Short stacked Koichi Morita went all in, he was followed behind by short stacked Iori Yogo, bb Yi Wei Peng hadn’t acted when Morita showed his K♣ K♠. Seeing the hand, Peng folded his 9♦ 9♠ though he said he would have called the short stacks had he not seen the two kings. Yogo had A♠ Q♦. The board ran 3♥ 6♠ Q♣ A♦ 8♠. Morita eliminated. Yogo up to 160k.
Big stacked John Costiniano raised to 11k, several spots over Kyung Kun Lee three-bet shoved, Lester Edoc joined, back to the raiser Costiniano with a fold. Lee 6♣ 6♥, Edoc A♠ K♣, the board ran 3♠ 5♥ 10♣ 4♦ 2♣ for a higher straight to Lee and a double up. Edoc down to 100k.
Soo Jo Kim raised to 12k, button Dongjun Kim called followed by bb Diego Gonzales. At the flop 7♣ 6♥ 3♠, Soo Jo c-bet 14k, Dongjun called, Gnozales check-folded. On the turn A♠ no bets landed and the river felted Q♥. Soo Jo fired 28.5k, Dongjun called, Soo Jo said “good call” then mucked. Dongjun earned the pot.
Kannapong Thanarattrakul sent Phachara Wongwichit packing with A-K meeting a king on the river to oust pocket queens. Thanarattrakul now at 420k.
Koichi Morita raised to 10k, Florencio Campomanes called, Yi Wei Peng three-bet to 37.5k, Morita shoved, Campomanes folded, Peng called for his tournament life.
Peng K♠ K♦
Morita A♣ J♣
The board K♣ 5♠ 7♣ 9♥ for a double up to Peng to 273k. Morita dropped to 12.5k.
61 remaining
13,250,000 chips in play
217,213 average stack
Big stacks:
Cao Ngoc Anh 1M
Benigno Ledina 660k
Jingxuan Zhu 620k
Jeonggyu Cho 520k
En Ching Wu 520k
Soo Jo Kim 500k
John Costiniano 490k
With two short stacks before him all in, Soo Jo Kim called with A? K?. Both at-risk players had A? Q?. No magic on the board, Kim shipped it and climbed to over 300k.
Alex Lee raised to 9k, called by Rhee Yoseb, and big blind Johnson Tan. At the flop 9♦ 5♠ 3♥, Tan checked, Lee c-bet 12.5k, Yoseb folded, Tan called. On the turn 5♦ both checked and the river felted K♠. Tan checked again, Lee bet 29.5k, Tan called. Lee A♣ 7♣, Tan won the pot with 8♠ 9♥ pair. Lee dropped to 180k, Tan rose to 150k.
Late position player Tou Ta Wei raised to 9k, was called by sb Ying Lin Chua and bb Sang Jun Lee. On the flop 9♥ 7♠ 8♣, Chua checked, Lee bet 13k, Wei folded, Chua called. On the turn 5♠ it was checked by both. On the river 4♥, Chua bet 35.5k, Lee called, Chua showed K♣ 7♣, Lee won the pot with 8♥ 8♠ set.