HomeIt was a Saturday rush at the Asian Poker Tour Macau 2016 with Day 1B of the Main Event at the helm in the Crystal Palace of the Casino Lisboa. Closing the day with the largest stack was China’s Fei Hu Huang with 131,200 in chips.
Main Event Day 1B Chip Leader, Huang Fei Hu Huang
Huang’s rise to the top happened in one very big hand with his 5♥ 5♦ against K♣ J♣ improving to a set on a board of K♠ 6♥ 3♣ 5♣ 10♥. He earned several more pots throughout the day to keep him well above the rest of the field.
Hong Kong’s Johnny Kwok Yiu Wah claimed the second spot of the day with 123,400 in chips. Kwok earned a large majority of his stack in a double up against Korea’s Steve Yea with A♥ 8♥ running a better board than A♠ 3♠.
Taking the third spot was Korea’s Minseong Kim who could have easily been the chip leader after amassing an intimidating large stack at her table during the early levels. On one of her hands, Kim three-bet on a board of 2♠ 3♣ 3♦ Q♠ and won a hefty pot without any further action.
With 40 players surviving the day, it was of no surprise to see some pros in the lineup. Among them were Japan’s Iori Yogo, Korea’s Lim Yo Hwan, Malaysia’s Ying Lin Chua, Macau’s Gu Hui Dong, Hong Kong’s Jason Wai Tung Lo, Bulgaria’s Dimitar Danchev, Filipino Lester Edoc, and Yea despite having doubled up Kwok.
Main Event action will resume on Sunday, October 23rd at 1pm. For those still looking to enter, extended late registration is open only between 12pm-1pm so make sure to get there before it closes. You can view the chip counts of all the players entering Day 2 in the APT facebook page. We will also be posting some of the action of Day 2 in the Live Updates page.
A grueling victory for Guo at the No Limit Hold’em 1 Day event
NLH 1 Day Event Champion, Guo Tao Lan
While the Main Event was running, a part of the floor was shared by the No Limit Hold’em 1 Day event. There were 86 entries for a total prize pool of HKD 208,500 with several APT circuit regulars filling up some of the seats. By the time it reached ITM at ten players, only Filipino pro John Tech, Guam’s Ron Tse, and Japan’s Masatoshi Tanaka were familiar faces.
The race to the trophy was a long and grueling one with players falling once an hour at best. When the witching hour struck, China’s Guo Tao Lan eliminated Tanaka in 3rd place and amassed over 3:1 in chips against Hong Kong’s Alan Wu. It only took three hands for Guo to ship it all in with his 4♥ 4♣ holding its own against Wu’s K♥ 10♣ on a board of 4♦ 2♣ 7♦ 3♠ 10♠.
Guo earned the first place purse of HKD 56,700 and the event trophy while Wu took home HKD 34,700 for his runner-up finish.