Norway's Henrik Tollefsen Wins Red Dragon High Roller in Macau

After Zhenru Xie triumphed in the Main Event of the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon and took home the first place of HK$1,667,000 (approx. $215,000) another important event of the Cup was set to start. The High Roller event featured HK$80,000 buy in and gathered 59 players, creating the prize pool of HK$4,439,160 (approx. $572,500).

The two-day tournament attracted those with deeper pockets looking to score big in relatively small field. When the registration ended, it was determined that seven players would be walking away with money in their pockets, while the other 52 would get nothing.

Twenty players made it through the Day 1 with Edward Kim leading the way. Notables in the field included Quan Zhou as well as PokerStars Pro Celina Lin. Lin had quite a rollercoaster ride through the tournament, but eventually managed to get out if it alive and well for the conclusion the next day.

Unfortunately for her, she couldn’t repeat what she did on Day 1 and fell short of the final table. Edward Kim, who started the day as the leader, actually fell on the final table bubble and nine remaining players started with Quan Zhou holding the big stack followed by from Shashank Rathi Hong Kong and Norwegian Henrik Tollefsen.

Two players had to exit before players would reach the money, and, naturally, everybody was holding tight to their seats. Eventually it was India’s Kunaal Chandra who fell first after three long levels of play, bringing the tournament to the dead bubble.

It did not take long, as Li-Ta Hsu lost most of his chips to Victor Chong and was ousted shortly after at hands of Rono Lo. Money was reached and it was a different ball game with that monkey off the players’ backs.

Japan’s Makoto Yoshimichi was the first one to take the walk to the cage, followed by Quan Zhou and Shashank Rathi whose chips ended up in Tollefsen possession, giving him a sizeable chip lead. Victor Chong followed the suit, giving up his chips to Norwegian and making his way out in fourth.

This started a long three-way battle that ended up going very bad for Malaysian Daniel Xiong who could not eliminate short stacked Rono Lo, despite getting his chips in the middle ahead twice. Eventually his chips ran out and he busted in third, banking HK$621,000 (approx. $80,000).

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