Small Pots
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
The nine finalists are back in action and have played four hands so far, with no hand going past the flop, and only half of these making it to a flop. Wenling Gao pushed Tony Cheng off the first hand with a pre-flop re-raise from the big blind to win the first. Albert Paik won the second with a post-flop c-bet when Chihwen Chen defended from the big blind to win the second.
The third hand was a limped pot blind on blind battle between Chen and Ivan Leow, which the latter took down with a flop min-bet and then Chen (button) won the fourth by coming over the top of a Gao late position raise.
flop was just what he was looking for. The 
turn completed his flush and the 
river saw Paik double to 560,000. Tang took the hit stoically like the professional he is, but will have been happy to go on the 40-minute dinner break, which the final nine players headed off on not long after the hand.
came in on the turn to double pair the board. This saw both players check and the river was the 
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and the final nine is now set.
