Home46th Ju Yao – China – HKD 22,100
47th Hiroshi Irimajiri – HKD 22,100
48th Ming Kit Wu – Hong Kong – HKD 22,100
49th En Ching Wu – Taiwan – HKD 22,100
50th Yuliang Zhang – China – HKD 22,100
51st David Evans – Australia – HKD 22,100
52nd Koji Takagi – Japan – HKD 22,100
53rd LI Wan – China – HKD 22,100
54th Yew Fatt Raiden Kan – HKD 22,100
With action folding all the way to the blinds, sb Sai Ho Phiilip Chiu raised to 13.5k, big blind Park Yu Sparrow Cheung moved all in with his dominating stack, and Chiu with the snap-call.
Chiu Q♦ Q♥
Cheung A♠ 9♦
The board ran 6♠ 9♠ K♦ 4♣ 7♠ for a double up to Chiu to 180k. Cheung dropped to 80k.
Yoichi Uesugi entered the day running second in command. He continues to maintain his high status, bringing his stack up to 580K after winning two pots back-to-back.
The first hand was against Qin Hai Jia. The board showed 10♠ 8♦ 5♥ 6♥ J♥. Uesugi bet 38k and Qin called. Uesugi had a winning straight with Q♥ 9♦.
The next hand saw a raise war preflop that ballooned the pot to 40k. At the flop A♠ 7♥ Q♣, sb Uesugi
With a nice splash of chips swimming in the middle and a turn board 3♣ Q♥ J♥ 9♣, Graham Cowan checked, Masaru Mukai bet, then Cowan jammed. Masaru called.
Cowan J♣ 10♣
Masaru A♦ A♣
The river 7♦ were not one of the numerous out Cowan neeeded. He dropped to 25k and busted shortly after. Masaru rose to above average. He now has 220k.
There has been a change in leadership… Russia’s Evgeny Kurilenko is now at 555k while Wang Meng is down to 385k. Both players are seated at the same table.
Zhang Chen Xu is the last female in the running and she’s been holding up well despite a momentary dip in chips. Coming in with under average stack she went head-to-head against Dong Zhao and lost the bout. Zhang had A♠ Q♥ dominated by A♦ K♦ the whole ride.
Falling to 55k, we checked back on Zhang 20 minutes later and she was back up and more sitting with 160k. We stuck around to see her bring that up to 230k in a hand against Quiwen Liang.
Zhang raised to 9500 from mid position and button Liang called. At the flop 6♥ 8♣ 8♠, she c-bet 9k and Liang called. On the 5♦ turn, she switched up, checking to Liang who bet 17k. Zhang flat-called. On the A♦ river, she led out again with a 30k bet and was called. She showed A♥ 9♥. Liang mucked.
Running alongside the main is the final table of the No Limit Hold’em 1 event. We will have the results for you once it concludes. There are 7 players remaining.
Raiden Kan came in with a very healthy stack just slightly under average but within the first 15 minutes, he was booted out of the running by big stacked Wang Jun. We missed the action but it was loosely explained…
On a turn board of 10-2-3-5, Kan and Jun were all in. Kan had Q-Q and Jun with 6-4. The river was a blank and Jun’s nuts straight shipped it. Jun now up to 325k.
As expected, within minutes of the starting gun, it was a shove fest with short stacks trying to get a boost. Here are the first bust outs of the day:
55th Yandong Ye – Canada – HKD 19,500
56th Bilian Ye – China – HKD 19,500
57th Hanwei Qiu – China – HKD 19,500
58th Yue Wang – China – HKD 19,500
59th Takuya Matsuda – Japan – HKD 19,500