ASIA: Two Aussies through to MPCC Main Event final table

A pair of Aussies will join the final table later today for the finale to the Macau Cup Poker Championship at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex.

Ryan Hong carried his day two chip lead through to seventh chip position while Bob Streatfeild, who made the trek to Macau with a group from the Western Australian Poker League is the outright short stack.

Day three started with 45 of the original 270 players. The field never even reached the dinner break as 36 players hit the rail by the midway point of the day’s fifth level. Another WAPL player, Jill Maley, snuck into the money in 29th.

Korea’s Sunny Jung dominated most of day three but it was China’s Rui Chen who ended the day as chip leader with 1,325,000. The businessman qualified for the main event for just HKD $1100 through a live satellite.

Final table chip counts

Seat 1: Ryan Hong (Australia) 425,000
Seat 2: Sunny Jung (Korea) 888,000
Seat 3: Kevin Kung (USA) 469,000
Seat 4: Yosuke Sekiya (Japan) 624,000
Seat 5: Jessica Ngu (USA) 461,000
Seat 6: Lisi Wei (China) 713,000
Seat 7: Robert Streatfeild (Australia) 159,000
Seat 8: Rui “DC” Chen (China) 1,325,000
Seat 9: Jin Wenlong (China) 184,000

Macau Poker Cup Championships Main Event (270 players; 31 players paid; total prizepool HKD $4,818,960)

1 $1,108,500
2 $759,000
3 $458,000
4 $361,500
5 $289,160
6 $241,000
7 $193,000
8 $144,500
9 $120,500
10 Xing Zhou (China) $96,500
11 Satrya Teja (Indonesia) $72,300
12 Ying Kit Chan (Hong Kong) $72,300
13 Amit Varma (India) $72,300
14 Shanshan Zhao (China) $60,200
15 Amit Roshanlal Jain (India) $60,200
16 Hon Cheung Kwong (Hong Kong) $60,200
17 Edmund Hoi Ting Lee (Hong Kong) $60,200
18 Yifan Zheng (China) $60,200
19 Milad Sheva (Germany) $60,200
20 Victor Chong (Malaysia) $48,100
21 Hung-Sheng “Shaq” Lin (Taiwan) $48,100
22 Yuji Masaki (Japan) $48,100
23 Aaron Weiming Lam (Singapore) $36,100
24 Lei Zhang (China) $36,100
25 Masaki Hirayama (Japan) $36,100
26 Ping Lin (China) $36,100
27 Sparrow Cheung (Hong Kong)  $36,100
28 Andy Asihwardji (Canada) $36,100
29 Jill Maley (Australia) $36,100
30 Jian Yang (China) $36,100
31 Daren Yoon (Malaysia) $36,100