Stanley Choi Wins Macau High Stakes Game For $6.4 Million

Stanley Choi has won the Macau High Stakes Challenge, after defeating a field of 73 players over 14 hours to lift the trophy and collect the $6,466,011 first place prize.
The HK$2 million ($257,872) re-buy turbo event took place at the  StarWorld Hotel’s Poker King Club and as well as attracting dozens of wealthy Asian businessmen, saw some of the game’s biggest names also turn out for a shot at the huge $23,511,128 prize pool. These players included Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Sam Trickett, Gus Hansen, Joe Hachem, Ben Lamb, Erik Seidel, Mike “Timex” McDonald, Brian Rast and Nam Le.
The players started with 100k in chips with the 30 minute blinds ensuring that just a few hours into play only half the field remained. By the time the tourney reached its latter stages, Du Yi Chen (10-10) up against Di Dang (A-A) found himself the unlucky bubble boy, while J.P. Kelly became the first player to cash after being eliminated in 12th place for a $587,819 payday. With the exit of Philipp Gruissem in 10th ($587,819) the final table of nine then got underway with Ivey, Juanda and Trickett still in contention.
Subsequently, Phil Ivey became the first of the big hitters to exit the final table after getting it all-in holding Kh-6h to Tang Zheng’s Kc-9c and so Ivey departed in 8th for $822,941. He was followed by Sam Trickett in 7th ($999,184), whose As-Js was no match for the pocket fives turned quads of Stanley Choi. John Juanda then bowed out in 5th ($1,645,753) holding A-10 to Nicholas Wong’ 9-9 leaving the relatively unknown remaining players to enjoy the limelight.
Eventually, Tang Zheng would fall in 4th ($2,233,531), followed by Wong in 3rd ($3,291,506), leaving Zhu Guan Fai and Stanley Choi to battle it out for the title. However, the tourney came to a swift finale after Stanley Choi (10-10) and Fai (6-6) were all-in preflop and with no help from the board Zhu Guan Fa finished the runner-up for $4,349,610, while all the accolade plus the $6,465,560 first place prize went to Stanley Choi.
The final payouts of the Macau High Stakes Challenge were as follows:
1 Stanley Choi     $6,465,560
2 Zhu Guan Fa     $4,349,610
3 Nicholas Wong $3,291,506
4 Tang Zheng     $2,233,531
5 John Juanda     $1,645,753
6 Lap Key Chen     $1,234,347
7 Sam Trickett     $999,184
8 Phil Ivey     $822,941
9 Alan Sass     $705,360
10 Philipp Gruissem $587,778
11 Di Dang     $587,778
12 J.P. Kelly     $587,778