The late registration period has now ended and Day 1B brought in a total of 359 entries, bringing the overall total of the tournament to 581. This turn out destroyed last years 449, which also happened to be the largest field in APPT Korea history.
Alex Lee was sitting on a very healthy stack of more than two times the average and Shogo Kimura had joined the table along with Norihiro Otani. No longer seated on table two is Ruiko Mamiya, who was eliminated. According to Lee, she three-bet to 9,000 and received one caller to jam a flop. Mamiya jammed with ace-king and ran straight into a flopped queens full house.
A player on the button moved all in for 23,800, Yuji Kamata called in the small blind and the two turned over their hands.
Button:
Yuji Kamata:
The flop came down and Kamata was looking very good to take down the pot. A fell on the turn, giving Kamata quads and his opponent was now drawing dead to the on the river.
Keisuke Hikosaka got his last 21,400 in preflop with against the of Japanese pop singer Hiroki Moriuchi and spiked a set on the board to double.
Shortly after, Yoshihiko Ishidomaru moved all in for 19,000 in the cutoff and was called by the button. Razvan Bengulescu jammed for 44,800 in the big blind and the button called to put two players at risk.
Yoshihiko Ishidomaru:
Razvan Bengulescu:
Button:
"Just a king, that's all I want," Bengulescu said and his wish was granted on a board of .
The board was showing and there was roughly 36,000 in the pot. A single opponent checked to Daniel Smiljkovic who pushed in 25,000 and his opponent quickly mucked, sending another pot to the German.