HomeBig pot formed preflop amounting to 66k with two players staring down a flop A♦ J♥ 7♦. Hijack Vincent Chauve check-called cutoff Sahil Chutani’s 20k bet. On 9♠ turn both checked. When the river came 10♣, Chauve led for 35k, Chutani folded. Chauve claimed it and is up to 450k, Chutani at 285k.
On a jack-high flop and 24k in the pot, sb Pang Cho Yi bet 12k, bb Jerome Bradpiece called. On the turn J♠, Pang check-called 19.5k. The river 9♥, Pang check-called a 48k bet. Bradpiece revealed his J♦ 3♦ trips, Pang mucked. Bradpiece up to 334k, Pang down to 125k.
Preflop action, button Pang Cho Yi raised to 10k, bb Dao Minh Phu three-bet, Pang four-bet to 20k, Dao jammed, Pang called (94k) for his tournament life. Pang K♣ K♠, Dao Q♦ 6♦, the board Q-10-9-9-8 for a double up to 194k. Dao down to 200k.
After losing a big chunk of his stack to Mudgal, Vu Hoai Lam won a pile of chips in this hand to help him in his recovery stage. Utg Hieu Ngo raised to 8k and found five callers to join him to the flop A♠ 4♦ Q♦. No one bet and the same on the turn J♣. On the river 9♠, bb Lam sent out 25k, everyone folded. He now sits with 140k.
Walking over to check on table 5 and Dhaval Mudgal seems to have amassed around 580k. We missed the action so he kindly provided us with the story. It happened in back to back hands. First one was A-A double up through Vu Hoai Lam’s A-K. The next hand Huynh Tan Dung jammed with 9-9, Mudgal with J-J.
48 remaining. Average stack 186,458.
Big stack update (estimated counts)
Kensuke Koizumi 550k
Ta Duy Quoc Chinh 430k
Vincent Chauve 385k
Vu Hoai Lam 385k
Fu Bang Huang 358k
Sahil Chutani 350k
Madhav Gupta 330k
Hieu Ngo 315k
Dao Minh Phu 310k
Piet Pape 305k
Dhaval Mudgal 270k
Nasty bust out took place at table 6 with Soo Jo Kim banging the rail hard against Ta Duy Quoc Chinh. As told by the winner, the hand kicked off with utg Fu Bang Huang raising to 7k, u+1 Kim called, bb Chinh called. On the flop 4-6-K, all checked. At the jack turn, bb Chinh bet 10k, Huang called, Kim raised to 34k, Chinh called, Huang folded. On the queen river, Chinh bet 50k, Kim shoved, Chinh called. Kim K-K set, Chinh 10-9 straight. Chinh up to 430k.
From u+t, Ray Chiu raised to 6.5k and found two callers in the blinds. At the flop A♣ 3♥ 8♥, action was checked to Chiu who c-bet 5k, sb Dao Minh Phu raised to 13.5k, bb folded, Chiu called. On the turn K♣, Chiu called a 14k bet by Dao then no bets on the Q♣ river. Dao had J♦ 8♦, Chiu won it with A♥ 5♥ top pair. Chiu up to 215k, Dao at 310k.
Three way raised pot to 22.5k and the flop came 10♠ 5♣ A♥. Utg David Luong checked, mp Vincent Chauve bet 8k, Go Mori called, Luong folded. Both checked on the turn 6♠. The river 3♦, Chauve check-folded to Mori’s 7k bet. Mori up to 200k, Chauve at 385k.