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Daniel Lim claimed back to back pots. The first one was against Hung Sheng Lin. Lin raised to 5k from mid-position and Lim called from the button. At the flop 8♣ 2♦ 6♣, Hung Sheng bet 6500, called by Lim. The 8♠ turn, Hung Sheng checked, Lim bet 10k, Hung Sheng folded.
Next hand, Jim Bonanno raised to 4k, Lim three-bet to 12k, Bonanno called. At the flop 6♥ 6♣ 3♦, Bonanno check-folded a 13k c-bet.
We are down to 34 players. Among those railed were Tetsuya Tsuchikawa, Lester Edoc, and Jae Wook Shin. Shin fell to Buddy Dungca with A-K unable to improve against K-K.
Seongsu Kong was ecstatic after doubling up against Takao Shimizu with his Q♥ J♥ pairing up on the board A♣ J♠ 2♥ A♦ 9♦ against 10♥ 10♠.
His next all in though was not as fortunate with Madhav Gupta’s 10♠ 10♦ denying his A♣ Q♦ overcards when the board fell 6♣ 7♣ 7♦ 5♥ 8♠. He still had a huge smile while exiting the area.
Neither Lester Edoc nor Eunho Kwon could grab the pot with the board making sure both their meetings ended up on a split pot. The first one saw Edoc all in with 5? 5? on a flop 2? 3? 4? with Kwon holding A? K?. The turn came 5? to improve them both but Kwon had the straight. The river 6? split it.
The next one, was Edoc all in with A♦ J♠ against Kwon’s A♠ 5♠. The board ran 8♦ A♣ A♥ 9♦ 8♥ for another split pot.
Masaki Fujitani doubled up Buddy Dungca with Q-10 losing to K♣ 8♦ on a board of 5♥ K♦ J♦ K♥ 6♠. Immediately after, he made up the lost chips by sending Le Ngoc Khanh to the exit. Fujitani with A♠ Q♥, Khanh with A♣ 3♦, the board was 4♠ K♣ 5♦ 4♦ 10♠.
Players are on fire here, aggression up high at nearly every table. At table 2, Jae Wook Shin just lost a pot to Rex Clinkscales then proceeded to shove on the next hand wit A♦ K♥. He was called by decorated champion Tetsuya Tsuchikawa with 10♥ 10♠. The board ran well for Shin K♠ 4♥ Q♥ 9♦ 8♠, to keep him in the running.
At table 4, Czardy Rivera jammed his 26k preflop and won the blinds and antes.
At table 5, on a board 8♦ A♣ 7♥ 2♣ Q♣ and a pot 13.5k brewed, bb Cao Ngoc Anh bet 9k, Lester Edoc moved all in for 37.5k, Anh folded.
At table 6, Tetsuya Enoki did the same, three-bet shove on top of Chris Mateo’s 4500 raise. No caller. On his next shove though he was called and Buddy Dungca sent him packing.
We are down to 39 players.
The official prizepool is in!
With another 17 entries today, that brought the total to 71 entries. This just exceeded guarantee for a prizepool of PHP 10,330,500. 12 players will earn a piece with the lion’s share PHP 2,872,800 to the champion. That’s slightly higher than the Main Event champion first prize.
Good luck to all!
All in player Kosei Ichinose was nearly on his way out with K♣ 3♠ J♣ 5♥ while holding Q♣ 10♥ against Eunho Kwon’s 5♥ 5♥. However, the river came down with 9♠ to grant him a straight and a double up.
Players out of the running… Mike Takayama, Linh Tran, Junichi Nakagiri, Phachara Wongwichit…
On the flip side, Rex Clinkscales railed Tran and possibly another player. He sits with around 280k and is our chip leader at the moment. At the same table is Bobby Zhang with around 210k.