Congratulations to Sunny Jung, Winner of the ACOP HK$100,000 Main Event (HK$4,352,000)!
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It has taken a week's worth of poker, but the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) HK$100,000 Main Event has concluded with Korea's Sunny Jung being crowned the champion!
Starting on Monday over two Day 1 flights, 203 players took to the felt for the second running of the ACOP Main Event that was won by China's Xing Zhou last year. With one of the biggest buy-ins of the region being complemented with an incredibly generous and slow structure, a stellar field of players from across the world made the trip, but that didn't slow down the speed of play as eliminations flew out the door over the first few days. The money-paying top 25 was reached by the end of Day 3, and once play resumed on Day 4, it would be just a matter of hours before the final table was reached.
That final table of nine would see the average stack sitting at an incredible 112 big blinds meaning that players, staff and media were in for a long day. Quick eliminations occurred as Chane Kampanatsanyakorn (9th) and Chenxiang Miao (8th) were first to go before PokerStars Team Online member Randy "nanonoko" Lew was unable to claim the second leg of the Macau triple crown as he fell in (7th). From then onwards though it would be an exhausting battle for the players as chips swirled back-and-forth with eliminations on the rarity as Jonathan Depa (6th), Yoshitaka Okawa (5th), Yat Wai Cheng (4th) and Yifan Zheng (3rd) all fell to the rail before the heads-up battle between Jung and Tang would last roughly 45 minutes before play was halted for the evening.
Returning today, Jung held just a slight lead over Tang but both players had stacks of 134 and 120-big blinds respectively. Action began with Jung wearing down and steam-rolling Tang as he pushed his edge out to a two-to-one advantage. Although Tang made a slight comeback, Jung launched to a three-to-one advantage when his 
made a four-flush on a 
board before furthering that lead to an eight-to-one advantage. Fortunately for Tang he started to fight back for what seemed like the first time today as he slowly clawed his way back into the heads-up battle. A mix of aggression and some hands helped Tang before he managed to take the lead when his 
bested Jung's 
on a 
in a four-bet pot.
The two then traded pots back-and-forth for the better part of 90 minutes before Jung put his foot down and began furthering the gap between the two to take a three-to-one lead before the final hand played out. With Tang beginning the hand with roughly 35 big blind, he raised to 100,000 (at 25,000/50,000 blinds) and Jung three-bet to 300,000. Tang made it 500,000 and Jung instantly moved all in with Tang making the call holding 
to be dominated by Jung's 
. With the first called all-in of heads up play upon us, the 
board would see Jung's dominance improve to a flush to be crowned the second ACOP Main Event Champion and recipient of HK$4,352,000 in prize money.
Final Table Payouts
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sunny Jung | Korea | HK$4,352,000 |
| 2nd | Devan Tang | Hong Kong | HK$3,667,000 |
| 3rd | Zifan Zheng | China | HK$1,980,000 |
| 4th | Yat Wai Cheng | China | HK$1,485,000 |
| 5th | Yoshitaka Okawa | Japan | HK$1,188,000 |
| 6th | Jonathan Depa | USA | HK$990,000 |
| 7th | Randy Lew | United States | HK$792,000 |
| 8th | Chenxiang Miao | China | HK$594,000 |
| 9th | Chane Kampanatsanyakorn | Thailand | HK$495,000 |
PokerNews would like to congratulate Sunny Jung on a fantastically played tournament as he displayed great aggression and use of pressure once reaching heads-up play to eventually be crowned the 2013 Asia Championship of Poker HK$100,000 Main Event Champion!