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3:40pm - Cheng departs in eighth place just before break
Level 13, Blinds 30,000/60,000/5,000

The tournament clock was just ticking over into the red to mark the first break of our final table. Before this can happen however, a classic coinflip occured between Tony Cheng and Alvan Zheng with the pair getting all of the chips in pre-flop.

Cheng opened the action with a raise and after peeking down at his cards Zheng counted out chips, then some more chips and fired out a sizable three-bet.

With the departure of Siong, Cheng was the shortest stack holding just under a million in chips and seemed quite happy to get the rest of his stack in the middle, with Zheng equally happy to make the call.

Tony Cheng: [qh][qd]
Alvan Zheng: [ac][ks]

Cheng was the at risk player and after the board ran out [8c][9d][kc][8d][9s] he exited in eighth place, taking home HK$100,117.

Players are now on a short 10-minute break with the remaining stacks as follows:

Seat 1: Quan Zhou - 4,745,000
Seat 2: Guancheng Wu - 2,980,000
Seat 3: Jason Lo - 1,340,000
Seat 4: Howard Ka Ho Sun - 1,220,000
Seat 7: Chun Liang Pan - 4,770,000
Seat 8: Alvan Zheng - 6,640,000
Seat 9: Tatiana Barausova - 1,850,000

Zheng is pushing further out in front of the rest of the pack while Pan and Zhou are jockeying between second and third with Sun trailing as the table short stack.

3:23pm - Boon Heng Siong finishes in ninth place
Level 13, Blinds 30,000/60,000/5,000

Singapore's Boon Heng Siong is our shortest stack and must be feeling the pressure after his previous misadventure against Alvan Zheng now that the blinds have risen once more.

Siong becomes the architect of his own demise after opening in middle position with a raise to 125,000. Sitting two seats to Siong's direct left Chun Pan reached for chips - but not for a call - and the player from Chinese Taipei three-bet to the tune of 275,000.

Looking pained at this turn of events, Siong counts out his remaining chips - he has 450,000 behind so does not have all that much room to manoeuvre.

However, call he did and after the dealer spread the flop of [jh][2s][8s] Siong swiftly moved his remaining chips over the line.

Pan snap called almost instantly rolling over [as][ah] which is ahead of Siong's [jd][tc]. The turn and river run out [5c] and [4s] meaning that our final table is now down to eight; Pan climbs to 4.2 million in chips, edging into third place while Siong departs in ninth place taking home HK$75,000.

2:25pm - Zheng extends lead, Lo takes a hit
Level 11, Blinds 25,000/50,000/5000

Alvan Zheng means business, displaying a steely edge that shows why he has made it this far and why he currently holds the chip lead.

The hand started off innocuously enough with a raise to 110,000 from Hong Kong's Jason Lo in middle position. Boon Siong made the call from the cutoff and both Chun Pan and Alvan Zheng made the call from the small and big blinds respectively meaning we head four-way to a flop of [4c][3h][6h].

Lo does not look too happy getting this many customers and after both Pan and Zheng checked their option Boon Siong opted to take a stab for 250,000.

Only Zheng made the call, everyone else getting out of the way taking us heads-up to the [7c] turn.

Zheng checked again opening the door for Siong to fire a second barrel of 375,000. Zheng tanks for a minute or two before again electing to make the call and the dealer peels off the [9c] river card.

This brings another check from Zheng and Siong does not take long to fire a third barrel of 550,000, leaving himself with 750,000 behind.

This sent Zheng deep into the tank and he pondered both the flop and his opponent carefully but did eventually elect to make the call.

Siong rolled over [kd][9h] for a rivered top pair, but it was not enough to beat Zheng's [6s][7h] and he edges further in front and climbs to over 6 million in chips while Siong drops down below the 1 million mark.

The next few hands are all raise-folded pre-flop before Tony Cheng wins a small pot off Quan Zhou, Cheng's rivered top pair holding [as][kh] on a [td][qs][3d][5d][as] board good enough to take down a 400k pot when both players check the hand down until the river before Cheng leads out for a small value bet of 75,000, which Zhou called.

The next sizable pot occurred shortly afterwards in a blind on blind confrontation between Guancheng Wu and Jason Lo.

Wu was the aggressor in the hand, leading into Lo for 110k from the SB, Lo made the call and we went heads-up to a flop of [3d][9h][as]. Continuing the aggression Wu led for 150,000 into the 265k pot and Lo called for a second time.

Wu kept his foot on the gas, firing a second barrel of 425,000 on the [6d] turn. Lo mulled it over but made the call causing Wu to shoot a suspicious glance his way.

The [2c] river brought a chunky third barrel from Wu and he led out for 600,000 - just under half of his remaining stack. Lo took his time chewing things over but did elect to make the call but could only pitch his cards into the muck when Wu turned over [ad][jh] for top pair.

Lo drops to 2 million after then hand while Wu climbs to just over 3 million.

2:00pm - Play restarts
Level 11, Blinds 25,000/50,000/5,000

After four gruelling days of play spread over three starting flights here at Pokerstars LIVE Macau the 2016 Macau Millions Main Event final table is good to go.

Officially Macau's most popular poker tournament attracting a massive 2,343 entries to generate the HK$6.1 million (~$782,000) prize pool, the remaining nine players are all in the hunt for the HK$911,000 (~US116,800) first prize that includes a ticket into the 2016 ACOP Main Event.

Leading the charge is 27-year old quantity surveyor Alvan Zheng who enjoyed a late night run of form to seize the chip lead. With over US$447,000 in career tournament live cashes Zheng is in a great position to add another big score to his poker resume and he comes in with a stack of 4,515,000.

Joining Zheng at the final table is fellow frontrunner and countryman Quan Zhou. The 2013 APPT Seoul High Roller champion has already tasted success here in Macau and will be looking to add yet another trophy to his cabinet.

Zhou was the first player to break the two million in chips yesterday and has remained one of the tournament frontrunners since.
2016 Macau Millions Final Table Draw

Seat 1: Quan Zhou (China) - 4,185,000
Seat 2: Guancheng Wu (China) - 1,580,000
Seat 3: Jason Lo (Hong Kong) - 3,570,000
Seat 4: Howard Ka Ho Sun (Hong Kong) - 1,675,000
Seat 5: Boon Heng Siong (Singapore) - 2,040,000
Seat 6: Tony Cheng (Hong Kong) - 1,055,000
Seat 7: Chun Liang Pan (Chinese Taipei) - 2,115,000
Seat 8: Alvan Zheng (China) - 4,515,000
Seat 9: Tatiana Barausova (Russia) - 2,445,000

You can read our player profiles for a more in-depth look at our final nine. Play has now begun with 36-minutes left at level 11 with blinds recommencing at 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 running ante. The average stack is a rather chunky 2 million making for a comfortable 40bb stack and with no set play-time we will be playing down until we have a 2016 Macau Millions champion.

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