HomeBIg blind Hung Sheng Lin called a raise to 65k by Sai Ho Philip Chiu and the flop came 7♠ A♠ Q♣. Lin checked, Chiu c-bet 75k, Lin raised to an enormous 430k, and Chiu folded.
Wang Meng picked up the next two pots here. The first one he raised from the button to 65k and got called by big blind Hung Sheng Lin. The flop 4♦ Q♦ 3♣, Lin checked, Meng c-bet 55k, and took it down with a fold from Lin.
The next hand was much meatier, he raised to 65k from the cutoff seat and Hele Liu defended on the big blind. At the flop 9♠ 2♣ 3♥, no bets. On the A♥ turn, Liu led for 70k and Meng flat-called. On the J♣ river, Liu checked, Meng banged out a 125k bet, and got the call. Meng turned over A♠ J♦ two pair. Liu mucked.
Returning from the break, action folded to the small blind Wang Jun, he limped in and big blind Wang Meng checked. The flop ran 9♥ 10♦ J♠, it was checked. On the 10♥ turn, Jun bet 30k and Meng called. On the river Q♦, the bets reversed with Jun check-calling a 30k bet from Meng. Meng showed Q♠ but was behind Jun’s Q♥ 8♥ straight.
Sai Ho Philip Chiu 1,150,000
Evgeny Kurilenko 2,095,000
Toshimitsu Kamei 595,000
Wang Jun 810,000
Wang Meng 955,000
Hiroshi Matsuomoto 445,000
Hung Sheng Lin 1,630,000
Hele Liu 1,850,000
Hung Sheng Lin has earned the first big pot of the Final 8 shaving off some towers off the leader Evgeny Kurilenko. The hand began with a raise to 55k by Lin from mid position, Sai Ho Philip Chiu called from the cutoff, button Kurilenko three-bet to 175k, and both Lin and Chiu called.
On the flop 7♥ Q♦ 8♣ they all checked. On the 3♦ turn, Lin fired out 210k and got one caller in Kurilenko. The river 6♠ was checked by both and Lin won the big pot with his 9♦ 9♥ as Kurilenko mucked.
Wang Jun raised from the utg to 53k and big blind Toshimitsu Kamei called. The dealer laid the flop 10♠ J♦ 2♥, Kamei checked, Jun c-bet 30k, and Kamei called. The turn 5♠ saw both check then on the river 2♦, Kamei led for 72k and Jun called. Kamei showed A♠ 9♦ but it was no good with Jun holding 9♣ 9♠.
Massive chip leder Evgeny Kurilenko raised to 53k from the button and Wang Jun defended on the big blind. At the flop 4♣ 8♦ A♠, Jun checked, Kurilenko bet 43k, and that was that, Kurilenko won the pot.
Next hand, he raised to 53k again, this time from the cutoff seat. He was called by big blind Wang Meng. The flop ran 6♣ 5♣ 4♥, turn 4♦, with no bets fired. But on the 9♦ river, Meng took the reins with a 90k bet and won it with a fold from big stack.
Third pot saw Kurilenko raise to 53k from the hijack and took it with no callers.
Button player Sai Ho Philip Chiu raised to 52k preflop and big blind Toshimitsu Kamei defended. At the flop 6♥ K♠ 10♥, Kamei checked, Chiu c-bet 45k, Kamei called. On the A♥ turn, Kamei checked, Chiu fired out 113k, and won it with no call from the challenger Kamei.
Immediate fireworks here at the Final 8 with Wang Meng landing a double up. He moved all in mid position with A♣ Q♣ and got called by small blind Hele Liu with A♠ J♦.
The board ran K♣ 3♣ 9♦ 6♦ 10♣ completed a nut flush for Meng and he chipped up to 886k.