Hong Kong’s Alan Lau has won the 26th Macau Poker Cup at PokerStars LIVE at City of Dreams, slaying a record field of 1,216 to pocket a HK$3,265,000 top prize.
Ending an eight-year drought for Hong Kong players in the prestigious event, which is also known as the Red Dragon, Lau moved to the top of the Asian rankings leaderboard with a dominant final table performance.
Lau began the final day’s play sitting second in chips behind Taiwan’s Chien Fa Chou but by the time play went heads-up he held a massive 5:1 chip lead over Chou and quickly sealed the deal to collect the biggest payday of his career.
Final Table Results:
- Alan Lau (Hong Kong) – HK$3,265,000
- Chien Fa Chou (Taiwan) – HK$1,954,000
- Apoorva Goel (India) – HK$1,163,000
- Yang Zhang (China) – HK$840,000
- Edwin Gerard (USA) – HK$570,000
- Liang Xu (China) – HK$411,500
- Bobby Zhang (Australia) – HK$348,000
- Chou Zhen (China) – HK$300,500
- Jun Liu (China) – HK$253,720