2017 Boyaa Poker Tour Macau Finishes With Lin Hong Chang As Champ
6 years ago
03 Nov
With qualifiers opening in June, the Boyaa Poker Tour has been building up expectations for this years events. The field of online qualifiers, hardware satellite winners, and direct buy ins ultimately gathered in the card room of the Babylon Casino in Hong Kong. 745 of these players showed up for the Main Event on the 28th of October for the five day battle to the death which would ultimately leave the winner with a giant cheque for HK$1,274,900 (about US$163,404).
The Main Event rounded out a week of events which included a Ladies Only event, a Deepstack Turbo and a 57 Society – a business software developer– sponsored event.
Lin Hong Chang Takes First
The final table rundown was ultimately a local affair with three players from the mainland, one from Hong Kong proper, and one from down the coast in Taiwan. The remaining five players hailed from Vietnam, Korea and even as far away as Romania.
Lee Sang Jun was the first to bail out in 9th place for HK$107,600, and it took a full nine hours for the full eight eliminations need. Lin Hong Chang (representing the Taiwanese contingent) finally scraped in the last of the chips from his heads up sparring partner Tran Hung Manh (2nd place for HK$637,000).
Lin, who is a regular on Boyaa’s online games and no stranger to the odd live event – this is his fourth time at the BPT – posted his 75,000 small blind and 20,000 ante, before checking his cards to find J-6. He put in a raise and got called.
Seeing the dream flop of 4-6-6 he checked behind Tran and saw a queen fall on the term. With two diamonds and two hearts out there, Lin bet out 250,000 when checked to and was raised another 500,000 by Tran. He called and the river came an offsuit 9.
With effective stacks of about 4.25 million, Tran bet 1 million flat and was raised. He shoved the rest of his stack in and Lin called with his trip sixes. There was a pause before Tran rolled over pocket kings and left the table in second place.
2017 BPT Macau Final Results
| 1 | Hong Chang Lin | $1,274,900 |
| 2 | Tran Hung Manh | $637,000 |
| 3 | Nguyen Duy Tung | $319,400 |
| 4 | Kong Shing Fai | $266,500 |
| 5 | Zinan Xu | $224,100 |
| 6 | Cosmin Deac | $192,300 |
| 7 | Binrui Wang | $160,600 |
| 8 | Weiduo Wu | $128,800 |
| 9 | Lee Sang Jun | $107,600 |
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