HomeChina’s Jin Bo had a sizable stack entering the day but must have lost it prior to his head-to-head against Scott Silberman. On a flop of 3♠ 9♣ 10♣, Silberman shoved on the button and Bo check-called.
Silberman A♦ K♥
Bo 10♦ 9♦
The turn 10♥ and river 9♥ further improved Bo to a full house and Silberman was out. With 45 left, tables were balanced to 5 with nine players per table.
Bo up to 90k.
Intense battle between Kyohei Yoshizawa and Kosei Ichinose at table 1. We caught the action on a turn board of J♣ 3♥ 8♣ 5♦ and 28.5k already brewed. Ichinose checked, Yoshizawa fired out 11k, and Ichinose called. On the river J♥, Ichinose took the lead and quietly slid out 28k big ones.
This sent Yoshizawa tanking for some time, especially that if he lost, it would leave him with a very short stack. However, he did muster up the courage to call and the cards were flipped open.
Ichinose 8♥ 7♥ two pair
Yoshizawa A♥ A♦ higher two pair
Yoshizawa won the pot and increased to 119k.
Ichinose dropped to 45k.
Takao Shimizu and Mohammad Samara engaged in a preflop war that began with Shimizu raising to 3k from mid position. From the small blind, Samara pumped it up to 8500 only to see a four-bet to 28k from Shimizu. Samara surrendered his hand.
Joon Won “James” Lee defended his small blind by calling short stacked Yukihiro Kuroda’s raise to 3k. At the flop of 3♦ Q♠ 9♣ both players checked to get a free 10♦ turn. Lee led for 2k and Kuroda called.On the river 6♦,Lee slid out 6k and this time he won it with Kuroda backing down.
A couple of hands after, the even shorter stacked Kuroda busted out and became the first casualty of Day 2.
Past APT Main Event champion Iori Yogo picked up a small one against Koji Asaka. Yogo raised to 3500 two seats over from the big blind Asaka and with action folding around, Asaka called.
On the 7♥ Q♣ J♥ flop, Asaka checked then folded to Yogo’s 3500 continuation bet.
Andre Moracchini is back pushing around his chips early in the game. He did win a hand but lost a sizable one to the chip leader Neil Raine.
On the first hand, Moracchini was up against Go Mori. A raised pot of around 9k was swimming in the middle with bot players faced with a flop of A♠ 4♥ Q♣. On the bb seat, Mori bet 7k and Moracchini replied with a 22.7k raise on the button. Mori folded.
The next hand, Neil Raine was in the pot against Moracchini and both stared down a J♥ 3♦ J♦ board. Moracchini bet out 10.5k and Raine check-called. On the 3♣ turn, action was the same with Raine check-calling a lowered 10k bet by Moracchini, then on the 7♥ river, Raine took the lead and slid out 11 yellows totaling to 55k. Moracchini called then mucked after seeing Raine’s J♠ 8♥ full house.
Raine goes up to 360k
Moracchini drops to 90k
We are back at the felt with 47 players for Day 2! They will play a scheduled rounds or to the money of 10 players. Leading in chips is UK’s Neil Raine with a huge 272,600 in chips. We will be watching out to see how he fares today. Two APT Main Event champions are also at the tables, Iori Yogo and Andre Moracchini. Both will be attempting for their second title.
Good luck to all! Cards are in the air!
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