Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
2018 Poker King Cup Macau
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 Poker King Cup Macau
Buy-in
16,500 HKD
Prize Pool
7,536,900 HKD
Entries
518
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Xu Puts Zhou on the Short Stack
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Quan Zhou's luck has taken a turn for the worse, and his once proud stack is much reduced, with Bin Xu taking a sizable bite out of his chips to leave the High Roller specialist with a bowl of rice worth around 10 big blinds.
We picked up the action on the turn with close to 30,000 already in the pot with the community cards spread 
just as Xu moved all-in for 16,025 in total. While Zhou took his time about it, he eventually made the call and the cards were revealed.
Bin Xu: 
Quan Zhou: 
Zhou was in bad shape against Xu's top set of queens, though still had a sniff of a chance with an inside straight draw, though this failed to come in on the 
river leaving Zhou with 5,025 while an extremely pleased looking Xu stacked up to 67,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
67,000 | 67,000 |
|
5,025 | -29,975 |
Chao Stacks Yang to Take Lead
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
When you're hot, you're hot and Zhang Chao is running at a temperature close to the surface of the sun at present, a fact that Yi Fan Yang discovered to his cost.
Things had not been going Yang's way, and the Chinese player was down to his last 16,450 (a little over 30 big blinds) and decided he wanted to get something going and moved all-in pre-flop from mid position.
Unfortunately for Yang, neighbor Chao woke up with a hand and her swift call convinced the rest of the table to get out of the way.
Zhang Chao: 
Yi Fan Yang: 
Yang's ace-high was trailing to Chao's fishhooks and stayed behind the whole way when the board ran out 
. Yang hit the rail and headed off to try his luck in the Day 1c Turbo flight, which begins in around five minutes, while Chao stacked up to 90,000 to take the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000 | 23,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Post Break Stacks
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
There are now 213 Day 1b entrants, with 180 players in their seats. It appears that Zhang Chao has pressed on following her good fortune against Junxiang Tan earlier and has run her stack up to 67,000, though the current top dog is Jiebin Liu with a stack of 71,500 with the tournament landscape shaping up as follows:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
71,500 | 16,500 |
|
|
67,000 | 7,000 |
|
50,000 | 29,500 |
|
43,000 | 10,000 |
|
40,000 | 10,000 |
|
38,000 | -2,000 |
|
|
35,000 | -17,000 |
|
31,000 | 2,200 |
|
29,000 | 14,000 |
|
28,000 | -2,000 |
|
26,200 | -3,800 |
|
26,000 | -5,500 |
|
16,000 | 1,500 |
|
|
15,000 | -21,000 |
|
|
10,575 | -10,425 |
|
10,300 | -8,400 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Break Time
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The field is still continuing to increase and has grown to 205 entrants, with 180 players still in action and more alternates still waiting in the wings. Players have just headed off on their second break of the day and will be back shortly.
In Folds Out Chan
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Wing Kei Chan is not having the best of starts, dropping below starting stack after the following hand. The flop of 
was already spread when we arrived, with close to 4,000 in the pot and the hand was heads-up between Hong In (small blind) and Chan (middle position).
In had checked the action over to Chan, who fired out a bet of 2,300 prompting In to respond with a check-raise to 5,000 in total. Chan mulled it over for a while before making the call, and the dealer turned the .
In sat motionless, expression unreadable behind his designer sunglasses, before checking the action over to Chan. The Hong Kong player thought it over and flicked in a blue 5k chip and In sat back in his chair, removed the sunglasses, sized up Chan's stack, put them back on and shoved for 20,775 in total.
Chan looked surprised and took several minutes before electing to give it up and the pot was shipped In's way, giving him a stack of 39,000 to play with, while Chan dropped to 14,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
39,000 | 39,000 |
|
|
14,500 | -18,500 |
Images From Day 1b of the PKC Main Event
Action Table Busts Zhang, Gruendemann and Peng Profit
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
It appears Mark Gruendemann has drawn the action table, with three ridiculous back-to-back hands playing out that saw Qi Peng go from super short-stack to short stack to average, Gruendemann narrowly avoid elimination and Yiming Cheng Zhang take two nasty beats to hit the rail.
According to Gruendemann, players have been hitting pocket pairs with an extremely high frequency which has resulted in all this carnage.
Zhang's downfall began when he got all the chips in on a 
flop with 
and found himself up against Jiebin Liu holding . Unfortunately for Zhang running 
and 
on the turn and river saw Liu hit quads to win the hand and climb to 55,000 while Zhang was left with close to 1,800.
Zhang passed on the hand after, but this was a three-way pre-flop all-in between an early position raiser, Gruendemann and Peng.
Opponent: 
Mark Gruendemann: 
Qi Peng: 
Peng was in it for the value, calling off his 2,250 stack after both Gruendemann and his opponent got all the chips in.
The board ran out 
to give Peng the flush and the main pot and he climbed to 6,950, with Gruendemann hitting the side pot to survive and climb to 15,000 while the player with ace king was left with 26,000.
The hand after saw this player raise again, with Peng and Zhang getting their short stacks in behind for another three-way confrontation.
Opponent:
Qi Peng:
Yiming Cheng Zhang: 
The flop came 
to give Zhang the lead, and while the 
river saw him retain his lead, another bad river in the form of the brought his tournament to an abrupt end and stack Peng up tp 21,000.
Hong Kong's Alan Lau sat down just as the tail end of this carnage played out, so is in for a treat should the action on this table continue to play out as it has.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
|
21,000 | 21,000 |
|
|
15,000 | -3,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50