A very unfortunate flop for the player right next to Sungil Choi let the Korean add even more chips to his already decent stack. The fireworks understandably started on a flop of when you consider that Choi had the for quads and his opponent the .
No cards could help the player at risk anymore and he quickly left the tournament area, both the turn and the river were just a formality.
Sungil Choi bet the flop for 1,700 from under the gun and was called only by Junyeob Song in the big blind before the fell on the turn. Song's bet of 4,500 went uncalled and he scooped the pot. One hand later, four players saw a flop and the short stack in seat three moved all in for 11,000 chips to enforce folds all the way around.
It didn't take long for those chips to walk over to the other side of the table and right into Song's stack though.
Another two levels are in the books here in Manila and the players are off on a 10-minute break.
The tournament clock currently claims 256 entries with 190 players remaining and as soon as the cards are back in the air, the late registration as well as re-entry period is over.
Facing a 4,100-chip bet on a board with 8,500 already in the middle, Sweden's Douglas Olsson pushed a stack of yellow 5,000-denomination chips across the line, effectively putting his heads-up opponent all in for his last 13,150.
After a minute or two in the tank, he folded, allowing Olsson to push up close to 70,000 now.
The dealer had already shipped over the stack to Hai Ha Tran in the big blind and his was tabled with the board of being completed. After a quick inquiry, it turned out that the player who had busted flopped a set of jacks but couldn't hold up to hit the rail.
All players that run out of chips as of level six and until the end of the day cannot re-enter the competition for the same starting day anymore. Instead, they have the option to re-enter tomorrow and take another shot at the juicy prize pool.
Within the first five levels, more than 70 players have been eliminated.
Until the turn, a pot of 6,000 chips had emerged and Iona Christopher Finkenrath faced a bet of 3,500 by the player in the big blind. He moved all in and the opponent asked for a count, then took a few bites from his pasta. The dealer verified it to be 6,400 more and the all in was called by the opponent with for a straight and flush draw.
Finkenrath had the best hand until that point with the and the river bricked.