HomeFrom cutoff, Eng Loong Choi shoved 400k, button Takao Shimizu called with 390k, Choi A♠ 9♦, Shimizu 10♥ 10♣. No help for Choi on the board 10♠ 6♥ 5♣ 6♦ 7♠, instead improving Shimizu to a full house. Shimizu doubled up to 820k, Choi down to 10k.
Table 21
Tobias Peters 465k
Carlos Chang 1.2M
Punnat Punsri 1.75M
Chi Ying Tsai 610k
Sera Ota 380k
Table 24
Cheng Chao Ting 310k
Go Mori 505k
Eng Loong Choi 600k
Takao Shimizu 440k
Neil Raine 1.26M
Chang Yu Chung 320k
Average stack 722.727
Chips in play 7,950,000
11 players left
Eng Loong Choi was all in with A♠ 4♠ and needed to get lucky against Chang Yu Chung’s K♠ K♦. He did just that on a board Q♠ 9♣ Q♦ A♦ to stay in the running. He now has 422k, Chung down to 353k.
Punnat Punsri raised to 44k, Sera Ota all in for 193k, called. Punsri 9♦ 7♦, Ota A♥ J♥, the board 8♦ 4♥ J♦ 6♥ 8♠ for a double up to 440k to Ota.
Neil Raine just reached a million on a double up through Takao Shimizu. The hand opened with Cheng Chao Ting raising to 40k, button Shimizu three-bet to 120k, sb Raine four-bet all in with 474k. Cheng folded, Shimizu called.
Raine Q♥ Q♠
Shimizu Q♣ Q♦
Despite both with the ladies, the cards came 5♥ 6♥ K♥ 7♥ J♦ for a winning flush. Shimizu down to 484k.
Eng Loong Choi seems to be the ATM machine at table 24. He just paid another double up, this time to Cheng Chao Ting. Action opened with a 40k raise by Neil Raine, Cheng jammed 223k, Choi called, Raine got out of the way.
Cheng A♠ 5♣
Choi K♣ Q♠
The board ran 8♦ 2♦ 5♥ 6♥ 6♠. Choi down to 445k, Cheng up to 540k.
Ta Chih Geeng is one of the huge stacks here and he tangled with chip leader Punnat Punsri to send him out in 12th place. Ta Chih opened to 40k, button Punsri three-bet to 115k, Ta Chih tank-shoved, snapped by Punsri.
Punsri A♥ K♣
Ta Chih J♦ J♥
The board 10♥ 4♣ 2♦ K♦ 9♦ for top pair to Punsri to ship it. Punsri up to 1.8M and is well ahead of the remaining 11 players.
Alex Lindop was dealt his last hand with Q♠ 8♠ to battle against Takao Shimizu’s Q♣ Q♦. No improvement for him arrived to send him out in 13th place for NT$ 111,500.
Go Mori all in with Q♦ 8♦, Eng Loong Choi tried to eliminate with A♠ 2♠. The board was kind to Mori as it ran 10♥ 9♠ 7♦ Q♣ 10♦. Mori doubled up to 490k. Choi down to 600k.
