HomeFrom the middle position, Jia Jie Liang shoved his stack. When action folded to Mike Fawaz, he asked for the the count (answer: 200,000) and immediately made the call.
Fawaz was ahead A♣ K♠ against Liang’s mere A♥ 3♥.
However, the flop 5♣ J♠ 3♣ gave Liang the lead; the turn 3♠ confirmed Liang’s double up (to around 430,000) dropping Fawaz’s to around 450,000.
Tension is high with one player to go until we break for the final table of 8. After the last elimination, we’ve seen players reraise all in and not getting called. Monster stacked Feng Zhao raised to 35000 only to fold when Huy Pham shoved his 198000 chips in.
Not long after we saw Pham raise to 36000 only to get himself shoved by Bryan Huang. Pham folded.
Huy Pham started off the action with a 36,000 bet preflop. Mike Fawaz flatted but Hyun Thae Hweng shoved his stack worth 57,000. Pham called and so did Fawaz.
Flop: 2♠ A♠ J♦
Both players were content in seeing the rest of the board checking the turn 7♠ and river 4♦.
Hweng: A♣ 7♠
Pham: A♦ 8♠
Fawaz: 7♦ 7♥
Hweng thought he had the triple-up but rather gets the boot from the main event. We are now down to 9 players as Fawaz climbs to around 570,000 after the hand.
Our final 10 players are off to dinner. Ceasefire for now, just our opportunity to count ’em chips (Estimated):
Bryan Huang (Singapore) – 220,000
Feng Zhao (Singapore) – 1,300,000
Mike Fawaz (Lebanon) – 460,000
Inaki Santos (Spain) – 550,000
Hyun Thae Hweng (Korea) – 70,000
Hyeong Wook Choi (Korea) – 240,000
Huy Pham (Vietnam) – 220,000
Jia Jie Liang (China) – 220,000
Michael Marvanek (Australia) – 370,000
Mikal Blomlie (Norway) – 650,000
Inaki Santos is one of the quieter players at the table but is sure making his presence known. He raised to 25000 preflop, got a customer in Jia Jie Liang, but when action reached Blomlie, he raised it up to 76000. Taking his time to choose his move, Santos eventually announced all in forcing Liang out of the hand and sending Blomlie to the tank. Blomlie asked for a count, and upon finding out he had to shell out another 336000, about half his stack, he chose to fold and fight another hand.
Feng Zhao not cutting Jia Jie Liang any breaks. From the big blind, Zhao called Liang’s raise of 24000 and both watched the flop of Q♠ 8♦ 6♦ land on the felt. Zhao checked his option and sending out a continuation bet was Liang who dumped 25000. Zhao called. At the turn of 10♦, Zhao took the reins and led out for 83000 sending Liang into the tank in disbelief. Liang couldn’t match it and folded to Zhao.
Singaporean Feng Zhao started the day with 54,000 in chips. He has now around 1.2 million or more.
Fhao won a big pot yet again this time against Jia Jie Liang of China.
Liang opened to 24,000 and saw Fhao raise to 67,000. Liang called to bring the flop 6♣ Q♥ 3♣.
Liang checked and this time Fhao bet a bigger 84,000. Liang made the call to bring the turn 2♣.
Liang checked again and Fhao continued his literally tall tale with a 130,000 bet.
Liang couldn’t handle the heat to give up the pot to Fhao who is easily our chip leader with 10 players left in the tournament.
Feng Zhao continued his assault on the players by defending his big blind and getting rewarded for it. Catching the action at the turn board Zhao check-called Hyun Thae Hweng’s bet of 32000 on a board showing 4♦ 5♦ Q♦ 9♦. On the river of 10♣, Zhao was fearless and again check-called Hweng’s bet of 64000. Zhao won the hand with his 8♥ 6♦ flush over Hweng’s A♥ Q♥ top pair.
Vincent Toress saw his stack dwindle until he finally got it all in on the small blind with a measly 10-4. Big blind Huy Pham called with his A-J and with the board running blanks, Torres was eliminated in 11th and earned $9600.