The final table chip leader Michael Kanaan just took a shot at eliminating Xing Zhou, and that backfired horribly. Kanaan lost his chip lead and doubled up his Chinese opponent.
The action started with a raise to 25,000 which Zhou decided to call. Kanaan was in position and he three-bet to 74,000. The initial raiser folded and Zhou made the call.
The flop brought out and Zhou checked to Kanaan who bet 80,000. Zhou check-raised to 185,000 and Kanaan moved all in. Zhou snap-called creating a pot of just under one million chips.
Xing Zhou:
Michael Kanaan:
Zhou had flopped a set and was well out in front. The board ran out , and Kanaan lost this massive pot knocking him down to third place. It's anyones game here at the ACOP final table with still nine players remaining!
On the second hand of final table play we already saw a big double up for short stack Jacques Zaicik. The action started when Tsugunari Toma raised to 21,500 from under the gun plus one, and three players ended up making the call.
Zaicik was seated in the big blind and he moved all in for 189,000 chips. Toma tanked for a bit and folded, as did Ying Kit Chan.
Henry Wang said, "I don't think you have anything! I call," as he committed the extra chips. Xing Zhou folded from the small blind and to showdown they went.
Henry Wang:
Jacques Zaicik:
Zaicik had the opposite of nothing, as he turned over the best hand in poker. The board ran out , and Zaicik more than doubled up.
Jacques Zaicik of Paris, France is a CEO of a privately-owned company who has numerous cashes from the WSOP, EPT, and other tours to his credit. At 60 Zaicik is the oldest of the final nine players, and lists his 12th-place finish at the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (won by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier) as a career highlight. Zaicik says it was Patrick Bruel's television show in France that first got him hooked on poker.
Michael Kanaan of Sydney, Australia has a handful of cashes over the past year-and-a-half, including a victory in the 2011 ANZPT Sydney Main Event for which he earned a handsome A$195,714 (worth a little over $200K USD). When the 28-year-old was asked about the defining moment of the event thus far, Kanaan points to yesterday's aces-versus-kings hand in which he crippled Mike "SirWatts" Watson and took the chip lead.
Tsugunari Toma of Osaka, Japan adds another nice finish to an impressive list of results here he has compiled here in Macau over the last year. The 30-year-old company manager has numerous cashes and final tables in Red Dragon and MPCC events, and has already improved on a 13th-place finish at last year's APPT Macau Main Event.
and Zhou checked to Kanaan who bet 80,000. Zhou check-raised to 185,000 and Kanaan moved all in. Zhou snap-called creating a pot of just under one million chips.
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and Kanaan lost this massive pot knocking him down to third place. It's anyones game here at the ACOP final table with still nine players remaining!
, and Zaicik more than doubled up.
