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Catching the action only on the river, the board was Q♣ 4♦ 8♥ 7♣ 3♦, bb Punnat Punsri fired 82k only to get pushed by button Christopher Mateo who well covered Punsri’s remaining 25k behind. Punsri folded, Mateo showed 9♠ 6♠ bluff. Mateo up to 440k.
Next break of the day. Malaysian pro Alex Wei Xiang Lee (table 3 seat 2) with the lead. 47 remaining.
47 players
Chips in play 8,000,000
Average stack 170,212
Big stacks
3- 2: Alex Wei Xiang Lee 530k
5-7: Seitaro Aso 406k
6-3: Nguyen Thanh Binh 380k
2-2: Do Hoang Long 327k
4-9: Christopher Mateo 335k
6-1: Nguyen Quang Minh 330k
1-2: Meherzad Munsaf 307k
1-4: Peng Yang 280k
1-1: Choi Eng Loong 250k
2-2: David Erquiaga 230k
3-1: Harry Duong 230k
6-7: Jeonggyu Cho 225k
Preflop action, mp Michitaka Sekine raised to 6k and found two callers, hj Hieu Ngo and db Alex Lee. At the flop 7♦ 5♣ J♦, Sekine c-bet 10k, Ngo called, Lee folded. The turn 2♥, Sekine bet 22k, Ngo tanked using 1 (60 sec) time bank then shoved for 84.5k. Sekine tanked using two time banks, then folded. Ngo up to 155k.
Nguyen Duc Bien sent his short stack in with A♣ 10♦ to battle with however Sam Beesley had K♠ K♥ and called. The board bricked, Nguyen busted, Beesley shipped it to go up to 88k.
Main Event champion Rayhaan Adam is working on building up his short stack. He claimed up a pot to increase slightly. On a flop 3♥ 9♦ 5♠ and 18k brewed, utg David Erquiaga bet 8k, button Adam raised to 20k, Erquiaga tanked using two (60 second) time banks then folded. Adam showed 5♣. He is up to 87k.
20k in the pot, flop 5♦ 10♠ 9♦, four players in, action was checked to button Choi Eng Loong, he bet 13k. He was called by two players. The turn 3♣, no bets to bring on the river A♥. action checked to Choi again. He bet 31k, called only by one player. Choi showed J♦ 7♦ for the win. He climbed to 278k.
We are down to the final six tables with 54 remaining. Big stacked Lu Zheng Hao was moved to table 6 where he faced off with Nguyen Thanh Binh. Though we missed the previous action, Hao called a 48.k bet from Nguyen on a board 5♠ A♣ K♠ 9♥ K♦. Nguyen showed K-Q offsuit for trips, Hao mucked.
Catching the action on a full board J♥ 8♥ 4♦ J♣ 3♦ and around 170k weighing down the middle, bb Meherzad Munsaf bet 55k, button Nguyen Duc Bien tanked then opted to call while showing a strong A♠ J♦ trips. However, Munsaf had much better, 4♥ 4♣ full house to ship it and rise to 370k. Nguyen dropped to 40k.
Singaporean pro Alex Wei Xiang Lee shipped two stacks to rise to 380k. His first victim, the player had K♦ J♦ that missed the board for Lee’s 8♦ 8♣ to hold. His next bust was Song Daewoong, unfortunately, we missed the hand.