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Decorated APT champion Go Saito was very unhappy at the turnout of this hand. It kicked off with Jinho Hong raising to 6500 from cutoff, sb Saito three-bet to 19k, called by Hong. At the flop 5♠ 2♠ 3♣, Saito c-bet 27k, called by Hong. On the turn 2♣, Saito shoved, Hong tank-called.
Saito K♠ K♦
Hong 4♦ 5♣
The river 5♦ improved Hong to a full house to avoid the rail and double up to 290k. Saito plummeted to 62k.
Another hour has gone by, players enter a new level.
Remaining: 86 players
Chips in play: 13,250,000
Average stack 154,070
Big stacks:
Cao Ngoc Anh 445k
Jeonggyu Cho 420k
Yongseok Choi 340k
Jingxuan Zhu 330k
Benigno Ledina 330k
Gyeong Byeong Lee 310k
George Mateo 280k
Jie Mu 270k
Florencio Campomanes 250k
John Tech 240k
Big stacked sb Ji Young Kim and utg+1 Xixiang Luo beefed up the pot to 15.5k preflop. The flop ran 10♥ 2♦ 2♣. Kim check-called 5k; on the turn Q♠ antoher 13k check-called by Kim. On the river Q♣} both checked. Kim showed A♠ 10♠ and Luo mucked. Kim up to 260k.
Khoo Kah Hock finished 8th at the Main Event and is hoping to stage another good run however he will need more chips to do so with only 110k behind. We caught him get involved in two back-to-back pots. The first one he raised to 6500 from cutoff, called by Go Saito on the big blind. At the flop 4♠ 10♣ K♣ Saito check-called a 17k bet by Khoo. On the turn Q♣, Saito shoved a stack that well covered Khoo’s 35k stack, Khoo folded. Saito claimed it.
On the next hand, three players were in on a raised pot preflop, the board 5♦ 2♥ 10♥. Utg Yu Lei checked, Khoo shoved, called by Lei. Khoo A♣ 10♠ top pair, Lei K♥ J♥, the turn 4♣ and river 8♦ were good to Khoo for a double up.
Three-way raised pot to 20k saw a flop 8♠ 7♠ 5♠. George Mateo bet 12k, mp Xixiang Luo called, button Michael Kim Falcon shoved (97k), Mateo tanked then shoved (99k), Luo folded.
Mateo 9♠ 6♥ straight
Falcon K♠[10c}
The turn 8♦ and river 2♦ ended Falcon while Mateo shipped it to amass 220k.
Benigno Ledina was already sporting a big stack when we got a look at his chips. Luckily, we were able to catch another winning hand that sent his stack up to 285k. Ledina opened the betting from cutoff with a 6500 raise, sb Kjell Ove Dyb three-bet to 15.5k, called by Ledina. At the flop 9♠ 4♦ 5♦, Kjell c-bet 12.5k, called by Ledina. On the turn 3♣, both checked and the river fell 6♠. Kjell bet 17k, Ledina snap-called, Kjell with J♠ J♥, Kjell 5♥ 7♥ straight. Kjell down to 130k.
From hijack, Jack En Ching Wu raised to 5500, sb Michael Seymour three-bet shoved 30k, Wu called. Wu 5♣ 5♠, Seymour A♥ K♣, the board ran clean. Seymour eliminated, Wu up to 250k.
Players went on a break while two players at table 16 were still at it. Catching the stare down on a full board 8♦ J♣ J♦ 3♣ A♠ and 170k in the middle, Jie Mu went all in with his big stack and Florencio Campomanes snap-called. Mu showed K♦ 7♦ bluff, Campomanes A♦ Q♦ top pair. He doubled up to 325k.
Xixiang Luo didn’t have a big stack of yellows worth 5k each on our last check but seems he may have hit Michael Kim Falcon’s stack because now he is over 300k while Falcon is down to 115k. We happened to catch one of Luo’s winning hands but this one was against Hu Jin Long.
Action folded to the blinds, sb Luo limped, bb Long raised to 7k, called by Luo. At the flop 6♦ J♦ 3♣, Luo check-called 8k. On the turn 3♠, Luo check-called 13k. On the river 6♣, no bets. Long showed 4♦ 4♥ two pair, Luo had better with 5♠ 5♦ higher two pair.