HomeDue to some confusion at the table, the tournament director announced at the start of Day 2 that any verbal declaration of a bet such as “twelve” for instance, will be treated as the lowest number of 1200 instead of 12k. Not long after, an incident happened where the ruling was enforced.
With a pot of 25k brewed in the center, the board of 5♦ 9♠ 6♥ 2♣ was already spread. Ceesvin Abdulla checked to Seongsu Kong who bet 15k. Abdulla called. On the river of J♣, Abdulla announced “thirty-two” and tossed in 32k in chips. Before Kong acted, the tournament director was called by other players at the table to correct the bet to 3200. Abdulla argued that the pot was too big for a 3200 bet and his intention was 32k. Irregardless, the ruling was made and it was a 3200 bet.
With action now on Kong, he asked for a translation of the incident from Simba, and after understanding the commotion and change in bet, he raised to 6400. Abdulla called and Kong opened up 2♥ 2♠ set for the win. Abdulla mucked.
New level has begun and with it came an aggressive Pete Chen. Lim Yah Loon kicked it off with a 3500 raise, Edward Pastoll three-bet to 9500, then Chen shoved with 33.7k. His strong move was respected with Loon and Pastoll folding.
It was a three-way all in on a flop of Q♠ K♣ 10♦.
Gyeong Byeong Lee Q♦ J♠
Masatoshi Tanaka K♥ Q♣
Ron Manning K♦ J♦
The turn of 8♦ and river of J♥ kept Tanaka ahead and Lee was railed with the lowest stack while Tanaka shipped in nearly a triple up. Tanaka now up to 111k in chips.
The top two chip leaders entering Day 2 are at the same table which meant they were bound to bump heads. On a flop of J♦ 8♦ 7♦,Ho Bao Qiang bet 31k and Yoichi Uesugi called. On the turn of 10♠ they both checked but on the river of 7♣, Qiang checked to Uesugi who bet 30k and Qiang called. Uesogi showed J♥ 7♥ full house and Qiang mucked.
On a flop of A♦ Q♥ 5♣, Toniyoung Degracia checked to Chris Mateo. He bet 3800 and she flat-called. On the turn of J♣, she jumped out with an 8500 bet and Mateo gave up his hand.
Feng Zhao is not messing around today. He won a sizable pot against Shinichiro Tone to boost up his stack near the six digit range, then picked up another against Tone to cross over. The hand began with five players in on a limped pot. The flop came Q♣ 10♣ 6♥ and Tone bet 2k. Acting next was Joven Huerto who folded, Zhao called, then Tetsuya Tsuchikawa on the small blind raised to 7500. Kenji Hata on the big blind called and so did Tone and Zhao.
The turn fell K♥, the blinds checked, Tone bet 15k, Zhao called, and the blinds folded. On the river of 8♦, Tone checked to Zhao who quietly slid out all his chips of just under 50k. Covering Zhao by just a bit, this move had Tone re-assess the board for some time but eventually opted to fold.
Zhao now up to 185k.
Shinichiro Tone was not happy at the turnout of this hand.He raised to 3k preflop and got called by both players on the blinds, Feng Zhao and William Mcauley. The flop came 7♣ 2♣ K♠ and the blinds check-called Tone’s 4k bet. The turn of 3♠, blinds checked to Tone who bet 6k, and got one caller in Zhao. On the river of 9♠, Zhao led for 25k and Tone called.
Zhao 9♣ 9♦ set
Tone K♥ J♥ top pair
With a 17k pot already brewed for the taking, Rajesh Jiandani and Kazuaki Mori stared down a board of 3♠ 8♦ Q♣ 5♥. Jiandani wasted no time counting chips and moved all in. Mori called for his tournament life and it was a showdown.
Jiandani 3♦ 3♥ set
Mori A♠ A♥ overpair
The river of 4♠ kept Jiandani on top and Mori was eliminated.
Anthony Hope went all in with 23.6k and Alexis Lim called. Hope had A♣ K♦ and Lim 10♦ 10♣. The board bricked and Hope was eliminated.