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Victor Chong
Action folded to the small blind Victor Chong, he raised to 38k. Big blind Wendell Garcia called and the flop came 9♥ 5♥ Q♦. Both checked. The turn 10♦, chong bet 27k, Garcia called. On the 9♠ river, Chong fired another 44k, and Garcia called. Chong showed A♠ 10♠ two pair, Garcia mucked. Garcia down to 128k, Chong rises to over 500k.
Mikiya Kudo
Mikiya Kudo and Sam Welbourne tangled for a pot that saw the latter raise to 42k. Kudo called from the big blind. At the flop 3s} K♦ 8♥, Kudo check-called 38k. On the 7♠ turn, no bets landed. Then on the J♠ river, Kudo led for 55k and won it with Welbourne folding. Kudo now at 670k.
18 players remaining, average stack 426,388… players above average are:
Sam Welbourne 740k
Takao Shimizu 700k
Jun Obara 695k
Kazuki Hurata 690k
Mikiya Kudo 600k
Kosei Ichinose 550k
Cheli Lin 486k
Kazuki Hurata
Junichi Nakagiri has just been chunked down to 126k after losing a flip against Kazuki Hurata. The hand began with a raise of 30k by Hurata, Nakagiri three-bet to 83k, Hurata shoved, and Nakagiri called after much tanking.
Nakagiri Q♣ Q♠
Hurata A♠ K♣
The board ran J♣ 7♦ 2♣ 4♥ A♦ for a higher pair spiked on the river by Hurata. He doubled up to 690k.
Sandro Bruni has been short stacked since the start of Day 3 but is hanging in there. Just before the tables collapsed to the final two, he survived against a player with his dominated K-10 over A-10 ending up on a split with the board running 10-10-2-6-6.
Bruni is still very short stacked. He picked up chips on a hand against Jiego Erquiaga. Erguiaga raised to 25k, Bruni and Kosei Ichinose called. On the 4♣ 4♥ A♣ flop, Erquiaga c-bet 40k, Bruni raised to 80k, Ichinose folded followed by Erquiaga after tanking for a bit. Bruni showed his 6♣ 5♣. He is now up to 280k. Erquiaga dropped to 480k and is still above average of 426k.
Koji Asaka shoved his 112k stack and got called by massive stacked Takao Shimizu. Asaka Q♣ Q♠ held against A♥ J♦ for a double up.
Eliminations: 18th – 22nd – PHP 146,500
19th Alfie Poetra
20th Stephen Miles
21st Koichi Morita
22nd Siyoung Lee
Eliminations: 23rd – 27th – PHP 125,200
23rd Chang Jae Lee
24th Bobby Zhang
25th Shunsuke Tsujii
26th Linh Tran
27th Wang Yi
After losing a pot to Takao Shimizu, Alfie Poetra attempted to take a stand shoving his stack with Q-10 but Jun Obara had A-10 and sent him out in 19th place. Though not needed, Obara completed a straight. Obara now over 700K.
We are down to 18 players… final two tables.