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Nguyen Pham Duy Khanh risked it all on a flop 3♣ J♥ 5♦ with A♠ K♥ and was up against Xiao Yucheng who had 7♦ 7♥. When the turn and river ran Q♠ Q♣, it was the exit for Nguyen. We are down to 16 players. Xiao up to 490k.
Rayhaan Adam is the largest stacked at his table and he is using it to challenge players at nearly every hand. We just watched him enter five consecutive pots, one of his winning hands is below.
He raised to 30k, called by Xiao Yucheng. On the flop 4♦ 8♣ K♦, both checked. On the turn 7♣, Adam fired 30k, Xiao called. On the river 10♠, Adam checked, Xiao bet 50k, called by Adam. Xiao showed A♠ A♥ but Adam had him with 5♠ 6♣ straight. Adam also won the next pot – a small one – with pocket jacks on the big blind. He has just over 1M.
Mp player Kim Dongkyu raised to 25k, called by cutoff Rayhaan Adam. The flop A♣ 9♣ Q♠, Kim c-bet 35k, Adam called. On the turn A♠ and river 5♥, both checked. Kim won it with 5♣ 5♦ full house. Kim up to 620k, Adam down to 940k.
80k in the middle and flop 8♥ Q♣ 9♥ laid out, Francis Garson bet 20k, Qian Xubo called. On the turn 3♠ and river 8♦, no bets. Garson showed pocket jacks, Xubo mucked. Garson up to 780k, Xubo down to 380k.
Catching the action on a board showing 6♠ 7♣ 9♥ 9♠ 8♥ and 135k in the pot, sb Yuwen Pan bet 135k, bb Sumit Sapra raised to 330k, Pan folded. Sapra claimed the pot and climbed to 665k. He later said he had pocket tens.
The biggest pot of the day so far just landed at table 1. The three-way action began with utg Qian Xubo limping in, utg +1 Yuwen Pan also limped, joined by Harry Duong, then sb Hwang Hyunsub all in with his 85k short stack. Xubo answered with a three-bet to 240k, Pan called, Duong folded.
At the flop 2♣ 7♠ 2♠, Xubo checked, Pan slid out 230k, Xubo shoved, Pan snap-called.
Xubo 9♣ 9♥
Pan A♦ A♥
Hwang A♣ Q♦
The turn 4♥ and river 6♣ ensured the win for Pan for a huge double up. He is now the overwhelming chip leader with 1.612M, Xubo dropped to 410k, Hwang eliminated in 18th place for VND 86,980,000 (~US$ 3,700).
Eliminations 19th to 22nd – VND 72,480,000 (~US$ 3,100)
19th Bin Zhang – China
20th Minh Le – Vietnam
21st Linh Tran – Vietnam
22nd Edgar Antezana – South Africa
Eliminations 23rd to 27th – VND 60,480,000 (~US$ 2,600)
23rd Vu Dang – Vietnam
24th Alexander Okruzhnoy – Russia
25th Zhang Lei – China
26th Ray Yik Chiu – Hong Kong SAR
27th Kovantsev Viacheslov – Russia
Battle of the blinds, sb Bin Zhang all in with K♠ K♥ but bb Brandon Mifsud looked down at A♠ A♦ and called. The board bricked. We are down to the final 18 players. Two tables.
Qian Xubo crushed the hopes of two players, Linh Tran and Minh Le. First to fall with Tran pushing 155k from the button with A♥ K♦. Big stacked Xubo called with A♣ Q♥ from the big blind. Though Tran was ahead, the cards ran 6♦ Q♦ 5♥ 10♠ 8♠ to improve Xubo.
Next elimination was Minh who was all in (69k) on a flop 4♦ 7♥ 9♥. Xubo called while Sumit Sapra folded. Minh was ahead with 9♦ 7♣ two pair, Xubo with K♠ 9♠, when the turn landed K♣ and river 8♥, Xubo’s lucky spike sent him soaring to 1M.
