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Arvhin Malinab raised to 8k, En-Ching Wu three-bet to 18k, Sim Jae Kyung aka Simba called, big blind Kosuke Tajima four-bet to 55k, Malinab folded, Wu folded, Simba called. At the flop K♣ A♠ 2♦ both checked. On the turn 10♠, Kosuke slid out a bet then took it back with Simba quickly folding. Kosuke up to 500k
We caught the hand only as Mark Dela Cruz was shipping it in while Jae Won Choi got up to leave. Choi had 10♦ 4♦ pair on the flop J♦ 10♠ 4♦ that didn’t improve on the turn and river. Dela Cruz had K♠ J♣ top pair. Dela Cruz rose to 500k.
35 remaining
367,857 average
12,875,000 chips in play
Chip counts by table
Table 16
Lim Yo Hwan 132k
Tou Ta Wei 600k
David Wang 290k
Daiki Horikawa 503k
Su Tianhong 80k
Thoo Ming Ken 215k
Table 17
Yip Wai Shing 490k
Christopher Wong 250k
Emmanuel Segismundo 660k
Francesco Morales 300k
Binh Minh 95k
Masato Yokosawa 206k
Thomas Ward 260k
Table 18
Kirill Tarasov 86k
Dongjun Kim 362k
John Paredes 85k
Arvhin Malinab 715k
En-Ching Wu 230k
David Erquiaga 330k
Sim Jae Kyung 242k
Kosuke Tajima 435k
Table 6
Tetsuya Enoki 500k
Yonghyun Yoo 316k
Hubert Spiess 480k
Terry Fan 101k
Rene Van Krevelen 440k
Mark Dela Cruz 490k
Xiaosheng Zheng 825k
Table 7
Li Heng 438k
Tatsu Kaneko 278k
Yin Zhang 300k
Mai Anh 590k
Khoo Kah Hock 550k
Stanislau Pui 240k
Plenty more have fallen quickly after the bubble burst that we are now down to 42 players. Average is 306k with 12,875,000 chips in play.
Leaders:
Xiaosheng Zheng 836k
Arvhin Malinab 665k
Emmanuel Segismundo 660k
Mai Anh 600k
Jannodin Riga took a hard fall with his Q♣ Q♠ set not good enough against Tetsuya Enoki’s K♦ J♥ that improved to straight on a board Q♥ 6♦ 9♥ 3♠ 10♠. Enoki rose to 410k.
Xiaosheng Zheng has been backed by a large stack since the start and added to it by sending John Costiniano (280k) packing. It was K♠ J♣ top two pair over K♣ 10♥ lower two pair on a board 5♣ K♥ J♥ 9♦ 10♠ with progressive bets and an all in on the river. Zheng now takes the lead with 820k.
Tou Ta Wei has now joined the leaders. Soon after the bubble burst, he delivered a double knockout to Metasit Pratipsangkom and Tokio Kaneko.
Wei 6♠ 6♦
Kaneko A♣ A♦
Metasit Q♦ J♥
The board 7♦ 4♥ 8♠ Q♦ 5♠ for a straight to Wei.
Preflop betting action led to Li Heng with a four-bet jam, called by Lester Edoc.
Li Heng A♠ K♣
Edoc K♠ K♦
The board granted an immediate high pair A♦ 6♦ 3♥ 7♣ 10♦ to Li to avoid the rail and double up to 490k. Edoc dropped to 180k.
That’s it! The bubble round lasted all of three hands. Taking the hard fall was Gavin Flynn who three-bet jammed his short 109k stack with A♠ K♣. He was put at risk by initial raiser Emmanuel Segismundo with K♠ K♥. The board bricked. Segismundo rose to 430k.