HomeAnother player has quickly fallen in this last level of Day 2. The casualty was David Erquiaga. From the big blind, he faced a raise by late positioned Chi Jen Chu to 13k. Erquiaga three-bet to 42k, Chu shoved, Erquiaga called for his tournament life.
Erquiaga A♠ Q♠
Chu 8♦ 8♠
The board ran empty for Erquiaga. Chu climbed to 380k.
Eric Tsai raised preflop and got one caller in bb Sparrow Cheung. On the flop 10♥ 9♥ 4♦, Sparrow shoved and Tsai called. Sparrow J♣ 8♥ draw, Tsai K♦ Q♠ gut shot, the turn K♥ improved Tsai to top pair, and with the river 2♠, Sparrow missed and busted.
28 remaining; chip leaders at the break
Yi Wei Peng 712k
Jinho Hong 590k
Eric Tsai 550k
Choy Wai Tak 510k
Chien Fa Chou 445k
Average stack: 257,143
Chia Yun Wu was unhappy at the turn of events here. Chi Jen Chu was all in with A♠[qs} and Chia was hoping to eliminate with K♠ K♥. However, the board ran J♦ 8♥ 4♠ A♦ J♣ for a higher pair to Chu to double up to 219k. Chia dropped to 55k.
We missed the action prior to the river betting but what we saw was a 124k pot and a board 8♣ K♠ 10♣ 2♦ 5♦. Sb David Erquiaga faced a 55k bet laid by bb Chen An Lin. Erquiaga tank-called. Lin showed K♥ 9♣, Erquiaga mucked. Lin up to 390k, Erquiaga down to 100k.
Big pot was just shipped by the day’s entering chip leader Choy Wai Tak. Action opened with Chi Jen Chu raising to 10k, called by Choy, Andre Lettau, then a three-bet shove (56k) by a short-stacked player. Back to Chu, he four-bet to 100k, Choy five-bet all in for 178k, Lettau folded, Chu called.
Short stack A♣ Q♠
Choy K♦ K♣
Chu A♥ 10♥
The board came K♠ 5♥ 7♣ 3♥ A♠ for a scoop to Choy to 435k. One player busted, Chu dropped to 117k.
All in preflop between Daniel Paul Nowok J♣[jd} and Eric Tsai A♠ K♣. The board ran 4♠ 2♦ 3♦ 5♠ 8♠ for a winning straight to Tsai and the exit for Nowok. Tsai up to 490k.
At 30 remaining, the top two leaders are Jinho Hong – 745k and Yi Wei Peng 670k. Average stack is 240,000.
Mid position player opened, called by both blinds Chow Cliff and Andre Lettau. Big bets arrived at the flop 2-2-7. Blinds checked, mp c-bet 9k, Cliff called, Lettau raised to 30k, mp folded, Cliff all in, Lettau called.
Cliff 8-8
Lettau 9-2 trips
The turn and river came 9-9 to improve Lettau further to a boat. Cliff busted. Lettau up to 430k.