HomeEliminations 37th to 45th – P123,200
37th Christos Vlahos – Australia
38th Shue Churk – Hong Kong
39th Xiaobo Zhou – China
40th Daiki Horikawa – Japan
41st Hwang Seok Chul – Korea
42nd Taichi Yoneya – Japan
43rd Sangjun Lee – Korea
44th Sukwoon Lee – Korea
45th Siyoung Lee – Korea
Maki Ikeda raised to 25k, Jung Seung Mook shoved his massive stack, Ikeda risked his 323k stack. Mook K♥ K♦, Ikeda A♦ J♥, the board 10♣ 9♠ 3♥ 7♠ 8♣ for a straight to Ikeda to stay in the running. Ikeda up to 680k, Mook down to 650k.
Kyung Kun lee picked up a good pot to drive his stack to par. The hand began with Maki Ikeda raising to 25k, calledby sb Lee and bb Edgar Kim. On the flop 8♠ J♦ 6♥, Lee bet 38k, Kim called, Ikeda folded. On the 2♣ turn, Lee c-bet 44k, Kim folded. Lee up to 450k.
Action folded to the blinds, sb Marvin Rettenmaier raised, bb Joven Huerto jammed, called by Rettenmaier. Huerto with A-K, Rettenmaier 8-8. The board bricked to send Huerto out of the running. Rettenmaier goes up to 600k.
Lu Zheng Hao
Lu Zhenghao seemed to be ignited after railing Jae Kyung Joe. He won two more pots to bring his stack to 510k. The biggest of the two was against Sung Jin Han.
Action began with utg player Taichi Ichikawa raising to 25k, called by four players. At the flop 9♠ 7♦ 7♥, action was checked to cutoff Zhenghao, he bet 44k and found only one caller in Sung. On the turn 4♠, no bets by either. The river 2♦, Sung fired 75k, Zhenghao called, Sung quickly mucked. Zhenghao claimed it without a showdown.
Marc Rivera raised to 22k, Victor Chen called, Wilson Lim shoved 61k, back to Rivera who four-bet t 161k enough to see Chen fold.
Rivera A♣ 10♠
Lim 10♣ 10♥
The board ran Q♠ 7♠ 9♥ A♦ K♥ to send Lim out of the Main Event. Rivera now at 790k.
On a flop 6♠ 2♠ J♥, Yosuke Kojima jammed, called by Jung Seung Mook. Kojima A♣ Q♣, Mook Q♠ J♦, the turn 10♠ and river 5♥ were no help to Kojima to end his run. Mook climbed to 870k.
Another preflop all in situation among the short stacks. Jae Kyung Joe all in with A♠ Q♦, challenged by Lu Zhenghao with K♣ 8♠. The cards landed 2♣ 3♣ 8♦ 8♥ 9♦ for trips to Zhenghao and the boot for Joe. Zhenghao up to 220k.
Having lost a majority of his stack to Joseph Sia, Christos Vlavos proceeded to lose the rest to Gerard Lubas III. Vlavos was all in with A♥ A♦, Lubas had 10♥ 10♠, the cards came down 10♦ 4♦ 2♥ 9♥ 2♣ for a full house to Lubas.