The 20th anniversary celebrations of the Macau Poker Cup have come to an end with the Red Dragon trophy heading to a new destination as Mongolia’s Buyanjargal Bold (pictured) claimed an impressive victory overnight.

The record-setting HK$11,000 Red Dragon Main Event was down to the final nine with Australian Victor Teng holding the chip lead entering a diverse final table. Jianhong Liu was first to go in 9th place before Terry Fan’s quest for a second Red Dragon title came to an end in 8th place. Fan jammed his short stack with pocket fours but couldn’t win the race against the ace-king of Percy Yung. It would’ve been a remarkable achievement to win the two largest MPC events in history, but it wasn’t to be for Fan.

Victor Teng continued to lead and his advantage was extended when he woke up with pocket kings after Xiao Lin had shoved with K diams8 diams. There were no miracles for Lin as six players remained.

Fei Xie pushed a dominated ace into Percy Yung’s ace-queen to bow out in 6th place before India’s last hope, Akash Malik, fell in 5th place. Malik was a little unlucky after flopping a set only to see Victor Teng make a flush to send him to the rail.

Percy Yung was starting to chip up, but it was four-handed that Buyanjargal Bold started to make his move with the elimination of Richard Hu. Bold made the preflop call with pocket fours to be ahead of Hu’s A diams3 diams and despite a flush draw scare, the pocket pair held to see Hu out in 4th place.

At this point, the three remaing players were happy to lock up a deal based on chip counts as follows:

Victor Teng (6,825,000 in chips) – HK$1,498,000

Buyanjargal Bold (4,385,000 in chips) – HK$1,244,000

Percy Yung (3,505,000 in chips) – HK$1,159,000

Percy YungWith the money out of the way, the title and the gorgeous Red Dragon trophy were left to play for, and despite holding the lead at the deal, it would be Victor Teng who was next to fall. It was a bit of a three-handed cooler as Teng four-bet A heartsQ clubs into Percy Yung’s A spadesA diams. The board bricked out and, just like that, Teng was out in 3rd place.

Percy Yung (pictured right) took an advantage into heads-up play against Buyanjargal Bold, but on one of the first heads-up pots, both players would flop two pair on a 7 diams3 clubs5 clubs flop. Yung’s 5 diams3 diams was no match for Bold’s 7 hearts5 spades for a full double up.

From that blow, Yung was unable to recover. A short time later she moved all in with K hearts9 clubs and Bold made the call with A diams8 diams. The board would read A spades4 clubs6 spades4 spades2 spades to give Bold a memorable victory.

It was a tremendous run by Percy Yung who narrowly misses the title, but this poker starlet is certainly one to watch for in future. Meanwhile Bold gives Mongolia arguably it’s greatest ever poker achievement with his victory worth an impressive HK$1,244,000.

Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon – Final Table Results

1st Buyanjargal Bold (Mongolia) – HK$1,492,000*  (Includes HK$100,000 ACOP seat)

2nd Percy Yung (Hong Kong) – HK$1,159,000*

3rd Victor Teng (Australia) – HK$1,498,000*

4th Richard Hu (China) – HK$597,000

5th Akash Malik (India) – HK$430,000

6th Fei Xie (China) – HK$334,000

7th Xiao Yu Lin (China) – HK$263,000

8th Terry Fan (Chinese Taipei) – HK$191,000

9th Jianhong Liu (China) – HK$143,000

Source: Poker Asia Pacific