HomeSeeing the action at the flop, Mikal Blomlie checked a turn board of A♥ 3♠ 4♥ A♦ giving Zhao the go ahead to bet which he did for 7800. Blomlie check-called and both watched the river card land J♥. Blomlie checked again and Zhao banged out an 18000 bet. Blomlie smooth-called the bet and won the pot with his K♠ 7♣ versus Zhao’s 5♠ 7♠ bluff.
Jojo Tech has been active recently betting preflop to 4,000 from early position. He found two callers from the button (Ziyang Zhao, China) and the big blind (Riyadh Fawaz, Lebanon).
Flop: 5♦ 7♣ J♥
Tech checked his option and saw a 6,000 bet from the Chinese which the Filipino called.
The turn 9♦ was checked again by Tech and Zhao fired a bigger bullet this time: 16,000.
Enough to force the fold from the Filipino.
Some mad, big pot action going on at the table of Mikal Blomlie (Norway) and Jojo Tech (Philippines).
From under-the-gun, Jojo Tech opened to 4,000 and saw two callers in Blomlie and another player from the big blind.
Flop: J♣ 4♠ A♥
Tech led out again this time to 7,000 and Blomlie called with the BB player getting out of the way.
Turn: 6♥
Tech stepped on the breaks this time but Blomlie continued betting with 11,200. The Filipino called.
River: 8♦
Another check from Tech and Blomlie fires a bigger 25,000 to the middle.
Tech was too stumped he removed his shades for the time being. Eventually he called however, and was shown the bad news: Blomlie had pocket jacks for the set.
Blomlie’s stacked is upped to over 180,000 while Tech’s falls to roughly 90,000.
Andrew Gaw pushing his weight around at the table by taking down a nice pot without a show. It started with Fawaz raising to 3600 only to get reraised to 8600 by John Tech. When action reached Gaw on the small blind, he tanked for a while and then moved all his chips in the middle which amounted to 49600. Fawaz didn’t even think, he quickly folded to Tech who went deep into the think tank. After some time, Tech also folded as Gaw scooped the chips with a smile.
Small blind player Noda Hiroyuki decided to shove all in when three limpers entered the pot prior to his action. As action moved back around to the limpers, everyone folded except for Tetsuya Tsuchikawa who called. At the showdown, Hiroyuki’s J♥ 10♥ was dominated by Tsuchikawa’s A♥ 6♥ but with the board running 4♦ 10♦ 3♥ 5♣ 3♠, Hiroyuki landed top pair and a double up to around 52K.
Mike Fawaz eliminated two players in one hand, Do Hoang Anh, who happened to be the chip leader into Day 2, and Nori Suzuki. Anh initiated the play with his all in of 22200 which Fawaz eventually called and Suzuki getting his short stack as well in the mix.
Fawaz: 6♦ 6♣
Anh: A♠ 10♥
Suzuki: 6♠ 4♠
Board: J♦ 7♥ 5♣ 2♥ 5♦
With that, Fawaz scooped the pile as two more bit the dust.
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa and Adam Moneghan engaged in a pot that ballooned to 18000 preflop. When the board landed A♣ K♣ 8♥, both players slowed to a check. Then at the turn of 5♣, Moneghan led out for 4400 and Tsuchikawa flatted. Final card of 3♦ was then laid out and Moneghan sent out 10800. Tsuchikawa called again and mucked his hand when Moneghan showed his A♦ Q♣ top pair.
After a series of raises and re-raises, Patil decided to move all-in for his final 13,000 or so. The Japanese took his sweet time initially not wanting to fold… He did however to give the little pot to Patil
Short-stacked but still alive, Patil climbs to around 25,000.
Anvar Muratov and his good reads and smooth-calls continue to win him more pots. In recent action, Muratov raised to 2500 preflop and was called by SJ Kim. At the flop of 8♠ 4♠ 6♦, both players checked. At the turn of Q♠, Muratov checked to Kim who bet 4200. Muratov smooth-called. Then at the river of 2♥, Muratov checked again, Kim bet 7000, and Muratov smooth-called again. Muratov won the hand with his 5♥ 5♦ against Kim’s A♥ 3♥.