HomeCatching the action only on the river betting, APT decorated Main Event champions Gyeong Byeong Lee and Ha Duong stared down a board Q-9-3-8-K. Duong checked, Lee bet 16k, and Duong called after about a minute. Lee opened 7-7, and that was good enough with Duong folding while chuckling.
Derick Hernandez Q♣ Q♠
Jaydeep Dawer 10♠ 10♥
Lester Edoc A♦ K♦
The board ran 7♥ 6♠ 7♠ 10♣ Q♥ for a winning full house to Hernandez. Hernandez had Dawer covered while Edoc paid the double up. Hernandez climbs to over 150k.
We are down to 61 players. Money round begins at 55 players.
Lim Yo Hwan and defending champion Mike Takayama are sitting side by side with the champ in position. However, his advantage didn’t matter all that much in this hand. We caught the action on a board 10♣ K♠ K♦ 2♣. Lim checked, Takayama bet 13.6k, LIm called. On the river J♥, both opted to check and Lim won it with A♥ 10♥ two pair. The pot was at around 30k.
Gerard Bringley is still nursing a small stack but he did pick up a decent sized pot to help beef up a bit. He got some pay off A.M.V.D. Ende with his 9♦ 10♦ completing a straight on a board of 7♥ 4♣ 8♠ K♦ 6♦.
Lee Chin Yong just shipped in a well deserved pot that sent Michael Kim Falcon out of the running. Yong kicked off the hand with a raise to 8k and found two callers. On the flop, bet 7500 and only Falcon went on to see the turn J♦. Yong continued his aggression, betting 15.3k. Falcon responded with a shove of around 45k and Yong called after re-assessing the hand.
It was a great call it turns out. Falcon had K♣ Q♦ draw and Yong ahead with 3♠ 3♥. The river was a blank and Falcon exited while Yong soared to well over 300K.
On a four-way raised pot preflop initiated by Ian Williams, the flop ran 7♠ 6♥ Q♣. Both blinds checked. Williams c-bet 8800, Mark Gruendemann called, and the other folded. On the 8♠ turn, Williams fired out a heftier 15.6k bet and still, Gruendemann stuck with him. On the K♠ river, it was all in called and Gruendemann doubled up with Q♠ 9♠ flush over Williams’s K♣ Q♥ two pair.
Not long after Marc Rivera lost a pot to Ernesto Ouano, he three-bet all in his remaining 19k on top of Will T’s 6500 raise. Joining him in the shove was Hisashi Ogi, all in with 83.3K. This was good protection for Rivera with Will needing to call a a big bet to see a piece of the board. Will folded.
Ogi 9-9
Rivera 3-3
The board ran 5♥ 6♠ 4♥ J♥ 4♦ and Ogi sent Rivera packing.
Anthony Hope has been nursing a short stack for some time but finally found spots to put it in action. He joined Edmund Lau all in for a showdown.
Lau A♥ Q♦
Hope A♣ K♠
The board ran 6♠ Q♠ K♦ 2♣ 5♦ for a higher pair to Hope. Lau was eliminated.
Immediately after, blinds Hope and Vincent Huang called Eugene Co’s raise to 4500. At the flop 8♣ A♣ 10♦, Hope bet 10k and won the pot.
It seems as if big stacked Hiroyuki Yoshimura may have won this hand but due to a misread on his part, he mucked the possible winning hand. Action kicked off with Ong Jun Yang raising to 4500, Yoshimura three-bet to 15k, and Yang called.
On the flop K♦ 8♣ K♠, no bets came, same for the 3♠ turn and 8♥ river. Yang turned over his 6♦ 6♣, Yoshimura looked at it, nodded, then mucked his hand. Yang shipped the pot.
At this point, the players were a bit surprised that Yoshimura couldn’t beat a six-high. One player asked him and when he remembered there was actually two pair already on the board, he realized his error and shook his head. We didn’t get to see his hand so it is possible he could have had better.
