APT decorated champion Soo Jo Kim fell out of contention at the hands of Vincent Li. All in preflop, Kim with A♦ 8♦, Li with A♣ A♠, the flop gave Kim an eight and nothing else. Li shipped it while Kim shipped out. Li up to 118k.
Big stacks went at it for a pot. Shiga Mitsuhiro opened, Neil Raine three-bet to 17k, Mitsuhiro called. On the flop 5♥ 8♥ 4♠, Shiga check-called a 12k c-bet. On the turn A♠ and river 3♠, both players checked. Mitsuhiro claimed it with A♥ 10♣. Mitsuhiro up to 325k, Raine dipped to 320k.
Andy Chan raised to 5500, called by Dong Zhao and bb Hwang Sang Yeon. On the flop 4♣ J♦ K♣, Hwang checked, Chan c-bet 12k, Zhao raised to 31.5k, Hwang folded, Chan shoved, Zhao called.
Chan K♥ J♥ two pair
Zhao A♦ A♣
The turn 10♣ and river 7♠ didn’t improve Zhao for a happy double up to Chan to 265k. Zhao down to 93k.
Jaegwang Kim raised to 4k, Chia Yun Wu called, down the orbit Lok Gino all in for just 12k, Kim four-bet to 22k, Chia opted to fold.
Kim 9♥ 9♠
Lok 5♠ 5♥
The board ran 3♣ 7♠ 7♥ 4♥ 9♣ for a winning full house to Kim.
Utg+1 Kenji Hata raised to 4500, button Neil Raine three-bet to 11k, Hata called. On the flop Q♠ 10♥ 9♥, both checked. On the turn J♣, Hata check-called 8k. On the river 9♠, back to checking. Hata showed A♦ A♥ but Raine took it with K♣ 9♣ straight. Raine up to 300k, Hata down to 100k.
On a board 2♦ 6♦ 8♦ 3♣ 4♥, Jun Beum Chun bet 25k, Soo Jo Kim tank-folded. Chun up to 245k.
A big pot was brewed preflop to 43k, the flop was 10♠ 10♥ 8♦. Sb Takao Shimizu bet 12k, mp Carlos Chang raised to 32k, Shimizu called. On the tunr Q♠, Shimizu checked, Chang all in, no call. Shimizu down to 85k, Chang up to 80k.
65 players
Average stack 122,308
Eng Loong Choi 375k
Gabriel Roh 270k
Kelvin Beattie 200k
Go Mori 235k
Wang Wei Han 195k
Punnat Punsri 290k
Graeme Siow 220k
Neil Raine 220k
Shigo Mitsushita 260k
Lee Kun Han 290k
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa 185k
Tobias Peters 220k
Carlos Chang 210k
Catching the action on a flop Q♣ 8♠ 3♠ and 10k in the pot, it was a shove fest with Jun Beum Chun all in for 99.5k holding K♣ K♥. His challenger was Stephen Liu with K♠ 10♠ flush draw. The turn 4♣ and river 10♣ doubled up Chun to 209k, Liu dropped to 10k. Liu tossed it on the next hand and busted.