MPC 26: Alan Lau wins the Red Dragon for HK$3,2M

The Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon Main Event is finally finished with Alan Lau standing victorious above a record breaking field of 1,216 players.

The MPC has been running from February 3-19, 2017 at the PokerStars Live Macau at the City of Dreams featuring the Red Dragon Main event which has a buyin of HK$15,000.

Being the largest freezeout in Asia due to its massive participation, the event has a whopping prize pool of HK$15,923,520 (approx. US$2 Million) which has gone beyond its original guarantee of HK$10 Million.

Alan Lau from Hong Kong, who was the 2015 Asia Player of the Year in a controversial point count, has once again placed himself at the top of the leaderboard with his win of the HK$10,000 NLH Event 2 for HK$261,900 ($33,744) and now the Red Dragon Main Event for an impressive HK$3,265,000 ($420,674).

He went heads-up against Chien Fa Chou from Taiwan who was the chip leader entering the Final table.

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The final table was dominated by a lot of new faces. But apart from Alan Lau, there were 2 other veteran players and that were Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year 2016 Yang Zhang and 2017 Aussie Millions 10^thplacer Bobby Zhang. Yang Zhang ended up in 4^thtaking home HK$840,000 and Bobby Zhang made 7^thplace for HK$348,000.

Here’s the result of the final table:

FINAL TABLE RESULTS

1. Alan Lau (Hong Kong) — HK$3,265,000
2. Chien Fa Chou (Taiwan) — HK$1,954,000
3. Apoorva Goel (India) — HK$1,163,000
4. Yang Zhang (China) — HK$840,000
5. Edwin Gerard (USA) — HK$570,000
6. Liang Xu (China) — HK$411,500
7. Bobby Zhang (Australia) — HK$348,000
8. Chou Zhen (China) — HK$300,500
9. Jun Liu (China) — HK$253,720

Still coming up is Day 2 of the High Roller Event which starts on Feb. 18 at 2pm

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