HomeLast break of the day. 25 players remaining. Average stack 320,000.
Table 1
Soo Jo Kim 325k
Nguyen Quang Minh (Mr Ngo) 356k
Hyunil Hong 220k
Peng Yang 690k
Sam Beesley 422k
Seitaro Aso 510k
Hwang Sang Yeon 76k
Terry Nguyen 625k
Jeonggyu Cho 107k
Table 2
Meherzad Munsaf 450k
David Erquiaga 193k
Ng Cheuk Fan 52k
Tautvydas Jonikas 193k
Quan Nguyen 78k
Nguyen Thanh Binh 610k
Choi Eng Loong 126k
Table 3
Harry Duong 345k
Alex Lee 600k
Tanja Vujanic 115k
Iori Yogo 255k
Michitaka Sekine 140k
Andres Korn 185k
Lok Ching Li 135k
Xiao Yucheng 190k
Michitaka Sekine raised to 13k then called Lok Ching Li’s shove. It was pocket aces against pocket kings. No bad beat arrived for a double up to Lok to 145k. Sekine dropped to 145k.
Do Hoang Long has been shoving his short stack but finding no callers. In a hand against Meherzad he sent it all out again only to fall out of contention. The hand opened with a raise by Munsaf, called by Long. At the flop 9♣ J♣ 10♦, Munsaf bet 15k, Long called. On the turn A♠ it was bet-shove-called. Long A♥ 9♥ two pairs, Munsaf K♦ Q♦ straight, the river was 10♣. Munsaf up to 430k.
A much needed double up arrived for David Erquiaga to bring him up to 210k. Catching the action on a board Q♠ 9♦ 8♠ 6♣, button Jonikas Tautvydas bet 18k, sb Quan Nguyen check-called, lp Erquiaga check-shoved (88k). Tautvydas folded, Quan called.
Erquiaga K♠ 5♠ draw
Quan Q♣ J♥ top pair
The river 2♠ awarded the flush.
Just before Iori Yogo doubled up, his stack was hit by Alex Lee. Though we missed the hand, Lee said he had mid-pair and said he gained around 300k from Yogo. Lee now sits with nearly 600k. Yogo dropped then pushed with A♦ K♣. He was called by Nguyen Van Viet with K♥ Q♣. Board ran Q♠ 9♠ 6♠ 3♦ 3♣. Yogo back up to 235k, Nguyen down to 50k.
Seitaro Aso entered two pots that awarded Jeonggyu Cho a double up but a bust to one player. Running first was Cho’s push with 2♥ 2♠ and Aso calling with A♠ 10♥. The board ran 2♣ 8♣ K♦ K♥ 4♦ full house to Cho. He doubled up to 160k.
Next all in saw Aso raise to 14k, called by Hwang Sang Yeon, short stack shoved (36k), Aso four-bet, Hwang folded for head-to-head. Short stack A♥ 10♥, Aso Q♣ Q♦, no help arrived. Aso up to 505k.
We are down to 27 players, three tables of 9 players each.
28 remaining
Chips in play 8,000,000
Average stack 285,714
Table 1
Hyunil Hong 205k
Peng Yang 532k
Sam Beesley 390k
Seitaro Aso 450k
Hwang Sang Yeon 152k
Keon Yong Ma 66k
Jeonggyu Cho 173k
Table 2
Meherzad Munsaf 300k
David Erquiaga 78k
Do Hoang Long 70k
Ng Cheuk Fan 85k
Quan Nguyen 285k
Nguyen Thanh Binh 600k
Michal Polchlopek 610k
Table 3
Harry Duong 365k
Alex Lee 286k
Iori Yogo 260k
Michitaka Sekine 249k
Andres Korn 298l
Nguyen Van Viet 220k
Lok Ching Li 240k
Table 4
Jonikas Tautvydas 220k
Soo Jo Kim 403k
Xiao Yucheng 255k
Tanja Vujanic 115k
Choi Eng Loong 170k
Nguyen Quang Minh (Mr Ngo) 375k
Soo Jo Kim and Jonikas Tautvydas engaged in a pot that ended with a double up for the Korean pro. From utg, Kim opened for 9k, Tautvydas defended. At the flop 7♣ K♦ A♥, Tautvydas check-called anotehr 9k bet from Kim. On the turn 5♥, Kim bet 12k, Tautvydas check-called. On the river 2♣, Kim bet 42k, Tautvydas check-jammed, Kim called while saying “I think I have you beat”. He did. Kim showed K♣ K♦ set, Tautvydas with A♣ 7♥ two pairs. Kim doubled up to 375k, Tautvydas dropped to 280k.
Michal Polchlopek shipped a huge double up through Do Hoang Long to bring his stack to 560k. From cutoff, Polchlopek raised with A♥ K♥and bb Long defended with J? 10?. ON the flop Q♦ 8♥ 3♣, Polchlopek c-bet and Long check-called his straight. On the turn 9♥, Polchlopek fired 40k, this time Long check-raised to 110k, Polchlopek called. On the river 7♥, Long moved all in, snap-called by Polchlopek with the nut flush. Long dropped to 70k.