The numbers are officially in with the 16 remaining players battling it out for a share of the HK$9,212,000 (~US$1,185,625) prize pool. The top 6 places will be paying out with a min-cash good for HK$645,000 (~US$83,000) but it is the HK$3,130,000 (~US$402,840) first prize that all remaining competitors will have their eye on. You can see a full list of the payouts under the payouts tab at the top of the page.
Action folded around to Manig Loeser in the small blind and he moved all-in for 110,000. Big blind Steve O’Dwyer peeked down at his cards and quickly called all-in for his last 96,000 and the cards were turned over.
Steve O’Dwyer: 
Manig Loeser: 
The 
flop brought the German no help and the 
turn left him drawing dead, guaranteeing O’Dwyer the double and he climbed to 200,000 while Loeser was left with just 15,000 – 1.5 big blinds.
This found it’s way into the middle the very next hand after action folded around to Loeser on the button with Mikita Badziakouski throwing in the extras needed to make the call.
Badziakouski turned over 
, which was leading Loeser’s 
and stayed in front the whole way when the community cards ran out 
.
Loeser’s exit brings the field down to 16 so there play paused for a redraw.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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96,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level: 11
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Canlin Chen has been busy over the last two levels, running his tiny stack all the way back up over 100,000. Chen padded this out still further at the expense of tablemate Dario Sammartino after opening the action from under-the-gun with a raise to 16,000.
Sammartino was the only caller and the flop fell 
, which Chen checked, opening the door for Sammartino to take a stab for 18,000. It looked like the Chinese player was just playing possum though, and Chen quickly check-raised to 42,000 in total.
This sent Sammartino deep into the tank, where he remained as the shot clock ticked down to zero to give Chen the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
310,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
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|
190,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
If you have a pounding headache than you probably already saw the amazing pole performers at Pacha Nightclub last night courtesy of PokerStars. But, just in case you are fresh faced and managed to miss the extravaganza, here in a little taste.
A second huge hand played out between Nick Petrangelo and Shunu Zang that saw the latter’s tournament come to a close.
We caught the action on the turn with the board reading 
just as Zang fired out a bet of what looked to be around 60,000, which Petrangelo quickly called.
The river saw Zang push in his remaining chips and Petrangelo called instantly. Zang tabled 
for a turned set but Petrangelo had flopped huge with 
.
“Nice hand,” said Zang good-naturedly getting up to leave.
“Thanks,” said Petrangelo as he scooped yet another huge pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
770,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
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Busted | |
Level: 10
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
A sizable pot has just played out between Shunu Zang and Nick Petrangelo with the latter coming out on top.
Pre-flop is was Frenchman Imad Derwiche who lit the fuse with an opening raise of 14,000 from middle position. Sitting in the cut off Nick Petrangelo threw in the call before action folded around to Zang in the big blind and he squeezed to 70,000 in total.
While that was enough to get Derwiche to bow out Petrangelo was going nowhere and he quickly threw in the calling chips to take play heads-up to the 
flop.
Zang let the 30-second shot clock run down without acting, so this counted as a check and Petrangelo quickly checked it back and the 
landed on the turn to double pair the board.
With the action back on Zang he acted slightly faster this time and led out for a tickly little 10,000 bet, and Petranglo threw in two yellow 5k calling chips to bring both players to the river.
This is where the fireworks happened and Zang quickly led for 135,000 with Petrangelo calling immediately. The action happened so fast we did not get a chance to see Zang’s hand, but we know he did not have an ace or a pair larger than the two on the board as Petrangelo took down the pot with 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
645,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
|
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|
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180,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
While this is not a complete list as one of the tables broke as we were doing chip counts we will add anyone we missed as play progresses, so here is how the field is stacking up now the late entry/re-entry period is over. There have been 47 entries (including re-entries) and 23 players remain in contention.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
470,000
287,000
|
287,000 |
|
|
||
|
450,000
205,000
|
205,000 |
|
400,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
380,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
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|
333,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
280,000
201,200
|
201,200 |
|
|
||
|
|
235,000
-75,000
|
-75,000 |
|
210,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
188,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
||
|
|
140,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
|
140,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
120,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
120,000
43,800
|
43,800 |
|
110,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
|
|
100,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
100,000 | |
|
|
||
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
80,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
31,000
-63,000
|
-63,000 |
|
|
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|
30,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
|
20,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
