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Chips in play: 8,950,000
Average stack: 559,375
Table 2 players
Tien Quyet Pham 255k
Hsing Hsiung Tai 184k
Tan Nguyen 350k
Vincent Huang 387k
Vincent Chauve 865k
Go Mori 950k
Ta Duy Quoc Chinh 202k
Jerome Bradpiece 747k
Table 3 players
Dhaval Mudgal 484k
Tu Le 522k
Laksh Pal Singh 865k
Kensuke Koizumi 364k
Kang Feng Lien 1.088M (chip leader)
Fu Bang Huang 1.022M
Ray Chiu 204k
Kim Enriquez 455k
Edward Pastoll met the rail next. Action before him saw Kim Enriquez raise to 22k, hijack Pastoll three-bet to 61k, bb Kang Feng Lien four-bet to 130k, Kim folded, Pastoll jammed, snap call by Lien.
Lien Q♣ Q♠
Pastoll A♣ K♥
The board ran low, Pastoll out in 17th place for VND 79,210,000 (~USD 3,400) payday. Lien joins Vincent Chauve in the mil zone with 1.040M.
Lok Gino nursed a short stack all day. Now in the money, he pushed with A♣ Q♠ and faced Go Mori with 10♥ 10♦. The board looked good for Gino but when it completed Q♦ 2♥ 8♥ J♥ Q♥ his trips fell to Mori’s flush. Lok Gino earned VND 79,210,000 (~USD 3,400) for his deep run.
Laksh Pal Singh scooped two pots to bring him up to 908k. The first one saw a board 2♠ 2♣ A♣ K♠ A♥. He fired 57k and won it with Ray Chiu folding.
Next one saw utg Tu Le raise to 22k, called by three players. At the flop J♣ 2♣ J♥, Laksh bet 24k and got one caller in sb Dhaval Mudgal. No bets on the Q♥ turn. The 10♥ river, Singh won it with Mudgal folding to an announced bet.
Utg+1 Jerome Bradpiece raised 22k, called by to players, sb Go Mori three-bet to 130k, Bradpiece answered with a four-bet to 372k, Mori used two time banks before folding. Bradpiece up to 750k.
18 players remaining at two tables. Average stack is 497,222. Money at hand. The race is on for a seat to the official Final 8 table.
Stack update (estimated)
Table 2
Tien Queyet Pham 173k
Hsing Hsiung Tai 204k
Tan Nguyen 450k
Vincent Huang 315k
Vincent Chauve 1.2M
Go Mori 572k
Lok Gino 91k
Ta Duy Quoc Chinh 250k
Jerome Bradpiece 581k
Table 3
Dhaval Mudgal 630k
Edward Pastoll 222k
Tu Le 560k
Laksh Pal Singh 700k
Kensuke Koizumi 406k
Kang Feng Lien 672k
Fu Bang Huang 984k
Ray Chiu 475k
Kim Enriquez 340k
The bubble has been delivered and it was a brutal one for Dao Minh Phu. He limped from utg, button Fu Bang Huang shoved, back to Dao who moved all in.
Dao A♣ J♣
Huang J♠ 9♦
When the board ran 8♣ 8♠ 4♦ 7♥ 10♣, it was a straight for Huang to boot Dao out as the stone cold bubble boy. Huang zoomed to 984k.
More heavy action at table 2… hijack Kensuke Koizumi raised to 22k, cutoff Vincent Chauve called, button Tu Le three-bet to 100k, bb Dhaval Mudgal four-bet jammed 479k, no callers. Mudgal back up to around 630k.
Cutoff Laksh Pal Singh raised to 22k, sb Vincent Chauve three-bet to 80k, Singh four-bet to 180k, Chauve folded. Singh showed 3♥. He chipped up to 660k. Barely a scratch for Chauve who dipped to 1.2M. Average stack is 471,000.