Satrya Teja Tops Day 1b; Defending Champion Zhou in the Hunt
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Day 1b of the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event kicked off at PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams with 110 hopefuls looking to join the 77 Day 1a survivors on Wednesday for Day 2.
The HK$100,000 (approximately $12,900) buy-in and whopping prizepool guarantee attracted from all across the world as Brandon Meyers, Keith Gipson, Joel Micka, Michael Tureniec, David Vamplew, Praz Bansi and Tom Middleton joined the likes of Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin, Raymond Wu and Randy Lew, Macau veterans Kitty Kuo, Hung-Sheng Lin, Yu Kurita, Akira Ohyama and Roger Spets as well as reigning champion Xing Zhou.
The Team PokerStars Pros would all endure the tournament in different ways as Lew chipped up early and never looked back as he finished the day with 44,900. Early Lew cold four-bet 
and got two streets of value on a 
board before flopping a set of tens on Tureniec. For Lin she would be put to a potentially tournament ending decision early and then hover around average for the majority of play before bagging 15,425. Wu on the other hand had the worse of all three Team Pros as he was log-jammed on a tough table that featured Vamplew and Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson. Wu’s day came to an end after committing all in holding 
on a 
flop but unfortunately ran into Liang Shi’s 
.
Speaking of Aussie Millions Champions, there would be three of them in the field as Nelson arrived late before ending with 36,850 as Mervin Chan quietly built his stack to 44,600 by days end. Oliver Speidel however wouldn’t be so fortunate as he lost a big pot after bet-folding the river only to run his 
into 
all in preflop, and once the 
was spread he was sent to the rail.
Joining Speidel on the rail throughout the day included Ivan Zalac, Raj Ramakrishnan, Micka and Meyers. However Day 1b would belong to Satrya Teja who bagged an impressive 83,300 in chips to top the 89 players surviving into Day 2. Also sneaking in were Praz Bansi (80,100), Kunimiro Kojo (77,350), Xing Zhou (62,350), Michael Tureniec (53,700), LuLu Tang (54,000), Yu Kurita (52,525), Tom Grigg (40,425), Billy Argyros (39,925), Kitty Kuo (38,850) and Devan Tang (18,225).
Day 2 will see 166 players return to the felt at 5:00 p.m. local time with the PokerNews Live Reporting team providing all the live updates from PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams. But until then … there is a player party to attend! In the meantime, check out Sarah Grant's guided tour of Macau: