WPT Premier Taïwan

Jour 1a chip leader Chik Fatt "Carter" Chan

The return of the World Poker Tour to the Chinese Texas Hold'em Poker Association in Taipei City is off to a great start for the flagship tournament of the 2022 WPT Prime Taïwan TWD 33,000 Main Event. Known as the CTP Club in the heart of the city, the poker room is one of seven branches that regularly hold poker tournaments and the marquee event of the stop attracted a total of 189 entrées le jour 1a.

Après plus de 14 et demi niveaux de 40 minutes each, the bubble burst with the elimination of Joseph Phua and that pot catapulted Singapore's Chik Fatt "Carter" Chan into the top spot. He turned his starting stack of 30,000 dans plus de 23 times as many chips and bagged up 691,000, surpassing Yohwan "Boxer" Lim (575,000) on the overnight leaderboard. Both are well ahead of third-placed Kuan Chieh Chen (485,000), who was one of several players to gain the entry via a live satellite at the venue.

Especially Lim confirmed his known nickname in the final stages after he scored several vital punches with big pots and eliminations. However, it was Chan who claimed the spotlight when the chips were bagged after winning a big flip with ace-king versus queens thanks to four diamonds on the board.

Other notables advancing from the first of three starting stacks are Kenji Hata (312,000), Chi Ying Tsai (154,000), Hotstone player Seung Hwan Baek (125,000), Jenam Yu (107,000) and WPT Champions Club member Pete Chen (85,000).

Among the familiar faces of the Asia-Pacific region to bow out were the likes of Park Yu "Sparrow" Cheung, Chen An Lin, Hamish Crawshaw, 2019 WPTDeepStacks Cambodia winner Brian Tougias, Tae Hoon Han, Yu Chung "Nevan" Chang, and Natalie Teh to name all but a few.

They have another two chances to run up a stack for Day 2 and stake their claim for what shapes up to be a significant prize pool. It even seems likely that the previous attendance of the 2020 WPTDeepStacks Main Event nearly two years ago may be surpassed.

Back then, the TWD 15,000 L'adhésion a attiré un champ de 526 entries and prize pool of TWD 6,768,000 of which the top 64 finishers earned their share. In a field filled almost exclusively with players from Taiwan in December 2020 due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, Huang Chyan Pu defeated Chuan Lung Lai to claim the top prize worth TWD 1,317,800.

Two flights remain and both of them get underway at 1pm local time on November 18 ainsi que 19 respectively. Both of these heats boast an identical structure with 40-minute levels and will play down to the money bubble, as approximately one out of each eight entries will advance.

Les tables de poker du CTP Club

Local staff expects two busy days ahead and most tables were already used for today's extensive schedule, which featured three Side Events and a Main Event satellite. Stay tuned for more live poker action from Taipei as the WPT.com live reporting team will be on the floor for the entire duration of the 2022 WPT Prime Taiwan Main Event until a winner is crowned on November 21, 2022.

After the bubble has burst with 15:10 minutes restantes dans le niveau 15, le final 24 players bagged and tagged their chips for the night. All full counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.

Jour 1une bulle monétaire

From under the gun Carter Chan raises to 12,000, down the orbit small blind Joseph Phua three-bets to 38,000, back to Chan who tanks then shoves. This sends Phua in agony as he is well covered. He musters the courage to call and sees it's a flip.

Joseph Phua Chik Fatt "Carter" Chan

Le conseil fonctionne for a flush to Chan to ship it and skyrocket to 691,000. That ends Day 1A with Chan as chip leader. 

Benny Liu

Le tableau se termine avec 116,000 dans le pot, small blind Guan Jie Chen who checks to big blind spot Benny Liu who lays out a 25,000 bet, down the orbit, Erwin Ng shoves, Chen folds, Liu calls for his tournament life. 

Benny Liu Erwin Ng  

Liu gets up to go, Ng ships it and climbs to around 400,000. 

Tao Chu and Jenam Yu invested 16,000 sur le flop avant le le tour est vérifié par les deux joueurs. Sur le river, Chu bets 40,000 and Yu sends his cards into the muck.

Tao Chu - 250,000
Jenam Yu - 110,000

Yohwan Lim

Dans un plus grand retournement de situation dans la vie de tournoi de Yao Hong Cui, c'est Yohwan Lim qui suit et met encore un autre adversaire en danger d'élimination lors des phases finales de la soirée.

Yao Hong Cui : Yohwan Lim :

Votre runout keeps Lim in the lead and he scores another sucker punch, confirming his nickname of "boxer" once again.

Yohwan Lim - 560,000
Yao Hong Cui - Eliminated

After getting chunked by Borreman, Charles Wong shoves his last 45,000 stack and is called by the blinds Pete Chen and Chik Fatt "Carter" Chan. At the flop 8dqcjs[/pc] Chan bets 50,000 pour un côté pot but Chen isn't interested and check-folds. Heads up, Chan is ahead of Wong with top paire terminée . Le tour et rivière termine Wong.

Chik Fatt "Carter" Chan - 480,000
Charles Wong - Eliminated

Jeyong Park raises to 12,000 in the hijack and Pieter Borremans then jams for 80,000 on the button. It was yet another shove by Borremans and gets through, as Park asks for an exact count and then folds.

Pieter Borremans - 110,000
Jeyong Park - 170,000

Pi Ying Hsu avec shoves his 56,500 stack and nearly gets through to steal the blinds and antes but Yohwan Lim on the big blind wakes up with et appelle. Le conseil fonctionne for a good spread and a double up to Hsu to 120,000. 

Le final 27 players are now balanced across three tables and continue with blinds of 3,000/6,000 et une grosse blind ante de 6,000.

In back to back hands, Pieter Borremans has Ace-Queen and at first, he ends up paying Jeyong Park a double up with King-Queen pairing the King. Next hand, Borremans recovers some of the lost chip with a double up against a Charles Wong with King-Queen that missed. Borremans sits with around 120,000. 

Un stack plus court de Corée du Sud fait tapis pour environ sept blinds et affronte Tsungmao Liao. Ils déposent le et Liao est en avance avec le .

Rien ne change sur le runout as the field is reduced to three tables. The end of Day 1a is now just three eliminations away.

"He is the chip leader," Liao shrugs and points at Kuan Chieh Chen as both have near even stack sizes.

Tsungmao Liao - 420,000
Kuan Chieh Chen - 425,000

Pete Chen calls a player's shove with qui tient partout contre avec le conseil d'administration en marche . Chen rises to 188,000.

Cutoff player Pieter Borrmans raises to 15,000 and finds two customers to the flop . Small blind Deng Deng Kai leads out for 10,000, Borrmans calls, button player raises to 40,000, Kai three-bet jams. No callers to claim it and rise to 300,000. 

Sur un flop en heads-up de , Junfeng Wang and Yohwan Lim both invest 30,000 chips. le le tour va check, check, et Wang vérifie également le on the river. Lim now bets 110,000 and that sends his table neighbour deep into the tank.

The clock is called on Wang and he calls with one second left on the 30-second clock. Lim tables the pour un ensemble de cinq et gagne un très sain pot.

Yohwan Lim - 405,000
Wang Junfeng- 160,000

Les cartes sont déjà retournées et Jenam Yu ne peut que secouer la tête en payant un double à Junfeng Wang pour 74,000. Sur un tableau de , de Wang floppe un brelan et le de Yu s'avère être une affaire coûteuse compte tenu des deux tailles de pile commerciale.

Yohwan « Boxer » Lim a entre-temps misé sur la même table après qu'un straight de Broadway ait obtenu une grande valeur.

Yohwan Lim - 290,000
Wang Junfeng- 266,000
Jenam Yu - 115,000

Minjoo Cho met son short stack avec le et se heurte au de Kuan Chieh Chen. Jusqu'à ce que le turn, Cho is left with no outs and the river doesn't matter anymore.

Ching Yang Chung n'est plus en lice non plus, qui ne parvient pas à y parvenir avec contre l' de Tae Hwan Kim. Le Le conseil d'administration garde le plus gros stack devant tout le chemin.

Tae Hwan Kim - 370,000
Kuan Chieh Chen - 300,000
Minjoo Cho - Eliminated
Ching Yang Chung - Eliminated

Tsungmao Liao

Trois façons d'accéder au flop, Tsungmao Liao bets 12,000 and forces one fold. Fellow bigger stack Kuan Chieh Chen calls and both then quickly check down the au tournant et à la rivière. Liao dépose le et Chen merde alors que sa récente glissade dans la hiérarchie se poursuit.

Tsungmao Liao - 380,000
Kuan Chieh Chen - 270,000

Le dernier 32 players are now in level 14 aux stores de 2,500/5,000 avec une grosse blind ante de 5,000. Almost an entire level passed without any elimination as the race to the bubble has become very slow all of a sudden.