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"Ai-ya-yah!" exclaimed William Te Jr. He had check-raised a flop of from 800 to 3,025, putting himself all in. Kwang Soo Lee made the call with , a hand that had Te's crushed. Te didn't get any help on the turn or river. He gave a heartfelt, "Nice hand" to Lee, shook his hand, and then grabbed his things and headed outside the tournament ropes.
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Chino chipping away
David "Chino" Rheem limped from the cutoff following two callers, including Curtis Chang. The blinds came along and checked it round to Chang, who led out for 1,700 on a flop of . Rheem made the call and the remaining players folded.
The turn fell the and Chang made it 1,800, putting Rheem into the tank for two minutes before he eventually splashed the pot with a raise to 6,300. Chang twisted and turned in his chair looking visibly distraught before calling the additional 4,500.
Chang led for 3,000 when the fell on the river, and as Rheem re-checked his cards he then slid a stack of yellow 1000-chips into the pot indicating a raise to 12,000. It took Chang some time but he eventually laid his hand down to see Rheem rake in the pot sending him to over 58,000 in chips.
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Kwang Soo Lee and Franco Mabanta put in lots of chips preflop, but all of the action fizzled after that. There were 7,500 chips in the pot when Mabanta made a rolling motion with his hand to signal to the dealer that the pot was right and a flop could be taken. It came down all small cards, . Mabanta led out for 4,800, a bet that sent Lee into the tank for two solid minutes. He had 13,500 behind, which seemed to suggest he could not flat call. He finally folded.
Mabanta is up to 23,000 in chips. Lee is down to 13,500.
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One of the locals playing in today's tournament is none other than Alex "The Lion" Pagulayan. Pagulayan is better known around these parts for his skills on a different kind of felt-covered table -- a billiards table. Pagulayan is a champion nine-ball player, having competed in and won various nine-ball tournaments around the world.
Pagulayan is finding competing in poker tournament a big more difficult. His chip count currently stands at about 4,500 and hasn't been much over the starting stack all day.
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Chris Back making way in Manila
Andrew Scott's table recently broke, He landed on Table 7, to the immediate left of Benjamin Lim. Scott brought a sizable stack to the table and found that Chris Back had an even bigger stack. The two tangled quickly, with Back raising from early position, then reraising to 6,300 after Scott made it 2,500 to go from middle position.
Scott called to a flop of . Back was first to act and bet 6,600.
"Alright, whose overpair is bigger?" asked Scott. He got no answer and eventually folded his hand, telling Back, "OK, I'll let you win."
Once the chips were pushed to Back, Scott asked, "Ace-king?"
"You'll never know," replied Back. Back now has 37,000 chips. Scott is sitting pretty with 28,000.
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Sunshine Samson was recently moved to David Saab's table and has kicked things off by taking a small pot off him.
The model and cardroom manager opened to 1,000 from the button and Saab defended from the big blind. The flop fell down and Saab check-folded to Samson's 1,500 bet.
As both continue to enjoy each other's banter, Samson is steadily building back to her starting stack sitting with 8,000 while Saab is hovering at 24,000 in chips.
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Raymond Wu tried and tried to get out of the hole he was in. He doubled up earlier to stay in the tournament, but his luck finally ran out. After an early-position player opened for 850 and was called by a player in middle position, Wu shipped his stack of 3,025 into the middle. The early-position player then moved all in, folding the cold caller. Wu's was drawing live against his opponent's , but the board ran out nine-high to bounce him from the tournament.
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from 800 to 3,025, putting himself all in. Kwang Soo Lee made the call with 
, a hand that had Te's 
crushed. Te didn't get any help on the turn or river. He gave a heartfelt, "Nice hand" to Lee, shook his hand, and then grabbed his things and headed outside the tournament ropes.
. Rheem made the call and the remaining players folded.
and Chang made it 1,800, putting Rheem into the tank for two minutes before he eventually splashed the pot with a raise to 6,300. Chang twisted and turned in his chair looking visibly distraught before calling the additional 4,500.
fell on the river, and as Rheem re-checked his cards he then slid a stack of yellow 1000-chips into the pot indicating a raise to 12,000. It took Chang some time but he eventually laid his hand down to see Rheem rake in the pot sending him to over 58,000 in chips.
. Mabanta led out for 4,800, a bet that sent Lee into the tank for two solid minutes. He had 13,500 behind, which seemed to suggest he could not flat call. He finally folded.
and Saab check-folded to Samson's 1,500 bet.
was drawing live against his opponent's 
