Day 3 of the PKC Main Event; The Road to the Final Table
Welcome back to the PokerNews live coverage of the penultimate day of the Poker King Cup Main Event. The 518-strong field has been whittled down to a more manageable 62, and these survivors will be returning to the poker tables of the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel all set on reaching the official 8-handed Final Table, which the field will be playing down until.
The money bubble was reached and breached at the close of Day 2, and all remaining players are guaranteed a payday of at least HKD 27,900 (~$3,500). However, it is the HKD 1,464,000 (~$187,000) top prize that all will have their eye on.
PKC Main Event Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize (HKD) | Prize (US) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,464,000 | 187,239 |
| 2 | 1,026,500 | 131,284 |
| 3 | 660,200 | 84,436 |
| 4 | 488,400 | 62,464 |
| 5 | 366,300 | 46,848 |
| 6 | 293,900 | 37,588 |
| 7 | 244,900 | 31,321 |
| 8 | 195,200 | 24,965 |
The man leading the charge is Shi Qiang Lin, who bagged up an impressive 904,000 to top the Day 2 chip counts. Lin has close to $45,000 in live tournament winnings on his resume, his previous best and career-high a runner-up finish in an HKD 15,000 PLO tournament right here in Macau.
China’s Sun Bin is returning second in the counts with a stack of 720,000. Bin previously ran deep in the Oriental Poker Championship Main Event, held right here in the Venetian Macau back in May, and will be looking to better his 18th place finish.
Jeho Lee (666,000) is the third returning largest stack, with the Korean player also familiar with the taste of victory at the poker tables of the Venetian Macau, having taken down the 2017 Suncity Cup here back in November 2017 for a HKD 1.6M payday.
Other notables still in the running include Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung (301,000) and Kwok Chun ‘Derx’ Lai (201,000), Portugal’s Antonio Martins (207,000), and China’s Shan Huang (386,000).
Day 3 kicks off at 1pm local time (GMT+7) and blinds will be re-commencing at 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 running ante, with the average stack in the region of 250,000 so there is still plenty of play left.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to bring you all the action as it happens so let's see who has what it takes to successfully traverse the road to the final table.
to not provide any help to Cheung and he was sent to the rail after all the commotion.
, which was checked over to Lee, who continuation bet 40,000. Wang thought long and hard about it, cutting out chips for a raise before deciding against it and just sliding in the call. Chen folded to take the action heads-up to the 
river brought a third check from Wang and Lee reached for chips, lots of chips, pushing out a big two-handed bet of 375,000.
. According to the table, all the chips went in on the turn, which was a bad one for Chen's 
as Yu was holding 
, with Pu deciding to look him up from the big blind with the speculative 
.
and Lin snapping him off with 
. It looked as though Lin was in great shape for a double, until the 
river. Lin is out and Du stacked up to 1.65 million.
runout to hit the rail in 13th place, while Fang improved his standing on the chip ladder considerably, climbing to 2 million.
flop was not a kind one, giving Fang the lead. The 
turn and 
and was looked up from the big blind by Wei Ran Pu with 
.