HomeBawoo Hyunshik Yun is not intimidated by Stephen Chidwick’s big stack. Not at all.
After the flop of 10♠ A♦ 4♠ Hyunshik Yun bet 10,200, which was flatted by Chidwick. After the turn 8♥ Yun fired another 24,000. Again, flatted by Chidwick. At the river 9♥, Yun sang an even better song: all-in for around 70,000.
Chidwick couldn’t make the call this time and he drops to around 200,000. Yun has now around 170,000.
Being the more popular poker player in his table, Joe Hachem used that and more when a CO player raised his small blind to 5,000. Hachem with around 90,000 behind thought for a bit before declaring, “all-in”. The big blind got out of the way and action was back to the original raiser.
The CO player can’t make himself to commit and folded the hand.
Hachem asked him, “What did you fold?” and flashed one jack to the opponent.
We’ll never know what the opponent had but it looks like he folded a better hand than Hachem had from the look on his face.
And so are the 40 players who still have a shot at APT Main Event glory.
We’re 13 busts out away from ITM too so we’re expecting the players to be a bit tight. (Although the opposite could happen, of course.)
These are the names that are clearly ahead of the field going into level 15 (estimated chip counts):
Moses Saquing – 215,000
Nam Le – 220,000
Stephen Chidwick – 280,000
1-hour dinner break for the players. And also for the live reporting team. See you in a bit.
Moses Saquing, Day 1B chip leader is showing that his performance yesterday wasn’t a fluke.
From mid-position, a player bet 4,000 to open the action preflop. Saquing wanted more though, he re-raises to 11,000 and gets the call from the MP player.
Both players checked the flop 10♥ 9♦ A♠ but Saquing bet 11,000 on the turn 2♣ which was enough to scare off the opponent. Saquing joins the 200K chip club with around 215,000.
It all started too nicely in Nam Le’s table. Acting from the small blind, he raises to 6,000 after seeing everybody fold the action to the blinds. The BB player, probably thinking Nam was just stealing, re-popped it to a 13,200 total. But Le wasn’t messing around, he collected all of his neon green chips with authority and announced the huge 3-bet worth around 100,000.
BB player folded and he Le gets another nice pot putting him over the 200,000-chip mark.
After both checked the turn with a board 2♠ 3♣ 7♣ A♣, heavy action came on the river K♦.
From the button, SJ Kim bet big to 24,000. Gaw spent some time in the tank but eventually made the call. It was the right one as he was shown Kim’s Q♠ 7♠ beating it with his A♠ 4♥.
Gaw has now around 160,000 in chips while SJ Kim drops to roughly 30,000.
Holding A♦ Q♣, Ian Brion thought it was time to put his tournament life at risk with just around 21,000 behind him. An opponent who had him covered made the call:
Opponent: Q♠ 10♥
Flop 8♠ 2♦ K♠ was good for Brion and so was the turn Q♦ and river 8♥. He stays in the tournament and jumps to around 45,000.
Post-flop 7♣ 4♦ Q♦, a player check-called Brian Lovett’s 7,500 bet. Same story, same check-call on Lovett’s 12,500 bet on the turn 6♥. But on the river, Lovette made sure his opponent would think twice: he went all-in for his final 22,500.
Opponent did think twice and folded giving the nice pot to Lovett, who has now around 82,500 in chips.