Albert Paik fires back, doubles up through the leader


Albert Paik is on the move, winning to pots against the massive chip leader Jinwoo Kim. He captalized on two big pots with the first one seeing him raise to 125k and Kim making the call. On the flop 7 4 K, he continued with a 150k bet and got called again by the leader. On the A turn both checked and the dealer revealed the 4 river. Paik schecked, Kim bet 175k, and Paik flat-called. Paik won with his 7-9 over Kim’s 8-6.

On the next hand, Paik landed a big one against Kim doubling up to over 5M in chips. The hand began with Paik raising to 125k, Kim re-raising to 325k, Paik shoving, and Kim with the call.

Paik K 10
Kim A 9

The board ran 8 10 5 8 4 and Paik shipped in the double up to 5M. Kim dropped to 3.5M.