Yasuhiro Ojiri Leads Entering Day 2, Ronaldo Just Misses
Day 1b of the 2015 PokerStars.net APPT ACOP Main Event is in the books.
There were several players jockeying for the chip lead during the last level, but Yasuhiro Ojiri ended the 94 survivor's as the tournament's overall chip leader with 149,900.
The Day 1b field saw a few of the PokerStars Team Pros bust in the second half of the day, including Team PokerStars SportsStar Ronaldo busting PokerStars Team Online Pro Randy Lew.
It happened when Lew, who had been battling a short stack for hours, moved all in for 5,725. Ronaldo was the only caller and the cards were on their backs.
Lew:
Ronaldo:
The board ran to see Ronaldo come from behind. The two players shook hands and off went Lew.
Unfortunately, Ronaldo hit the rail himself a short time later when he got all in with pocket sixes against pocket aces. PokerStars Team Asia Pro Celina Lin was also eliminated on Day 1b after a series of unfortunate run outs and a bad turn card ended her day prematurely.
Meanwhile a majority of the PokerStars Pros booked their seats into Day 2. Isaac Haxton (71,800), Aditya Agarwal (12,800), Kosei Ichinose (18,100), Bryan Huang (38,900), Yaxi Zhu (28,600), Vivian Im (53,500), and Mikhail Shamalov (100,500) will all return tomorrow as part of the 157-player field at 2 p.m. local time.
This year's ACOP Main Event turnout (255 entrants) is slightly behind last years, which saw 291 entries and yielded a $6.3-million HKD ($810,000 USD approx) first-place prize. Registration for the single-entry tournament will remain open for the first 90 minutes of Day 2, so the exact player count and prize pool will be released after registration closes.
Be sure to join the PokerNews reporting team then, but while you wait, check out this video with a tour on all things Cotai:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yasuhiro Ojiri |
149,900
149,900
|
149,900 |
Ningdan Shi |
131,000
131,000
|
131,000 |
Tse Jui Tsai
|
129,600
129,600
|
129,600 |
Matthew Wakeman |
128,200
128,200
|
128,200 |
Shinobu Tanaka |
127,200
127,200
|
127,200 |
Wei Zhang |
123,000
123,000
|
123,000 |
Yan Li |
120,500
120,500
|
120,500 |
Billy Argyros |
112,700
3,200
|
3,200 |
Mikhail Shalamov | 100,500 | |
Russell Thomas |
97,000
-9,500
|
-9,500 |
Sergey Lebedev |
90,700
90,700
|
90,700 |
Tom Alner |
75,200
24,700
|
24,700 |
Kai Yat Fam |
74,100
74,100
|
74,100 |
Isaac Haxton |
71,800
9,800
|
9,800 |
Wenlong Jin |
70,600
70,600
|
70,600 |
Wai Leong Chan |
68,300
68,300
|
68,300 |
Zhenru Xie |
66,900
66,900
|
66,900 |
Mikhail Rudoy |
66,000
66,000
|
66,000 |
Wenyao Bao |
64,300
64,300
|
64,300 |
Hsien Yuan Yang |
63,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
Carlos Chadha
|
62,700
-800
|
-800 |
Joel Micka |
59,600
59,600
|
59,600 |
Ping Huang
|
56,800
56,800
|
56,800 |
Dong Zhao |
56,400
56,400
|
56,400 |
Qiao Heng
|
56,200
56,200
|
56,200 |
Ka Cheong Wong |
54,900
7,100
|
7,100 |
James McCarty |
54,900
54,900
|
54,900 |
Steve O'Dwyer |
53,600
2,300
|
2,300 |
|
||
Vivian Im |
53,500
22,600
|
22,600 |
Vladimir Schemelev |
52,500
52,500
|
52,500 |
|
||
Mikita Badziakouski |
52,300
4,300
|
4,300 |
|
||
Raymond Wu |
50,900
50,900
|
50,900 |
Anson Tsang |
49,600
49,600
|
49,600 |
|
||
Stevan Chew |
49,400
13,400
|
13,400 |
Soonil Kweon
|
49,100
13,100
|
13,100 |
Chao Li |
49,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
Jordan Westmorland |
47,300
9,200
|
9,200 |
Zhikui Shi
|
47,300
47,300
|
47,300 |
Qi Luo |
47,300
47,300
|
47,300 |
Guoliang Wei
|
47,100
47,100
|
47,100 |
Ivan Luca |
44,100
-2,700
|
-2,700 |
|
||
Gary Thompson |
43,900
43,900
|
43,900 |
Fan Zhao |
42,200
42,200
|
42,200 |
Chunlei Zhou |
39,900
39,900
|
39,900 |
Andy Chan |
39,700
39,700
|
39,700 |
Ziyang Zhao |
39,100
39,100
|
39,100 |
Bryan Huang |
38,900
11,400
|
11,400 |
Andrew Gaw |
38,700
38,700
|
38,700 |
Guang Pu Lu
|
37,500
37,500
|
37,500 |
Wai Wa Chan |
36,800
36,800
|
36,800 |
Hsien-yuan Yang
|
36,600
36,600
|
36,600 |
Dario Sammartino |
35,800
-36,200
|
-36,200 |
|
||
Sparrow Cheung |
34,400
4,800
|
4,800 |
Stephen Zhou
|
33,500
33,500
|
33,500 |
Junjie Wang |
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Dmitry Kataev |
32,900
32,900
|
32,900 |
Zdravko Duvnjak |
31,800
31,800
|
31,800 |
Victor Hon |
30,600
30,600
|
30,600 |
John Juanda |
29,800
10,125
|
10,125 |
|
||
Thomas Ward |
29,500
29,500
|
29,500 |
Alexander Kuzmin |
29,300
29,300
|
29,300 |
|
||
Yaxi Zhu |
28,600
-2,100
|
-2,100 |
Wen Lin Wang |
27,900
27,900
|
27,900 |
Du-ming Tsai
|
27,800
27,800
|
27,800 |
Jintian Xu
|
27,600
27,600
|
27,600 |
Connor Drinan |
25,100
8,700
|
8,700 |
|
||
David Wang |
24,900
24,900
|
24,900 |
Yoichi Fujiya |
24,900
24,900
|
24,900 |
Devan Tang |
24,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
Henry Wang |
20,900
20,900
|
20,900 |
Pratyush Buddiga |
20,800
-11,200
|
-11,200 |
Zhifeng Zhao
|
20,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Bobo Daoxing Chen
|
19,700
19,700
|
19,700 |
Anton Astapau |
18,400
2,900
|
2,900 |
Kosei Ichinose |
18,100
-700
|
-700 |
Wenxiong Luo |
18,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
Shawn Buchanan |
18,000
-24,000
|
-24,000 |
|
||
Raiden Kan |
17,200
17,200
|
17,200 |
Munkhbayar Nyamsuren |
17,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Longjie Li
|
15,400
15,400
|
15,400 |
Alvan Zheng
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Yuefeng Pan |
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Oystein Kristoffersen
|
14,800
14,800
|
14,800 |
Maria Lampropulos |
13,600
13,600
|
13,600 |
Kitson Kho |
12,900
12,900
|
12,900 |
Aditya Agarwal |
12,800
400
|
400 |
Markus Garberg |
12,700
12,700
|
12,700 |
Alex Ward |
12,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
Manny Stravropolous
|
11,400
11,400
|
11,400 |
Dean Blatt |
11,400
11,400
|
11,400 |
Christoph Vogelsang |
11,300
-700
|
-700 |
Terrence Chan |
9,600
9,600
|
9,600 |
|
||
Leon Hsu |
9,300
9,300
|
9,300 |
Hon Cheong Lee |
6,600
6,600
|
6,600 |