HomeThe board already featured K♠ 2♠ 4♥ and a healthy pot of around 55,000 in the middle.
Postflop Andrew Gaw’s 21,000 bet was check-called by Nam Le.
Turn Q♦ arrived and both players checked their options.
River 8♥ came and Le, probably smelling a weakness in Gaw’s last check, opened this time to 34,000.
Enough to force the fold from Gaw who drops to around 250,000. Le remains the chip leader after that hand with now around 550,000.
Cho Young Woo had his tournament life at risk against Daniel Kelly, who has Woo well covered.
Wu: 3♠ 3♦
Kelly: A♦ J♥
Woo dodges and ace or jack on a board of 2♦ 9♠ 6♥ Q♠ Q♥ and he remains in the tournament with around 80,000 in chips. Kelly still has one of the better stacks in the room with roughly 290,000.
Rey Serafico is out of the tournament.
He just went all in with A♣ Q♦ and was trailing Na Le’s Q♠ Q♥
No ace on the board 8♦ 7♦ 2♥ K♠ 6♦ and he busts out at 22nd place for $5,500.
Le is now at around the half million mark in chips.
This was actually one of the previous hands but we saw Daniel Kelly holding 6♠ 7♠ and he hit the straight on the board via a runner-runner. Kelly has now around 320,000.
At table #1, we saw Anthony Gabita move all in for his final 65K or so.
At table #4, we saw Mike Kim go over the top after a button raise by Nam Le at the botton.
Both aggressors won the pot and stay alive but still remain short-stacked in Day 3.
We did not catch any of the action but two more players get the boot.
Out at 24th place was Yoichi Fujiya (Japan) and at 23rd was Bawoo Hyunshik Yun (United States).
Fujiya started the day as one of the short stacks but Hyunshik Yun began with over 160,000 so we don’t know how he lost all those chips this fast…
Both went home with $5,500.
Lawrence Sanjay’s main event run has been cut short.
The player from India moved all-in with A♣ Q♣ and was called by Tam Truong with 10♦ 10♠
Flop J♠ K♠ 9♣ wasn’t what Sanjay had in mind and the turn 2♦ and river 9♣ did not cooperate either.
Pakihal Lisawad’s aggression paid off on this one.
Preflop he bet doubled the blinds and got action after a Stephen Chidwick call.
Flop: 5♠ J♠ 4♥
Lisawad opens betting again with another 8,000 and gets another Chidwick call. Turn 2♠ arrived and Lisawad fires a bigger 21,000 and this time gets a raise from Chidwick who added 27,000 more! Lisawad made the call.
River 7♦ arrived and Lisawad started big this time with a bet of 69,000. Chidwick was finally forced out of the hand.
Do Hoang Anh is no more.
Anh had all of his chips in the middle preflop and had Q♦ K♦ and he was called by Rey Serafico, who had the ladies.
The board ran out 4♠ 9♠ 3♦ 10♣ A♦ and Anh gets the boot.
By our count a lady (or ladies) is responsible for 2 of 2 bust-outs thus far today.
We are now down to 25 players.