Main Event Day 3 | 2018 Poker King Cup Macau

09-24-2018 15:50 UTC+8

Lee Sets Up Wang to Extend Lead

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Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Day 3 is fast becoming the Jeho Lee show, with the Korean player using his monster stack like a club to beat the rest of the field into submission. The man on the receiving end of Lee's latest beating is Yang Wang, with the pair clashing in a huge hand that saw Lee nearly double his holdings.

Both players were super deep at the start of the hand, Lee sitting on close to 1.3 million, while Wang had around 950,000 or so. It was Lee who was the initial aggressor, making it 27,000 to go from the cutoff and Wang eyed up Lee's stack and made the call from the small blind, with big blind Lin Zhe Chen also coming along for the ride.

It was three-way to a flop of , 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 turn.

A quick check from Wang brought another bet from Lee, this one for 100,000, which Wang called quickly. 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.

Wang sat back in his chair while he mulled it over. Should he call and lose he would drop down to 464,000 should he call and lose. That's exactly what happened as well, and after several minutes in the tank, Wang flicked in a yellow 1k chip to represent the call and Lee immediately rolled over for a flopped set of tens.

An unhappy Wang counted out the chips to pay off Lee, who now has a massive 2.2 million stack and a healthy lead, with his next closest rival Liang song, who has around 1.1 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeho Lee	2,200,000 1,100,000	1,100,000
Liang Song	1,100,000 480,000	480,000
Yang Wang	464,000 94,000	94,000

Tags: Jeho Lee Liang Song Lin Zhe Chen Yang Wang

09-24-2018 15:25 UTC+8

Wang Scalps Two

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Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Action has resumed following the break and the field has been thinned by two, courtesy of Ke Wang, who is responsible for both bustouts in back-to-back hands.

We arrived to catch the aftermath of the first, with Hong Kong's Kwok Chun 'Derx' Lai on his feet as stacks were being counted down. Lai's cards were already in the muck, with Wang having face up on the felt in front of him, having flopped a set of sixes in the big blind.

Lai was covered and headed for the exit as Wang stacked up to 480,000, which he added to the very next hand. It was one-time chip leader Shi Qiang Lin who instigated the action, opening to 34,000 from under-the-gun.

It folded around to Yue Feng Tang, who moved all-in for his last 122,000. Wang seemed keen, asking for a count before making the call, which was enough to convince Lin to get out of the way.

Yue Feng Tang:
Ke Wang:

Tang was at-risk and behind, and stayed that way when the cards ran out to give Wang the win. Tang is out and Wang is up to 675,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ke Wang	675,000 410,000	410,000
Kwok Chun Lai	Busted
Yue Feng Tang	Busted

Tags: Ke Wang Qiang Lin Shi Qiang Lin Yue Feng Tang

09-24-2018 15:14 UTC+8

Pics From Day 3 of the PKC Main Event

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Level: 21

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

09-24-2018 15:00 UTC+8

Break Time

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Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The 43 remaining Main Event competitors are on their first 10-minute break of the day.

09-24-2018 14:50 UTC+8

Cheung Chopped by Huang

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Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Sparrow Cheung shoved all in for 89,000 in total from the button and Xiao Jun Yu asked for a count in the small blind. The dealer confirmed the amount and Yu tanked. Yu looked at his cards without really protecting them. Shan Huang in the big blind told Yu to protect his cards as he could see them. Yu turned away from Huang a bit and then tanked a bit longer. Yu then folded. Huang confirmed the amount again and then called.

Cheung asked for the floor and explained the situation. According to Cheung, it wasn't fair to him that Huang called with the extra information he managed to gather by seeing Yu's cards. The floor listened to the explanation of all three players and then conferred with the tournament director. When the floor came back, he gave Yu a 1-round penalty for not protecting his cards.

A huge discussion ensued as none of the three involved players agreed. The tournament director was pulled into the discussion and the whole situation was explained to him again. The TD stood by his initial ruling and Yu wasn't happy. Voices were raised and both Cheung and Huang defended Yu as he didn't do it intentionally. After several minutes, Yu's penalty was reduced to 3 hands.

The TD also ruled that the call was valid and the hand had to go on.

Sparrow Cheung:
Shan Huang:

The board ran out to not provide any help to Cheung and he was sent to the rail after all the commotion.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shan Huang	265,000 -121,000	-121,000
Sparrow Cheung	Busted

Tags: Shan Huang Sparrow Cheung Xiao Jun Yu

09-24-2018 14:48 UTC+8

More Bustouts

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The casualties are mounting, with the following players no longer in contention:

Player	Chips	Progress
Zheng Shan Hao	Busted
Antonio Martins	Busted
Jiang Gou Zhou	Busted
Yue Wang	Busted

09-24-2018 14:46 UTC+8

Lee Seizes Lead

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Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Former frontrunner Shi Qiang Lin has dropped yet more chips, and there has been several players on the move as tables are broken and their inhabitants relocated.

One man who is on the move is Korea's Jeho Lee, who has also climbed to the top of the chip counts with a stack of 1.1 million chips - the only player to have reached and breached the seven-figure stack mark so far today.

Other big stacks belong to Sun Bin (851,000), Wei Ran Pu (810,000) and Cang Sheng Ni (730,000).

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeho Lee	1,100,000 400,000	400,000
Sun Bin	851,000 131,000	131,000
Wei Ran Pu	810,000 460,000	460,000
Cang Sheng Ni	730,000 10,000	10,000
Liang Song	620,000 -3,000	-3,000
Yu Li	610,000 299,000	299,000
Xiao Tian Yang	610,000 301,000	301,000
Richard Lim	410,000 -180,000	-180,000
Diego Sarmiento	390,000 -108,000	-108,000
Shi Qiang Lin	380,000 -280,000	-280,000

Lin Zhe Chen	370,000 -90,000	-90,000
Chi Fu Sze	340,000 155,000	155,000
Ke Fei Na	220,000 -122,000	-122,000

Mauro Francolini	200,000 17,000	17,000
Kwok Chun Lai	105,000 -96,000	-96,000

Tags: Cang Sheng Ni Jeho Lee Qiang Lin Shi Qiang Lin Sun Bin Wei Ran Pu

09-24-2018 14:23 UTC+8

Yu Rails Yin Lin

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There are now 48 players remaining with the departure of Hong Yin Lin. The Hong Kong player had been nursing a short stack since the start of the day so did not have all that many options available to him. Down to his last 61,000 and about to hit the blinds, Lin moved all-in from under-the-gun.

This shove got around halfway around the table before it got called, with Jian Dong Yu choosing to look Lin up from the cutoff with the rest of the table getting out of the way.

Hong Yin Lin:
Jian Dong Yu:

Lin looked disappointed to find himself in such bad shape with dominated holdings, but there was a ray of hope on the flop. However, this was quickly dashed with the appearance of the turn. The was not the jack Lin needed to survive and he headed to the payout desk, while Yu stacked up to 300,000.