Finding the end-of-day chip leader over the last ten minutes of the day is a vital business for a poker blog. Yes, we is also days clear of the overall table, and even the money bubble, but locating the massive stack on any given day is a part of the job description. The photographers wish to take that picture that will send praise to the player that worked so hard (or got lucky enough) to complete with the biggest stack.
On Day 1B of the MPC21 Red Dragon Main Event we found it hard to seek out the chip leader. Of the 42 survivors out of a 148-player starting field, there have been no less than five players with around six figures and no clear leader amongst those five. Simply to be safe, the photographers took pictures of all five of these players.
Now, we present to you a kind of pictures and the person we call the Day 1B chip leader.
That happy looking player you notice above goes by the name Emning Zhang. He has every reason to feel free - 115,100 reasons in truth. While he is not widely known here at PokerStars LIVE Macau, Zhang was actually one of the vital players who caught our attention early within the day. He made a giant demand effectively his tournament life with T♣T♠ at the river of a J♦5♥2♥K♠2♠ board and it was the right kind call as his opponent had A♣4♣ for just ace-high.
One of the opposite four players who had big stacks, though ultimately not as many as Zhang, was Bin Hu. A LARGE day on the felt saw Hu finish with 109,700 in chips, that's the third largest stack overall behind Darian Tan (112,600) and Zhang. Hu managed to get his hands on a variety of those chips when he held pocket tens and had an opponent all in with pocket queens. Hu hit a suite of tens and that was that.
They would possibly not have finished near the chip lead, but as they really well know, you don't want the chip lead on Day 1 to win a poker tournament. In fact, these two players know that is the case when winning this very tournament as between them they've three Red Dragon titles.
I am talking about Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin and Raymond Wu.
Lin, who's the one two-time Red Dragon champ, finished Day 1B with 55,400 in chips, while fellow Red Dragon champ Raymond Wu finished with 34,800. Lin was right down to around 5,000 at one point during Day 1B but built it back up inside the day and ended up cruising into Day 2.
One other Team PokerStars Pro played Day 1B and he'll likely be just a little envious when he sees that both Wu and Lin made it throughout the night. Of course, he'll be at liberty for them, but he can be much happier if he was there with them on Day 2.
This time I'M talking about Bryan Huang.
It was a comparatively short day on the felt for Huang as his tournament life came to an end when he ran ace-queen into pocket aces.
You can't win all of them.
The 42 total survivors from Day 1B might be back on the felt for Day 2 on Monday. Before then, a brand new batch of players will take to the felt for the third and final Day 1 flight. That begins at 3:00pm on Sunday and the PokerStarsBlog will again be to be had providing live updates from the ground of PokerStars LIVE Macau. Until then, you'll be able to click here to try the entire end-of-day 1B chip counts and will find an archive of the live updates from the day by clicking here.
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