Hung Sheng Lin picked up two early pots here and has doubled up his stack to around 640k. The first hand was against Tae Hoon Han who raised to 18k, called by Hung on the big blind. At the flop J♠ 9♥ K♠, Han bet 15k, Hung check-called. On the turn 7♥ and river 10♠ both checked it an Hung won with K♣ 5♣ pair.
Next pot was much bigger. He raised to 19k, Naoki Morita three-bet to 45k, and Hung called. At the flop 9♣ 2♣ 10♥, Morita c-bet 28k and Hung called. On the 9♠ turn, another bet by Morita of 65k, and Hung called. On the 8♦ river, Morita checked, Hung fired 150k, and Morita called.
Hung 8♥ 8♣ full house. Morita mucked.
Cards in the air for Day 3 of the Championships Event! Good luck to all!
The race to the Final 8 begins!
Average stack is 308,333
Total chips in play is 7,400,000
Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
Naoki Morita | Japan | 410,000 | 1 | 1 |
Tae Hoon Han | New Zealand | 732,000 | 1 | 2 |
Liu Qiao Nan (DB) | China | 212,000 | 1 | 4 |
Konstantin Pogodin (SB) | Russia | 302,000 | 1 | 5 |
Lin Hung Sheng (BB) | Taiwan | 317,000 | 1 | 6 |
Preston Lee | USA | 73,000 | 1 | 7 |
Kei Kiyohara | Japan | 320,000 | 1 | 8 |
Kazuma Inotsume | Japan | 106,000 | 1 | 9 |
Sunny Jennens | Canada | 364,000 | 2 | 1 |
Akihiro Ueda | Japan | 128,000 | 2 | 2 |
Pak Valeriy | 173,000 | 2 | 4 | |
Jaepil You | USA | 198,000 | 2 | 5 |
Bae Hyun Kyu (DB) | Canada | 415,000 | 2 | 6 |
Aleksei Sei (SB) | Russia | 232,000 | 2 | 7 |
Yozo Nomura (BB) | Japan | 349,000 | 2 | 8 |
Lam Cheuk Nam | Hong Kong | 109,000 | 2 | 9 |
Chen Song | China | 215,000 | 3 | 1 |
Tatsuya Hirose (DB) | Japan | 270,000 | 3 | 2 |
Yosuke Otsubo (SB) | Japan | 231,000 | 3 | 3 |
Hiroshi Nishiyama (BB) | Japan | 195,000 | 3 | 5 |
Tamon Nakamura | Japan | 477,000 | 3 | 6 |
Hoshi Yuya | Japan | 397,000 | 3 | 7 |
Hideki Izutsu | Japan | 1,054,000 | 3 | 8 |
Yoshimura Hiroyuki | Japan | 101,000 | 3 | 9 |