HomeBenigno Ledian raised to 10k, button Iori Yogo three-bet to 30k, Ledina called. On the flop 9♥ 9♠ 7♦, Ledina checked, Yogo c-bet 25k, Ledina raised to 50k, Yogo folded.
From bb, Julien Weymounth three-bet to 25k, initial raiser Steve Yea jammed, Weymouth called. Weymouth ahead with pocket queens, Yea with pocket sevens, the board bricked for a double up to Weymouth to 235k.
Mp John Costiniano raised to 8k, called by immediate left Julien Weymouth, cutoff Steve Yea three-bet to 25k, button Victor Chong four-bet to 51k, blinds folded, Costiniano and Weymouth folded, Yea shoved, Chong folded. Yea showed 4♥.
Preflop raise war ended with Saul Oliver on a five-bet shove called by Soo Jo Kim. Oliver K♣ K♥, Kim A♦ A♠, the board ran dry, Oliver eliminated. Kim up to 285k.
73 remaining
13,250,000 chips in play
181,507 average stack
Cao Ngoc Anh 920k
Jeonggyu Cho 490k
Jingxuan Zhu 480k
Benigno Ledina 420k
Phachara Wongwichit 380k
Yongseok Choi 365k
Diego Gonzales 360k
Ji Young Kim 360k
Florencio Campomanes 350k
Gyeong Byeong Lee 335k
Jinho Hong 335k
Mid posiiton Kannapong Thanarattrakul raised to 7500, button George Mateo “accidentally” three-bet to 12.5k, Thanarattrakul four-bet to 27.5k, called by Mateo. On the flop K♥ 6♥ 8♣, Thanarattrakul check-called a 25k bet by Mateo. On the 9♦ turn, Thanarattrakul switched up and led for 15k, called by Mateo. On the river 5♦, a quick all in by Thanarattrakul of 36k, Mateo tanked then folded. Thanarattrakul up to 150k.
Rhee Yoseb limped in, John Tech raised to 7k, button Han Fei three-bet to 21k, Yoseb all in (157k), Tech tank-folded, Han all in.
Han A♣ A♦
Yoseb K♣ K♠
The board ran 8♣ 10♠ 9♣ 6♦ 5♥ for a double up to Han to 165k. Yoseb dropped to 75k.
Cao Ngoc Anh is undoubtedly the chip leader with a massive 1M this early. It took two knockouts to send his stack soaring. With already 445k behind, he shipped all of Francesco Morales’s stack with K♣ K♦ over 10♥ 10♠ on a brick board. Several hands after, he claimed another sizable stack with pocket sixes turned set to bounce out another.
On a board A♥ 3♥ 2♣ 9♣, Hu Jin Long was all in and Gary Thompson snap-called. Long with A♠ 3♠ two pair but Thompson had him with 9♥ 9♠ set. The river 8♥ didn’t help Long to send all his chips to Thompson. Thompson now at 265k.