Xixiang Luo Eliminated in 8th Place (HK$470,000)

Despite winning two side events here at the PokerStars Macau Championship for a little over US$50,000 already this week China’s Xixiang Luo could not go the distance here in the HK$103,000 High Roller and has become the first casualty of the final table.
Pre-flop it was Dan Smith who opened the action with a raise to 38,000 from the button and Troy Quenneville made the call from the small blind before Luo squeezed all-in from the big blind for 441,000 in total.

While Smith quickly folded Quenneville looked interested and asked for a count before making a quick call before the 5 allotted seconds of free time are over.

Xixiang Luo:
Troy Quenneville:

The Canadian immediately flopped top pair on the window card with the rest of the flop coming down . The turn and river gave Luo no help and first blood goes to Troy Quenneville while Luo headed to the cash desk to pick up the equivalent of US$57,560. All seven remaining High Rollers have HK$652,000 (~US$84,760) locked up for their efforts.