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Day 1C chip leader Choi Eng Loong just claimed a monster pot in a hand against Shigeho Yoshioka. We caught the action on a turn board 6♠ 6♥ 2♥ 3♦ with 80k already in the pot. Both checked. When the river came 4♣, Choi checked again, Yoshioka all in with his fairly heavy stack, Choi with the instant call. Yoshioka opened 9♠ 9♥ overpair which was way behind Choi’s 7♦ 8♦ nuts straight. Yoshioka busted, Choi zoomed to 360k.
Vincent Chauve claimed another big pot to bring his stack to 320k. The casualty was Alan King Lun Lau. According to player Hwang Seong Il the board was K-9-9-A-J, Chauve with K-K, Lau with A-K.
96 players remaining
Average stack: 113,541
Chips in play: 10,900,000
Ashish Munot 325k
Vincent Chauve 320k
Dhaval Mudgal 300k
James Chavanarojrit 252k
Choi Eng Loong 250k
Mr Ngo 235k
Huynh Duc Tai 230k
Thanh Quyen 210k
Jiang Yong Bo 208k
Madhav Gupta 200k
Johannes Hoeld 195k
Zinmo Kim 190k
Thomas Van Leeuwen 190k
Sofia Lovgren 180k
*Akshay Nasa started the day with 13,100, he is now at 160k
Seok Hyun Song was running strong at his table, always seen claiming pots. He already claimed several heads today but all that doesn’t matter now. Seok fell hard to Vincent Chauve. Action began mp player Alan King Lun Lau bumping it up to 4500, cutoff Seok three-bet to 12.5k, bb Chauve four-bet to 22k, Lau folded, Seok called.
At the flop 7♠ J♥ 3♣, Chauve check-called 20k. On the turn Chauve checked again, Seok jammed, snap called by Chauve.
Seok K♥ K♠
Chauve J♦ J♣
The turn 10♣ and river 9♦ were no help to Seok to send him out of the running. Chauve soared to 242k.
We’ve been parked at Table 2 trying to get a hand on one of the chip leaders, Jiang Yong Bo. It was hard to come by but we finally got a small one. Utg Hari Varma raised to 3500, bb Bo called to see the flop 6♣ 4♠ 3♦. Bo checked, Varma c-bet 5500, Bo raised to 15.5k, Varma folded. Bo at 250k.
Heated hand between bb Terry Nguyen and utg+2 Zinmo Kim. On a three-bet raised pot preflop the cards ran A♦ 9♠ 3♠. Nguyen led for 6500, Kim raised to 18.5k, Nguyen called. On the 10♥ turn, no bets, and the river came 6♠. Nguyen jammed, Kim tanked. Time was called, Kim found the guts to call for his tournament life.
Nguyen showed K♠ K♥ and said good call when he saw Kim’s A♠ K♣ top pair. Kim doubled up to 120k, Nguyen plummeted to 3800 then busted out two hands later.
Table 7 action, back to back bust outs.
Kang Yoo Sing with A♠ K♠, Abhinav Iyer hoping to double up with 4♥ 4♠, the board ran 9♥ 6♥ 10♦ Q♣ K♥. Iyer out, Kang up to 83k.
Hieu Ngo all in with J♣ 9♣, Yang Peng A♣ A♥, the board bricked, Ngo out. Peng shipped it.
Catching the action as the dealer was counting out the chips. Nick Black burn had pocket kings on a low board while Hwang Seong Il had pocket fives that found a match on the board for a winning set. Hwang doubled up to around 180k.
A new level has begun. Players are still far from the money of 44 places. Here are the big stacks and other info:
Remaining: 153 players
Chips in play: 10,900,000
Average stack: 71,241
Current leaders:
Dhaval Mudgal 280k
Hong Kong Nguyen 220k
Jiang Yong Bo 211k
Yasheel Doddanavar 210k
Thomas Van leeuwen 205k
Jin Yong 200k
James Chavanarojrit 194k
Nguyen Quang Minh aka Mr Ngo 180k
Seok Hyun Song 178k