HomeLinh Tran re-raised Eric Sia’s 48,000 raise preflop to 110,000 to which the Filipino called.
Sia check-called the 95,000 bet on the flop 6♣ 7♥ Q♦ but couldn’t handle another c-bet of 100,000 from Tran on the turn A♠.
Tran adds more to his stack– and has overtaken Sia for second in chips.
Jojo Tech just stole three pots, first by raising to 50K in utg and getting no callers.
Next hand, he followed it right up by raising from the bb seat when everyone folded to sb player and limper Linh Tran. Tran folded.
Then immediately after, Tech faced a min raise by button player Eric Sia which was called by Tran, but both folded when Tech on the sb spot three-bet to 122K.
Azusa Maeda opened to 50,000 preflop and found four callers including Michael Mariakis from the button.
Flop: J♥ J♦ 5♦
Everybody checked except Mariakis who bet 125,000– enough to scare off all opponents for this hand.
No major action here but some re-raises preflop adds more to Jojo Tech’s stack.
Azusa Maeda and Michael Mariakis were on a raised pot on a flop of 8♠ A♣ 2♥.
Mariakis fired 50,000 post flop and Maeda check-called. But on the turn it was Maeda who led out with an all-in of roughly 150,000.
Mariakis folded to give Maeda the nice pot.
Azusa Maeda opened to 50,000 preflop just double the blinds and everyone folded except Huy Pham at the big blind.
Pham, the current chip leader, announced all-in to put Maeda on the spot.
The Japanese folded not willing to risk his tournament life in the first hand of the final table.
We’re roughly 10 minutes before tournament director Lloyd Fontillas calls out our final eight players of the APT-RWM Poker Finale 2014 Main Event.
Here’s how they stack up against each other and the final table seat assignments:
Seat 1: Eric Sia (Philippines) – 1,158,000
Seat 2: Linh Tran (Canada) – 1,031,000
Seat 3: John Tech (Philippines) – 384,000
Seat 4: Michael Mariakis (Australia) – 543,000
Seat 5: Chow Mun Fei (Malaysia) – 613,000
Seat 6: Tetsuya Tsuchikawa (Japan) – 548,000
Seat 7: Huy Pham (Vietnam) – 1,218,000
Seat 8: Azusa Maeda (Japan) – 287,000