Main Event Day 1f | 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

11-29-2017 00:10 UTC+8

Li Leads Day 1F of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The last of the regular structured starting flights for the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau was by far the busiest and most action-packed with 209 players anteing up the HK$6,600 entry.

With the format offering unlimited re-entries a further 34 extra bullets were fired to bring the total number of entries up to 243 – close to double the size of the next biggest starting flight Day 1E.

With 15 percent of the field locking up a Day 2 berth it took fourteen 40-minute levels to thin this down to the final 36 and the action was fast and frantic from the get-go.

The man who climbed the highest was Hong Kong’s Will Wang Sum Li who bagged up 221,300 at the close of play, just edging in front of UK-based Spaniard Oliver Saul, who held the lead for the majority of the day. Saul finished the day a close second with a stack of 215,000 with the PhilippinesEugene Co (196,200) rounding out the top three.

Li got his tournament off to a good start midway through the day to begin his climb up the leaderboard after eliminating the unlucky Justin Chan after the two got all the chips in on a ten-high flop. Chan’s pocket kings were in front of Li’s ace-ten but an ace on the turn gave Li two pair and saw him stack up to 50,000 in chips with blinds at 300/600 with a 100 running ante.

By the time the dinner break came around Li had spun this up to 90,000, before coming within a whisker of busting at the hands of Korea’s Vivian Im after the two played a huge pot for stacks at the start of level 12.

Li tried to push Im off a jack-high flop, check-raising all-in with pocket eights with the Korean pro calling with pocket queens. It looked as though Li was toast until the arrival of an eight on the river, which shot Li up to the giddy heights of 130,000 while Im dropped down to 55,000 and could not recover.

Other notables who could not go the distance included Korea’s Soo Joo Kim, Canada’s Linh Tran and China’s Juicy Sixiao Li, all of whom fell by the wayside well before the bubble approached.

This was brought in by China’s Gao Xing who, after taking a big hit at the hands of Jason Yen when she chose to bluff a missed flush draw, busted the unfortunate Juan Antonio. The Spaniard got the last of his chips in with the best of it pre-flop holding pocket tens and Xing defended her big blind with jack-ten suited and flopped the straight to bust Antonio and take play hand-for-hand.

This lasted for all of one hand, with the short-stacked Wei Cheng Hsieh getting the last of his chips in pre-flop with ace-ten suited and running into the pocket queens of Japan’s Ren Kobe to guarantee the 36 remaining players an HK$6,000 payday and a Day 2 seat worth HK$38,000.

2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau Day 1F Survivors and Day 2 Draw

Position	Name	Country	Chip Count	2A Table/Seat	2B Table/Seat
1	Will Wang Sum Li	Hong Kong	221,300	2-1	-
2	Oliver Saul	UK	215,000	-	5-5
3	Eugene Co	Philippines	196,200	-	3-2
4	Hoi Ming Wong	Hong Kong	188,600	1-1	-
5	Ivan Yee Leow	Malaysia	168,400	10-8	-
6	Jason Zhuanglang Yen	China	149,600	-	10-6
7	Wei Hsiang Yeu	Malaysia	147,800	4-3	-
8	Sami Jun Lee	Korea	147,000	7-3	-
9	Xiaojie Chen	China	134,300	8-8	-
10	Ren Kobe	Japan	133,200	5-6	-
11	Jesus Fernandez	UK	126,700	-	8-6
12	Chin Yong Lee	Malaysia	125,500	3-6	-
13	Karol Janiszewski	Poland	121,000	6-5	-
14	Siu Chu	Hong Kong	119,100	10-6	-
15	Kun Huang	China	112,400	8-4	-
16	Yang Zhang	China	111,700	10-7	-
17	Rongshan Li	China	100,500	3-5	-
18	Wenling Gao	China	100,000	9-2	-
19	Chi Ngai Lam	Hong Kong	96,400	5-2	-
20	Jin Giang Shi	China	90,000	10-1	-
21	Kai Jun Zheng	China	76,700	-	5-9
22	Ien Chun Chiu	Taiwan	75,500	1-8	-
23	Fei Lu	China	74,000	-	3-7
24	Jingwen Li	China	70,000	6-9	-
25	Kunsi Lin	China	65,200	4-7	-
26	Dajia Chen	China	64,700	1-9	-
27	Renjun Yang	China	64,400	6-3	-
28	Bobby Zhang	Australia	61,800	1-7	-
29	Chin Sun Tan	Malaysia	55,500	-	1-7
30	Luen Kwan Kwok	Hong Kong	50,900	-	1-6
31	Jia Tang	China	48,600	9-1	-
32	Yukio Imanishi	Japan	48,400	-	1-8
33	Min Feng Ji	China	47,500	8-6	-
34	Chung Seong Yoong	Malaysia	33,500	1-6	-
35	Edward Chun Ho Yam	Hong Kong	31,300	4-4	-
36	Keisuke Taenaka	Japan	17,100	5-9	-

Day 2A begins at 1pm on Wednesday, 29 November, with Day 2B playing out at the same time on Thursday, 30 November and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to cover all the Main Event tournament thrills and spills so join us then.

Tags: Bobby Zhang Chin Sun Tan Dajia Chen Jason Yen Jesus Fernandez Juan Antonio Juicy Sixiao Li Justin Chan Karol Janiszewski Kun Huang Linh Tran Ren Kobe Soo Joo Kim Tang Jia Vivian Im Wei Cheng Hsieh

11-28-2017 23:45 UTC+8

Kobe Busts Hsieh to Burst Bubble

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The bubble burst almost as soon as it was announced with China’s Wei Cheng Hsieh and Japan’s Ren Kobe getting all the chip in pre-flop the very first hand of hand-for-hand.

Hsieh was the man to pull the trigger first with and unfortunately for the Chinese player, Kobe woke behind him with .

Hsieh was the at-risk player and the runout was not the one he was looking for, bringing the last of the regular starting flights to a close and guaranteeing the 36 remaining players an HK$6,000 payday and a Day 2 seat worth HK$38,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ren Kobe	133,200
Wei Cheng Hsieh	Busted

Tags: Ren Kobe Wei Cheng Hsieh

11-28-2017 21:50 UTC+8

Li Rivers Im

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Will Li opened the action from under-the-gun with a min-raise to 4,000 and the action folded around to Vivian Im on the button who re-raised to 12,000 in total. After both blinds got out of the way Li made the call and the flop came down .

Li checked the action over to Im, who fired out a 10,000 continuation bet and Li check-raised all-in for another 40,000 more, sending the Korean pro deep into the tank. Eventually, Im threw in a black 100-chip to represent the call and the cards were turned over.

Will Li:
Vivian Im:

It seemed that Li was in a great deal of trouble and the turn left him circling the drain before the hit the river, bringing an ecstatic cry of ‘yes!’ from Li, who then apologized to Im for the suckout. That timely catch shot Li up to over 130,000 in chips and took a big bite out of Im’s stack and she dropped down to 55,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Li	130,000	40,000
Vivian Im	55,000	-40,000

Tags: Will Li Vivian Im

11-28-2017 20:35 UTC+8

Janiszewski Building

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Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Karol Janiszewski (left) and Diego Gonzales (right)

Poland’s Karol Janiszewski is another play intent on building a big stack and is doing a pretty good job of it so far. Every time we have walked past Karol’s table he seems to be involved in a hand, and it’s always a big one, though we have not seen all that many of them make it to showdown.

We saw Janiszewski getting frisky in a blind on blind battle versus a tablemate who limped the action from the small blind and the Polish player responded with a raise to 6,700.

The small blind re-raised to 16,700 and Janiszewski quickly pulled the trigger and moved all-in for significantly more in chips than his opponent, who agonized over the decision for quite some time before letting it go and leaving Janiszewski to rake in the pot unopposed.

The next time we passed by Janiszewski had bombed the turn on a board against another tablemate who flashed the Pole pocket threes before throwing his hand away, but not before begging Janiszewskito show his hand. The Pole flashed a cheeky grin and mucked, taking down yet another pot to climb to 83,000.

Eventually, we finally got to see Janiszewski in a hand that made it to showdown, but it resulted in an anti-climatic chop. The hand in question was a blind on blind battle against Diego Gonzales, who was in the big blind, and the two got into a raising war that saw all the chips go in pre-flop.

Karol held and was up against Gonzales’ and there was a sweaty moment for the Spaniard on the turn when the board ran out to give Karol a heap of outs for the win, but the river was not one of them and the two divvied up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Karol Janiszewski	85,000	85,000
Diego Gonzales	65,000	65,000

Tags: Diego Gonzales Karol Janiszewski

11-28-2017 18:00 UTC+8

Li Spikes Turn to Bust Chan

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Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

For a while there it looked as though today was the day Justin Chan would win his Day 2 seat and the Hong Kong player had run his stack up to around 37,000. However, Chan suffered a few set back to drop down the chip counts before the following hand came up against Will Li.

Chan opened the action on the button and Li chose to defend his big blind and it was heads-up to a flop. Li led out on the flop, Chan shoved and Li made the call.

While Li, holding ace-ten, was behind to Chan’s pocket kings the arrival of an ace on the turn gave Li two pairs and the river was not a king, meaning Chan is now out while Li stacked up to 50,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Li	50,000	50,000
Justin Chan	Busted

Tags: Justin Chan Will Li

11-28-2017 11:05 UTC+8

Day 1F of the Suncity Cup Finale Macau Good to Go

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Day 1F of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

Greetings once again poker fans, and welcome back to the PokerNews live coverage of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau, brought to you from the Poker King poker room at the Venetian Macau.

This is the sixth and final regular structured starting flight with the other two turbo flights running at 5pm local time (GMT+8) on Tuesday, 28 November and 5pm on Wednesday, 29 November. While the PokerNews live coverage will only apply to the regular flight players can still win themselves a Day 2 seat should they not be successful today.

There is also still and an HK$20,000 buy-in deep-stacked tournament and an HK$50,000 High Roller left to play out, though again, there will be no live coverage.

However, it is the $8M GTD Suncity Cup Main Event that will be attracting the most attention and this will be the only event with PokerNews live coverage.

Boasting an affordable HK$6,600 (~US$845) buy-in the tournament looks primed to attract an eclectic mix of keen recreational players and seasoned professionals, all eager to win a share of the HK$8M (~US$1M) guaranteed prize pool.

There are eight starting flights to chose from, including two with turbo structures, giving players the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to choosing when and how to begin their quest for glory.

Players buying into any of the Day 1 Main Event flights sit down with 15,000 chips and play eighteen 40-minute levels with blinds starting at 25/50. Late registration is open until the start of the level 10 and multiple re-entries are permitted while late registration is available.

Players are allowed to play more than one Day 1, but should they progress to Day 2 more than once, only their largest stack is taken through with them. Play continues on Day 1 until only 15 percent of the field remains, with these players making it to Day 2.

In a small twist, it is possible to buy into the HK$8 million guaranteed Main Event on Day 2A or Day 2B for HK$38,000 (US$4,850). Anyone taking this route will receive a 100,000-chip starting stack.

You can check out the full structure here

Everything you should know about the upcoming Suncity Cup

A total of 24 players have already locked up their Day 2 seat in the four prior legs that have already played out; the first in Jeju, Korea, running September 24-30, the second at the Poker King Club, Manila, Philippines, running October 13-16, the third at CLBC The Flagship, Taipei, Taiwan, running November 3-5 and the fourth taking place at Paradise City, Incheon, Korea, running November 10-12. A further 42 players have made it through from Days 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau to bring the total number of Day 2 players up to 66:

2017 Suncity Cup Main Event Day 2 Qualifiers

Position	Name	Country	Chip Count	2A Table/Seat	2B Table/Seat
1	Sahashi Hideki	Japan	374,200	2-3	-
2	Weizhou Zha	China	270,200	2-4	-
3	Hsiao Jialing	China	245,800	-	4-3
4	JC Alvarado	Mexico	227,800	3-7	-
5	Asakura Yasuyuki	Japan	189,400	-	1-9
6	Gab Yong Kim	Korea	185,500	-	2-3
7	Yu Dong	China	179,000	-	4-7
8	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	174,500	-	2-9
9	Sam Cheong	Macau	168,800	7-6	-
10	Hsieh Chi Han	Taiwan	164,000	-	10-8
11	Chen Bin	China	162,200	-	6-9
12	Cheng Dong	China	158,900	9-6	-
13	Tang Wei Cong	China	152,400	3-9	-
14	Wai Kiat Lee	Malaysia	150,000	10-9	-
15	Felix Lee	Hong Kong	147,800	4-2	-
16	Chang Yu Chung	Taiwan	144,500	-	6-6
17	Andrew An	USA	139,700	2-5	-
18	Kuo Ting Wei	Taiwan	130,200	-	3-4
19	Thomas Lee	Canada	120,000	-	5-1
20	Percy Chao	Hong Kong	114,900	-	7-5
21	Canlin Chen	China	112,300	-	9-9
22	Keng Po Wong	Macau	111,100	-	10-1
23	Kilian Loeffler	Germany	108,600	9-4	-
24	Chan Shin Hung	Taiwan	105,500	-	4-8
25	Trifie D. Montebon II	Philippines	105,000	5-8	-
26	Chang Tian Lin	Taiwan	102,500	3-8	-
27	Sio Fat Lau	Macau	97,700	-	9-5
28	Fredric Stephan	France	95,600	-	4-6
29	Chen Sheng Wen	Taiwan	93,000	-	2-6
30	Chen Wen Kai	Taiwan	92,000	7-4	-
31	Keisuke Hikosaka	Japan	91,000	-	8-1
32	Hung Yu Shin	Taiwan	85,000	-	9-3
33	Liao Po Hao	Taiwan	80,800	-	8-2
34	Tsai Du Ming	Taiwan	77,800	6-1	-
35	Jack Wu	Taiwan	76,500	-	3-3
36	Hua Bin Hwang	China	75,100	-	4-9
37	Li Tsan Wa	Hong Kong	71,900	-	6-5
38	Chien Jen Yen	Taiwan	67,800	4-1	-
39	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	66,900	2-7	-
40	Yao Jin Chen	China	64,500	10-4	-
41	Wu Chia Yun	Taiwan	63,500	10-2	-
42	Ye Wang	China	61,900	9-5	-
43	Zhou Qiangbo	China	60,000	2-2	-
44	Vincent Yiu Chung Tong	China	59,900	-	9-4
45	Bin Rui Wang	China	59,500	8-1	-
46	Joey Wong	Hong Kong	59,300	8-7	-
47	Ping Cheong Fung	China	55,800	-	7-1
48	Guoliang Wei	China	58,800	-	8-5
49	Victor Chong	Malaysia	56,500	7-9	-
50	Ho Yin Sau	Macau	54,200	1-4	-
51	Lin Chin An	Taiwan	53,000	1-3	-
52	Hong Cheng Han	Taiwan	50,800	6-6	-
53	Ip Ka Leung	China	46,700	-	2-8
54	Youngee Park	Korea	46,000	-	9-6
55	Guangrui Meng	China	45,900	7-5	-
56	Yueh Ko-Chiang	Taiwan	45,200	-	5-6
57	Tsuyoshi Ishibashi	Japan	44,900	6-2	-
58	Chen Yazhou	China	39,400	8-10	-
59	Jianfeng Xu	China	38,500	2-9	-
60	Ka Ho Sun	Hong Kong	37,400	-	9-2
61	Yoshinori Sugie	Japan	35,600	3-1	-
62	Song Xiong	China	35,600	7-8	-
63	Hei Yong Ma	China	33,300	5-7	-
64	Pete Chen	Taiwan	26,200	-	6-3
65	Sheng Yong Wang	China	19,900	4-8	-
66	Wang Yong Siang	Taiwan	19,800	-	7-9

Day 2A begins at 1pm on Wednesday, 29 November, with Day 2B playing out at the same time on Thursday, 30 November and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to cover all the Main Event tournament thrills and spills. Day 1F kicks off at 1pm local time (GMT+8) on Tuesday, 28 November so join us then as we see who else has what it takes to secure a Day 2 seat.