre-flop all in confrontation has not long played out over on Victor Chong’s table and the Malaysian player had a front row seat as he was one of the protagonists.

It was Nevan Cheng who was the beneficiary of all the action, and the instigator, making it 1,100 to go from under-the-gun. Action folded around to a player on the button who went from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 1 immediately and launched his whole 20,000-plus stack into the center of the table.

Victor Chong checked his cards in the small blind and launched missiles of his own, re-shoving to isolate. Cheng made a speedy call and the hands were turned over.

Nevan Cheng: {a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}
Button: {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}
Victor Chong: {a-Spades}{q-Hearts}

While Cheng was the at-risk player and was covered by both opponents, his gun was loaded with silver bullets, much more effective than missiles in a poker game and the {8-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{9-Spades} runout was a good one for aces. Cheng stacked up to 35,500, the button busted and Chong took a bit of hit but is still in decent shape with a stack of 24,000.

Player Chips Progress
Nevan Cheng hk
Nevan Cheng
35,500 35,500
Victor Chong my
Victor Chong
24,000 -4,000

Tags: Nevan ChengVictor Chong

Huang Busts Chan

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Justin Chan
Justin Chan

Justin Chan’s first attempt at building a big stack has not worked out for him and we arrived in time to see the Hong Kong player vacating his seat. Mr. Chan was kind enough to tell us the tale of his demise, and what a tale of woe it was.

Surprisingly it was not Zhao Yanchao who busted Chan, though the Chinese player was involved in the proceedings. According to Chan it was China’s Kun Huang who lit the fuse with an early position raise to 1,100 and Chan made the call with pocket queens from the hi-jack.

Zhao got frisky from the button and re-raised to 3,300 and Huang moved all-in for 15,750. Chan had him covered, but only by around 300 chips and made the call and Zhao flashed both players the {9-Clubs} before throwing his hand into the muck.

It was a classic race, Chan’s pocket queens up against Huang’s ace-king, but unfortunately for Chan it was one he fell behind in immediately with a king in the window. Chan is out and Huang has 33,500 to play with.

Player Chips Progress
Kun Huang cn
Kun Huang
33,500 18,500
Justin Chan tw
Justin Chan
Busted

Tags: Justin ChanKun Huang

Chong Ejects Chen

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante
Kings were no good for Dajia Chen
Kings were no good for Dajia Chen

Dajia Chen did not recover from folding out that big pot to Victor Chong earlier and the Malaysian player has just finished what he began earlier.

Chen was down to his last 5,500 and got this in pre-flop with {k-}{k-} and Chong looked him up with {a-Spades}{q-Spades}. Unfortunately for Chen the flop came down ace-high and that was that. Chen headed for the rail while Chong stacked up to around 28,000.

Player Chips Progress
Victor Chong my
Victor Chong
28,000 5,500
Dajia Chen cn
Dajia Chen
Busted

Tags: Dajia ChenVictor Chong

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Chan and Zhao Play Another Round

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante
Zhao Yanchao
Zhao Yanchao

We caught Justin Chan and his nemesis Zhao Yanchao embroiled in another pot together, though this time they had some company with Luo Xixiang coming along as well.

It was Chan who was the initial aggressor, making it 700 to go from the hi-jack, Zhao decided to make the call from the button and Xixiang made the call from the big blind to take play three-way to a flop of {7-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{5-Clubs}.

While two’s company, three’s a crowd and after the action was checked to Chan he decided to thin the field with a continuation bet of 1,000.

Zhao evidently had plans for the hand and re-raised to 2,200 making Xixiang realize he wanted nothing to do with it and he folded out with Chan tossing in the extras to take play heads-up to the {10-Hearts} turn.

There would be no more cards dealt. Chan checked the action over to Zhao and the Chinese player fired out a bet of 4,100 which was enough to get Chan to lay it down.

Player Chips Progress
Zhao Yanchao cn
Zhao Yanchao
37,000 17,000
Justin Chan tw
Justin Chan
15,000 1,800

Tags: Justin ChanZhao Yanchao

Jinqiang takes from Yeung

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante
Do not attempt to bluff Shi Jinqiang
Do not attempt to bluff Shi Jinqiang

Shi Jinqiang is enjoying the rub of the green presently as we arrived in time to see him scoop a big pot. This came at the expense of Calvin Yeung and stacks were being counted down as we arrived.

With the community cards spread {j-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{9-Spades}{a-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} and over 13,000 in bets, blinds and antes in the middle already Yeung had pulled the trigger on the river for close to 15,000 and been looked up by Jinqiang.

Unfortunately for Yeung however, bluff with {q-Hearts}{6-Clubs} did not work out the way he wanted (guess he should have asked Cheng Dong) and Jinqiang had looked him up with the pretty looking {j-Clubs}{7-Clubs}, which was good for a 38,000 pot and Yueng dropped down to 5,300.

Yeung padded this out a little the next hand after a Soo Joo Kim open to 700, with Yeung coming over the top for 2,200. Though the Korean didn’t look as though he liked it Kim eventually let it go and Yeung got a small rebate to climb to 6,450.

Player Chips Progress
Jinqiang Shi cn
Jinqiang Shi
38,000 21,700
Calvin Yeung
Calvin Yeung
6,450

Tags: Shi JinqiangCalvin Yeung

Post-break Stacks

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

We had a chance to get a quick look at how some of the field is stacking up during the break at it appears the early frontrunner is Yu Zhou who has a little over 30,000 with some of the other notables as follows:

Player Chips Progress
Fredric Stephan fr
Fredric Stephan
23,700 8,700
Victor Chong my
Victor Chong
22,500 500
Keng Po Wong mo
Keng Po Wong
21,500 6,500
Andy Yingkit Chan hk
Andy Yingkit Chan
18,525 -2,475
Derx Lai hk
Derx Lai
16,050
Cheng Dong us
Cheng Dong
16,000 9,000
Chin Sun Tan my
Chin Sun Tan
14,900 14,900
Soo Joo Kim kr
Soo Joo Kim
14,300
Bart Luyckx be
Bart Luyckx
14,025
Junzhong Loo my
Junzhong Loo
WSOP 1X Winner
13,750 13,750
Justin Chan tw
Justin Chan
13,200 1,975
Linh Tran ca
Linh Tran
9,525
Dajia Chen cn
Dajia Chen
7,800 -1,600
Yu Zhou cn
Yu Zhou
30
Vincent Li hk
Vincent Li
9

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Break Time

Level 3 : 100/200, 25 ante

The field has now grown to 82 entrants, with the 75 remaining competitors on their first 10-minute break of the day.