HomeTotal chips in play: 7,675,000
Average stack: 295,192
Players remaining: 26
Chip leaders:
Takao Shimizu
Takao Shimizu 670K
Kosei Ichinose 590k
Sam Welbourne 573K
Le Ngoc Khanh 485K
Jun Obara 465K
Alfie Poetra 423K
3 tables, 26 players, average stack 295,192. Here’s a look at the prizepool and payouts:
Alfie Poetra
Alfie Poetra is one of three Filipinos left in the field. We just caught him win two pots with one of the sending Wang Yi packing up. The first pot saw Poetra raise to 17k, called by Mikiya Kudo on the big blind. At the flop 9♥ 7♥ 2♣, Poetra c-bet 16k, Kudo called. On the K♦ turn, Poetra banged out 43K, and this time a fold from Kudo.
Next winning hand, Wang Yi all in with A♠ J♣, Poetra all in with A♦ K♣, the board felted J♠ 7♠ Q♣ giving Wang a pair. The 8♦ kept Wang ahead but with the 10♣ river, Poetra overtook with a straight to send Wang out in 27th place. Poetra now at 375K.
On a raised pot preflop, big blind Junichi Nakagiri checked the 9♣ K♥ 4♠ flop. Chang Jae Lee bet 35k, Nakagiri called. On the K♠ turn, same action with a 40k bet check-called by Nakagiri. On the Q♥ river, no bets landed and Lee won with A♥ Q♣ two pair. Lee now up to 443K. Nakagiri sits with 292k.
Eliminations 28th – 36th – PHP 107,000
28th Joven Huerto
29th Luen Hei Kwok
30th Czardy Rivera
31st Andrianto Wijaya Tan
32nd Anton Del Rosario
33rd Katsuhiro Shimpo
34th Seo Dongkyoon
35th Chul Ho Bae
36th David Hsing – Hsiung Tai
Sam Welbourne
Sam Welbourne has run away with the lead here. He won two pots to send his stack up to 575k. On the first one, he faced off against Lim Yohwan who raised on his big blind. Welbourne called. At the flop 2♣ 8♦ 8♥, another 14k was added to the pot by both players. On the 3♥ turn, Welbourne bet 23k, Yohwan called. Then the river 3♣ Welbourne fired another 67k and Yohwan tank-called. Welbourne won it with 9♣ 8♣ full house.
Next hand was against Victor Chong who raised from late position to 17k. Blinds Welbourne and Alfie Poetra called. At the flop A♠ K♣ 10♥, everyone checked. On the 6♦ turn, Welbourne took the reins with a 24k bet, Poetra folded, Chong called. On the 10♠ river, Welbourne fired 60k. Chong tank-folded.
We’ve been frozen at 29 players for some time. Average stack is 264,655. Current leaders are:
Jun Obara 460K
Takao Shimizu 420K
Sam Welbourne 400K
Siyoung Lee
Koichi Morita raised to 14k, beside him Victor Chong called, then Siyoung Lee shoved his short 59k stack. Back to Morita, he jammed his 254k tanking Chong who eventually folded.
Morita A♣ 10♦
Lee K♦ K♥
The board ran 4♠ 4♥ 10♥ Q♦ 8♦ for a double up to Lee to around 140k.
Joven Huerto
After Takao Shimizu raised to 13k, APT champion Joven Huerto shoved his very short 34k stack. Shimizu called.
Huerto 7♣ 7♠
Shimizu A♦ 10♦ overcards
The board felted J♣ 7♥ 7♦ 3♣ 3♦ for a dominating quads to Huerto.
