Two big stacks went at it for a big pot claimed by the winner Bobby Zhang. The hand began with Aditya Sushant raising to 11k from utg, cutof Zhang three-bet to 35k, Sushant four-bet to 110k, called by Zhang.
At the flop 2♠ 6♦ 6♠, Sushant led for 52k, Zhang called. On the K♠ turn, Sushant fired 80k, and again Zhang called. On the J♥ river, both checked. Sushant showed A♦ J♣ pair but was behind Zhang’s A♥ K♣ top pair. Sushant down to around 300k, Zhang near 900k.
Action folded to the small blind Aditya Sushant, he moved all in with his massive stack. Big blind henrik Tollefsen risked it with less chips.
Tollefsen A♦ J♦
Sushant 10♥ 7♥
The boards ran A♣ 2♠ 8♠ K♦ A♠ for a double up to Tollefsen to around 170k.
Catching the moment only at the shipping, Aditya Sushant with A♣ 5♥ two pair was paying Masaki Fujitani with 8♦ 7♦ flush on a board of 7♥ 9♦ A♥ 3♦ 5♦. Fujitani up to around 190k.
Roger Spets is on the move here winning a few pots that in turn sent Cao Ngoc Anh out of the race. The first pot he won he three-bet Buddy Dungca’s raise and won it with no call.
The next one saw a raise by Dungca again to 14k, Spets jammed his 69.5k, and Dungca called. dungca K♠ J♠, Spets Q♣ Q♦. The board bricked.
The third hand Spets raised to 10k, big blind Anh defended. At the flop 4♣ 9♥ 7♦, Anh shoved and was snap-called by Spets.
Anh 8♠ 5♠
Spets 9♣ 9♠ set
The turn A♠ and river 2♣ ended the hand and Anh as well. Spets up to 185k.
Down to the final two tables, short stacked Jin Yong picked up the blinds and antes twice on uncalled shoves. The first one saw Aditya Sushant tank-fold. Next one saw Masaki Fujitani raise, then tank-fold on the shove. Yong is still below at aroudn 70k.
We are down to the final two tables here with 18 players remaining. The money begins with 12th place. Here’s a look at the payouts again.
Average stack is 197,222
Total chips in play 3,550,000
Spades love Alex Lindop. Having survived on a one card flush, he was all in again holding A♠ Q♠ and faced Kimura Lee with 7♣ 7♦. The board ran 3♠ 9♥ 6♣ K♠ 9♠ for the nut flush. Lee busted.
Alex Lindop was all in with A♦ K♠ and Masaki Fujitani had him covered with K♥ K♦. When the flop ran 10♠ K♣ 3♠, Fujitani jumped way ahead with a set. On the A♠ turn, Lindop gained outs to help him. The river 4♠ was one of them, improving him to a nut flush to stay in the running.