Action folded over to Raiden Kan in the small blind who tossed out a completion. Sunny Jung was in the big blind and he wasted little time announcing a raise to 54,000. Kan came over the top with a four-bet to 150,000 and Jung instantly moved all in. Kan called for his tournament life of about 450,000 and the hands were turned over.
Kan:
Jung:
The two were flipping for Kan's tournament life heading to the flop. The dealer fanned on the felt, pairing the reigning champion's ace and giving him the lead in the hand. The hit the turn, prompting Kan to give a slight shake of the head. Kan failed to improve with the on the river and he became the eighth place finisher for HK$813,100.
With this pot, Jung extended his chip lead to about 2.5 million.
On the third hand of the day it was folded to Vladimir Troyanovskiy on the button who made it 30,000. Tore Lukashaugen was in the small blind and the short stack at the table. He moved all in and when the big blind folded Troyanovskiy quickly made the call.
Welcome back to our coverage of the PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Asia Championship of Poker! The starting field of 291 has been whittled down to the final table of nine. Leading the pack heading into the final day is none other then ACOP reigning champion Sunny Jung. Jung bagged the biggest stack on the penultimate day and will hold a lead of 1.81 million coming into the final table.
Jung currently sits in second place on South Korea's all-time money list for live tournament poker. A high finish in today's event could vault this poker professional into the top spot for his country. Last year he won this very event and pocketed a cool HK$4,352,000. This year, as he looks to go back-to-back, the stakes are even higher with a first-place prize of HK$6,300,000. Jung has been in this position before and is certainly a favorite to retain his championship title as he holds the biggest stack at the table.
That being said, recent Aussie Millions Main Event champion Ami Barer is right on Jung's heels. Barer bagged 1.76 million to end the day yesterday and will certainly be a serious force at this final table. He comes into the final table in second place overall.
Also present at the final table is tournament wizard Joseph Cheong, sitting on 1.027 million for fourth place overall in chips. This is Cheong second final table of the week, finishing fifth place in the 2014 ACOP “Macau Billionaire Poker” HK$500,000 Super High Roller just five days ago. Cheong pocketed $528,663 in USD for his efforts at that finale table and surely looks to improve upon his finish today.
Here's a look at the seat draw and chip counts heading into the final table:
Seat
Player
Country
Chips
1
Zuo 'ST' Wang
China
504,000
2
Konstantin Pogodin
Russia
1,165,000
3
Ami Barer
Canada
1,760,000
4
Raiden Kan
Hong Kong
488,000
5
Sunny Jung
Korea
1,810,000
6
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
Russia
576,000
7
Tore Lukashaugen
Norway
369,000
8
Gabriel Le Jossec
UK
1,025,000
9
Joseph Cheong
USA
1,027,000
Play begins at 3 p.m. local time and the field will play down to a winner. As always, be sure to keep your browsers locked on PokerNews for all of the latest updates.
![[user196676]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
on the felt, pairing the reigning champion's ace and giving him the lead in the hand. The 
hit the turn, prompting Kan to give a slight shake of the head. Kan failed to improve with the 
on the river and he became the eighth place finisher for HK$813,100.
and Lukashaugen was eliminated.
