2019 Poker King Cup Taiwan

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2019 Poker King Cup Taiwan
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
87
Prize
1,639,000 TWD
Event Info
Buy-in
27,500 TWD
Total Entries
306
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
60,000
Players Left 1 / 306
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Henry Hou Eliminated in 13th Place for TWD 98,000 ($3,125)

Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Henry Hou
Henry Hou

Henry Hou's tournament has come to an end, with Jae Wook Shin the man to show him the door, though David Erquiaga tried to get him first.

In the first hand, it was Shin the man driving the action with a raise to 40,000 on the button with Hou (small blind) and Erquiaga (big blind) both making the call to take action three-way to a flop of {3-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{10-Spades}.

Erquiaga led for 40,000 after Hou checked, and Shin responded with a re-raise to 120,000. After Hou got out of the way, Erquiaga flashed the table ace-ten.

"I was hoping to bust you," Erquiaga said to Hou pitching his cards into the muck and leaving Shin to scoop the pot.

Hou was out the next hand. It was Taiwan's Kuang Hung Lee the man to kick things off with a preflop open to 45,000 from the hijack, with Shin making the call from the cutoff and Hou calling all-in for his tournament life from the button. Lee Kuan Lee elected to come along as well to take the action four-way to a flop of {9-Diamonds}{3-Spades}{j-Spades}.

Wee checked, as did Lee, and Shin decided to isolate with a bet of 125,000, which did the trick with the other two live players in the hand both folding, with Hou and Shin revealing their cards.

Jae Wook Shin: {3-Clubs}{3-Hearts}
Henry Hou: {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds}

While Hou had started off with the best hand preflop, he was drawing extremely thin postflop against Shin's flopped set. The {q-Hearts} turn and {a-Clubs} river sealed Hou's fate, and he departed in 13th place for a TWD 98,000 ($3,125), while Shin stacked up to 1.65 million

Tags: David ErquiagaHenry HouJae Wook ShinLee Kuan Wee

Ping Hsien Chan Eliminated in 14th Place TWD 98,000 ($3,125)

Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Ping Hsien Chan
Ping Hsien Chan

We missed his exit hand, but Ping Hsien Chan is no longer in the running and has departed in 14th place for a TWD 98,000 ($3,125) payday for his deep run in the Poker King Cup Taiwan Main Event.

Tags: Ping Hsien Chan

Sheng-Chien Cheng Eliminated in 16th Place, Howard Sun Eliminated in 15th Place, Both for TWD 98,000 ($3,125)

Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante
Sheng-Chien Cheng
Sheng-Chien Cheng

There have been two quick back-to-back eliminations, with Sheng-Chien Cheng busting to Ling He, and then Howard Sun falling at the hands of the UK's Alex Lindop immediately afterward.

We did not catch the action in the Cheng bust out but arrived in time to see Lindop and Sun battle it out in the blinds. Lindop limped the small blind and Sun shoved from the big, with the Brit calling to put Sun at risk.

Alex Lindop: {q-Spades}{5-Spades}
Howard Sun: {q-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}

While Sun had the better queen, Lindop picked up a flush draw on the {2-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{j-Spades} flop, and got there on the {4-Spades} turn, leaving Sun drawing dead. The {5-Hearts} river was merely a formality and the field is now down to 14 players.

Howard Sun
Howard Sun

Tags: Alex LindopHoward SunLing HeSheng-Chien Cheng

Level: 23

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

Chi Hang Eliminated in 17th Place for TWD 83,900 ($2,675)

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Chi Hang
Chi Hang

The two table redraw did not work out for Chi Hang, who busted immediately to David Erquiaga. Hang moved all-in preflop for his last 170,000 with {q-Hearts}{5-Hearts} from the button, with Erguiaga making the call from the blinds with {a-Clubs}{7-Spades}.

The board ran out {4-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{j-Diamonds} and Hang hit the rail, while Erquiaga stacked up to 990,000.

Tags: Chi HangDavid Erquiaga

Two Table Redraw

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Table 21NameChip Stack
Seat 1Chi Hang170,000
Seat 2Chou Chien Fa1,611,000
Seat 3Henry Hou65,000
Seat 4David Erquiaga820,000
Seat 5Lee Kuan Wee650,000
Seat 6Terry Fan390,000
Seat 7Ping Hsien Chan250,000
Seat 8Kuang Hung Lee550,000
Seat 9Jae Wook Shin1,100,000
   
Seat 1Ling He750,000
Seat 2Yu You Ci Tsai400,000
Seat 3Ping Cheong Fung300,000
Seat 4Sheng-Chien Cheng450,000
Seat 5Alex Lindop420,000
Seat 6Howard Sun310,000
Seat 7Dicky Tsang220,000
Seat 8Empty-
Seat 9Wai King Cheung890,000

Chou Eliminated by Shin in 19th place for TWD 73,500 ($2,345); Huang Eliminated in 18th for TWD 83,900 ($2,675)

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Cliff Chou
Cliff Chou

Play has been paused for a redraw following two quick eliminations. The first saw the short-stacked Cliff Chou move all-in from the button with {7-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} and get looked up by Jae Wook Shin with {k-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}.

The {q-Hearts}{a-Hearts}{q-Spades} flop was not a good one for Chou's pocket sevens, and the {2-Clubs} turn and {5-Clubs} river would be the last board he would see in the Main Event, departing in 19th place for TWD 73,500 while Shin stacked up to just over 1 million in chips.

Chou would not get lonely on the rail and was joined by Michael Huang almost immediately afterward following a clash of two premium hands against Chou Chien Fa.

All the chips went in preflop, with Fa opening the action with a raise, Huang three-betting, Fa four-betting and Huang five-bet shoving and getting called instantly.

Michael Huang: {a-Spades}{k-Spades}
Chou Chien Fa: {a-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}

The board ran out {3-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{j-Spades} and the field is now down to 17 players, who are being reshuffled over two tables.

Michael Huang
Michael Huang

Tags: Chou Chien FaCliff ChouJae Wook ShinMichael Huang

Huang Pushes Off Fa

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Michael Huang has just won a pot from a re-energized Chou Chien Fa, who looks to have edged back into the chip lead even after folding the pot to Huang.

It was Huang who started things off with a mid-position limp, with Ping Cheong Fung completing from the small blind before Fa re-raised to 68,000 from the big blind. Huang took his time about it, but eventually declared himself all-in, and after Fung folded, Fa hit the think tank.

Eventually Fa elected to fold, but still has a healthy 880,000 stack, while Huang climbed to 550,000.

Tags: Chou Chien FaMichael HuangPing Cheong Fung

Chan Falls to Lindop

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Wing Kei Chan
Wing Kei Chan

Wing Kei Chan was unable to recover after losing that earlier pot against Sheng-Chien Cheng and has become the most recent elimination.

Chan moved the last of his chips in from the cutoff, with the UK's Alex Lindop making the call from the button and the two revealed their hole cards.

Wing Kei Chan: {a-Clubs}{7-Hearts}
Alex Lindop: {a-Spades}{10-Hearts}

Both players missed the {q-Hearts}{4-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{8-Clubs} runout, meaning Lindop's kicker played and Chan hit the rail in 20th place for a TWD 73,500 payday.

Tags: Alex LindopWing Kei Chan