The
Macau Poker Cup, hosted by PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand
Lisboa, began Day 1A of the Red Dragon tournament on Friday, September 3. A
healthy field of 135 players entered the first of two Day 1s for Asia's
premiere poker series' main event.
Jason
Coe from USA has 112,200 chips to lead the remaining Day 1A field of 41 players
who survive to Day 2.
Also
making it through to Day 2 include PokerStars sponsored Devan Tang from Hong
Kong with 37,300. Tang was the chip leader for the majority of the 9 levels but
lost over half his stack when his KK couldn't hold up against AT.
"The
players coming to MPC are getting better but I like it. Going up against pros
like JC Tran brought my game to a higher level." said the former Macau
Poker Cup Championship Main Event winner. "I still think I can win (the
Asia Player of the Year) and just need one big final table and I'm up
there."
For
End of Day 1A Chip Counts please click here.
Current
Asia Player of the Year (APOY) leader and Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu was
eliminated from 1A and could watch his 5-month reign on top of the standings dissapear.
With the Red Dragon likely to award over 2000 points to the winner, the top
50-60 players on the APOY list could potential pass Wu for the number one rank.
Other
hopefuls that didn't survive the evening include Team PokerStars Pro Celina
Lin, PokerStars sponsored JC Tran and former Red Dragon winner Wing Cheong
Chong.
Please
click here for the 2010 Asia
Player of the Year Leaderboard.
Day
1B is expected to well exceed 1A in field size and the second flight includes
Team PokerStars Pros Bryan Huang and Taejoon Noh. Other notables are PokerStars
sponsored Nam Le, Quinn Do, Neil Arce, Victor Chen, Justin Chan, and defending
Red Dragon champion Kenichi Takarabe.
Day
1B begins at 12:10 PM on Saturday, September 4.
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