Jinho Hong has been on fire the past ten minutes. He picked up three consecutive pots which included all of Jae Chang’s chips. That hand in particular saw Chang raise to 40k, Hong jammed, Chang called. Chang 9♣ 9♦, Hong A♠ 10♥, the board ran A♣ 7♠ 10♣ Q♥ K♠. Hong now up to 1.040M.
Mp Je Hun Hong raised, bb Juyun Park three-bet to 90k. Hong called. On the flop J♣ 8♥ 3♦, Park c-bet 150k, called by Hong. On the turn 5♦, Park wasted no time counting and announced all in. Hong folded. Park rose to 845k, Hong down to 1.220M.
Utg player Xixiang Luo raised, down the orbit bb Benigno Ledina three-bet to 90k, Luo called. At the flop J♣ K♥ 4♣, Ledina c-bet 60k, called by Luo. On the turn 3♠, Ledina banged out 350k, this time Luo opted to fold. Ledina around 1.26M.
Chip leader Alex Lee went head to head against Seungmook Jung in a battle of the blinds. Both players saw a flop J♣ J♠ Q♦, Lee bet 18k, called by Jung. On the turn Q♥, Lee checked, Jung bet 21k, called by Lee. The river 9♥, check again by Lee, Jung fired 42k, Lee snap-called and showed K♠ 6♦. Jung mucked.
17 remaining
779,412 average
13,250,000 chips in play
Alex Lee 1.9M
Cao Ngoc Anh 1.58M
Je Hun Hong 1.46M
John Costiniano 1.16M
Xixiang Luo 1.140M
Benigno Ledina 1.1M
Jeonggyu Cho 1.040M
Seongmook Jung 600k
Juyun Park 600k
Jinho Hong 600k
Jaideep Sajwan 570k
En Ching Wu 400k
Gyeong Byeong Lee 340k
Yongseok Choi 320k
Graeme Siow 245k
Jae Chang 230k
Han Fei 122k
From utg Je Hun Hong raised to 33k, called by mp Jinho Hong, sb Cao Ngoc Anh, and bb Jingxuan Zhu. At the flop 3♦ 5♠ Q♠, it was checked to last position player Jinho who bet 60k. Anh called, Zhu raised to 134k, Je Hun and Jinho folded, Anh shoved with a stack well covering Zhu. Zhu tanked, used two time banks, then put it all in with Q♦ 10♠. He was in a world of hurt seeing Anh’s A♠ Q♥ higher kicker. No help came on the turn 3♠ and river 8♣ to send him out in 19th place. Anh up to 1.58M.
We are down to the final 18 players. Two tables remaining. Final 8 approaching…
Raised pot preflop saw four players in the hand with around 85k brewed and 10♣ K♥ 7♦ flop. All checked. The turn came J♣. Bb Han Fei checked, utg Jinho Hong bet 80k, Yongseok Choi folded, button Jingxuan Zhu shoved, no callers. Zhu scooped it and is up to 540k.
21 remaining
630,952 average
13,250,000 chips in play
Alex Lee 1.9M
Je Hun Hong 1.5M
John Costiniano 1.2M
Cao Ngoc Anh 1M
Jeonggyu Cho 1M
Xixiang Luo 840k
Jin Ho Hong 780k
Benigno Ledina 660k
En Ching Wu 600k
Juyun Park 430k
Gyeong Byeong Lee 400k
Yongseok Choi 380k
Seungmook Jung 360k
Jae Chang 340k
Steve Yea 325k
Jingxuan Zhu 310k
Iori Yogo 240k
Graeme siow 230k
Han Fei 150k
Julien Weymouth 100k
After Yi Wei Peng’s fall in 26th place, several more fell that included three APT decorated champions. John Tech (23rd}, Ji Young Kim (24th), Soo Jo Kim (25th), Victor Chong (26th).
Falling in 22nd place was Kannapong Thanarattrakul with A? Q? defeated by Alex Lee’s J♥ J♣ on a board Q♣ K♦ 6♣ 9♣ J♦. Lee up to 1.8M.