HomeJason Powers shows K♦ 10♠ on a board 2♦ 9♣ K♥ 10♣ 10♥ with his opponent meekly mucking his hand. With a large pot involved, Pot rises to around 140,000 at this point.
A few hands after the elder Rivera, Mark jumped to over 80,000, Czardy Rivera followed suit winning a hand and moving past the 60,000 mark. Thanks to a recent play from Czardy when he stole the blinds and antes.
On a board of 3♣ J♠ 7♦ 10♣ 5♥, Mark Rivera fired a 6,000 bet on a 12,000 pot. His opponent, Feng Zhao didn’t want to be involved anymore and folded his hand. Mark Rivera climbs to around 80,000 while dropping Zhao to 120,000.
Patrick Draper opened from the hi-jack with 2,200 and saw Inge Forsmo re-raise 5,600 from the cutoff. Draper called to bring the flop 6♥ 5♦ 7♣.
Draper check-folds on a 5,500 Forsmo bet and Draper drops to around 75,000 after this hand. Forsmo climbs a bit, to 45,000.
Flo Campomanes opened with 5,500 from the button pre-flop but saw Jun Saito re-raise to 15,000. Flo can’t handle the heat from Saito and he folds to give Saito the pot. Saito has now over 120,000 and while Flo drops to roughly 30,000.
With a bigger stack than most in the table, we saw Jay Tolon raise to 15,000 after a few limpers. All folds and Tolon climbs to around 80,000.
On a flop of A♣ 4♠ A♥, Yoichi Fujiya opened for 2,200 and saw Lee Seok Ho raise to 5,200. Fujiya just flat-called to bring the turn 8♠. Fujiya shoved (15,000+) and saw Seok Ho snap-call!
Lee Seok Ho: A♠ 8♣
Fujiya: A♦ 9♠
Apparently, that was a very bad turn for Fujiya and he needs a miracle nine to survive. River J♣ can’t save him and he’s out of the tournament. Lee Seok Ho climbs to over 150,000 after the hand.
In the first of its kind in the history of the Asian Poker Tour, Lester Edoc, currently ranked No. 1 in the 2015 APT Player of the Year race, moved all-in for all of his chips including the “Will You Marry Me” to long-time girlfriend Ferlyn Cabaling, a four-time APT Ladies of Poker champion.
Armed with “the ring” and with Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” as the background music, Edoc went down on one knee and made the proposal.
We never saw the flop, turn and river but we saw Ms. Cabaling say “YES” and this is the happiest double-up we’ve seen in this entire tournament!
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Edoc!
On a board of A♠ 6♣ J♠ K♠ A♦ Shravan Chhabria had Q♠ 10♠ for what was the nuts of all the nuts. So when Luca Borello was all-in with his A♣ J♦, Chhabria was more than willing to shove all of his stack!
Chhabria’s unbeatable hand brought him to the 60k-chip mark.