China’s Alvan Zhang has topped a mammoth field of 1,122 players to claim become the 28th Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon main event champion.
The 29-year-old from Guangzhou claimed a first prize of HK$3.055 million for his victory as well as a PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Platinum Pass which includes travel and entry into the US$25,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Championship at the annual PokerStars Carribean Adventure next January.
It is Zhang’s second big score in Macau, having previously win the Macau Millions in January 2016 for a HK$911,000 payday. But victory in the Red Dragon represents a considerably larger payday and sees Zhang shoot to 10th on China’s all time tournament poker money list with live winnings of US$1.16 million.
Final table results
1st: Alvan Zheng (China) – HK$3,055,000
2nd: Junhao Hong (China) – HK$1,824,000
3rd: Jiang Ho Huang (Singapore) – HK$1,094,000
4th: Zhenhua Lu (China) – HK$800,000
5th: Aleksei Opalikhin (Russia) – HK$540,000
6th: Dongqi Lin (China) – HK$394,000
7th: Minho Lee (Korea) – HK$336,000
8th: Zhou Tong (China) – HK$292,000
9th: Jiming Chen (China) – HK$248,000
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