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4:15pm - Breaktime
Players are on a short 10-minute break, stay tuned and we will bring you more action when play resumes
3:57pm - Kawahara busts as blinds rise, Lau takes a hit
Level 3, Blinds 3,000-6,000 (1,000)
The 160-strong field has shrunk to 125 as the second level draws to a close with blinds rising to 3000/6000 with a 1,000 running ante.
Japan's Yuji Kawahara has joined the ever-growing list of casualties, his short-stacked shove with [qh][7c] running into the [ad][ah] of China's Pengyu Cui, finding no help as the board ran out [kh][2s][3d][6s][2d].
2015 Asia Player of the Year Alan Lau was doing well, right up until we gave him the bloggers curse by writing this post.
Sitting on the button over on table three Lau raised it up only to see tablemate Yongjie Wang declare "all-in!" from the small blind. Lau quickly called, his [as][ac] leading Wang's [ah][kd].
Unfortunately for Lau the board ran out J-T-5-J-Q to give Wang the straight and the rather sizable pot. Lau dropped to just over 50,000 after that rather painful beat while Wang rose like a phoenix from the flames, climbing to 490,000 in chips.
3:30pm - Siong gets caught
Level 2, Blinds 2,500-5,000 (500)
At the higher end of the chip spectrum, Singapore's Boon Siong has seen his fortunes and sizable stack wain slightly.
We caught the action on the river with the board reading [td][qd][kc][2c][5d] and over 100k in the pot. With a diamond flush possible Siong led out from the small blind and made it 60,000.
Siong's opponent, Hong Kong's Jason Lo, contemplated his decision long and hard before a time was called. Lo did make the call with seconds to spare and Siong rolled over [6s][7c] for a daring bluff.
Unfortunately seven-high was not good enough to beat Lo's [ac][qs] causing Siong to tap the table and say "good call..." with a sigh. Siong drops down to just below the 300,000-mark after the hand while Lo rises to over 360,000 in chips.
3:00pm - Action aplenty on level one
Level 2, Blinds 2,500-5,000 (500)
Day 2 may have just started but the remaining players are wasting no time getting into the swing of things.
There have been a slew of early eliminations as the short stacks from all three starting flights attempted to go big or go home.
Macau Millions champion Justin Chan is one of those lucky enough to remain in contention after dodging elimination at the hands of tablemate Stanley Wong. Following a limp from Lin Zhou on the button Chan shipped from the small blind for just under 80,000 only to be quickly called by Wong sitting in the big blind.
Chan: [ac][2d]
Wong: [as][8s]
The board ran out [2s][qd][kc][kh][ah] so despite catching a piece of the flop Chan chopped to stay alive.
So far we have lost just over 20 players in a little under 30-minutes with 139 players remaining in contention.
2:00pm - Day 2 action underway
Cards are now in the air as Day 2 of the 2016 Macau Millions gets underway. Currently there are 160 players still in contention battling it out for the HK$911,000 (~US$ 116,800) top prize.
Blind levels have increased from 30-minute levels to 45-minute levels now we have reached the money spots. Stay tuned and we will keep you up-to-date with all the tournament thrills and spills as play progresses.
Blinds are currently 2,000/4,000 with a 500 running ante with the average stack coming in at just over 152,000 in chips.
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