The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Macau HKD $25,000 buy-in Main Event is about to reach its money end after Day 2 witnessed 160 players whittled down to just 39. At bag up time it was China’s Zhou Yue Qing in the lead with 301,700 in chips and two Taiwanese players – Yi Po Lee (254,600) and Carlos Chang (235,100) – trailing him.
Notable players busting on Day 2 were Nam Le, Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin, Lester Edoc, Team Bodog Pro Jay Tan, Gordon Huntly, Andrew Gaw, Jojo Tech, Bjoern Weisler, Marc Rivera, Linh Tran and Hirotoshi Nakabo.
Among those still in contention were Kenny Wong (104,500), Oliver Speidel (99,900), Martin Nilsson (94,900), Tetsuya Tsuchikawa (87,300), Kai Paulsen (72,900), Joe Hachem (60,900), Winfred Yu (57,600), Richard Zhu (50,800) and Samad Razavi (34,500).
Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
1. Zhou Yue Qing (China ) – 301,700
2. Yi Po Lee (Taiwan) – 254,600
3. Carlos Chang (Taiwan) – 235,100
4. Tom Alner (England) – 233,300
5. Nai Yuan Hu (Taiwan ) – 178,500
6. Chris Park (USA) – 175,900
7. Houston Crosby (USA) – 169,500
8. Sang Park (USA) – 167,300
9. Zhang Ai Min (China) – 160,100
10. Aaron Lim (Australia) – 138,200
Also running alongside were two side events. Congratulations to all the cashers:
DafaPoker Freezeout 2 Final Table Results
1. Qiyan Huang (China) – HKD $143,500
2. Wally Sombero (Philippines) – HKD $78,300
3. Daniel Chan (Hong Kong) – HKD $39,200
4. Sun Tan (Malaysia) – HKD $30,500
5. Thomas Bzhl (Germany) – HKD $26,100
6. Charles Chua (Malaysia) – HKD $21,800
7. Andrew Gaw (Philippines) – HKD $17,400
8. Lin Fung (Hong Kong) – HKD $13,100
9. Kee Kenneth (Singapore) – HKD $8,700
10. Chen Wei Heng (China) – HKD $7,800
Deep Stack Turbo 2 Results
1. Tian Fang Li (USA) – HKD $62,000
2. Tsz Shu (Hong Kong) – HKD $36,500
3. Anju Abrol (India) – HKD $20,000
4. Xiao ming Liang (Canada) – HKD $14,600
5. Man Ting (Taipei) – HKD $12,800
6. Seo Jeong Won (Korea) – HKD $10,900
7. Marx Hsieh (Taipei) – HKD $9,100
8. Ni Zheng Wei (China) – HKD $7,300
9. Kyung Sik Jung (Korea) – HKD $5,500
10. Robert Browning (Philippines) – HKD $3,600
Day 3 starts at 1pm local time and will see the top 27 players reach the money and then battle it out all the way down to the final table.
Check out the complete Asian Poker Tour Macau 2012 Event Details.