HomeLinh Tran from Canada is starting to put in some serious work.
Craig Sloan, who was Day 1A’s chip-leader, led out with a min-raise which was met by the small blind, Linh Tran.
Both players checked the flop 8♣ 6♣ A♠ but on the turn 8♦ Tran opened with 5,300. Sloan called.
The river 7♣ arrived and Tran bet 9,000 only to see a re-raise of 29,000 from Sloan… Tran called, showed 8♥ 8♠ and Sloan mucked his hand.
Tran has now over 90,000 while Sloan drops to around 120,000.
With nearly 200K in chips to work with to start Day 2, Jihad Beijjani knows he can use his aggressiveness and press his opponents being the chip lead.
A player from the hi-jack opened preflop to 4,500 and Beijjani from the cut-off re-popped him to roughly 16,000…
Enough to force the fold from the player, who didn’t want to indulge with this early with the chip leader.
The flop 2♣ Q♣ 9♦ already boarded, short-stacked Takuya Kato decided that top pair J♥ Q♥ was good enough to risk his tournament life from the small blind.
He shoved around 11,000 and found a call from the other blind, who held mid-pair with A♦ 9♠.
An apparent good shove for Kato who survived after turn 3♦ and river 10♠ and the Japanese doubles to around 23,000.
Jay Lubas pushed all-in his final 18,000 or so but the man beside him, Apoorva Goel put him at risk with a call.
Lubas: 6♠ 6♥
Goel: A♠ Q♠
Flop 3♣ 7♠ 9♥ and turn 4♣ was safe for Lubas but the river A♥ kicked sent him to the rail.
Goel has now around 40,000 in chips
Canada’s Mike Gledhill worked with 33,800 to start the day but he has a near double-up after eliminating a player with a shorter stack.
On a board of 7♣ J♣ 4♣ 10♥ 5♠ the Canadian held A♣ Q♦ which was an easy winner over another’s A♦ 9♦.
Gledhill chips up to around 58,000.
Mervin Chan opened the action at 2,600 and saw a call from Do Hoang Anh but a re-pop from Norbert Koh to 7,800. The original raiser folded but Anh made the call.
Flop 3♣ 6♠ 3♠ was checked by Anh and Koh led out with 11,500.
Anh called to bring the turn {6h], which was checked by both players.
On the river J♥, Anh check-called Koh’s 20K-bet.
Koh showed pocket kings as Anh mucked his hand. Koh climbs to over 150,000.
Five or six meters away from the press table, and exactly sixteen minutes from the start of Day 2 we already heard Mandeep Narang’s loud voice.
This officially starts the “fun” in Day 2.