One, two, three.
That's what number of players were just eliminated in a half-hour period right before the dinner break of the 2014 ACOP Main Event. It wasn't too way back that we were talking about how slow the day was going and the way it would mirror last year's event which needed an additional day added. Maybe the tides are changing.
The first player to hit the rail through the period of rapid eliminations was Joseph Cheong.Blinds were 12,000/24,000 and Cheong opened to 54,000 from under the gun after which was the lone caller of Sunny Jung's three-bet to 150,000 from the button. Cheong check-called of venture of 180,000 at the 3♦5♥K♣ flop and checked again at the 2♦ turn.
This time Cheong was faced with a raffle of 325,000 which put him deep into the tank. Cheong had around 1 million behind and it seemed clear that Cheong was either going to fold or move in. Eventually he decided to get the chips in and after double-checking his cards, Jung made the decision.
Cheong had K♠J♠ for high pair, which was behind Jung's A♥A♦. The river was of no help to Cheong and so he was eliminated in seventh place, collecting HK$1,080,000 (~US$140,000).
Cheong probably won't be too upset with that result, especially considering that is what Cheong tweeted right before his elimination, eluding to the new High Roller that started up at the tables nearby the principle Event:
Just a little while after Cheong was eliminated and Russsian Konstantin Pogodin joined him at the rail.
Pogodin moved all in at the turn of a 2♣7♦J♥8♣ board. Pogodin's lone opponent was Ami Barer, who didn't look very excited to peer the all in, but ended up making the decision anyway.
It was the best demand Barer too, together with his A♠A♥ well sooner than Pogodin's A♦J♣.The 5♦ river was of no help to Pogodin and so it was out the door in sixth place with a HK$1,350,000 (~US$175,000) score - by far the biggest result on his record.
With Pogodin at the rail it was Vladimir Troyanovskiy because the lone player flying the Russian flag and unfortunately for Russian poker fans, that is where it could all come to an end.
Unlike Pogodin, Troyanovskiy actually got his chips in with the products and was very unlucky to the hit the rail.
He was all in preflop with Q♦Q♠ against Jung's T♣T♠ and was in no way happy to look the dealer roll out a 4♦T♥K♣ flop to offer Jung a collection.
Troyanovskiy was already going around to his tablemates shaking their hands because the dealer flipped over a 2♣ at the turn and a 3♦ at the river to send him home in fifth place with HK$1,620,000 (~US$210,00) for his time.
Once that period of carnage was over Jung was as much as almost 6 million in chips, while Ami Barer and Gabriel Le Jossec had around 2 million each and Zuo Wang was the fast stack with 400,00.
That's an enormous chip lead for Jung and while the typical stack remains to be over 60 big blinds, the effective average is definitely only just over 30 big blinds considering the stack sizes. It will be an excessively exciting finish, so remember to keep it locked at the 2014 ACOP page here on the PokerStarsBlog as we play right down to a winner.
Let's discover if Jung makes it back-to-back victories, or if history stolen from him!
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