Preflop raise war between Chen Yazhou and Tobias Peters saw the former four-bet jam his 652k stack. Peters with the fast call. Yazhou A♦ K♠, Peters A♠ Q♦, the board ran A♥ 6♥ 7♥ 9♦ J♥, and with neither with a heart, Yazhou banked it with his higher kicker. Yazhou up to 1.4M, Peters down to 940k.
Yuta Murakami all in with A♣ Q♦ called by Lin Wen Hong with K♣ J♦. The board favored Hong as it ran J♥ 9♣ 3♠ 5♠ 8♥. Mruakami out. Hong rose to 820k.
Inaki Santos raised to 50k, Tobias Peters and Victor Lam called. On the flop 7♣ 7♠ 8♠, Lam checked, Santos bet 60k, Peters called and Lam bowed out. On the turn 3♣, Santos fired 200k, Peters stuck with him and called. On the river 3♦, Santos lowered it to 175k, Peters called. Santos opened A♦[7d} full house. Peters mucked. Santos up to 1.4M, Peters down to 1.6M.
Christopher Mateo could not bring his stack past three tables. He was just taken down by Iori Yogo. Prior to getting the boot, Mateo doubled up with Q♦ J♦ flush against Yogo’s Q♣ 10♦ on a board running A♦ A♠ 3♥ 2♦ 9♦. Up to around 480k, he shoved again holding 5♠ 6♠ but this time it was no good with Yogo turning up A♠ A♣ to boot him out.
Chen Yazhou all in with 4♥ 4♣, Tobias Peters called with A♠ J♣, the board offered no help to Peters for a double up to Yazhou to 570k. Peters with around 2.15M
Utg Soo Jo Kim raised to 50k, Ivan Tabucal shoved his remaining 80k, called by Kim. Kim K♥ J♦, Tabucal 4♥ 4♦, the board ran 10♠ 7♣ Q♥ A♦ 7♥ for a winning straight to Kim. Tabucal eliminated.
Catching the action only on a turn board 5♠ K♣ K♠ 4♠ and a hefty 460k pot already pumped in, Iori Yogo checked, Christopher Mateo bet 137k, Yogo shoved, instant fold by Mateo. Mateo down to 580k, Yogo up to 1.5M.
All in shove fest preflop began with Li Rongshan shoving 160k, called by Inaki Santos, called by Yuta Murakami. On the flop 6♣ 6♥ 5♦, Murakami checked, Santos shoved 375k, Murakami folded.
Santos 10♠ 10♥
Rongshan A♣ 8♦
The turn A♦ improved Rongshan and with the river 7♣, Rongshan took down a triple up to 500k. Santos fell to 375k, Murakami down to 240k.
Soo Jo Kim got involved in two back-to-back pots. The first one saw Siyoung Lee raise to 50k, Kim called, bb Vincent Chauve jammed (343k, Lee folded, Kim called. Kim J♦ J♣, Chauve A♥ J♥, no hits on the board for Chauve for Kim to ship it. Kim rose to 950k.
As quick as it came, it left. Next hand Kim called Shyh Chyn Lim’s shove of 221k. It was a good call with A♥ 10♣ ahead of Lim’s A♦ 6♣ however the board ran 7♥ 8♥ 5♠ 7♣ 9♣ for a straight to Lim to double up to 490k. Kim dropped to over 700k.