HomeMorihiko Ogawa had just doubled up with aces against Soichiro Kojiya and entered another this time against Tsuyoshi Nitta. With a raised pot brewed between them preflop, the board ran 6♣ J♠ K♣. Ogawa shoved, Nitta tanked. Then Nitta folded while showing A♠ K♠ top pair.
Daiki Horikawa
Action folded to the small blind Toshimasa Sakato and he raised to 20k. Big blind Daiki Horikawa called and the flop ran 10♣ 7♦ 4♣. Sakato checked, Horikawa bet 25k, and Sakato called. On the 10♥ turn no bets came but on the 10♦ river, Horikawa slid out 100k and Sakato check-called. Horikwas opened 10♠ 5♠ for his second quads of the day.
Tsubasa Kamei
Tsubasa Kamei has taken over the chip lead after taking down a massive pot and railing Tomoko Matsuda in the process.
It began with a 20k raise by Kamei, three-bet by Matsuda to 60k, Kamei answered with a four-bet to 120k, Matsuda shoved, and Kamei with the snap-call.
Matsuda A♦ Q♥
Kamei K♦ K♥
When the flop landed 8♦ A♥ 5♥, Kamei fell behind however the turn 7♥ and river 10♥ gave him a higher flush to ship it in. Kamei now at 700k.
Jacky Wong, 19th place
Naoki Matsumoto, 20th place
Masaki Hirayama, 21st place
Manami Hayamizu, 22nd place
Iori Yogo
At 19 remaining, Iori Yogo eliminated Jacky Wong to bring the field down to two tables. At his new table, Yogo called Soichiro Kojiya’s shove with 5-5 against K-J. The board ran 6-10-Q-Q-10 to counterfeit Yogo’s pair and double up Kojiya. Yogo has 247k.
Kyung Min Lee
We’ve seen Kyung Min Lee shove several times and winning the pot with no players to tango with. On one hand though, Yosuke Otsubo joined him. Lee with K♦ K♥ and Otsubo with A♣ A♦. The board ran Q♠ K♣ 8♦ J♦ 5♣ for a set to Lee to avoid the rail.
Simon Cho, 23rd place
Aleksei Sei, 24th place
Takashi Miyamoto, 25th place
Marc Raymond 26th place
Satoshi Okuda, 27th place
Manami Hayamizu
The third largest stack entering Day 3, Manami Hayamizu, ran into the current chip leader Tomoharu Furuya, and was sent out in 22nd place.
The first hand we caught, the board showed 7♠ 2♦ J♣ 3♠ 7♦. With a sizable pot already brewed in the middle, Hayamizu faced a 70k bet from Furuya. She folded.
Two hands after, she was all in with 8-8 but Furuya had her with A-A. She earned ₩2,084,000 for her deep finish.
Toshimasa Sakato
Toshimasa Sakato has tripled up his stack since the start of day. He entered with 74,500 and now has over 230k. We caught him picking up two pots back-to-back.
First pot, on a flop of K♣ Q♦ 7♠, he bet 20k and Shinji Sugeta called. On the turn 3♥. Sakato had 9♣ 9♥ and Sugeta mucked.
Next hand, Shiga Mitsuhiro limped from the button and so did Sakato on the small blind. Big blind Soichiro Kojiya checked. At the flop K♣ 2♦ 8♦, action checked to Mitsuhiro who bet 10k. Sakato check-raised to 20k. Sakato won it with both players folding.