There's nothing quite just like the tournament floor deep in a poker event in Macau. Regardless of how big or small the tournament is there may be an excitement that may be unparalleled almost anywhere on the earth. There may be just that much passion. If I'LL say something about Day 2 of the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event, it's that it certainly wasn't lacking in enthusiasm.
That enthusiasm lasted from the instant the 221 returning players (of 808 total) hit the tables and ripped open their chip bags, to the moment the day was over and just 46 players remained.
The player who was perhaps essentially the most enthusiastic on the end of play was Wai Leong Chan. He finished the night with 766,000 in chips and the entire lead.
Chan dominated the previous couple of levels of Day 2. Despite watching him lose a 400,000-chip pot when he got aggressive preflop with A♥Q♥ and bumped into A♠A♣, Chan still managed to regain the chip lead and finish greater than 200,000 sooner than his nearest competitor Edward Kim.
Speaking of Kim, late in Day 2 it was looking like nobody would catch him. A highlight of Kim's evening was certainly when he looked down at K♥K♣ and had two players getting all their chips in, one with A♦K♦ and the opposite with pocket eights. The cowboys held up and Kim went directly to finish with an excessively large 559,000 in chips.
They do not need as many chips as Chan and Kim, but they're alive within the tournament and that's the reason half the battle. I'm talking about players like Wai Tung Lo (370,000), Yifan Zheng (344,000), Koichi Nozaki (319,000), Martin Gait (231,000) and Alvin Cheam (176,000), simply to name a few.
Another player who still has chips heading into Day 3 is a person by the name of Kenny Leong. That name may sound familiar as it is the name of the person who won the first-ever Red Dragon six years ago. There have been only 33 players in that first one, greater than 20 times lower than what number of he has already outlasted this year. If Leong can go directly to win the MPC21 Red Dragon he would really bookend what has already been a decorated poker career.
Long before all of the aforementioned players bagged some chips, the 212 returning players were all hoping to make it into the money. The highest 108 spots were paying HK$19,000 and as such, play went hand-for-hand when 110 remained. From this point just about nothing happened for 40 minutes.
Then everything exploded as there have been four simultaneous all ins and 3 eliminations to look the bubble burst and the 108th place payment split 3 ways.
Chonxian Yang, Xin Zhang and Daren Seah were the 3 players who were eliminated at the bubble hand. Zhang's elimination was one of the most exciting of the 3 as he made a king-high flush, but lost to Juicy Li's full house. Seah, at the other hand, was probably the unfortunate some of the three as he had his Q♦Q♥ cracked by J♦J♣. Full details of the entire bubble play are available within the archive of the Day 2 live updates.
While splitting 108th place 3 ways is not the ideal situation for players, it's better than finishing out of the money altogether. A few of folks who did just that come with the 2 returning Team PokerStars Pros, Celina Lin and Raymond Wu.
It appeared like Wu was never capable of get anything going, while Lin's day was more of a roller coaster, first soaring up the chip leader board before someone got tricky preflop with jack-eight and cracked Lin's ace-king. Lin lost most of her chips in that pot and from there wasn't capable of survive for much longer.
Like Lin and Wu, these players didn't make Day 3, but they did no less than be capable to make it into the cash. This time I'm talking about players like Day 1C chip leader Mikal Blomlie (52nd), 2010 Red Dragon champion Wing Cheong Chong (60th), Australia's Ken Demlakian (69th), former MPC Championship victor Raiden Kan (85th) and Andrew Scott (99th). You can see updated payout information at the MPC21 Red Dragon prize pool page.The above have already been eliminated, but there'll still be 46 players back on the felt from 4:00pm local time on Tuesday. Regardless of how long it takes there'll be 37 eliminations on Day 3 and at that time we can be all the way down to a last table of nine. You will discover the Day 3 seating draw here on the PokerStarsBlog, while we are hoping to peer you come for continued live updates of the most recent Red Dragon.
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