Drôle de heads-up final que celui du Macau Millions, puisque le seul Français en course au début du tournoi, Brice Renaud avait réussi à tirer son épingle du jeu et à se hisser jusqu’aux dernières places… Mais la chance n’aura pas été du côté du joueur occidental puisqu’il doit finalement laisser Hung-sheng Lin remporter la victoire, pour tout juste 400 000$ Hong Kongais (soit environ 35 000$ US).

Ce tournoi était censé être celui de tous les records, le sponsor de l’étape clamant haut et fort qu’il était le plus grand tournoi de poker organisé en Asie. Vrai, puisque 1319 entrées ont été comptabilisées au total ; plus douteux quand on sait qu’il était possible de s’inscrire plusieurs fois, pour un même joueur, aux 7 Day 1 organisés ! Au final, ce sont un peu plus de 710 joueurs uniques qui sont entrés dans le tournoi, qui s’est déroulé sur… 3 jours seulement !

Le rythme des éliminations était en effet hallucinant, dû à la structure turbo (il faut rappeler que le buy-in n’était que de quelques centaines d’euros) et au très faible niveau des concurrents. La logique du jeu a d’ailleurs été relativement observée puisque le gagnant n’est autre que le Top 3 des joueurs de poker asiatiques, et que Brice Renaud avait déjà signé quelques places payées à Hong Kong lors de tournois au buy-in similaire…

Résultats

1st Hung-sheng Lin (Taipei) (PokerStars Player) – HK$400,000
2nd Brice Renaud (France) – HK$300,000
3rd Huy Khiem Nguyen (Germany) – HK$200,000
4th Raiden Kan (Malaysia) (PokerStars Player) – HK$150,000
5th Jordon Lo (Taipei) – HK$120,000
6th Wenlong Jin (China) – HK$96,420
7th Hirotoshi Nakabo (Japan) – HK$75,000
8th Armand Prati (United States) – (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$60,000
9th Wayne Yap (Sinagpore) – HK$50,000
10th Sixiao « Juicy » Li (China) – HK$35,000
11th Albert Wing Fai Kwan (Hong Kong) – HK$35,000
12th Claudia Yum (Korea) – HK$35,000
13th Christopher Koo (Hong Kong) – HK$35,000
14th Hui Min Huang (Macau) – HK$25,000
15th Terry Fan (Taiwan) (PokerStars Player) – HK$25,000
16th Robert Bow Chow (Hong Kong) – HK$25,000
17th Roy Wan (Hong Kong) – HK$25,000
18th Jay Tan (Hong Kong) – HK$25,000
19th Junzhong Loo (Malaysia) – HK$20,000
20th Hubert Siy (Philippines) – HK$20,000
21st Aman Dhamija (India) – HK$20,000
22nd Clement Chung Man Lau (Hong Kong) – HK$20,000
23rd Wenlin Wang (China) – HK$20,000
24th Robert Parkin (UK) (PokerStars Qualifier) – HK$20,000
25th Kuo Yang Huang (Taipei) – HK$20,000
26th Sung Hee Yun (USA) – HK$20,000
27th Qinghong Zhang (China) – HK$20,000
28th Neil Arce (Philippines) (PokerStars Sponsored Player) – HK$17,000
29th Wai Bing Yiu (Hong Kong) – HK$17,000
30th Thommy Lam (Netherlands) – HK$17,000
31st Jason Hoang (Canada) – HK$17,000
32nd Yosuke Sekiya (Japan) (PokerStars Player) – HK$17,000
33rd Hoi Ting Lee (Hong Kong) – HK$17,000
34th Pei Cui (China) – HK$17,000
35th Kenji Kurashina (Japan) (PokerStars Qualifier) – HK$17,000
36th Jee Soo Pyon (Korea) – HK$17,000
37th Yuji Masaki (Japan) (PokerStars Player) – HK$14,000
38th Jianyu Chen (China) – HK$14,000
39th Haifeng Xue (China) – HK$14,000
40th Wilson Yu Shen Lau (Hong Kong) – HK$14,000
41st Shu Yan Sun (Hong Kong) – HK$14,000
42nd Teo Shi Wei (Singapore) (PokerStars Qualifier) – HK$14,000
43rd Che Kung Lam (Hong Kong) – HK$14,000
44th Kenny Shih (Taipei) – HK$14,000
45th Tao Jin (UK) – HK$14,000
46th Rundulf Gonzales (Philippines) – HK$12,000
47th Ramin Lessani (Iran) – HK$12,000
48th Alexey Ten (Russia) – HK$12,000
49th Paul Cottam (Australia) – HK$12,000
50th Jacky Chi Kin Mok (Hong Kong) – HK$12,000
51st Yow Hui Ng (Singapore) – HK$12,000
52nd Dong Min Kim (Korea) – HK$12,000
53rd Victor Chen (Taipei) – HK$12,000
54th Nigel Jones (UK) – HK$12,000
55th Tsun Ming Chan (Hong Kong) – HK$10,000
56th Ion Sang Song (Macau) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$10,000
57th Manuel Regis (Philippines) – HK$10,000
58th Tuck Chew Ho (Singapore) – HK$10,000
59th Shang Hung Cheng (Taipei) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$10,000
60th Asusa Maeda (Japan) – HK$10,000
61st Ricardo Siregar (Indonesia) – HK$10,000
62nd Russell Thio (Malaysia) – HK$10,000
63rd Mayumi Kaneko (Japan) – HK$10,000
64th Gianpaulo Bini (Canada) – HK$10,000
65th Yucheng Liu (China) – HK$10,000
66th Yuki Tagawa (Japan) – HK$10,000
67th Fan Fang (China) – HK$10,000
68th Tsung Ming Lin (Taipei) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$10,000
69th Hyoung Suob Shim (Korea) – HK$10,000
70th Daren Frunks (Australia) – HK$10,000
71st Gaurav Law (India) – HK$10,000
72nd Yu-ping Lin (Taipei) (PokerStars Qualifier) – HK$10,000
73rd Teck Yeow Yap (Singapore) – HK$8,000
74th Jung Chou Lee (Taipei) – HK$8,000
75th Hong Rui Wang (Taipei) – HK$8,000
76th Nouman Yousef (Syria) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$8,000
77th Raymond Wu (Taipei) (Team PokerStars Pro: Asia) – HK$8,000
78th Michael Mariakis (Australia) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$8,000
79th Jing Yi Zhu (Australia) – HK$8,000
80th Will Kuok Wai Cheong (Macau) – HK$8,000
81st Kai Lee Tse (Hong Kong) – HK$8,000
82nd Shafiq Taleb Barqawi (Jordan) – HK$8,000
83rd Yue Feng (China) – HK$8,000
84th John Jun Liang (USA) – HK$8,000
85th Chun Jui Lin (Canada) – HK$8,000
86th Gerald Wong (Hong Kong) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$8,000
87th Qinghong Zhang (China) (PokerStars Macau Qualifier) – HK$8,000
88th Thommy Lam (Netherlands) – HK$8,000
89th Sixiao Li (China) – HK$8,000
90th Tsun Ming Chan (Hong Kong) – HK$8,000
91st Hirotoshi Nakabo (Japan) – HK$8,000
92nd Jung Chou Lee (Taipei) – HK$8,000
93rd Min Soon Lim (Singapore) – HK$8,000