Pakinai Lisawad Leads Day 2 of PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event

Ben Wilson

Apr 05, 2017 4 min read Last updated Apr 06, 2017

After six levels of Day 2 play at PokerStars Championship Macau, just 151 remain in contention to battle it out for the massive HK$ 20,796,000 (~US$ 2,676,731) prize pool. Thailand’s Pakinai Lisawad leads.

On Day 2, 26 new entrants anted up the HK$42,400 buy-in before late registration closed at 4:30 p.m. to bring the total number of players up to 536 for the Championship’s Asian debut.

With a staggering HK$3,130,000 (~US$402,874) on offer for first place in addition to the trophy and the title, the competition for the hallowed money spots will be fierce as just 103 of the remaining field will get paid, with a min-cash good for HK$ 62,500 (~US$ 8,044).

When you consider the fact PSC Macau is nearly double the buy-in of the May 2016 APPT 10 Macau Main Event, which attracted 533 runners and the Championship replaced, this is an impressive feat.

It is still far too early to tell who will be joining U.S. professionals Christian Harder and Kenneth Smaron on the Pokerstars Championship Main Event throne, though the man best positioned to do so is Pakani Lisawad who bagged up 301,200 in chips at the close of play.

Lisawad began the day as one of the shorter stacks with 47,600 in chips but pulled out all the stops to power into pole position as play progressed, flopping two pairs early on to send 2015 APPT Champion Tony Cheng to the rail.

Sitting just behind Lisawad with a stack of 275,700 is France’s Ivan Deyra who finished the day with a very respectable 275,700. Hong Kong’s Chuanshu Chen (272,700), Belarus’ Kiryl Radzivonau (243,200) and France’s Fabrice Soulier (243,000) round out the top five.

Lisawad began the day as one of the shorter stacks but pulled out all the stops to power into pole position.

Notables who failed to make the cut included Team PokerStars Pro Aditya Agarwal and Team Online’s Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew who both departed early on in proceedings.

Other big names who failed to go the distance were HK$400,000 Super High Roller Champion Steve O’Dwyer and the U.K.’s Jack Salter, who was unable to recreate the run of form that saw him go deep in the HK$206,000 Single Re-Entry Shot Clock.

Salter departed alongside brother Louis, with Canada’s Daniel Dvoress, Australia’s Kelvin Beattie and U.S. pro Isaac Haxton also failing to make the cut.

Some of the bigger stacks moving forward to Day 3:

Player	Country	Chip Count
Pakinai Lisawad	Thailand	301,200
Ivan Deyra	France	275,700
Chuanshu Chen	Hong Kong	272,700
Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	243,200
Fabrice Soulier	France	243,000

With action concluded for the day, players are headed to Pacha at Studio City for the PSC Macau Player Party, either to drown their sorrows or to celebrate making Day 3. Regardless of which, this promises to be a fun time for all though some may regret any excess come April 6.

Day 3 of the PokerStars Championship Macau begins at 12 p.m. local time (GMT+7) and PokerNews will be on the floor to bring you all the action as it happens from the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room at the City of Dreams complex so join us then as we see who has got what it takes to triumph.

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Day 3 Table Draw 2017 PokerStars Championship Macau

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Hau Minh Nguyen	Australia	109,400
1	2	Jun Zhou	China	76,200
1	3	Michael Egan	Australia	110,900
1	4	Sergey Lebedev	Russia	21,000
1	5	Sergio Aido	Spain	197,200
1	6	En Ning Chen	China	20,500
1	7	Daniel McAulay	UK	136,800
1	8	Xiao Kuo Huang	China	132,600

2	1	Aymon Hata	UK	61,800
2	2	Kahle Burns	Australia	119,300
2	3	Corey Hochman	USA	92,500
2	4	Tsuyoshi Ishibashi	Japan	71,300
2	5	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	116,100
2	6	Tokuhu Yoshinaga	Japan	53,500
2	7	Kwok Chun Lai	Hong Kong	117,400
2	8	Jung Chou Lee	China	38,600

3	1	Niall Murray	UK	35,500
3	2	Stevan Chew	Australia	70,000
3	3	Yasuyuki Tsuji	Japan	66,000
3	4	Roman Korenev	Russia	60,400
3	5	Tao Fan	China	55,100
3	6	Vinay Agarwal	Singapore	96,200
3	7	Viktor Ivanov	Russia	157,900
3	8	Thibaut Blondel	France	214,500

4	1	Bernard Vu	France	119,600
4	2	Manig Loeser	Germany	93,200
4	3	Dong Guo	Canada	176,600
4	4	Chen-An Lin	Taiwan	120,900
4	5	Aslan Esenkulov	Russia	72,300
4	6	Antoine Hasbani	Lebanon	49,600
4	7	Ro Woong Park	Hong Kong	35,900
4	8	Liang Xu	China	122,500

5	1	Chun Long Ronaid Yu	Hong Kong	73,100
5	2	Winfred Yu	China	210,200
5	3	Xin Liu	China	83,600
5	4	Chun Ho Edward Yam	China	104,700
5	5	Alexander Freund	Austria	49,300
5	6	Nino Franz	Germany	81,400
5	7	Zhaojun Ruan	China	45,600
5	8	Hyoseob Shin	South Korea	236,200

6	1	Yunsong Lai	China	108,400
6	2	Panagiotis Makridis	Australia	62,200
6	3	Chuanshu Chen	Hong Kong	272,700
6	4	Tommy Hjerting Bech	Denmark	60,000
6	5	Wei Ming Tseng	Taiwan	82,500
6	6	Ilia Poliakov	Russia	124,200
6	7	Elliot Smith	Canada	84,000
6	8	Emanuel Vincent Paul Cj Seal	Australia	94,300

7	1	Pakinai Lisawad	Thailand	301,200
7	2	Weihang Chen	China	63,800
7	3	Joachim Bold	Germany	107,700
7	4	Xuan Tan	China	174,600
7	5	Michel Abecassis	France	77,700
7	6	Matthew Wakeman	Australia	119,200
7	7	Xiang Pan	China	44,000
7	8	Alex Ward	UK	52,000

8	1	Guofeng Wang	China	49,000
8	2	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	22,500
8	3	Tyron Krost	Australia	56,700
8	5	Julius Malzanini	UK	100,000
8	6	James Rann	UK	66,700
8	7	Feng Wen Chen	Taiwan	92,500
8	8	Han Yu	China	115,100

9	1	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	105,700
9	2	Jingxuan Zhu	China	186,800
9	3	Petar Kalev	Bulgaria	127,800
9	4	Kristijonas Andrulis	Lithuania	195,400
9	5	Stig Billgren	Vietnam	92,900
9	6	James Tian	USA	90,300
9	7	Daniel Bourdon	Canada	126,000
9	8	Soo Jo Kim	South Korea	105,800

10	1	Junzhong Loo	Malaysia	48,200
10	2	Andrew Hinrichsen	Australia	114,400
10	3	Jun Liu	China	152,500
10	4	Vitaly Tevis	Russia	159,500
10	5	Linh Tran	Canada	78,500
10	6	Albert Paik	USA	202,200
10	7	Alexandre Moreau	France	132,200
10	8	Shyngis Satubayev	Kazakhstan	87,000

11	1	Alex Difelice	Canada	53,000
11	2	Sai Wu	China	137,000
11	3	Levan Karamanishvili	Ukraine	117,900
11	4	Liwei Sun	Italy	175,800
11	5	Nerijus Luksa	Norway	66,400
11	6	Carsten Jeppesen	Denmark	29,600
11	7	Yuening Chen	China	71,400
11	8	Yan Li	China	241,700

12	1	Tim Shun Timpson Luk	Hong Kong	56,700
12	2	Yohwan Lim	South Korea	192,600
12	3	Lee Hon Cheong	Hong Kong	37,300
12	4	Avraham Oziel	Canada	209,400
12	5	Wen Chen	China	40,600
12	6	Nan Tu	China	96,600
12	7	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	119,300
12	8	Hao Su	China	132,500

13	1	Maxime Adam	France	53,200
13	2	Fulong Chen	China	83,600
13	3	Roman Papacek	Czech Republic	58,800
13	4	Sofia Lovgren	Sweden	132,900
13	5	Renjun Yang	China	204,900
13	6	Ihar Pliashko	Belarus	30,900
13	7	Soichiro Kojiya	Japan	42,600
13	8	Zinan Xu	China	190,700

14	1	Ping San Chan	Canada	189,200
14	2	Xiaoyang Luo	China	107,800
14	3	Yang Hau	China	104,200
14	4	Bryan Huang	Singapore	121,300
14	5	John Gallagher	Ireland	52,400
14	6	Wu Huihan	China	109,000
14	7	Ivan Deyra	France	278,700
14	8	Geoffrey Waterlot	Belgium	83,600

15	1	Satrya Wijaya Teja	Indonesia	81,000
15	2	Yuki Ko	South Korea	216,400
15	3	Yen Chen	Taiwan	77,000
15	4	Tou Ta-Wei	Taiwan	131,200
15	5	Qifeng Duan	China	84,400
15	6	Beh Kok Weng	Malaysia	93,400
15	7	Levan Kolbaia	Russia	120,000
15	8	Tianyuan Tang	China	73,700

16	1	Angelina Rich	Australia	22,000
16	2	Chenxiang Miao	China	41,000
16	3	Zedao Ma	China	57,600
16	4	Louis Lam	Canada	54,600
16	5	Jianbo Jiang	China	162,400
16	6	Dzmitry Rabotkin	Belarus	58,800
16	7	Paul Vehvilainen	Finland	195,600
16	8	Carlos Garcia Sarmiento	Colombia	86,800

17	1	Dan Smith	USA	76,900
17	2	Lachezar Petkov	Bulgaria	66,900
17	3	Morten Mortensen	Denmark	91,200
17	4	Zigao Yu	China	161,100
17	5	Alex Lee Lin Hwaa	Malaysia	102,900
17	6	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	91,100
17	7	Wenlong Jin	China	192,100
17	8	David Peters	USA	35,900

18	1	Wei Lik Graeme Siow	Singapore	183,600
18	2	Zihan Cong	China	77,600
18	3	Zhi Min Pun	China	88,900
18	4	Yao Meng	China	75,800
18	5	Xiang Zhu	China	190,700
18	6	Erich Stadler	New Zealand	36,300
18	7	Fabrice Soulier	France	243,000
18	8	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	42,300

19	1	Tamara Bremner	Canada	44,300
19	2	Daniel Laidlaw	Australia	97,300
19	3	Dilijiang A	China	92,600
19	4	Dawei Zeng	China	44,500
19	5	Egor Bulychev	Russia	189,000
19	6	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	243,200
19	7	Van Sang Nguyen	Vietnam	129,500
19	8	Ryan Yu	Canada	128,300