Home28 survivors of 57 original runners for Day 1B and it’s Ryan Hong who’s our chip leader with over 169,550 in chips. Other notable players who have large stacks after today are Bobby Zhang (108,175), Jojo Tech (61,325), Linh Tran (64,950), Sebastian Benz (79,900) and Julius Malzanini (72,275), among others.
Complete Day 1B chip counts and Day 1B summary in a bit so make sure to check updates in our home page! Good night!
Within the last five hands of Day 1B, Quang Nguyen has doubled-up twice!
In this one, Quang check-shoved on the flop 5♥ 4♦ 7♥ on a 3,800 bet by Mark Dalimore who called, Quang’s all-in.
Dalimore was ahead with A♥ 6♥ but Quang had his outs. It didn’t come on the turn 5♣ but it did come on the river 6♦ as he survives yet another win-or-go-home situation. Quang who had below 8,000 a few hands ago now has over 30,000.
Pre-flop showdown between Quang Nguyen versus Hoang Nguyen in one of the last hands in Day 1B.
Quang: K♣ J♦
Hoang: 9♦ 9♠
Immediately, Quang grabbed the lead on the flop K♥ A♣ 10♣ and his double-up was confirmed on the turn 3♠ and river 8♥. Quang climbed to around 16,000 after the hand.
We’re at 29 players left for Day 1B at this point.
In a pre-flop all-in it was a classic Ace-King versus pair as last year’s APT Philippines champion Feng Zhao held A♥ K♥ versus Bobby Zhang’s 8♥ 8♦.
Zhao needed an ace or king to grab the lead off Zhang but the flop 4♣ 9♣ 8♠ just widened that gap and Zhao was now drawing dead and out of this Main Event.
Zhang has now around 50,000.
On a board of 4♦ 5♦ 9♥, David Steicke opened with 1,025 and saw JR Villanueva and Casey Castle call. Steicke led out again on the turn J♥ and both players called again. All three players checked the river J♦ and it was Castle who won the hand showing 3♦ 6♦ for the baby flush even as both Villanueva and Steicke mucked their hands. Castle builds around 50,000 stack now.
A player from under-the-gun opened the betting pre-flop with 1,100. The mid-position player raised to 3,200 and David Steicke from the small made it 10,000 total! The UTG player folded but the MP player shoved his stack and Steicke called.
Steickie: A♦ Q♥
MP Player: Q♦ Q♣
Steicke found his outs right on the flop 2♠ 2♣ A♣ and the turn and river found no lady as another player busts out of Day 1B.
Linh Tran and Kim Enriquez were heads-up post-flop 5♥ 8♠ Q♣ in a previously raised pot. Tran check-called Enriquez’s 4,125 bet on the flop as both players checked both the turn 3♦ and river K♦.
Tran shows J♥ J♠ and Enriquez’s stack gets hit again. Tran climbs to over 50,000.
Kim Enriquez checked the turn on a board of 3♣ 8♣ A♠ K♥ and saw Julius Malzanini fire with 3,200. Enriquez raised to 8,000 and Malzanini flat-called.
On the river 10♣, Enriquez fired another 8,000 only to see Malzanini raise to 18,000. Enriquez didn’t believe he had a great hand and called.
However, Malzanini showed that indeed he had a made hand tabling Q♠ J♠ for the straight. Enriquez mucked his hand and Malzanini jumps to over 60,000.