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Seat 4: Andrew Kai Wing Chung (Hong Kong) – 200,000 Seat 2: Tetsuya Tsuchikawa (Japan) – 129,000 Seat 6: Konstantin Pogodin (Thailand) – 266,000 Seat 5: Per Ulrik Andersen (Denmark) – 111,000 Seat 4: Kevin Petersen (Thailand) – 153,000 Seat 2: Dai Wei Yein (Hong Kong) – 111,000 Seat 1: Hossein Shabannezhad (Iran) – 193,000 This game is a battle of individual skill, and when each and every player takes a seat tomorrow it will be a declaration of war as only one player can rise above them all to claim the title of Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Main Event Champion! However sharing nationality won’t mean much to the final twenty-six players when they step back into the PokerStars Macau Poker Room. Of the 478 players that took to the felt several days ago, 39 countries have been represented with the largest group of players coming from Japan (92 players), Hong Kong (81), Chinese Taipei (44) and China (42). Of these players, Poland, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Denmark, Iran and the United States all are represented to support the notion that poker is truly a worldwide game. With China dominating the leaderboard for the majority of the day, it is no surprise to see the top three spots held by previous chip leaders as twenty-six players survive for a Day 3 berth. Yang Zhang (China) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – 605,000ĭavid Kai-kwong Man (Hong Kong) – 406,000ĭaniel Tarnopol (Thailand) (PokerStars Qualifier) – 381,000 Xiaobo Zhou (China) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – 844,000 With the bubble burst, play kept its fast pace as the chip lead was rotated between Jin, tablemate Chen Lu and Yang Zhang before Xiaobo Zhou soared from nowhere to snag the lead by nearly 240,000 in chips.

Unfortunately for the ultra-aggressive Chinese player, he would make it one bet too many when he five-bet all in holding K ♥ J ♥ and was snapped off by the A ♠ A ♥ of Wenlong Jin.Īfter several doubles on the bubble, Japanese player Yuta Kondo would be the one shedding the most tears as his A ♠ K ♦ was unable to remain the best hand when his opponent made a flush holding 8 ♥ 7 ♥. With Wu out the door, a controversy solved and the bubble nearing, it would be Day 1a chip leader Chao Li on the rise as he soared up the leaderboard to be in a dominating position.

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Thirty went in the first half hour and another thirty by the first break as the highest profile player remaining - Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu - river-bluffed his entire stack at the w- rong time when Malaysia’s Aaron Rong looked him up with 10 ♠ 6 ♠ on a 4 ♠ Q ♦ 7 ♠ Q ♠ 6 ♥ board to best Wu’s 2 ♥ 2 ♦. Like the rush a Baccarat table gets on the casino floor of the Grand Lisboa when banker gets on a run, players found all kinds of ways to make a hasty exit - or return to the Baccarat tables - in the early few orbits of play. The penultimate day of the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Main Event was a day where players would either go home crying or rest easy that they had a chance to capture a whopping HK$1,039,700 first prize.ĭay 2 of any poker tournament is normally the money day, and today was no exception as the returning 160 players would have all their eyes on at least making the money-earning top fifty-eight.

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