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Bastian Blumenroether (Germany) apparently limped with his aces allowing Chow Mun Fei, who held K♥ 9♥, to be in the pot.
We didn’t see the entire action but what we know is that the flop was all hearts: 2♥ 6♥ 8♥ and that was all she wrote for the German.
Mun Fei, who is from Malaysia, climbs to around 180,000 in chips.
Tsuji Yasuyuki’s A♠ J♠ was up against a short-stacked player’s A♣ 9♣, which was obviously dominated.
The flop K♠ 7♠ 2♠ confirmed that domination and understandably, his opponent got off his seat before the turn A♣ and river 9♦ came.
Yasayuki has around 260,000 in chips.
Earlier estimate of Norbert Koh’s stack is below his actual. It’s around half a million now– after a re-count with some hidden stack of oranges (5,000 each) hidden in the middle of the stack!
With pocket jacks, Eric Sia (Philippines) bet 5,000 on the river against compatriot Jojo Tech, who called with A♣ 8♦. Not much, but Sia is still alive in this main event with 170,000 or so.
Keith Seah has been aggressive at his table, constantly raising, sometimes winning sometimes losing. In this particular hand, Seah raised double to 4800 and was called by Lim Choon Kwang from the big blind. At the flop of 4♠ K♥ 8♦, both players checked to see a free turn land 5♣. This time there was no checking, Kwang led the betting with 5800 and Seah flat-called. Then on the river of 4♥, Kwang sent out 19K worth of chips which was good enough to take the pot as Seah folded.
Norbert Koh has now around 380,000 in chips thanks to recent efforts. One of them was against Michael Mariakis, erstwhile chip leader for Day 1B and second overall entering Day 2, who has stagnated with still around 130,000 or so.
On a board of J♣ 6♥ 7♦, Mariakis opened to 12,500 but saw a raise from Koh with 30,000. Mariakis called to bring the turn Q♣. Koh then was first to bet with 40,000 and quickly Mariakis threw away his hand not wanting to indulge with the new chip leader.
Short-stacked Bede Connelly was not looking too good when he went all in with K♥ Q♦ and was called by a player with a much bettter hand, A♠ K♣. But lucky for him, the board was very generous as it ran 9♠ J♥ 6♣ Q♣ Q♠ giving him trips and a double up to over 50K chips.
Keith Seah and Huy Pham have been seen battling it out one-on-one on the felt. In the previous level, Seah had the better by taking over 20K chips from Pham, but in the next level, Pham found a way to get them back and more.
Action began with Seah raising to 4800 from the utg seat only to face Pham’s all in re-raise of 30600 total. Seah called and it was a showdown.
Pham: K♦ 10♠
Seah: K♠ 8♠
With the board running blanks, A♣ 2♠ 4♠ Q♥ 3♣, Pham doubled up to around 68K while Seah dropped to around 190K.