Home25 players remaining
Chips in play: 10,900,000
Average stack: 436,000
Chip leaders:
Vincent Chauve 1.272M
Sofia Lovgren 1.19M
Jaesh Balachandran 987k
Choi Eng Loong 920k
Madhav Gupta 900k
Jaesh Balachandran and David Luong went head to head ending with one dropping out. From hijack, Balachandran raised, sb Luong three-bet, Balachandran called. At the flop A-J-4 two clubs, Luong c-bet, was called. On the turn 2♣, Luong bet again, Balachandran shoved, Luong called for his tournament life. Luong with A-J, Balachandran 8♣ 9♣, the river 5♥ didn’t help Luong and Balachandran shipped it to climb to 987k.
Choi Eng Loong is up to 920k after railing Joseph Cona in 27th place. Action began with Loong raising to 22k, called by Cona on the small blind. At the flop 8♠ 5♦ 4♠, Cona checkc-called a 36k bet and the turn came 3♠. Again Cona check-called a 59k bet. The river J♠, Cona checked, Loong shoved, Cona called for his tournament life. Loong shipped it with A♠ 6♠ nut flush, Cona with 7♠ 7♣ lower flush.
heavy action at table 1 has been thrilling with another big pot claimed. Vincent Chauve opened to 18k, button Madhav Gupta and bb Akshay Nasa called. At the flop 2♣ K♥ 6♦, Chauve c-bet 20k, called by both opponents. On the turn 9♣, Chauve fired 55k, again was called by both. Then on the river J♣, Nasa led for 291k, Chauve folded, Gupta tank-folded. Nasa up to 650k.
Another player has crossed into a million. Vincent Chauve is now at 1.1M after denying Huynh Duc Tai the pot by exposing the bluff.
Action began with utg Ashay Nasa raising to 17k, called by u+1 Vincent Chauve, then button Huynh Duc Tai three-bet to 47k. Both players called and the flop ran 7♣ Q♠ 3♦. Nasa and Chauve checked, Huynh fired 65k, only Chauve continued. On the turn 9♠, check again by Chauve, Huynh bet 140k, called by Chauve. On the river 7♦, Chauve checked, Huynh bet 225k (leaaving 100k behind), and with about even stacks, Chauve tanked.
Chauve tanked even used one time bank until he found the guts to call. Huynh showed A♦ 2♠ bluff and everyone complimented Chauve with a good call with J♠ J♥.
The first player to cross into the million range has arrived. The day’s entering chip leader Sofia Lovgren continued her head chopping to claim another stack.
Her latest victim was Ashish Munot who had pocket eights that didn’t hold against Lovgren’s A-J that found an ace on the turn. The shoves were at the flop. Lovgren also had a flush draw. She is now at 1.120M.
Vincent Chauve has increased his stack to 620k in two winning hands back to back. The first one was the elimination of Byoung Nam Kim. Chauve raised to 18k, Kim shoved, Chauve called. Kim 8♥ 8♣, Chauve ah}[qs}, an ace fell on the turn and it held.
Next hand, Chauve raised to 18k again, Lau King Sing three-bet to 52k, Chauve called. The board ran out 7♦ 10♦ 5♦ 8♠ 4♦ with no further bets. Chauve showed 9♠ 9♥, Lau mucked. Lau dropped to 421k.
Big pot between Askshay Nasa and Nguyen Quang Minh. When we got there 74k was in the pot and the board Q♦ 3♥ 6♥ 9♦. Nasa checked, Nguyen bet 28k, Nasa raised to 108k, Nguyen called. On the river 2♠, Nasa all in, Nguyen tank-folded. Nasa up to 500k. Nguyen down to 238k.
At separates tablss, Joseph Cona railed Tae Gyun Kim (39th), Ray Chiu fell to Cuong Nguyen in 38th place, and Go Mori eliminated in 37th place.
Cuong Nguyen is up to 690k.
We are down to the final four tables with 36 remaining.
Short stacked Vincent Huang pushed with Q-J and got called by Cuong Nguyen with K-Q. No help arrived for Huang and he fell in 41st place.
At a separate table, short stacked Bin Zhang busted in 40th place.