Jung Wins ACOP, Lin Wins Smaller ACOP, WSOPC Update

Sunny Jung Wins ACOP Main Event

The 2013 Asia Championship of Poker Main Event took place in the PokerStars LIVE City of Dreams poker room and wrapped up over the weekend.

The HK $100,000 buy-in event began with 203 players and a HK $19,800,000 prize pool, but only nine players remained on Day 5 for the final table action. Yifan Zheng led the pack with 1,513,500 chips with Yat Wai Cheng in second place. Randy Lew and Jonathan Depa were also in the running to represent the United States.

By the end of the night, however, Sunny Jung had jumped into the chip lead and was heads-up against Devan Tang. They played for 45 minutes before play was stopped for the night, and they resumed the next day. Tang was aggressive and even took the chip lead for a brief period, but Jung stayed aggressive and retook it. In the end, A-K beat A-Q to give Jung the title and first place prize money.

Results:

1^st place: Sunny Jung (HK $4,352,000)

2^nd place: Devan Tang (HK $3,667,000)

3^rd place: Zifan Zheng (HK $1,980,000)

4^th place: Yat Wai Cheng (HK $1,485,000)

5^th place: Yoshitaka Okawa (HK $1,188,000)

6^th place: Jonathan Depa (HK $990,000)

7^th place: Randy Lew (HK $792,000)

8^th place: Chenxiang Miao (HK $594,000)

9^th place: Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (HK $495,000)

Celina Lin Wins ACOP Event 12

Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin became the first female player to ever win an ACOP title in Macau by capturing victory in Event 12 on November 3. She won the HK $8,800 NLHE event, which attracted 107 players and a HK $830,320 prize pool.

Lin took home HK $215,900 and the Spadie trophy by beating a final table that included Tobias Gottwald, Henry Wang, Kevin Schulz, and heads-up opponent Ted Wang.

WSOPC Lake Tahoe Main Event Underway

The World Series of Poker Circuit was in Nevada at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe for its most recent series of tournaments. It began on October 24 but culminated in the $1,675 buy-in NLHE Main Event that started on November 1.

Day 1A brought in 138 players but ended with only 31 remaining. Day 1B added another 252 players, bringing the total number for the tournament to 390 and the prize pool to $585K. There were 51 survivors of that second starting day, and the overall chip leader of both days was Johnny Neckar with 299,500 chips.

Day 2 brought back those 82 remaining players and headed into the money so the top 45 could begin getting paid. Play continued to complete 10 levels or end with the final table in place.