2017 PokerStars Championship Macau

HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller II
Day: 1
Event Info
2017 PokerStars Championship Macau
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
33
Prize
3,130,000 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
206,000 HKD
Prize Pool
9,212,000 HKD
Entries
47
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 47

Wang Cripples Smith; Smith Stages Comeback

Level 14 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Dan Smith
Dan Smith

Action folded around to the dressing gown clad Dan Smith in the small blind and he moved all-in for 387,000. Big blind Zuo Wang looked down at his cards and called instantly.

Dan Smith: {a-Clubs}{5-Spades}
Zuo Wang: {a-Spades}{10-Spades}

Smith was in bad shape and did not improve when the board ran out {q-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} and the only ray of sunshine was the fact that Wang did not have him covered. Unfortunately for Smith, he did not get much change and was left with a paltry 4,000 – a little less than a single ante.

All in automatically the next hand Smith received some protection when Timothy Adams min-raised and folded out the blinds.

Adams rolled over {a-Clubs}{2-Spades}, dominating Smith’s {4-Clubs}{2-Clubs} until the board ran out {8-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{q-Spades}{k-Clubs}{a-Spades} to give the US player the flush and he climbed back up to 15,000.

Smith won the next hand as well after moving all-in with {9-Spades}{10-Spades} and both Imad Derwiche and Oliver Weis called from the blinds and checked the {7-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{3-Spades}{8-Hearts} board all the way down.

“Nice game boys… Psyche!” joked Smith as he slapped the winning hand face up on to the felt to climb back up to 51,000. What a recovery!

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Zuo Wang cn
Zuo Wang
802,000
496,000
496,000
Profile photo of Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
169,000
211,000
211,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Run It Once

Tags: Dan SmithZuo Wang