HomeJohn Paredes is still on shove or fold. His two prior shoves earned him double ups. He picked up another, shoving with K♣ J♦ and running a good spread J♥ 4♦ 8♥ 8♣ 3♠ to overtake Minh Le’s 5♣ 5♠.
Hieu Tran was all in with J♥ 9♦ and Nguyen Van Canh called with 10♦ 10♣. The board ran K♦ 3♥ 2♦ 9♥ 6♥ and Nguyen’s pocket pair was still to oust Tran in 13th place.
20Feb was eliminated by Kit Kwan Kwok with A♦ 2♥ pair losing to Kit’s 10♣ 10♦ set on a board of 6♥ K♣ 10♥ A♠ 5♦.
All in preflop, sb Paul Hong with K♥ 5♣ and bb Nguyen Tuan Anh with A♥ 8♣. The board ran 10♠ K♦ 7♣ 4♠ 4♦ for two pair to Hong and a double up.
In a four-way raised pot preflop, the flop landed 5♠ 9♥ 10♠. Sb Quang Phung checked, bb Hieu Tran jammed all in for 261k, utg Nguyen Van Canh tank-called, then Cao Ngoc Anh shoved with a stack covering the other players. Action back to Quang who folded while Canh tanked. Canh eventually folded while showing his J♦ J♥.
Tran K♣ 9♦
Cao 9♣ 9♠ set
Looking like the end for Tran, the turn 10♥ and river 10♣ saved him from elimination with a full house for both to split the pot. Had Canh stayed in, he would have shipped in a monstrous double up.
John Paredes
In a battle of the blinds, sb player “20Feb” raised, bb John Paredes shoved, sb snap-call. Sb J♠ J♥ and Paredes with K♣ Q♣. The board landed K♦ 7♦ 6♣ 5♣ 7♠ for a second double up to Paredes.
Minh Le
On a three-way raised pot preflop, the flop came 6♠ 2♦ J♣, Nguyen Tuan Anh checked, Minh Le checked, button Kit Kwan Kwok bet. Call – call. On the turn 7♥, everyone checked. On the 10♥ river, Nguyen bet 155k, Le shoved, Kit folded, and Nguyen tanked for some time. Nguyen eventually mustered the courage to call and Le opened J♠ J♥ set. Nguyen mucked. Le zoomed to the chip lead with 1.3M. Nguyen still healthy, dropped to 970k.
Paul Hong has had a rollercoaster of a day. He rose from around 400k starting stack to reach a million, then plummeted in several costly pots. One of them was a double up for Tran Uy Thanh. Tran shoved with A♣ K♦ and Hong called with 2♦ 2♣ .The board ran K♣ 5♠ 8♥ 7♠ 10♣.
Duong Nguyen
Duong Nguyen enjoyed at least four double ups throughout the day to ladder up with his short stack. His run ended though in 15th place in two back-to-back hands. On the first he was all in with 3♣ 3♠ and Hieu Tran had 8♥ 8♣. The board ran dry and Tran doubled up. With just a few chips remaining, Nguyen tossed it in and Nguyen Van Canh sent him packing.
