HomeA super short stacked player (roughly 5 big blinds) from under the gun shoved and saw an opponent try to isolate him by making it 10,000 but Christine Hia wouldn’t have none of it and moved all in her last 19,000 or so. The re-raiser made the call.
Hia: A♣ K♦
Opponent: 7♣ 7♦
Short-stacked player: 8♦ 9♣
The dealer boarded the flop J♥ 2♥ 4♣ and Hia still needed an ace or king to survive. The turn 2♦ wasn’t the savior she needed but the river K♥ was.
Hia jumps to around 44,000 after this pot crippling the one opponent while taking out the other.
From under the gun, Andrew Nguyen opened to 2,000 preflop only to see the guy beside him, Brent Schlaadt raise it to 5,500. Not to be outdone the next player to act, Mun Fei Chow re-raised and made it 14,000! All other players including Nguyen got out of the way but not Schlaadt who made the call.
Flop: 7♠ 4♥ 10♥
Schlaadt fired another 9,500 only to see Chow raise it again, this time to a big 25,000!
Schlaadt took his time, looked at his cards and opponents many times and decided.. to fold, giving Chow the huge pot.
Intense preflop action began with everyone folding to the big stacked Sam Nee who raised it up to 1500 from the button. Acting next was Lee Wai Kiat who called from the sb seat, but when action moved to Euryd Rivera on the bb, he bumped it up to 4800. With no intention of bowing down, Nee responded with a 10900 four-bet giving something for Rivera to ponder on. Rivera retaliated with an all in declaration sending Nee into the tank. Nee asked for a chip count but then decided to relinquish his hand. RIvera scooped up a nice pile of chips.
Mike Takayama has doubled up with his A♠ K♥ nut flush on a board that ran Q♠ 6♠ K♠ J♠ 3♣. He is now up to around 21K.
Sam Nee and Jan-Eric Schwippert were entangled in a preflop raising war that began with the button player limping in, Schwippert raising to 2000, got reraised to 6000 by bb player Nee, a fold by the limper, a three-bet by Schwippert to 11500, and after tanking, Nee shoved. Schwippert snap-called and it was a showdown.
Nee: 9♠ 9♦
Schwippert: A♠ K♥
With the board running 2♦ 2♠ 10♦ Q♠ 4♦, Nee avoided the high cards and celebrated his massive double up. Nee now sits with around 135K chips while Schwippert spiraled down to 3K.
A player sitting beside him bet 1,300 pre-flop and David Steicke wasted no time in moving all of his chips to the middle– just around 7,750.
Steicke’s opponent, who had had one of the bigger stacks in the table, thought hard for good two minutes before throwing away his hand. Steicke’s stack is still short-stacked but has now around 9,500.
Even with just under 8,000 in chips, Jose Drilon (Philippines) is finding a way to bully the opposition. In the hand below, he did it against compatriot Euryd Rivera.
Rivera opened the betting preflop with 1,550 but saw Drilon announce all-in and Rivera had to add 6,200 more to stay in the hand. Rivera tanked for a bit but made the fold showing Drilon and the table he had an ace.
Drilon scoops this one and is still in survival mode with roughly 9,500 now.
Euryd Rivera faced off against Jan-Eric Schwippert with both staring down a 13K pot and a full board of 3♠ 4♥ A♦ 8♥ 2♦. Schwippert led out 7500 and Rivera smooth-called. Schwippert won the pot with his 4♣ 4♦ set.