Macau Poker Cup 23: Team India Out of Contention From Red Dragon Main Event, Tse Jui Tsai Leads Final Table; Dhaval Mudgal & Kunal Patni Continue Great Run in Event 13

Macau Poker Cup (MPC) 23 continues its onward march and all the attention is being dominated by the Red Dragon Main Event, which has now reached the final table. Taiwan`s Tse Jui Tsai is leading the final nine with play scheduled to play down to a winner today. The two remaining Indian`s on Day 2 – Nikhil Maheswari and Devang Shah were eliminated in 15^th and 44^th places respectively on Day 3.

With just two more days left for the series to end, the majority of the Indian contingent has headed back home, but a few players remain.

Dhaval Mudgal and Kunal Patni, who have both had a great series so far, are among those still in Macau and they continue making inroads at the current Event 13 – $20,000 NLH (3-day event).

HK $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event – Day 3

India’s final hopes for the prestigious Red Dragon trophy ended on Day 3, when Nikhil Maheswari and Devang Shah were both eliminated.

According to the PokerStars Blog live coverage, “Maheswari busted after just jamming all in from under the gun. Jiwan Park in the cut off, moved all in over the top and with everyone else out of the way, they turned up their hands.

Maheswari

Park

Maheswari needed help, but none came on the runout.”

Park moved up to 850,000 and Maheswari was busted at 15^th place for HK $93,000.

Devang Shah made an earlier, 44^th place finish for HK $37,200.

Day 3 of Main Event began with 48 players taking their seats and nine players remain in contention for the MPC23 Red Dragon title. These nine are assured a min of HK $166,500.

Taiwan`s Tse Jui Tsai leads the final nine with 2,495,000 in chips. Interestingly, Tsai is the only player at the final table who does not hail from mainland China. If Tsai manages to overcome the odds he will be the fifth Red Dragon champion from Taiwan, while any other victor will make it the eighth title for a player from mainland China.

MPC23 Red Dragon Final Table Chip Counts

Seat 1: Tse Jui Tsai – 2,495,000
Seat 2: Yue Feng Pan – 1,945,000
Seat 3: Bin Wen Ren – 1,715,000
Seat 4: Xong Xin Liu – 540,000
Seat 5: Huafeng Gu – 1,310,000
Seat 6: Ming Min Wu – 1,115,000
Seat 7: Long Wen Zhu – 1,490,000
Seat 8: Shao Po Liu – 1,425,000
Seat 9: Zhixiong Tan – 2,110,000

Event 13 – $20,000 NLH

Dhaval Mudgal, Kunal Patni and Sahil Agarwal all played Day 1 of Event 13, which is a 3-day event, and carries a $1,000,000 guarantee.

Sahil busted the event but both Dhaval and Kunal have made it to Day 2 and updated the progress on social media.

Dhaval Mudgal

“20k starting chips! Let’s keep this run going @Thrill_India”

“60 minute levels now! Crazy structure”

“20k. Really wanted to call off an overbet shove on the river with middle pair but couldn’t get myself to!”

“18k@200/400 @Thrill_India”

“Upto 44k @ 200/400! #LFG@Thrill_India”

“Bagged 80k. 85 left, 27 ITM we restart at 600/1200 @Thrill_India”

Kunal Patni

“Made it to day 2 of 20k HKD event. We start tomorrow at 600-1200. We have 101500. Double the average stack. #‎TeamSpades#‎TeamIndia“

Besides crowning the HK $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event champion, today will also mark the start of Event 14 – HK $3,000 NLH and Event 15 – HK $80,000 High Roller. Keep watching this space for the latest updates from MPC 23!

Image Courtesy: Kenneth Lim Photography courtesy of PokerStars LIVE Macau.