HomeNeil Arce opened to 800 preflop and got four callers.
Flop: 9♥ 4♦ Q♣
Arce C-bets to 2,500 forcing all to fold except Ruth Graham, who flat-called.
Turn: A♣
Arce fired 7,000– the last of his chips and got a quick call from Ruth G.
Arce: Q♠ 10♥
Ruth G: 9♦ 9♠
Drawing dead, Arce busts out of the tournament and Ruth G continues to stack ’em up.
But before the break, we saw Bryan Huang, who already has a short stack, river-bet on a board of A♣ 2♥ 5♥ 2♠ Q♦ against Japan’s Gerard Bringley, who folded to give the nice pot to the Singaporean pro.
Holding pocket sevens and very short-stacked Neil Arce decided it was time to double up or go home (or re-enter). Arce was all-in against Kunal Patni, who had the overcards K♠ J♠.
The dealer boarded 8♣ 4♦ Q♣ 6♥ 3♦ and Arce survives this flip and now has around half the starting stack.
In an unraised pot on a flop of 7♠ A♥ 6♥, two players shoved and for good reasons:
Amit Ajwani: A♣ 7♣
Alexis Lim: 7♦ 7♥
Lim was ahead but needed to avoid an ace; he did on the turn 2♠ but can’t on the river A♠ as Ajwani completes his own boat.
Ajwani has now over 40,000 in chips.
With a large pot in the middle and on a board of 4♥ 5♣ J♥ 2♦ 7♦, Due Diong “Jerry” Bui bet 8,100 just about the pot size against Mike Takayama, who took some time in the tank before making the call.
Bui: A♥ Q♦
Takayama: A♦ 4♦
Takayama, who is the defending champion in this APT Asian Poker Series Main Event, wins the nice pot after a great read/call.
From the hi-jack, Allan Hon raised to 700 and saw Ruth Graham re-raise to 2,500. Hon three-bet to 18,700 to send Ms. Graham to the tank, for quite a long time. Ruth eventually called and shoved his final 19,725 and Hon called.
Hon: A♠ A♣
Graham: K♣ K♦
Hon was way ahead but the flop 3♦ K♥ 10♠ immediately changed the fate for these two players! No ace on the turn 5♦ and river 2♠ and Hon’s stack is seriously crippled at this point. By hitting the two-outer, Graham has now over 40,000 in chips.
Flop: 8♠ 7♦ 4♥
From under the gun, a player bet 550 on the raised pot but saw Jose Drilon re-pop to 1,150. The UTG player made the call along with Jessie Leonarez.
Turn: 5♦
The UTG player checked, Drilon fired 3,500 and both Leonarez and the other opponent folded.
Drilon has now around 50,000 in chips.
Jojo Tech is at it again! The Filipino pro has just won the Head Hunters title against You Hui of China.
On the flop 6♥ 6♠ A♥, Tetsuya Tsuchikawa check-called an opponent’s bet of 3,500. Both players checked the turn K♣ and Tet led out for 6,000 on the river 7♠ to force the fold.