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