Chan bullies his way into Day 3 chip lead
What an afternoon!
It started with 221 players and now after six 60-minute levels, approximately 45 players have bagged up some chips and made their way out of PokerStars LIVE Macau to rest up for Day 3.
All the rest players are guaranteed HK$27,000 and they'll be hoping to earn some more come tomorrow. That's very true of Wai Leong Chan. He finished Day 2 with 766,000 in chips that's ok for the lead.
Chan, and the entire others, may be back on the felt from 4:00pm tomorrow, so be sure you join the PokerStarsBlog then for live updates as we play right down to the overall table.
In the meantime, it is possible for you to to search out a wrap-up of Day 2, all of the end-of-day counts and Day 3 seating draw, in conjunction with updated payout information appearing at the blog once possible.
10:15pm: Four more hands
The approximately 45 remaining players has been told there'll be four more hands at each table before calling it an evening. It's looking like Wai Leong Chan would be the chip leader with 766,000.
10:05pm: Chan bullies his table
Wai Leong Chan was bullying his table of late. We watched him lose 200,000 in chips when he got aggressive preflop holding A♥Q♥ and bumped into A♠A♣, after which only a few hands later he had won all that back without going to showdown. Chan then continue his aggression, bullying his table and moving his stack up above 750,000 - good enough for the chip lead!
9:55pm: Kim soars into the lead
We have ourselves a brand new chip leader and his name is Edward Kim. It was a tremendous hand that saw Kim double up within the biggest pot of the tournament so far.
The action started with a raise to 17,000 from an early position player before Zhenjian Lin moved all in for his last 25,000. Action was then with Frenchman Jean Pierre Didier who decided his best move was to head all in for his entire 470,000-chip stack. It looked like a good suggestion on the time, but Edward Kim was sitting next to behave with K♥K♣ and had a choice to make as he also has a large stack. Did Didier really have aces? Kim decided to compliment it because the remainder of the table folded around.
Didier only had one ace along with his A♦K♦ as Lin would wish help together with his 8♣8♥.The board bricked out 4♠3♦J♣4♥5♥ to look Kim rake in a pot worth over 700,000 to climb into the chip lead. Didier was severely dented to around 150,000 while Lin headed for the cashier.
9:45pm: Didier loses some, still has massive stack
Jean Pierre Didier just lost a 150,000 pot.
And he still has over 500,000 in chips.
We arrived on the action at the river of a 9♥K♣A♠J♣8♣ board. There has been already over 70,000 within the pot at this point and Didier, from the small blind position, led for 40,000. Didier's lone opponent Nang Quang Nguyen, within the cut off, tank called.Didier simply tapped the table and mucked his cards, sending the pot to Nguyen.
9:30pm: Level 17 begins, Blinds 4,000/8,000 (1,000)
9:25pm: Double elimination sees Chandra crushing
India's Kunaal Chandra is now probably the most chip leaders with a monster stack of 550,000. Chandra recently sent two players to the rail. It was a preflop all in situation with Chandra having either one of his opponents easily covered. Chondra held A♠T♠ which was strong enough to carry up against K♣T♣ and K♦J♦.
9:20pm: Start-of-day leader sends one home
En Zhang started things off with a raise to 13,000 before Lei Chen re-raised all in for around 30,000. Action passed to our overnight chip leader Mikal Blomlie who declared himself all in for around 160,000. The blind folded before Zhang painfully released his hand to go away Blomlie to isolate with A♥K♦ against the quick stack's T♦T♠.
The board ran out Q♦4♣3♠A♣7♥ to pair the ace to offer Blomlie the pot and eliminate Chen from the Red Dragon.
9:10pm: Yang moving on up
Jixue Yin opened with a raise to 14,000 before Chao Tan popped it as much as 40,000 at the button. Renjun Yang was next to behave within the small blind and he cold four-bet to 100,000 to position the pressure back on Yin.
He squirmed for several minutes before tossing his cards high into the air and into the muck. The action was then on Tan who postured for a very long time before making the call.There was over 200,000 already within the middle, and both players only had about 80,000 behind because the flop landed 8♦7♣A♣. Yang deliberately checked, Tan announced all in and Yang snap-called!
Tan showed 9♥9♦ but Yang had laid the trap perfectly with A♥A♠ for high set.The turn was the 8♥ and the river the 3♠ to go away Tan to move to the cashier as Yang is now as much as nearly 400,000 in chips.
9:00pm: How about them quads
Martin Gait won't forget the time he got quads to eliminate two players deep within the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event.
Gait was all in preflop holding Q♣Q♦, Mingwei Li was all in and in peril holding 8♠8♦ and Gregory Jessner was in peril with A♦K♠.
The dealer flipped over a Q♥Q♠T♠ flop and that is what quads look like.
The turn and river, obviously, didn't help Lu and Jessner and they were eliminated.
Gait is now moving up the chip leader board with around 300,000 in chips.
8:45pm: MPC Championship champ out
MPC Championship victor Raiden Kan is without doubt one of the most notable recent eliminations. He finished in 85th place, collecting HK$19,000. Now you can find updated payouts as much as 83rd place at the MPC21 Red Dragon prize pool information page.
8:35pm: Big stack hunting
We are well and actually into the cash and nearing the top of Day 2, so we thought now was a great time to inform you about the entire current chip leaders. As you'll see, Wai Leong Chan has had essentially the most lucrative time on the felt for the reason that bubble burst as he's well and actually prior to the sector.
Wai Leong Chan - 590,000Wing Cheong Chang - 380,000Cheng Wang - 370,000Jean Pierre Didier - 360000Wei Yang - 340,000Ping Jie Wu - 310,000
8:25pm: Back for 2 more levels
Approximately 90 players has been returned from their break and are able to play just two more 60-minute levels. All the remaining players have locked up HK$19,000.
Blinds are actually 3,000/6,000 with a 500 ante.
8:15pm: Second and final break
All the rest players has been sent on a 10-minute break!
When they return there'll be two more 60-minute levels before calling it an evening.
8:05pm: Quick in-the-money eliminations following the bubble
More than 20 players has been eliminated within the first 10 minutes after the bursting of the bubble. A few of those sent home with some cash include Lin Feng Ji (107th), Mingqin Liu (106th), Hsien Hsun Lee (105th), Andrew Scott (99th) and Rajeev Kanjani (91st).
You could be capable of finding updated payout information because it becomes available at the MPC21 Red Dragon prize pool page.
7:50pm: Probably the most exciting bubble PokerStars LIVE Macau has ever seen
What a bubble hand!
After waiting 40 minutes for something to happen, we've just witnessed quite a crazy ten minutes of poker.
Of course, play was still hand-for-hand with 110 players remaining and that is the reason when there have been four all ins on four different tables. It was looking likely that we might lose no less than a kind of players and perhaps even two, meaning we'd be within the money.
But no, we might lose exactly three players as Chonxian Yang, Xin Zhang and Daren Seah have all finished equal 108th, sharing the HK$16,000 payout.
As play was hand-for-hand, the tournament staff here at PokerStars LIVE Macau announced and ran out all of the four hands separately.
Here is how all four went down.
The first hand to play out was over on Table 4 where Chonxian Yang had blinded all the way down to his last 9,000 before committing it preflop against Jheng-wei Lin.
It can be Yang's 9♦9♠ up against Lin's K♠Q♠ however the board of 6♥K♦J♥4♠T♦ would pair the king to look Yang eliminated, but he was not without hope of still taking home some money as there have been still three more all-ins to play out!
Arguably probably the most exciting of the bubble bust-outs was the second one all in to play out, which was Xin Zhang's elimination.
His short stack was all in preflop with K♦4♦ bobbing up against Juicy Li's Q♥Q♣. The flop was 7♦A♠5♦, which saw the rail gasp on the sight of the diamonds. The turn was an A♣, not the diamond Zhang needed, but there has been still one card to come back.
River: A♦
"Yesssss," Zhang yelled with a fist pump.
Then he realised what everyone else already knew - the ace at the river gave Li an entire house to trump Zhang's flush.
The third all in would finally end up being the one double-up of the epic hand-for-hand play, as Jose Drillon was all in preflop holding Q♣8♥ against Hui Ma's 4♥4♦. The board ran out 6♣5♣2♣3♦Q♠ and with that river, Drillon was safe from elimination!
Finally we saw Daren Seah all in with Q♦Q♥ against Katsuya Muranaka's J♦J♣. Seah was fit to double up however the board arrived 3♥K♦8♥J♥T♣ to peer Muranaka spike a suite to the roar of the crowd.
Seah wouldn't go home empty-handed because the three bubble eliminations will each share the HK$16,000 min-cash, meaning they pick up HK$5,333 each.
7:25pm: Level 15 begins, Blinds 2,000/4,000 (500)
7:00pm: Hand-for-hand begins
We at the moment are all the way down to 110 players and that implies hand-for-hand play has begun!
The next two players eliminated will take home nothing, while 108 might be guaranteed HK$16,000.
6:55pm: Aggression and more stalling because the bubble nears
The bubble is often a fascinating time because there are lots of differing approaches to how one can play it.
There are some players like Jixue Yin who're taking the chance to get aggressive and pick up some chips. In a up to date hand we saw Yin open with a raise to 8,000 which picked up two callers before Chun Tung Wai squeezed it to 45,000 from the massive blind. A fearless Yin responded by moving all in for 139,000 and after a few long deliberations by his opponents, they eventually folded as Yin flashed a cheeky 7♦ and raked within the pot. He's as much as 205,000.
The other approach is to play very conservatively, and here in Macau, that suggests deliberate time wasting (stalling) within the hope that others will bust around you. It's an efficient strategy before hand-for-hand play starts.
Marin Yum is one that is doing exactly that. With a stack of lower than 30,000, there are several within the field shorter than Yum so she is obviously stalling over every decision. It has got to the purpose that Danny McDonagh called the clock on her twice, and when that did not help, the following hand he checked her hole cards and issued a warning that deliberate stalling with junk hands would lead to a 30-second clock for each decision. Hopefully she gets the message.
6:45pm: Stall tactics
We at the moment are right down to 112 players, this means that the cash is simply four players away. Anyone who has played poker in Macau knows that that is the purpose within the tournament that a whole lot of players excessively stall. APPT President Danny McDonagh has already needed to tell a couple of players that they're going to receive a penalty in the event that they stick with it.
6:35pm: Impeccable timing from Ozawa
Kotaro Ozawa has had a captivating short time. As we observed his table, it appeared that he'd decided to claim some authority over his opponents as we approach the money bubble. Ozawa moved all in three hands in a row, despite having a good stack of around 60,000, or twenty big blinds. Not a major stack sure, but not at all desperate.
So once we watched Ozawa move all in once again, for the fourth hand in a row, we were convinced he had gone somewhat too aggro. That was probably the similar thoughts that went during the head of Tsung Han Lin who looked down at T♦T♠ and, with a stack of with regards to 60,000, made the call.
The table folded around, and would you think it, Ozawa tabled a monstrous K♣K♦!
What incredible timing!
The board ran out 4♣J♦J♣A♦A♠ to peer Lin sent crashing to the rail. Big ball poker a large pair on the right time for Ozawa now equals a large stack as he's as much as 140,000 and will probably now afford to chill a little!
6:25pm: Not more Team PokerStars Pros on Day 2
Two Team PokerStars Pros began Day 2 of the Red Dragon with chips.
Both has been eliminated.
Wu began the day with just below 35,000 and wasn't capable of run up a stack as we saw him wandering across the rail quite a while ago.
Lin, at the other hand, was in a position to run up a stack, however the chips wouldn't last for long. As previously mentioned Lin lost most of her chips when she got unlucky with Ace-King in a large preflop all in against someone who got tricky with Jack-Eight offsuit.
Lin was never in a position to get over there, recently losing the remainder of them when she open-shoved 22,000 and received a choice from Jun Zhou from the small blind. Zhou held A♥Q♦, while Lin had J♥9♦. The board ran out 3♠5♦7♠K♣4♦ and it was in every single place for Lin only a few tables off the money bubble.
6:15pm: Back for level 14
The players are back from their break here on Day 2 of the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event.
It's looking like we can be at the bubble someday before the following break.
The blinds are actually 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante.
6:05pm: Break primary on Day 2
Approximately 130 players has been sent on their first break of the day.
Back to it in 10 minutes.
When we return we can keep edging in the direction of the money bubble.
6:00pm: Former champ bursts into the lead
We have just watched Wing Cheong Chong scoop up a large pot and move his stack to 285,000 - easily enough to peer him move into the chip lead. As previously mentioned, Chong won this very event back in 2010. Can he do it again?
5:50pm: Wai increases his chip lead, while Li falls
By our count there are nine female players still alive within the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Main Event. A kind of is Fanny Li, but she's just taken an unpleasant hit to her chip stack.
We didn't pick up the action but we saw the aftermath. The board read K♣2♦J♥4♣Q♥ and Li had K♦K♥ in front of her - top set would typically be an even thing, but Li was paying off chips as Chun Tung Wai showed T♦9♠ for a rivered gutshot straight.
Li was left shaking her head as she slips to 70,000 as Wai increases his stack to 250,000 for the chip lead within the tournament.
5:40pm: Wang down, Zhong building and right down to 140
The latest player to hit the rail was Yuexin Wang. He got all his chips in preflop holding T♣8♥ was arising against Wei Zhong with pocket queens. The board ran out bricks and Wang was sent home.
We are actually to around 140 players midway throughout the second level of the day.
5:30pm: Big stacks within the room
We are moving ever-closer to the 108 money-paying position, but nobody within the field is sure to make it that far. The next players, however, are probably feeling pretty good at the moment. As you'll see, Meng Yao Chen is calling like our current chip leader.
Meng Yao Chen - 215,000Mikal Blomlie - 195,000Lei Song - 190,000Wei Yang - 185,000Chun Tung Wei - 180,000Jean Peirre Didier - 160,000Koichi Nozaki - 150,000
5:15pm: As quick as they come, they go
Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin recently built her stack to upward of 80,000. Now she is backtrack under 20,000 after you have unlucky in quite a big hand.
Lin was under the gun plus one when she opened it up with a raise holding Ace-King. The action folded to the player within the big blind and he moved all in for around 40,000. Lin called it and the player was in danger holding J-8 offsuit.
Unfortunately for Lin her superior holding wasn't capable of hold up.
Back to the grinding station.
5:05pm: Level 13 begins, Blinds 1,200/2,400 (400)
4:55pm: Celina Lin aggressively building a stack
Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin knows how aggressive you ought to be to win a poker tournament. After all, she is the one two-time Red Dragon champ. Lin started today with just over 50,000 in chips and is now moving up toward 80,000.
We recently arrived to seek out Lin and Hon Cheong Lee thinking about a hand on a 2♣J♠T♠ flop. Lin had checked to Lee, who bet 4,000. Lin then check-raised to 11,500. After a couple of moments, Lee called.
The turn was a 3♣ and this time Lin confidently moved all in. Lee was well covered and if he called his tournament life could be in danger. He didn't call and with that Lin was beginning to build a stack.
4:50pm: Quickly all the way down to 20 tables
APPT President Danny McDonagh has just announced that we're all the way down to 20 tables. That implies now we have already lost over 40 players within the first level as 180 now remain.
4:40pm: Lucky Lo, not so lucky Li
Wai Tung Lo recently got aggressive with A♥4♣, three-betting all in preflop after Shao Li had opened it up with a min-raise. Li called it off with A♠Q♣ and Lo was looking like he can be going home. However, luck was on his side in this occasion because the dealer opened up a 4♠K♥3♦J♦6♣ board to look him double up.
4:25pm: Juicy kings beat queens
Juicy Li has posted an enormous amount of results here at PokerStars LIVE Macau, but never in a prime event just like the Red Dragon. Li started Day 2 with just over 20,000 in chips and is now up well over 50,000 after scooping an important pot.
It started with one player limping from middle position, a player then raised it as much as 6,000 from the cutoff, at which point Li moved all in for around 25,000 from the button. Hsien Hsun Lee was within the big blind and shipped his stack of around 40,000 within the middle. The opposite two players got out of ways and Li confidently turned over K♦K♥. Lee, at the other hand, reservedly showed his Q♦Q♥.
The board ran out T♥5♠3♣J♥4♠ and similar to that, Li had doubled up.
4:15pm: A lot of quick exits
At least a dozen players was eliminated within the first five minutes of play. This includes players like Lonjie Li, Teruhiko Kabasawa, Chi Fu Sze, Steven Tegnelia and Tsuneaki Takeda. The eliminations are absolute to decelerate soon because the players get into the grinding groove of Day 2.
4:10pm: McDonagh says six
APPT President and PokerStars LIVE Macau head honcho Danny McDongh has just told the players we will be able to be playing six levels today. Including breaks, so as to bring us to a 10:30pm finish.
4:05pm: Rip open the baggage and play cards
After a slight delay, the 221 players have taken their seats, ripped open their bags and are only about to play their first hands of Day 2 of the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event.
We are beginning Level 12, with blinds at 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante. Levels now last 60 minutes each, versus the 45 minutes from the Day 1 flights.
Getting right down to business within the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event
What used to be 808 is now the 221 players who're currently filtering into PokerStars LIVE Macau for Day 2 of the Red Dragon Main Event. We now have been told it is only going to be a brief day, but we still imagine that we are going to burst into the money one day inside the day.
MPC21 prize pool and payout information
The player who will start the day with probably the most chips is Macau-based Norwegian Mikal Blomlie. His 169,500 in chips is simply a couple of thousand prior to Wei Yang with 166,700. The third largest chip stack (152,500) belongs to 2010 MPC Red Dragon champ Wing Cheong Chong.
The big stacks are joined by quite a lot of prominent players including Winfred Yu, Hai Bo Chu, Andrew Scott, John Q Hoang, Raiden Kan, inaugural Red Dragon champ Kenny Leong and Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin and Raymond Wu. Both Lin and Wu have won Red Dragon titles (Lin has two) and can be seeking to win another for the Red Spade.
MPC21 Red Dragon Day 2 seating draw
The action on Day 2 is ready to start out at 4:00pm local time and you'll find live updates here on the PokerStarsBlog. Stay tuned!
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