HomeWe are down to 53 players. It is bubble time! Players also received four time banks with the shot clock now in effect.
New level saw the immediate fall of Dongjun Kim to Hubert Spiess (360k), Yoda-Zhao Gang to Kosuke Tajima (430k), and Royoji Takahashi to Arvhin Malinab (505k). Malinab now second in chips to Mai Anh with 560k.
We are now on the bubble with 53 remaining.
56 remaining
12,875,000 total chips in play
229,910 average stack
Chip leader update:
Mai Anh 560k
Xiaosheng Zheng 483k
Arvhin Malinab 481k
Sim Jae Kyung 422k
Tou Ta Wei 415k
Rene Van Krevelen 408k
N-Rak Lertphokhanon 400k
Sim Jae Kyung aka Simba is no longer our chip leader, Mai Anh has taken the lead after Simba lost a big pot to Arvhin Malinab. Action kicked off with Malinab raising to 12k from mid position, called by Simba on cutoff. At the flop 3♥ 5♠ J♣, Malinab c-bet 15k, called by Simba. The turn 10♠, Malinab checked, Simba sent out 35.5k, called by Malinab. The river 6♠, Simba bet 46.5k, Malinab answered with a check-raise to 164k. Simba tanked for nearly 5 minutes then folded. Simba dropped to 422k, Malinab rose to 481k.
Another four players have fallen, we are down to 56. Money is at 52 places. We are nearing the bubble.
Average stack 229,911
Chips in play 12,875,000
Recent eliminations were:
John Tech and Jin Yong railed by Mai Anh in separate hands. Anh climbed to 550k and is running second in command.
Jason Kyle Magbanua falls to Rene Van Krevelen with A-Q finding a lady on the board to defeat pocket jacks. Krevelen up to 400k
Yin Zhang rails one (we missed the walkout) with pocket queens dominating pocket nines. Zhang up to 300k.
Gun Clawuuthinan was all in with A♦ 10♥ but couldn’t get past David Erquiaga’s A♣ K♥. The board ran 9♥ K♣ 8♣ 6♦ 9♠. Erquiaga up to 315k.
Andre Lettau (L), Hubert Spiess (R)
The first big pot of the day was felted at table 15. It opened with a 10k raise by Andre Lettau, called by Hubert Spiess, hijack Lester Edoc three-bet to 34.5k, back to Lettau with a four-bet to 83k, Spiess shoved (158k), Edoc folded, Lettau tanked. Lettau eventually folded. Spiess up to 300k, Lettau down to 200k, Edoc down to 240k.
No showdown here but a god pot scooped nonetheless. Thomas Ward raised on a previous hand but found no callers. The next pot he won saw cutoff Masato Yokosawa raise to 12.5k, button Ward three-bet to 31.5k, Yokosawa tank-folded. Ward up to 340k.
Big pot here taken down. From mid position, Tou Ta Wei raised to 12k, sb Gavin Flynn three-bet to 41k, called by Wei. On the flop 2♥ 8♦ 2♠, Flynn c-bet 27k, Wei called. On the turn A♦, Flynn fired 77k, Wei all in, Flynn folded. Wei up to 370k. Flynn down to 190k.