Congratulations to Wayne Jun Wen Yap!

He overcame this star-studded record High Roller field with 114 entries to take home HK$2,292,720 and etch his name in Macau poker history.

It was back to back hands that ultimately decided the winner.

Yap started the heads up battle with Xixiang Luo with a chip deficit and still managed to eliminate Luo within 10 minutes. The primary brought an action flop of Q♠5♠2♦ and with Yap holding 5♥5♣ for middle set against Luo's Q♣2♣ for high and bottom pair the money quickly got within the middle.

Yap's set held and he propelled himself into position of overwhelming chip leader before the general hand followed. All of the money was within the middle preflop this time and Yap had to improve to near out the tournament.

Yap: K♣7♥Luo: 7♠7♣

It gave the look of the hand would go Luo's way as Yap missed everything as much as the turn with the cards reading 9♦9♣9♥T♣. The river, however, brought the K♥ spurring cheers from around the tournament floor as Yap clenched the title.

13 hours before that the overall table of nine began.

Wei Zhao brought a super-short stack with him and lasted not up to an orbit. Zhao moved all in from the small blind after it folded to him for only four big blinds and Quan Zhou called to place him in danger. Zhao did have the most productive hand with 9♦4♦ but couldn't hold against the 7♥2♠ of Zhou when the cards fell 2♥T♦7♣A♥J♥.

Next out the door was Vikram Nanda. He got all of the money in preflop with J♣T♦ but couldn't outdraw Louis Salter's A♣K♣. The 6♠4♦5♦Q♥Q♠ missed both players and Nanda finished in 8th place for HK$340,000.

8th place - Vikram Nanda

7th place went to Ya Hui Xu. He got the last of his chips in with pocket aces against Zhou's pocket queens but a queen at the turn would see him hurtling out of the poker site. Xu shook the hands of his tablemates and headed to the payout desk to assemble HK$382,000.

Wei Zhang was out in 6th after he ended up at the wrong end of a flip. It was Zhang's A♠K♦ against the T♠T♣ of Zhou however the latter would spike a suite at the T♥J♠3♣ and refill at the J♦ turn to signal the top for Zhang.

6th place - Wei Zhang

Following him to the rail was Louis Salter. After being crippled by his brother Jack just a few hands earlier, Louis was forced all in on his big blind for his last 75,000. His T♥7♦ was no match for Zhou's K♣Q♠ at the 8♦K♦Q♣3♠Q♥ runout and Louis was eliminated.

Four-handed would last for nearly three hours before Jack Salter would join his brother. He had survived several all in hands leading as much as the one who saw him eliminated but if he got K♣T♣ in preflop versus Xixiang Luo's J♠J♦ he couldn't catch up. Salter scored himself HK$722,000 for fourth place.

And the overall elimination before that speedy heads up battle was Quan Zhou's. He got it in good with A♠K♣ to Wayne Yap's J♠4♣ and while he faded danger within the turn, the river saw Zhou pair his jack when the cards fell 3♠5♦7♠9♣J♣ to send Zhou packing.

MPC24 High Roller Final Table Payouts1st: Wayne Yap (Singapore) - $2,292,7202nd: Xixiang Luo (China) -$1,528,0003rd: Quan Zhou (China) - $934,0004th: Jack Salter (UK) -$722,0005th: Louis Salter (UK) - $552,0006th: Wei Zhang (China) - $467,0007th: Ya Hui Xu (China) - $382,0008th: Vikram Nanda (Hong Kong) - $340,0009th: Wei Zhao (China) - $297,000

all amounts in HK$

Congratulations again to Yap and to the team at PokerStars LIVE Macau for hosting another spectacular MPC24 High Roller event.

That concludes our coverage of the Macau Poker Cup. Thanks for joining us!

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