HomeStarting the next level aggressively, John Tech has picked up four blinds and antes and has now taken over the chip lead from Tetsuya Tsuchikawa. He now has 1.8M.
Current Chip Counts:
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa 1,865,000
Huy Pham 795,000
Michael Mariakis 900,000
John Tech 1,360,000
Linh Tran 890,000
Jojo Tech raised 100,000 preflop but Tetsuya Tsuchikawa responded with a re-raise double to 200,000.
Tech considered his options asking Tet his stack (over 1.55M) but eventually folded showing an ace. Tet returned the favor and also showed an ace.
Tran – 900K
Tech – 1.3M
Mariakis – 1M
Tsuchikawa – 1.6M
Pham – 800K
John Tech is on the move with a quest to bring his ailing stack back in fighting form. He accomplished that in two separate hands, one against Huy Pham and another against Linh Tran.
Against Pham, Tech raised to 100K from the cutoff seat and Pham called from the big blind.
At the flop of J♥ 4♦ 10♣, turn of K♦, and river of A♥, both players checked all the way and Tech won with his A♦ 8♣ top pair against Pham’s 7♠ 4♠ small pair.
In the hand against Tran, Tech (from the small blind) called Tran’s button raise to 100K.
At the flop of 9♥ 9♣ 10♣, Tech checked to Tran who continued for a 90K bet, and Tech called.
At the turn of A♦, Tech checked again, and Tran bet 175K, and like previous, Tech called.
Then on the river of K♣, both players checked and Tech won with his K♥ 10♥ as Tran mucked.
Tech now has slightly over 1.3M chips, Tran falls to around 900K chips.
Michael Mariakis shoved his stack worth 580,000 re-raising Huy Pham’s 120,000 preflop raise… Pham smells the opportunity to bust out someone but is shown the bad news when the hands were tabled.
Mariakis: J♥ J♠
Pham: A♠ J♦
Flop 4♠ 7♥ K♥ turn 6♠ and river 3♠ and Mariakis is back to over a million with the double up. Pham drops down to 940K or so.
On a raised pot on a board of J♣ 5♦ Q♣, Jojo Tech check-called Michael Mariakis’ 80,000 bet. Both players checked the turn 8♥ and in the river J♠ the Filipino led out for 125,000– prompting the quick fold from the Australian.
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa put a stop to John Tech’s attempt to steal from the button by calling Tech’s 110K raise preflop.
Flop: A♥ 4♣ K♦ both players checked.
Turn: 8♥ Tsuchikawa checked, Tech bet 120K, and Tsuchikawa flat-called.
River: Q♣ both players checked. Tsuchikawa won the hand with his A♦ 7♦ top pair. Tech mucked.
Tech is down to 610,000 and Tsuchikawa rises to 1,460,000.
Michael Mariakis faced a 100,000 bet preflop from Jojo Tech. The Australian’s reply is to shove his stack worth 625,000. Tech considered his options but after 30 seconds quickly got away from his hand to give Mariakis the nice pot.