HomeWe are now 4 handed. Tetsuya Tsuchikawa is the shortest stack. He raised to 35k and won the blinds and antes with no callers.
Dong Hyun Kim’s run at the final table ended at the hands of Julius Malzanini. With action folding to Kim’s small blind, he went all in with his 70k stack and Malzanini called on the big blind. Kim had 10♦ 9♥ and Malzanini had K♥ 7♦. The board ran A♥ 5♥ K♦ 7♣ K♣ giving Malzanini a full house and Kim was eliminated in 5th place. Kim earned P406,000.
We are down to 4 players.
Three-way all in action preflop with Julius Malzanini raising to 35k from the utg seat then calling the shove by Tetsuya Tsuchikawa of 111k and Dong Hyun Kim’s 150k.
Tsuchikawa 7♦ 7♣
Kim 4♥ 4♠
Malzanini 2♥ 2♦
The board ran Q♥ A♦ 3♠ K♣ J♠ tripling up Tsuchikawa and Kim winning the side pot. Tsuchikaw goes up to 344k. Kim down to 78k.
Fresh from a break and a double up, Julius Malzanini raised to 35k. Tetsuya Tsuchikawa three-bet to 81k, and Malzanini called. At the flop of Q♦ 2♣ 8♣, Tsuchikawa bet 75k and Malzanini quickly went all in. Tsuchikawa folded and Malzanini added more chips to his arsenal.
Chip counts at the break. 6 players. Average stack 536,000.
Thong Botho 860k
Seung Soo Jeon 788k
Julius Malzanini 608k
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa 270k
Dong Hyun Kim 160k
Julius Malzanini has just boosted his stack with a big double up against leader Thong Botho. Prior to that, Malzanini has been fairly quiet at the table entering random small pots. He was awarded the first walk of the final table with everyone folding to his big blind.
Two hands after, he raised to 28k on the button and was called by Botho on the big blind. At the flop of 10♣ Q♣ 2♠, Botho checked to Malzanini who bet 28k, Botho check-raised to 67k, and Malzanini quickly shoved. After a count, Botho had to call 172k more. He eventually called.
Malzanini K♠ J♠ open ended straight draw
Botho Q♠ 5♣ top pair
The turn of A♠ gave Malzanini the straight, and with the river of 8♣, he doubled up.
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa picked up a pot after shoving on top of Seung Soo Jeon’s raise of 25k and no call.
Dong Hyun Kim raised to 25k, no callers. He takes the blinds and antes.
Another battle of the blinds situation here with Seung Soo Jeon limping and Thong Botho checking on his big blind. At the flop of 5♥ 8♦ 9♣, Jeon checked to Botho who bet 13k and Jeon called. The turn of 6♥ and river of A♠ had both players slowing to a check and Botho won the hand with his K♥ 8♣ against Jeon’s J♦ 6♠.