Everyone was gearing up for an excessively long Day 4 of the 2014 ACOP Main Event.
After all, 24 players had to become nine and the typical stack was around 60 big blinds with levels lasting 90 minutes each.
But the players didn't mess about.
There was no tanking, no stalling and no nonsense.
Instead, it was just elimination after elimination with a view to setting the overall table.
The big overnight story was that last year's ACOP champion Sunny Jung was making another deep run. He defeated 203 players in 2013 to win greater than US$500,000 and had already outlast more players than that to make Day 4 of the 2014 ACOP.
Well, Jung is the tale again as he's amazingly the chip leader of the overall nine! Jung is now starring down the barrel of history as he looks to become the first-ever back-to-back ACOP champion. There aren't many players in poker history who've achieved one of these feat in tournaments of this magnitude.
Jung, however, is faced with tough competition.
In fact, the player with the second one largest stack is the extremely experienced Ami Barer.It was an enormous year for Barer, starting back in February when he won the 2014 Aussie Millions for AU$1.6 million.
Since the Aussie Millions win, Barer made two side event final tables at EPT Monte Carlo, finished fourth within the EPT Barcelona 8-Handed High Roller and finished third within the ACOP Warm-up only a few days ago.
All in all, Barer has posted greater than US$2 million in ends up in 2014 alone and is now eight places clear of adding another US$800,000 to the tally.
Another one of the crucial prominent players on the ACOP final table is Joseph Cheong.
Over the last several years Cheong has proven himself as one of the vital finest poker talents within the world, amassing greater than US$10 million in results. Cheong finished fifth within the ACOP Super High Roller earlier within the week for just over US$500,000 so he's clearly in good form.
Jung, Barer and Cheong must get through Tore Lukashuagen, Raiden Kan, Zuo "ST" Wang, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Gabriel Le Jossec and Konstantin Pogodin to win the ACOP title, so it's not going to be a very easy task.
For these nine players to have secured a place at the final table, 15 others needed to fall short. A kind of who was unable to make it was Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin.
The two-time Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon champion were fighting with the quick stack for far of the last two days and ultimately found herself all in when 22 players remained.
Lin had pocket fours against Dimitar Danchev's pocket tens and Ami Barer's A♣K♣ and wasn't capable of finding the cards she needed and so headed to the rail with HK$270,000.
Lin was certainly one of two ladies who returned to the felt on Day 4, with Yaxi "Yvonne" Zhu the opposite. Zhu actually started the day because the chip leader, but ended up falling in 12th place.
Zhu ended up short stacked and moved all in with K♠3♠ on a 2♣3♣J♥ flop and was out drawn by Barer who called with A♦4♣ and hit a five at the river to make a straight.
Some of the others who joined Lin and Zhu at the rail throughout Day 4 include Byron Kaverman (24th), Kai Yat Fam (19th), Sorel Mizzi (18th), Dimitar Danchev (16th) and Terrence Chan (14th).
The player to catch up with to the overall table than all others, but ultimately fall short, was Bodo Sbrzesny. He was the quick stack in the course of the final table bubble and was happy to get his chips in preflop with A♦Q♠ and was even happier to have Barer call with K♣Q♥.
Sbrzesny looked clear of the table because the dealer opened up a 9♦9♣3♠ flop and only glanced once the dealer turned over a T♦. Sbrzesny was then devastated to look the J♦ fall at the river to provide Barer a runner-runner straight, meaning Sbrzesny was eliminated in 10th place and the day was over.
Here is how the general nine lineup:
Seat 1: Zuo 'ST' Wang (China) - 504,000Seat 2: Konstantin Pogodin (Russia) - 1,165,000Seat 3: Ami Barer (Canada) - 1,766,000Seat 4: Raiden Kan (Hong Kong) - 488,000Seat 5: Sunny Jung (Korea) - 1,810,000Seat 6: Vladimir Troyanovskiy (Russia) - 576,000Seat 7: Tore Lukashaugen (Norway) - 369,000Seat 8: Gabriel Le Jossec (UK) - 1,025,000Seat 9: Joseph Cheong (USA) - 1,027,000
All the players have already locked up HK$675,000 (~US$87,000) and can be fighting it out for the HK$6,300,000 (~US$815,000) top prize. There'll be full player profiles posted shortly so that you can learn more about all the nine remaining players.
The final table is ready to commence at 3:00 p.m. local time on Saturday and again it is possible for you to to search out full live reports, feature stories and results at the 2014 ACOP page on the PokerStarsBlog.
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