The winner of the last event of the Macau Poker Cup Festival, the Red Dragon Main Event, is Terry Fan, a 30-year-old professional poker player from Taiwan. He scooped up the first place prize of HK$1,771,000.
The results of the Red Dragon Main Event final table are as follows. As the champion of the event, Terry Fan of China won HK$1,771,000 and the runner-up Gie Reyes of Philippines won the second place prize of HK$1,242,000. The players who finished third and fourth were Neil Chen and Fei Xie of China, who won HK$743,000 and HK$555,000, respectively.
The players who finished fifth and sixth were Andy Ashihwardji of Canada and Fanny Li of USA, who won HK$393,000 and HK$328,000, respectively. The players who finished seventh, eighth, and ninth were Sailesh Lohia of India, Wesley Zhu of China, and Ryan Yu of Canada, who won HK$262,000, HK$196,000, and HK$153,000, respectively.
The Red Dragon Main Event, which had a buy-in of HK$11,000, attracted as many as 635 participants and the prize pool generated was as high as HK$8,746,412. The leader of the field after Day 1a was Sailesh Lohia. The top spot was grabbed by Gie Reyes on Day 1c. The top 108 players of the event won their share of the prize pool, and the player who finished on the bubble was Hui Zhang of China. The PokerStars Blog reports that Zhang, who finished in the 109th place, did not have a hand strong enough to beat that of his opponent Hisashi Ogi.
At the end of Day 2, 18 players were left playing and Fanny Li was the chip leader. The final table action began shortly after Vincent Rubianes was eliminated in the 11th position. Fan, who was the chip leader when the final table play began, soon reached a heads-up match against Reyes and won the event.