Main Event
Day 2a Started
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Main Event
Day: 2a
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
Day 2A of the 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau All Set to Start
Welcome back poker fans 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.
Now the initial starting flight appetizer has been served it’s time to move on the main course and the Day 2 Main Event. Today is the first of two Day 2’s – Day 2A – and so far 69 players have successfully circumnavigated the tournament minefield and earned themselves a Day 2A starting berth after fighting their way through the initial eight starting flights.
With an HK$38,000 (~US$4,870) 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.
Registration is still open until the end of level 2 for those who failed to make the Day 2 cut and players can buy-in direct with all Day 2 players allowed a single additional re-entry before the end of late registration should they so chose. Any player that busts today can also buy-in directly for Day 2B as well. Even players who qualify for Day 3 today and re-enter tomorrow should they so desire with their largest stack brought forwards and the other taken out of play.
Players start with 100,000 in chips, with blinds starting at 500/1,000 with a 100 running ante and levels have now been extended to 60-minutes with each Day 2 comprising of nine 60-minute levels.
You can check out the full structure here
Everything you should know about the upcoming Suncity Cup
2017 Suncity Cup Main Event Day 2A Qualifiers
| Position | Name | Country | Chip Count | 2A Table/Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoi Ming Wong | HONG KONG | 188,600 | 1-1 |
| 2 | Lin Chinan | TAIWAN | 53,000 | 1-3 |
| 3 | Yin Sau Ho | HONGKONG | 54,200 | 1-4 |
| 4 | Chung Seong Yoong | MALAYSIA | 33,500 | 1-6 |
| 5 | Bobby Zhang | AUSTRALIA | 61,800 | 1-7 |
| 6 | Ien Chun Chiu | TAIWAN | 75,500 | 1-8 |
| 7 | Dajza Chen | CHINA | 64,700 | 1-9 |
| 8 | Jin Giang Shi | CHINA | 90,000 | 10-1 |
| 9 | Wu Chiayun | TAIWAN | 63,500 | 10-2 |
| 10 | Sio Fat Lau | MACAU | 97,700 | 10-4 |
| 11 | Siu Chu | HONG KONG | 119,100 | 10-6 |
| 12 | Yang Zhang | CHINA | 111,700 | 10-7 |
| 13 | Yee Leow | MALAYSIA | 168,400 | 10-8 |
| 14 | Wai Kiat Lee | MALAYSIA | 150,000 | 10-9 |
| 15 | Wang Sum Li | HONG KONG | 221,300 | 2-1 |
| 16 | Zhou Qiangbo | CHINA | 60,000 | 2-2 |
| 17 | Sahashi Hideki | JAPAN | 374,200 | 2-3 |
| 18 | Weizhou Zha | CHINA | 270,200 | 2-4 |
| 19 | Andrew An | USA | 139,700 | 2-5 |
| 20 | Phachara Wongwichit | THAILAND | 66,900 | 2-7 |
| 21 | Jianfeng Xu | CHINA | 38,500 | 2-9 |
| 22 | Sugie Yoshinori | JAPAN | 35,600 | 3-1 |
| 23 | Jeong Won Seo | KOREA | 32,100 | 3-4 |
| 24 | Rongshan Li | CHINA | 100,500 | 3-5 |
| 25 | Chin Yong Lee | MALAYSIA | 125,500 | 3-6 |
| 26 | JC Alvarado | MEXICO | 227,800 | 3-7 |
| 27 | Chang Tianlin | TAIWAN | 102,500 | 3-8 |
| 28 | Weicong Tang | CHINA | 152,400 | 3-9 |
| 29 | Chien Jenyen | TAIWAN | 67,800 | 4-1 |
| 30 | Yia Man Lee | MALAYSIA | 147,800 | 4-2 |
| 31 | Wei Hsiang Yeu | MALAYSIA | 147,800 | 4-3 |
| 32 | Chun Ho Yam | HONG KONG | 31,300 | 4-4 |
| 33 | Zhisheng Su | CHINA | 67,200 | 4-5 |
| 34 | Kunsi Lin | CHINA | 65,200 | 4-7 |
| 35 | Sheng Yong Wang | CHINA | 19,900 | 4-8 |
| 36 | Chi Ngai Lam | HONG KONG | 96,400 | 5-2 |
| 37 | Dong Luo | CHINA | 56,100 | 5-4 |
| 38 | Nakata Kinichi | JAPAN | 135,000 | 5-5 |
| 39 | Ren Kobe | JAPAN | 133,200 | 5-6 |
| 40 | Hai Yong Ma | CHINA | 33,300 | 5-7 |
| 41 | Montebon II Trife | PHILIPPINES | 105,000 | 5-8 |
| 42 | Keisuke Taenaka | JAPAN | 17,100 | 5-9 |
| 43 | Tsai Duming | TAIWAN | 77,800 | 6-1 |
| 44 | Ishibashi Tsuyoshi | JAPAN | 44,900 | 6-2 |
| 45 | Renjun Yang | CHINA | 64,400 | 6-3 |
| 46 | Karol Janiszewski | POLAND | 121,000 | 6-5 |
| 47 | Hong Chenghan | TAIWAN | 50,800 | 6-6 |
| 48 | Jian Zhang | CHINA | 116,500 | 6-7 |
| 49 | Jingwen Li | CHINA | 70,000 | 6-9 |
| 50 | Sami Jun Lee | KOREA | 147,000 | 7-3 |
| 51 | Chen Wenkai | TAIWAN | 92,000 | 7-4 |
| 52 | Guawg Rui Meng | CHINA | 45,900 | 7-5 |
| 53 | Keng Lon Cheong | MACAU | 168,800 | 7-6 |
| 54 | Guanyi Li | CHINA | 83,600 | 7-7 |
| 55 | Xiong Song | CHINA | 35,600 | 7-8 |
| 56 | Victor Chong | MALAYSIA | 56,500 | 7-9 |
| 57 | Bin Rui Wang | CHINA | 59,500 | 8-1 |
| 58 | Chen Yazhou | CHINA | 39,400 | 8-10 |
| 59 | Kun Huang | CHINA | 112,400 | 8-4 |
| 60 | Min Feng Ji | CHINA | 47,500 | 8-6 |
| 61 | Joey Tin Lam Wong | HONGKONG | 59,300 | 8-7 |
| 62 | Xiaojie Chen | CHINA | 134,300 | 8-8 |
| 63 | Jia Tang | CHINA | 48,600 | 9-1 |
| 64 | Wenling Gao | CHINA | 100,000 | 9-2 |
| 65 | Michael Soyza | MALAYSIA | 174,500 | 9-3 |
| 66 | Kilian Loeffler | GERMANY | 108,600 | 9-4 |
| 67 | Ye Wong | CHINA | 61,900 | 9-5 |
| 68 | Cheng Dong | CHINA | 158,900 | 9-6 |
| 69 | Pete Chen | TAIWAN | 31,200 | 9-8 |
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.
Players List and Stacks
Here's how the Day 2A 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau players are stacking up:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
374,200 | |
|
270,200 | |
|
227,800 | |
|
|
221,300 | |
|
188,600 | |
|
174,500 | 1,500 |
|
|
168,800 | |
|
|
168,400 | |
|
158,900 | |
|
150,000 | |
|
147,800 | |
|
|
147,800 | |
|
147,000 | |
|
139,700 | |
|
|
135,000 | |
|
|
134,300 | 134,166 |
|
|
133,200 | |
|
|
125,500 | |
|
121,000 | |
|
|
119,100 | |
|
116,500 | |
|
112,400 | |
|
108,600 | |
|
|
105,000 | |
|
|
102,500 |
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Cards in the Air
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
It’s game time here at the Poker King poker room here at Venetian Macau and the 69 Day 2A qualifiers are all in their seats and the cards are now in the air. These seasoned survivors have been joined by 17 direct Day 2A entries to grow the field to 86 and with late entry open until the end of level 2.
Kavrakov Plays Position; Lai Rails Chenghan
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
While the level length has now increased to 60-minutes some of the players are not using it to play more hands, but to take their time over the hands they do play, at least in the hands we have seen so far and the think tank appears to be a popular place to be.
We caught a hand that took a good 10-minutes to play out, and we only got to see the flop. It was Taiwan’s Wu Chiayan who opened the action with a raise to 3,000 from middle position and picking up two customers with one of the new Day 2A arrivals and Macau’s Sio Fat Lau making the call before another Day 2A face, Atanas Kavrakov, squeezed to 15,000 from the button.
This was enough to get all but Lau to bow out, but not before our other new arrival spent five minutes in the tank before folding and when the action finally got to Lau he quickly slid in the extra and it was heads-up to a flop of 
.
Lau checked this rather arid flop over to Kavrokov, who wasted no time in firing out a continuation bet of 13,000, which was enough to take it down when Lau mucked and Kavrakov added 21,900 to his stack without showdown.
Over on table six we caught another new Day 2A arrival in action with Hong Kong’s Ben Lai juicing it up to 8,500 on the button over the top of a 2,300 Renjung Yang early position open and a call from Hong Chenghan on in the cutoff.
While Yang quickly got out of the way Chenghan chewed over the decision and decided to go for it, moving his all-in for 40,000 in total. Lai made a quick call and the cards were turned over.
Hong Chenghan: 
Ben Lai: 
Chenghan was in bad shape and it got a whole lot worse on the 
flop. The 
turn left the Taiwanese player drawing dead and he hit the rail while Lai got his tournament off to a great start and climbed to 145,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 | 145,000 |
|
121,900 | 121,900 |
|
82,000 | -15,700 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 2
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Johnny Chan in the House
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Johnny Chan is one of the game’s greats and is another Day 2A new entrant and is a man who should need no introduction but we’ll give him one anyway. The two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion and ten-time bracelet winner has not long taken his seat over on table seven and has just posted his big blind.
Macau’s Sam Cheong does not seem scared about raising the poker legend’s big blind and he opened to 2,800 from the cutoff and the action folded around to small blind Victor Chong.
The Malaysian player thought long and hard about it, and the re-raised to 10,600 in total and the action was on Chan, who folded immediately. With the action back on Cheong he reached for chips and splashed out a huge stack of blue 5,000 chips making it 100,000 to go and Chong quickly let it go.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
181,000 | 12,200 |
|
98,800 | 98,800 |
|
46,000 | -10,500 |
Alvarado Battling Back
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
It appears the Mexico’s JC Alvarado was unable to keep up the blistering run of form he closed out Day 1E with and his 215,000-plus stack has shrunk a little, but he has just padded it out some courtesy of Weicong Tang.
It was Alvarado who was the pre-flop raiser, making it 2,600 to go from middle postion and Tang (button) and Korea’s Jeong Won Seo (big blind) made the call to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
Both Seo and Alvarado checked and Tang took a stab of 4,000 from the button. Seo made a quick fold, but Alvarado was going nowhere and slid in the call to take the action heads-up to the 
turn.
The Mexican checked once more and Tang shot him surreptitious side long glance and checked it back. The 
river saw Alvarado lead for the first time in the hand since his pre-flop raise and threw out a bet of 8,500 and Tang folded immediately.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
175,000 | -52,800 |
|
|
145,600 |
Triple for Leow
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
A huge pot has recently played out that saw Ivan Leow bag himself a triple up and what a hand it was. China’s Liu Wei was the man to spark the fuse with an early position open to 4,000 and the action folded around to Leow on the button.
The Malaysian was one of the shorter stacks at this point with 29,500 but that did not stop him from firing out a 10,000 raise and the action was on big blind Jin Giang Shi who made the call. With the action back on Wei he reached for chips, but not for calling with and he three-bet to 50,000 in total.
Leow quickly shoved and Shi re-shoved for close to 130,000. Wei did not look happy about it as Shi had him covered, but after some time in the tank he grudgingly folded leaving Shi free to rake in the 20,500 side pot.
Jin Giang Shi: 
Ivan Leow: 
The Chinese player would need this rebate as, despite having the lead when the cards were turned over the 
flop shot Leow right out in front. So shocked was Shi at the flop that he spilt his can of San Miguel all over the table and nearly got beer all over his cards.
While this mess was cleaned up it was back to the action and the turn and 
river saw Leow triple to 91,500 while Shi took a hit and dropped down to roughly 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 10,000 |
|
91,500 | -76,900 |
|
|
53,700 | 53,700 |