Ryan Hong On Top at Day 2 of MPCC; 3 Indians Make It to Day 3

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  • PG News September 14, 2012
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123 players began Friday’s Day 2 with hopes of advancing to the day 3 money round at the Macau Poker Cup Championship 2012 Main Event that will award the top 31 competitors a piece of the prize money in excess of HKD $4,800,000.

The winner won’t be determined until Sunday at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex where the last standing player will be awarded just over HKD $1,100,000. After the Day 2 dust settled, only 45 runners remained in the PokerStars Macau HKD $20,000 buy-in tournament. Aussie Ryan Hong started the day in 20th place but soared to the top as he ended the day with a commanding 430,300 chips.

Three players from China; Rui Chen (264,200), Jin Wenlong (255,900), Lei Zhang (239,700) hold the next biggest chip stacks with Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung (217,100), Lisi Wei (208,800), another Chinese native, and reigning Asia Player of the Year Shaq Lin (205,100) close behind. Team India too has three players still in the fray; Amit Roshanlal Jain (74,000), Amit Varma (68,000) and Amit Jain (49,900).

 

Chip Leaders entering Day 3

Ryan Hong (Australia) — 430,300
Rui Chen (China) — 264,200
Jin Wenlong (China) — 255,900
Lei Zhang (China) — 239,700
Sparrow Cheung (Hong Kong ) — 217,100
Lisi Wei (China) — 208,800
Shaq Lin (Chinese Taipei) — 205,100
Hon Cheung Kwong (Hong Kong) — 153,100
Ying Kit Chan (Hong Kong) — 142,800
Andy Asihwardji (Canada) — 135,600



Macau Poker Cup Championship 2012 takes place from Sept. 7-16



Despite holding more than 160,000 chips than his nearest competitor, Hong is not showing signs of overconfidence. “With 45 players left it’s pretty much its own tournament” said Hong. The 25-year old law student added “We’re not even in the money yet. The Day 3 draw will be really important.”

For day 3 chip counts, click here.



Other notables advancing to day 3 include day 1A chip leader Edmund Lee (80,400), Sunny Jung (124,500), Taiwan Celebrity Alex Niu (91,800), No. 3 APOY ranked Yosuke Sekita (87,800), and 2011 MPCC runner-up Victor Chong (50,400).



Failing to survive through Friday night were the two remaining Team PokerStars Pros, Bryan Huang and Raymond Wu, 2012 Aussie Millions runner-up Ken Wong, and 2010 Macau Millions winner Justin Chan.



The MPCC Main Event day 3 begins Saturday at 1:00 pm local time. For live updates on the MPCC Main Event please visit the
PokerStars blog.

 

Event 7 Winner Brian Lovett



In side event action, American poker pro Brian Lovett won Event 7 after beating 64 players to collect the HKD $73,800 first prize. 7 players cashed in the HKD $4,000 Turbo event which had a HKD $223,488 prize pool. Singapore’s Jacky Wang made his season-leading 5th final table appearance.



The final hand was a classic coin flip between Lovett’s and Taiwanese Shao Hung Lee‘s pocket sixes .



The board ran which gave Lovett a pair of tens to secure the win.

 

Event 7: $4,000 Turbo – Final Table Results

MPCC event 7 winner Brian Lovett
MPCC event 7 winner Brian Lovett

Brian Lovett (USA) — $73,800
Shao Hung Lee (Chinese Taipei) — $46,900
Jacky Wang (Singapore) — $31,300
Tsugunari Toma (Japan) — $24,600
Edmund Lee (Hong Kong ) — $17,900
Peter Wang (Chinese Taipei) — $15,600
Sok Meng Hun (Combodia) — $13,388

For the Official 2012 Asia Player of the Year Standings please click here.

For official side events results click here.

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