Main Event Day 1f | 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.