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And yet another bust out. (In a span of 20 minutes!)
Homad Houshiar with 10♠ 10♣ shoved his stack worth around 320,000 preflop and found a caller in Khack Trung Tran who had A♠ J♥.
Immediately the flop K♠ K♣ A♥ dimmed Houshiar’s hopes of going deeper into this main event. Turn 8♣ and river 9♥ weren’t quite the cards that could save him rather he’s sent home with $22,900.
Short-stacked all day in the Final Table (and from what we’ve observed short stacked as well in Day 1, 2 and 3…) Anthony Gabitan has finally fallen.
With K♣ Q♥ with his final 100K at risk against Nam Le’s A♥ 10♣. Gabitan needed some picture cards on the table to survive.
No king/queen on the flop 2♣ 3♥ 9♥ and turn 6♥ and wrong picture card on the river J♣ to end his tournament.
Short stack strategy worked quite well for Gabitan as he still goes home with $22,900 for ending up at 6th place in this main event.
3 straight hands now we’re seeing players move all-in!
A curious and quick final table here for Miller Zhang. He came in today as second in chips and it’s all gone.
Nam Le: A♦ 10♦
Zhang: 7♣ 7♦
Le spikes a 10 on the flop and Zhang’s main event run is done. He finishes at 7th and goes home with $18,400.
From the button, Sekiya Yosuke bumped it to 40,000 preflop and found a caller from the big blind, Miller Zhang.
Flop 10♥ 3♦ J♠ was checked by both and so was the turn K♥
On the river K♦ Zhang checked again and this time Yosuke added 70,000 more to the pot.
Zhang called and was shown that the Japanese wasn’t lying when he tabled K♣ 4♥
Zhang falls to around 580,000 in chips while Yosuke climbs to the top, now with roughly 1.2M.
Latest estimated chip counts:
Le – 990,000
Zhang – 846,000
Yosuke – 810,000
Tran – 480,000
Truong – 467,000
Housiar – 330,000
Gabitan – 143,000
Prefflop Sekiya Yosuke bet 32,000 and Tam Truong, who is now very short-stacked moved all-in for his final 39,000. Nam Le also joined the action by calling.
The dealer boarded 7♠ 5♦ 3♠ and Le opened postflop with a 45,000 bet. Yosuke called.
Turn 3♣ and Nam bets another 60,000. Yosuke again, flat calls.
River 10♥ and Nam checks this time. Yosuke grabs a lot of green chips– worth around 175,000 to force the fold from Le.
Tam Truong, the player at risk showed he had J♣ 8♣ and it wasn’t enough to save him against Yosuke’s cowboys. Truong goes home with $14,900.
Nam Le opened the preflop action with a min raise to 32,000 but saw Homan Houshiar from across the table move all in for his final 175,000.
Tam Truong, another short stack with just over 225,000 wanted a part of the action and shoved as well. Le considered his action but got out of the way.
Truong: A♦ Q♣
Houshiar: K♦ K♣
Flop 10♦ 4♣ Q♥ added more outs for Truong but Homan was still leading. Turn J♠ and even more outs for Truong.
No ace, queen or king on the river however and Houshiar takes down this pot to double up to over 330,000.
This is how you win big preflop:
Sekiya Yosuke opened the action before the flop to around 35,000. Nam Le re-raised to over 70,000 but saw the small blind (Miller Zhang) next to him three-bet to around 140,000!
The big blind, cool and calm Khac Trung Tran looked at his cards and announced: “all-in!”
Yosuke and Le threw away their hands but Zhang went to the tank and counted the value on a call on this one… He counted the chips in the middle and his stack (around 800 behind)… But eventually folded.
Tran climbs to over 480,000 after this hand.