Action folded to Kunal Patni on the button, he moved all in with his 10bb stack. Big blind Ajitpal Singh with his massive stack called. Patni with A-K, Singh A-7, no bad beat on the board for a double up to Patni.
At a separate table, Le Noc Khanh called Madhav Gupta’s three-bet shove. Gupta had a very short stack of around 7bbs. Gupta A-K, Khanh A-6, the board dropped a king to improve Gupta further for a double up.
We are still on the bubble with 26 players remaining.
Another double up here with the river card keeping the short stack in the game. This time it was Huynh Vinh Quang who pushed on top of Len Ngoc Khanh’s raise. Khanh hesitated on the call but eventually did.
Khanh K♠ 6♣
Huynh A♥ Q♠
The board ran 9♥ 7♦ K♦ 3♣ A♦ to keep Huynh in the game with a runner-runner trips.
We are still 26 players here.
It looked like the end for Andres Korn with all his chips in holding K♣ Q♥ and was up against big stacked Stephen Schumacher with A♠ 6♠ The board awarded an ace to Schumacher on the flop followed by a runner-runner king-king for trips to Korn and a double up 8♥ A♣ 3♣ K♦ K♠. Pretty sick.
Tung Nguyen 252k
Hunh Vinh Quang 136k
Nam Nguyen 580k
Kwok Ting Shum 143k
Ryusuke Kasawaki 566k
Kunal Patni 129k
Dragon Chinh 636k
Ajitpal Singh 1.060M
Nguyen Chi Thinh 586k
Quang Nguyen 220k
Chi Chung Ho 420k
Stephen Schumacher 900k
Erik Billgren 200k
Adres Korn 105k
Le Ngoc Khanh 965k
Madhav Gupta 92k
Eunho Kwon 800k
Atuan La 240k
He Hao 610k
Lim Yohwan 1.3M
Eugene Co 120k
Linh Tran 312k
Yoichi Uesugi 300k
Romit Advani 245k
Slaven Popov 1.1M
Slaven Popov and He Ha stared down a flop Q♣ A♥ Q♦. Both checked. On the 9♥ turn, Popov checked, Hao bet 32k, and Popov called. On the river 5♠, same action, Popov checked, Hao fired 62k, Popov called. Hao mucked. Popov took the pot and is now over 1M.
Norbert Koh had it all in on a flop of 4♦ J♥ 7♦ and got called by initial raiser He Hao. Koh had J♠} 10♠ top pair, Hao 8♠ 8♥, the turn slapped a 8♦ to improve Hao to a set and with the river 7♥, Hao dusted Koh with a full house.
We are now going hand for hand with 26 players left.
All in preflop, Keon Yong Ma (8d} 8♠, Linh Tran A♦ K♦, the board ran K♣ 2♣ 4♥ 5♠ 6♦.
We are down to the last three tables with 27 remaining. Two more busts to the money.
Another APT champion has fallen. Huu Dung Nguyen went first, Tetsuya Tsuchikawa next, now SJ Kim. Action began with Ryusuke Kasawaki limping in, Kim raised to 27k, Nam Nguyen called from the small blind, Ksawaki folded. At the flop 7♥ 9♣ 8♥, checked, Kim bet, Nam shoved, and Kim snap-called.
Nam 8♦ 7♦ two pair
Kim A♥ K♥ nut flush draw
The turn 2♦ and river 6♣ were not the outs for Kim and he packed up. Nam up to 560k.
Catching the action on a full board A♣ 10♥ J♦ 9♥ 6♥, Slaven Popov bet 85k, Eugene Co called, Le Ngoc Khanh folded. Popov showed K♠ Q♦ straight and won the pot with Co folding. Popov now at 870k.