HomeJae Chang dwindled down in chips but found an opportune moment to get it all in and double up. He shoved with K♠ J♦ and was called by a player with K♥ 9♥ with the board showing 7♦ 2♣ K♣ for both with top pair. With the turn of 4♥ and river of 2♠, Chang’s kicker was better and took down the pot for a good double up.
Intense raise war between Anvar Muratov and the player to his immediate left led to a big pot and a nice takedown. Muratov started the battle with a 2000 raise then his opponent made it 5500 to go. After a few minutes, Muratov three-bet to 9800 which was eventually called. At the flop of 3♥ J♦ 4♦, both players checked. At the turn of A♦, Muratov checked, his opponent bet 7000, and Muratov called. Then on the river of 10♦, both players relaxed and checked to each other. Muratov won the hand with his A♠ 2♣ top pair.
Franklin Acfalle sends Edison Marzan home when he called Marzan’s 18800 all in preflop. Marzan had 10♣ 10♠ which was behind Acfalle’s J♦ J♣. The board was no help to Marzan ending his day at the Main Event.
Heavy hittlers at the tables with big moves happening at every turn. At Flo Camponanes table, he faced a raise of 3200 by a mp player to which he responded with an all in. Tanking for some time was the big blind player who was covered by Camponanes. The bb joined Camponanes and was all in as well while the intial raiser bowed out of the party. At the showdown, Camponanes had A♥ K♥, bb had 10♠ 10♦. With the board running A♦ 6♦ 4♣ Q♣ 8♦, Camponanes won the hand and eliminated a player in the process.
Lots of intense action going on at table 25 with Luke Pangan starting the betting round by raising to 1900, getting called by Nori Suzuki in late position, then a reraise by Jaeib Cho to 6000 from the button. When action returned to Pangan, he noticed the two players had much heavier stacks than him so he folded sending the action back to Suzuki who slid out a stack worth 22000. Not backing down, Cho went over the top practically putting Suzuki all in who acquiesced. At the showdown, Cho had A♣ A♦ way ahead of Suzuki’s J♥ J♣. Everything was good with the board running 6♥ 6♠ 8♣ but with the turn of J♦, Suzuki landed a full house, and with the river of 3♣, Suzuki doubled up while hurting Cho’s stack in the process.
With a raised pot preflop, Jiang Jie Liang and Inaki Santos saw a board land 2♥ Q♥ K♠. Santos checked, Liang bet 1800, and Santos check-called. At the turn of 6♦, action was the same with Santos check-calling Liang’s 2900 bet. On the river of 5♦, Santos checked again, Liang bet 4800, and unlike previous, Santos tanked and tried to get a read on Liang then decided to fold.
John Tech and Luke Pangan engaged in preflop action with Pangan raising to 2000, Tech replying with a 4600 bump, then called by Pangan. At the flop of K♠ 2♣ 7♣, both checked for a free turn card of A♦. Pangan checked again but not Tech who bet 4800. Pangan folded surrendering the pot to Tech.
In a preflop all in hand against Bulat Mubarakzyvanov, Lam Yo Huan worried for a moment when Mubarakzyvanov’s A♥ 2♥ against his A♦ 8♦ landed a pair at the flop of 2♠ K♥ 5♠. The turn of 4♦ did not help Huan, but with the river of 8♥, Huan was relieved for landing a higher pair and happily doubled up.
This is like Terran getting beat by Protoss, Zerg or something. That kind of day for former StarCraft Pro Lim Yo Hwan of Korea. (Full disclosure: the writer have never played a game of StarCraft in his life)
Singaporean Feng Zhao from early position opened to 3,000 and Yo-Huan responded with a shove worth his final 14,500. Zhao thought for a bit but made the crying call.
It was the right one though as Yo-Huan showed A♣ Q♦ and he had A♦ Q♥.
Split pot, right?
Well…
The flop 10♣ K♥ 4♦ thinks so.
The turn 8♦ put suspense in this “boring” showdown.
And the river 5♦ confirmed NO CHOP for the players and busts out Yo-Huan from the main event.
We are down to 84 players and Zhao climbs to over 30,000 after the hand.