Huy Pham just won two decent sized pot to pump up his arsenal. In one hand he faced off against Azusa Maeda. Pham raised to 26K preflop and Maeda called. At the flop of K♣ 2♠ 2♦, Maeda checked to Pham who bet 19K and was called. At fourth street of 4♥, Maeda again check-called Pham who slid out 50K. Then on the river of A♣, Maeda acted no different, he check-called Pham’s bet of 70K. Pham won the hand with A♠ 10♠ top pair as Maeda mucked.
Several hands after, Pham was on the big blind and he called a raise by the button player Dave Fish to 25K. At the flop of Q♥ 7♦ 7♥, both players checked. At the turn of 6♦, check-check again. Then on the river of 7♠, Pham slid out 35K and was check-called by Wunschel. Pham showed his 7♣ 4♦ for quads. Nice hand!
Ishihara Kodai shoved his stack worth around 150,000 in a raised pot on the board of 6♠ 7♠ 6♣. Two others in the hand, Simba and Jojo Tech both gave up the nice pot to the Japanese
Linh Tran opened preflop to the min-raise 24,000. Eric Sia and Huy Pham both called.
Flop: 7♥ 8♥ 8♣
Tran eyeballed both callers before firing a bigger 32,000 to the middle. Both Sia and Pham folded to give Tran the nice pot. Tran has around 360,000.
Euryd Rivera had a very short stack and had no choice but to move all-in with his final 45,000 or so. He was called by Tsuji Yasuyuki but Huy Pham added more and Yasayuki met him on the middle to bring the flop 8♠ 10♠ 2♥.
Yasuyuki jammed it and Pham got out of the way.
Rivera: Q♣ J♣
Yasuyuki: A♣ 10♣
Turn A♦ added new outs for Rivera but it wasn’t the king on the river 10♦, which gave the Japanese the full house. Yasuyuki climbed to 400,000 or so after this hand.
Short-stacked Quang Nguyen moved all his 61K chips in from the big blind after a raise by the button player Eric Sia. Having Nguyen way covered, Sia called and their hole cards were revealed.
Nguyen: J♣ 5♣
Sia: 6♦ 9♥
With the board of A♦ 4♣ A♠ 9♠ 9♦, Sia landed a full house and Nguyen the boot. Nguyen leaves in 18th place and earns PHP142,000.
Jessie Supnet and Jojo Tech faced off preflop and both were all in.
Tech: Q♦ Q♠
Supnet: A♦ Q♠
The board stayed true to Tech as it ran K♠ K♥ 7♥ 5♠ 6♠, and he double up to 270K chips while Supnet fell to 42K.
Shortly after, Supnet busted out in 19th place. He takes PHP142,000 for his finish.
Lim Choon Kwang just played his final hand at the Main Event after busting out in hand against Hyunshik Yun. During the hand Kwang raised to 20K from the cutoff seat only to get raised all in by Yun. Kwang tanked for a bit but then slid all his chips in as well.
Kwang: Q♦ J♥
Yun: Q♣ 7♣
With the board running 3♠ 4♥ 7♠ 8♠ 2♠, Yun landed a pair and Kwang was out in 19th place. He earns PHP116,000 for his finish.
Keiji Okada of Japan is out of the tournament. Seriously, they are dropping like flies out here.