He opened to 1,000 from mid position and was called by Ivan Luca in the next seat before Dong Zhao squeezed to 3,000 in the big blind. Lim doubled checked his holding, stacked up his 9,300 chips into one small tower, and slid them across the line. Luca folded but Zhao made a quick call.
Zhao:
Lim:
The board ran . Lim was already leaving, without saying a word, before the river came down.
Team Asia PokerStars Pro Celina Lin couldn't get much going today. She has been playing a shorter stack most of the day and scraping together chips where she could. After several hours things were finally looking up when she doubled up with queens against .
However, within an hour of posting that tweet, Lin was on her way to the rail. K.C. Wong, who is currently #2 in the APOY rankings, raised from the hijack 1,100 and Lin defended her big blind. The flop was and Lin checked to Wong.
Wong bet 1,700 and Lin raised all in for 12,400. After some thinking, Wong called the all in. Wong showed for bottom pair and a flush draw and Lin showed for two pair.
The turn sealed the end of Lin's day when it came the . The river was the and that was it for Lin.
The Asia Player of the Year rankings have been updated, and as of now K.C. Wong is in second place. Before the rankings were updated, Wong was at the top of the leaderboard.
Wong is still alive in the Main Event and the player who is currently above him, Alan King Lun Lau already busted on Day 1a, so before the tournament is over Wong could reclaim the #1 spot. However, the #4 player on the list, Yuguang Li, finished Day 1a with a healthy 115,000 stack and might have something to say before it's over.
The APOY race will end when the ACOP ends on Sunday, with two events left after the Main Event for players to earn points.
Then he made it to the river in a hand with Ronaldo and the board read . Lew led out for 1,800 but admitted defeat and folded once Ronaldo raised to 4,000.
Tom Alner and Bryn Kenney both have around 36,000 and both got there after their last hand played involved a bit of river tanking.
Alner and APPT Aussie Millions champion Manny Stavropoulos made it to the river where a board read . Stavropoulos moved all in for 8,700 and Alner went into a painful looking tank. He eventually called with which was no good agains the Australian's .
Kenney meanwhile bet 1,350, 2,150 and 3,650 on each street of a board and his opponent check-called to the river where he thought for several minutes. Eventually he folded and Kenney raked in the chips.
Much like fellow PokerStars Pro Celina Lin, Yaxi Zhu hasn't been able to get much going today. She was sitting at about half of the starting stack before she picked up a small pot.
Zhu raised under the gun to 1,100 and the action folded to the player on her immediate right, who was in the big blind. He called. The flop came and her opponent led for 1,400, Zhu called.
Both players checked the turn, , and the river, and turned over their hands. Zhu won the pot with for a pair of jacks. Her opponent held .
Christoph Vogelsang just doubled up after he shoved all in with his last 2,700. He got one caller. His opponent had and he held .
The board ran out and Vogelsang doubled up to stay alive. He is still sitting with only 12 big blinds and their is only seven minutes left in the current level.
. Lim was already leaving, without saying a word, before the river came down.
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for two pair. 
and that was it for Lin.
. Lew led out for 1,800 but admitted defeat and folded once Ronaldo raised to 4,000.
which was no good agains the Australian's 
board and his opponent check-called to the river where he thought for several minutes. Eventually he folded and Kenney raked in the chips.
, and the river, 
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and he held 
and Vogelsang doubled up to stay alive. He is still sitting with only 12 big blinds and their is only seven minutes left in the current level.
