Main Event Day 3 | 2018 Poker King Cup Macau

09-24-2018 17:25 UTC+8

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeho Lee	1,750,000 -450,000	-450,000
Wei Ran Pu	1,125,000 315,000	315,000
Xiao Tian Yang	1,020,000 -80,000	-80,000
Cang Sheng Ni	900,000 170,000	170,000
Shi Qiang Lin	840,000 460,000	460,000

Diego Sarmiento	764,000 264,000	264,000
Jia Run He	660,000 473,000	473,000
Liang Song	525,000 -125,000	-125,000
Ke Wang	505,000 -170,000	-170,000
Steven Siu	380,000 -20,000	-20,000
Shan Huang	380,000 115,000	115,000
Mauro Francolini	365,000 -60,000	-60,000
Chi Chung Ho	325,000 -50,000	-50,000
Lin Zhe Chen	190,000 -180,000	-180,000
Richard Lim	152,000 -258,000	-258,000
Jie Sun	89,000 -11,000	-11,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Xiao Jun Yu	Busted

Wang Check-Raises Song

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Ke Wang is keeping Liang Song in check and we caught the two involved in a hand together. With close to 60,000 in the pot on a flop of , Wang had checked, and Song had bet 30,000.

Wang check-raised all-in for 359,000 and Song shook his head and flashed his opponent a rueful grin before hitting the think tank. Eventually, Song elected to get it go, dropping to 590,000 while Wang climbed to 570,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liang Song	590,000 65,000	65,000
Ke Wang	570,000 65,000	65,000

Tags: Liang Song Ke Wang

09-24-2018 17:44 UTC+8

Fang Rails Ho; Redraw Imminent

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

The departure of Hong Kong's Chi Chung Ho has seen the clock paused as the last 27 players are given a table redraw.

Ho went out swinging, moving the last of his chips in pre-flop with from middle position, and was looked up by tablemate Chi Hi Fang with the dominating .

The runout brought Ho's Main Event to an end and stacked Fang up to 800,000.

Redraw to follow shortly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chi Hi Fang	800,000 705,000	705,000
Chi Chung Ho	Busted

Tags: Chi Chung Ho Chi Hi Fang

09-24-2018 18:00 UTC+8

Seat Redraw

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Ke Wang	China	540000
1	2	Jie Sun	China	340000
1	3	Liang Tong	China	382000
1	4	Jian Han	China	400000
1	5	Jeho Lee	Korea	1750000
1	6	Yang Wang	China	660000
1	7	Wen Yao Bao	China	253000
1	8	Qi Cheng Du	China	1000000
1	9	Steven Siu	Hong Kong	360000

2	1	Chi Hi Fang	China	750000
2	2	Li Yu	China	402000
2	3	Lai Heng Tse	Hong Kong	300000
2	4	Xiao Yin He	China	650000
2	5	Xiao Tian Yang	China	1100000
2	6	Mauro Francolini	Italy	400000
2	7	Diego Sarmiento	Spain	670000
2	8	Cang Sheng Ni	China	600000
2	9	Jian Dong Yu	China	775000

3	1	Chi Fu Sze	Hong Kong	370000
3	2	Li Teng	China	210000
3	3	Liang Song	China	550000
3	4	Shi Qiang Lin	China	800000
3	5	Wei Ran Pu	China	1200000
3	6	Jun Fang	China	590000
3	7	Richard Lim	Singapore	300000
3	8	Shan Huang	China	350000
3	9	Lin Zhe Chen	China	230000

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeho Lee	1,750,000
Wei Ran Pu	1,200,000 75,000	75,000
Xiao Tian Yang	1,100,000 80,000	80,000
Qi Cheng Du	1,000,000 518,000	518,000
Shi Qiang Lin	800,000 -40,000	-40,000

Jian Dong Yu	775,000 475,000	475,000
Chi Hi Fang	750,000 -50,000	-50,000
Diego Sarmiento	670,000 -94,000	-94,000
Yang Wang	660,000 435,000	435,000
Xiao Yin He	650,000 440,000	440,000
Cang Sheng Ni	600,000 -300,000	-300,000
Jun Fang	590,000 341,000	341,000
Liang Song	550,000 -40,000	-40,000
Ke Wang	540,000 -30,000	-30,000
Li Yu	402,000 402,000	402,000
Mauro Francolini	400,000 35,000	35,000
Jian Han	400,000 -240,000	-240,000
Liang Tong	382,000 81,000	81,000
Chi Fu Sze	370,000 30,000	30,000
Steven Siu	360,000 -20,000	-20,000
Shan Huang	350,000 -30,000	-30,000
Jie Sun	340,000 251,000	251,000
Lai Heng Tse	300,000 154,000	154,000
Richard Lim	300,000 148,000	148,000
Wen Yao Bao	253,000 152,000	152,000

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09-24-2018 18:18 UTC+8

Wang and Huang Depart, Double for Lim

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There have been two quick eliminations, with Shan Huang one of the players departing in a flurry of cards and chips to bring the field down to 25.

A man whose stack is moving in the right direction is Singapore's Richard Lim, who just hit a huge hand at the right time to double through Wei Ran Pu.

It was Pu who was the initial raiser, making it 40,000 to go from the hijack, with Jun Fang re-raising to 133,000 from the cutoff, before Lim jammed in the rest of his chips from the button for a shove of 390,000 exactly.

Pu took his time thinking things over, but chose to make the call whilst Fang pitched his cards into the muck.

Wei Ran Pu:
Richard Lim:

Lim was in great shape, binking a set on the turn and improving to quads on the river when the runout came down to gasps from the watching rail. That timely catch shoots Lim up to 933,000, while Pu took a hit to drop to 610,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Lim	933,000 633,000	633,000
Jun Fang	760,000 170,000	170,000
Wei Ran Pu	610,000 -590,000	-590,000
Shan Huang	Busted

Tags: Richard Lim Shan Huang Wei Ran Pu

Level: 24

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 4,000

09-24-2018 18:28 UTC+8

Chen Doubles Through Lin, Shows Tong the Door

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Level 24 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

It's easy to tell when Lin Zhe Chen is playing a big pot, as there is lots of excited squeaking. Volume reached supersonic levels after two big hands that Chen played, winning both to double through Shi Qiang Lin before sending Liang Tong to the rail.

In the first hand Chen and Lin got all the chips in pre-flop, the former holding against the of Lin with the board running out to give Chen the pot and stack her up to close to 300,000, while Lin dropped to around 500,000.

Less than an orbit later, Chen and Tong clashed, with all the chips going in pre-flop. While Tong held a pair with , Chen had him outpipped with , which held on the runout to send Tong to the rail and shoot Chen up to 650,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lin Zhe Chen	650,000 420,000	420,000
Shi Qiang Lin	500,000 -300,000	-300,000

Li Yu	Busted

Tags: Lin Zhe Chen Qiang Lin Shi Qiang Lin Liang Tong

09-24-2018 18:45 UTC+8

Du Busts Siu, Double for Tse

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The action is ratcheting up with Hong Kong's Steven Siu hitting the rail and fellow countryman Lai Heng Tse winning a big flip against Italy's Mauro Francolini to switch up the pair's position in the pecking order.

We'll cover Siu's exit first, with the Hong Kong player moving all-in from the small blind pre-flop over the top of a Du button raise. Du made a speedy call and the cards were turned over.

Steven Siu:
Qi Cheng Du:

Siu was racing against Du's pocket jacks, but the [5js8h] flop was not a kind one, and it was all over for him when the hit the turn to give Du quads. Siu tapped the table and headed for the payout desk, while Du stacked up to 1.4 million.

The Tse versus Francolini hand played out immediately afterward, with Tse moving all-in from late position and the Italian looking him up from the big blind.

Lai Heng Tse:
Mauro Francolini:

Tse was racing against Francolini's pocket pair, with the flop falling . The turn gave the Hong Kong player some additional flush outs to go with his overcards and gutshot, and Tse hit the latter on the river, much to Francolini's displeasure. The Italian dropped to 290,000, while Tse climbed to 450,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Qi Cheng Du	1,400,000 400,000	400,000
Lai Heng Tse	450,000 150,000	150,000
Mauro Francolini	290,000 -110,000	-110,000
Steven Siu	Busted

Tags: Lai Heng Tse Mauro Francolini Qi Cheng Du Steven Siu

09-24-2018 18:57 UTC+8

Francolini Out, Sze Doubles Through Fang

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Mauro Francolini was unable to recover from losing that flip against Hong Kong's Lai Heng Tse and has hit the rail.

A player whose stack is moving in the right direction is Hong Kong's Chi Fu Sze, who has just give Jun Fang a nasty beat to win a sizable pot. According to Sze, all the chips went in on the turn with the board reading .

Fang held top, top with , but Sze was drawing extremely live with , hitting his straight on the river to stack up to 900,000, while Fang dropped to 390,000 after the hand.