Main Event Day 3 | 2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau

12-01-2017 15:29 UTC+8

Saul Pushes Off Lai

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Level 12 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

We caught Hong Kong’s Ben Lai and UK-based Spaniard Oliver Saul embroiled in a sizable hand and while we are unsure of what the pre-flop action was there looked to have been plenty as there was over 160,000 in the pot with the flop spread .

Saul, sitting in the small blind, was the man to have first stab opportunity and took it with a bet of 45,000. Lai stared the Spaniard down impassively and slid in the call and it was off to the turn.

That slowed down Saul, and he checked the action over to Lai, who checked it right back to bring in the river. After some time in the think tank Saul sprang into action and moved all-in and Lai folded immediately.

Player	Chips	Progress
Oliver Saul	688,000	88,000
Ben Lai	262,000	-88,000

Tags: Oliver Saul Ben Lai

12-01-2017 15:22 UTC+8

Notable Stacks

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Level 12 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

It appears that former frontrunner Yu Dong Yang did not recover from losing that massive coin flip against Malaysia’s Jun Wah Yap and Yang is no longer in the running. The man leading the field is Malaysia’s Lim Chin Wei, who has a sizable 1.26 million in chips, with Yuefeng Pan the man closest to catching him with a stack of 1.1 million. Here’s how some of the rest of the field is stacking up:

Player	Chips	Progress
Lim Chin Wei	1,260,000	60,000
Yuefeng Pan	1,100,000	200,000
JC Alvarado	850,000	340,000
Jun Wah Yap	800,000	87,000
Michael Soyza	780,000	-54,000
Zhao Yanchao	750,000	150,000
Eugene Co	720,000	302,000
Wai Kiat Lee	655,000	-185,000
Jacky Wong	600,000	348,000
Oliver Saul	600,000	-18,000
Linh Tran	540,000	221,000
Sparrow Cheung	500,000	113,000
Sahashi Hideki	500,000	271,000
Jeffrey Lo	430,000	100,000
Victor Chong	400,000	-161,000
Canlin Chen	380,000	175,000
Chin Sun Tan	380,000	187,000
Jesus Fernandez	350,000	-6,000
Ben Lai	350,000	-27,000
Andrew An	340,000	180,000
Weizhou Zhang	300,000	62,000
Martijn Gerrits	210,000	-52,000
Xixiang Luo	41,000	-379,000
Yu Dong Yang	Busted

Level: 12

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

12-01-2017 15:00 UTC+8

Break Time

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Level 11 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The 49 remaining Suncity City Cup Day 3 players are on their first 10-minute break of the day, only 40 more bust outs to go before the final table so stay with us.

12-01-2017 14:55 UTC+8

Wei Doubles Luo But Still Holds Lead

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Lim Chin Wei currently has all the chips

Malaysia’s Lim Chin Wei is the man who has come in with the run good today it would appear and has made even more chips since busting the unfortunate Karol Janiszewski earlier. We caught Wei doubling up Xixiang Luo, but he had so many chips that he still held the lead after the dust settled on the hand.

It was Wei who was the man to open the action with an under-the-gun raise and Luo had pulled the trigger from the cutoff and moved all-in for a little over 200,000. With chips to spare Wei made a quick call and the hands were turned over.

Lim Chin Wei:
Xixiang Luo:

Luo had the best hand and the runout was a kind one and he stacked up to 420,000 and while Wei took a hit he still held a massive 1,200,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lim Chin Wei	1,200,000	468,000
Xixiang Luo	420,000	107,000

Tags: Lim Chin Wei Xixiang Luo

12-01-2017 14:35 UTC+8

Yap Takes a Bite out of Yang

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Level 11 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

We struggled to catch much of Yu Dong Yang in action yesterday as no-one wanted to tangle with the big stack. That is not the case today though we caught a big pot that played out between Yang and fellow tablemate Jun Wah Yap.

Yang has not been running as well today as yesterday and his massive 987,000 starting stack had shrunk to a little under 600,000 before the following hand took place.

It was Yang who was the man to kick start the action with a raise to 21,000 from under-the-gun and the action folded around to Yap in the small blind. The Malaysian player wanted to play for more and popped it up to 76,000 and the action was back on Yang.

The Chinese player wasted no time and quickly announced he was all-in and Yap did not look happy. However, he also did not look like he wanted to fold. Eventually, Yap shrugged and said the magic words ‘I call…’ and the cards were turned over.

Jun Wah Yap:
Yu Dong Yang:

Both players were calling for their respective cards and it looked like Yap, who was the player at-risk, wanted it more and the first card off the top of the deck was the followed by with the rest of the board running out and to give Yap trips and the pot. Yap climbed to 713,000 while Yang’s once mighty stack was left much reduced and he dropped to 215,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jun Wah Yap	713,000	410,000
Yu Dong Yang	215,000	-772,000

Tags: Jun Wah Yap Yu Dong Yang

12-01-2017 14:15 UTC+8

Lo Riding Rollercoaster

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Level 11 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The carnage continues and the man who’s stack is see-sawing up and down wildly at the moment is Hong Kong’s Jeffrey Lo. The last time we checked the Hong King player had a stack of 500k plus, but that was no longer the case the next time we walked past his table and found him all in for roughly seven big blinds against Yu Fei.

But how did we get here? Well, Lo was kind enough to fill us in on all the gory details. According to Lo, the hand that saw him lose the majority of his chips came against Yuefeng Pan a couple of orbits ago. The two were seated at the same table for a lot of Day 2B and had history, which bled over into today as they are both at the same table once again.

It was Lo who was the instigator, making it 18,000 to go from the cutoff with and Pan played back at him from the small blind and popped it up to 45,000. Lo responded with a re-raise to 100,000 and Pan clicked it back with a bet to 200,000.

Lo decided to get it in, shoving for over 500,000 and Pan called so fast his chips left skid marks on the felt, rolling over to see him climb to 900,000 while Lo was left almost destitute with a stack of 76,000.

And that brings us nicely up to the Fei vs Lo hand we started with. Fei was one of the other shorties at the table and moved all in with and Lo decided to roll the dice on the button and made the call with .

The board ran out and Lo climbed back up to 160,000. Unfortunately for Yu Fei he was unable to recover after losing that flip to Lo and departed shortly afterward.

We had a quick scout of the room but came running back just minutes later to find Lo all-in again, this time against Hon Cheong Lee.

Lee was the initial raiser, making it 25,000 to go from the button and Lo got in his 160,000-stack from the big blind with Lee making a quick call.

Hon Cheong Lee:
Jeffrey Lo:

The Hong Kong player won the race in some style on the runout, binking a set to climb back up to 330,000 while Lee took a hit and dropped below 100,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yuefeng Pan	900,000	351,000
Jeffrey Lo	330,000	-240,000
Hon Cheong Lee	100,000	-84,000
Yu Fei	Busted

Tags: Hon Cheong Lee Jeffrey Lo Yu Fei Yuefeng Pan

Level: 11

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

12-01-2017 13:45 UTC+8

Wang Doubles An

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It was Hong Kong’s Danny Tang who was the instigator in this particular hand, opening the action from early position to 18,000. China’s Ye Wang was sitting one seat over and he squeezed his cards and reached for the raising chips, making it 43,000 to go and the action folded around to the USA’s Andrew An in the small blind.

An was pretty short at this point and had few options available to him so chose the most aggressive one and moved all-in for 74,000 in total. The man who instigated all the action, Danny Tang, quickly threw his hand away like a naughty schoolboy who rings the doorbell and then runs away, and the action was back on Wang, who made the call.

Andrew An:
Ye Wang:

It was a fair fight and it was one that An won when the board ran out to see the US player granted a little breathing room and he climbed to 160,000. Wang still has chips left, but not all that many and dropped down to roughly 90,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew An	160,000	61,000
Ye Wang	90,000

Tags: Andrew An Ye Wang

12-01-2017 13:25 UTC+8

Lo Takes from Yanchao

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Level 10 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Something that we have discovered this week is that Zhao Yanchao is a fun man to watch at the poker tables. Always ready with a smile and not shy about throwing the chips around Yanchao is one of the field’s more active players and can show up with a wide range of hands, and is not averse to pulling off the odd bluff or two – just askJustin Chan.

It should come as no surprise then, that Yanchao was the instigator in this particular pot, making it 17,000 to go from early position with big blind Jeffrey Lo the only customer.

Lo checked the rainbow flop over to Yanchao who quickly flicked a 15,000 continuation bet off the top of his stack, which Lo called to keep the action heads-up to the turn.

Lo checked again and this time Yanchao checked it back and the came in on the river to pair the board. Given a chance to take the initiative, Lo seized it eagerly and fired out a bet of 25,000. Yanchao popped a can of Redbull and took a swig while he mulled over the decision but eventually elected to let it go.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhao Yanchao	600,000	-99,000
Jeffrey Lo	570,000	32,000

Tags: Zhao Yanchao Jeffrey Lo