Main Event
Jour 3 terminé
Main Event
Jour 3 terminé
Alors qu'il reste trois journées de compétition, le Jour 3 du Main Event du PokerStars Championship Macau a vu le contingent tricolore passer de 7 à 2 joueurs. Il n'y a plus que deux Français en lice sur le tournoi principal, Thibaud Blondel et Fabrice Soulier. Qualifié sur PokerStars, et avec 870 000 jetons, Blondel est 5e du classement alors qu'il ne reste que 37 participants. Fabsoul est lui dans le peloton avec 272 000 jetons.
Le Chinois Xuan Tan mène la danse avec 1,3 million de jetons. Sa compatriote Yan Li est l'unique autre joueur avec un tapis à 7 chiffres. David Peters (875,000), l'Ukrainien Artem Metalidi (765,000), Daniel Laidlaw (441 000) ont aussi terminé le Jour 3 avec un gros stack. Chipleader à l'entame de la journée, le Thaïlandais Pakinai Lisawad a vu son tapis fondre de moitié mais il est toujours dans la course pour le premier prix de 3,1 millions de dollars de Hong Kong (environ 402 000 US$)
Le seatdraw du Jour 4
Ils étaient 536 au départ du tournoi et encore 151 à revenir pour le Jour 3. Quelques heures plus tard, 103 joueurs entraient dans l'argent après l'élimination de Xiao Luo à la place de bubble-boy par Daniel McAulay.
Les Français Ivan Deyra (45e pour 13000$), Bernard Vu (75e pour 8044$), Michel Abécassis (100e pour 8044$) et Maxime Adam (103e pour 8044$) ont sauté après l'arrivée dans les places payées au contraire d'Alexandre Moreau, seule victime tricolore du Jour 3 non payée.
Parmi les victimes du jour qui sont entrées dans l'argent, on notera Manig Loeser (87e pour un min-cash à 8044$), l'Australien Michael Egan (91e), le Danois Morten Mortensen (82e) ou encore l'Espagnol Sergio Aido (48e pour 10 207$) et la Suédoise Sofia Lovgren (44e pour 13 000$).
Vendredi, le jeu se déroulera jusqu'aux demi-finales à 16 joueurs. L'action est à suivre sur PokerNews.
Here all of the chip counts at the end of play today.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Xuan Tan | 1,380,000 | 80,000 |
Yan Li | 1,002,000 | -11,000 |
Dong Guo | 880,000 | 541,000 |
David Peters
|
875,000 | -5,000 |
Thibaut Blondel | 870,000 | -10,000 |
Artem Metalidi | 765,000 | -70,000 |
Wenlong Jin | 758,000 | 318,000 |
Dzmitry Rabotkin | 679,000 | 323,000 |
Tianyuan Tang | 622,000 | 232,000 |
Julius Malzanini | 621,000 | 241,000 |
Petar Kalev | 558,000 | 198,000 |
Daniel Laidlaw | 441,000 | 116,000 |
Avraham Oziel | 410,000 | -150,000 |
Soichiro Kojiya | 391,000 | -52,000 |
Zinan Xu | 378,000 | 5,000 |
Winfred Yu | 378,000 | 58,000 |
Kiryl Radzivonau | 371,000 | -49,000 |
Jianbo Jiang | 368,000 | -32,000 |
Aymon Hata | 359,000 | -191,000 |
Joachim Bold | 342,000 | 229,000 |
Feng Wen Chen | 336,000 | 106,000 |
Liwei Sun | 277,000 | 152,000 |
Fabrice Soulier
|
272,000 | -68,000 |
Renjun Yang | 261,000 | -39,000 |
Elliot Smith | 258,000 | -297,000 |
The second player to cross the million-chip mark is Yan Li. Li started the day among the leaders but slipped down the counts early on. She is back now and taking charge.
Li opened to 25,000 and got a call from the player in the big blind. The two players checked down a board of and Li claimed the pot with , besting .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Yan Li | 1,013,000 | 433,000 |
The chip leader has spoken and each table will play four more hands before bagging for the night.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Xuan Tan | 1,300,000 | 310,000 |
One of the most dangerous players in the field now has one of the most dangerous stacks.
David Peters just doubled up through Ro Woong Park, again. And this time, it was a big one.
We missed the action prior to the river but were able to catch the details. Peters and Park tangled preflop in a three-bet pot, seeing a flop of . The flop action went bet, call, and the came on the turn.
Peters fired a bet of 75,000 and Park shot his fingers out in the form of a triangle, signaling an all-in raise. Peters snap-called.
Peters:
Park:
The table was shocked to see Peters' holding, nailing a straight on the turn. Park needed some help on the river but the he received was of no assistance.
Peters now sits among the top stacks in the room while Park is slightly less comfortable.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
David Peters
|
880,000 | 400,000 |
Ro Woong Park | 270,000 | -94,000 |
Thibaut Blondel was in middle position and looked down at cards he wanted to play, so he raised to 22,000. Yasuyuki Tsuji was up for the challenge and made the call from the button. The dealer spread a flop of .
Blondel continued for 22,000 again and Tsuji called again. The turn came and Blondel elected to check this round. Tsuji counted out a bet and made it 30,000. Blondel wanted to see how much Tsuji had behind. Once he saw that he had about 240,000 left, Blondel plopped down four stacks of yellows — 400,000 and plenty enough to put Tsuji all in.
Tsuji went in the tank and, after a couple of minutes, another player at the table called clock. The time ticked down. Once he hit the 30-second mark and he was told how much time he had left, he threw his cards in the muck. Blondel turned over and gleefully stacked the chips.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Thibaut Blondel | 880,000 | 681,000 |
Yasuyuki Tsuji | 240,000 | -49,000 |
All of the community cards were out when we got to the table where Yan Li and Aymon Hata were facing each other for a big pot. There was on the felt and Li checked. Hata bet 55,000 and Li thought for a bit before carefully counting out a raise to 120,000 and sliding it forward. Hata only paused for a few seconds before folding.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Yan Li | 580,000 | 15,000 |
Aymon Hata | 550,000 | 5,000 |
The remaining players have climbed another rung on the ladder. Anyone bowing out now will receive at least HK$101,000. The following players were eliminated between 48th and 51st place earning HK$79,300.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Sergio Aido | Eliminé | |
Wu Huihan | Eliminé | |
Tsuyoshi Ishibashi | Eliminé | |
Kristijonas Andrulis | Eliminé |
Here are some more photos from the field as the day draws near the tail end.