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Singapore’s Norbert Koh entered Day 3 as one of the chip leaders but has now completely fallen off the cliff.
Against, Vietnam’s Huy Pham, who entered the day with just 61,000 (or roughly 10 big blinds), held pocket kings and was up against Koh’s pocket jacks preflop.
The board did not provide any help for Koh, who is eliminated from the main event. Pham is now hovering near the 900,000 mark.
Quick eliminations here from one table to another. Linh Tran was responsible for the latest as his pocket queens held against short-stacked Singaporean Phua Si Yang, who is now out of the main event. We’re down to 22 players.
Ngeow Chung Fai was busted out by compatriot Chow Mun Fei with pocket jacks. The board read 8♠ K♠ Q♦ A♣ A♦ and the jacks held. Fei climbed to over 650,000 after this hand.
Sim Jae Kyung aka Simba, was sorely in need of a double up and he found just the right spot when he went all in on top of Lim Choon Kwang’s raise.
Simba: A♠ 9♥
Kwang: Q♣ J♣
The board ran 10♥ 5♥ 6♥ A♣ A♦ giving Simba a double up to around 120K chips.
No back-to-back APT titles for Mike Takayama.
A hand after his stack took a serious hit, he is busted out in a three-headed preflop showdown.
Takayama: A♣ J♠
Chow Mun Fei: A♦ Q♦
Michael Mariakis: K♥ J♥
The board blanked 10♦ 4♣ 5♦ 10♣ 2♠ for both Takayama and Mariakis and Fei wins the nice pot.
Fei climbs to over 500,000 while Mariakis falls to roughly 700,000 or so. Takayama goes home with PHP 116,000.
Michael Mariakis had Q♠ 9♠ and completed his flush on a board of 6♥ 10♦ J♠ 8♠ 7♠ in a HUGE pot against Mike Takayama.
We heard the loud yes from across the room and saw that Mariakis has now climbed to over 800,000 in chips. Takayama is down to 70,000 or so.
Mike Takayama bet 17,000 on a flop of K♦ 3♣ 3♦ and saw Ngeow Chung Fai fire an additional 38,000 more. Takayama didn’t hesitate and announced all-in… forcing the fold from Fai.
Dave Fish opened preflop with 22,000 and found a caller in Azusa Maeda.
Flop: 3♥ 6♣ 6♠
Wunschel c-bets a curiously lower 18,000 and Maeda didn’t like it as the Japanse threw away his hand.
