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Pontus Kers
Pontus Kers is back. He called a raise preflop from James Kim. Both players checked a flop. Kers checked again on the turn, prompting Kim to bet 50,000.
"103,000 all in," Kers then said, moving all of his chips across the betting line. Kim called and was disgusted to see Kers turn over a flush, . Kim's was drawing thin and did not fill up with the river.
"I keep reading you wrong," Kim whinged. "You called me with jack-five?" He shook his head and motored away from the table to go on a tilt-reducing walk.
Kim is down to 100,000 in chips while Kers has climbed to 270,000.
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Mike Gaernter
Preflop Rody Kaka opened from the cutoff to 25,000 and Mike Gaernter moved all in from the small blind for 65,000. Action folded back to Kaka who made the call with his . Gaernter had and would require some assistance to stay alive in the tournament.
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Assembled media quickly came scurrying from the feature table area to Table 3, where James Kim was all in at risk of elimination against Alex Tikholiz. Kim's middle pair, , was drawing against Tikholiz's small overpair, , on a board of . Kim never improved, turn and river.
"Domoi!" shouted Tikholiz, pounding the table with each syllable. That's Russian for "Go home!" Kim, we imagine, doesn't speak Russian and therefore had no reply for Tikholiz. Either way, he's busto.
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No eliminations to report, but two players have managed to ship their chips in and double them up.
Preflop, Wei Sha shoved for 70,000 and found a caller in Pontus Kers.
Sha:
Kers:
The flop was unkind to Sha, and when the hit the turn, it looked as though he was going to be eliminated. That was until the hit the turn to bring him salvation and move him up to 150,000.
Jack Ng also grabbed a double up, getting his chips in with and facing Dong-Bin Han's . Unlike Sha, Ng never looked like facing elimination. The board ran out to move him up to about 180,000.
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We held our breath when Jack Ng was all in against Batsuren Tserendorj. Even though we're officially neutral in the outcome of this event, we like good stories -- and as Ng is the father of PokerStars Team Asia Pro Bryan Huang, his success in this tournament is a good story.
Ng's was up against Tserendorj's pocket tens. Ng flopped the world, , leaving Tserendorj drawing about as thin as can be. The turn and river were both harmless blanks, giving Ng a double-up to 168,000. Tserendorj is now quite short, with about 80,000.
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Dustin Dorrance-Bowman -- eliminated
We're one step closer to the final table. Our two hyphenated players, Dustin Dorrance-Bowman and Dong-bin Han got the chips in the middle preflop with two big hands: pocket kings for Han and ace-king for Dorrance-Bowman. There was no ace anywhere on a board that double-paired, . Han's kings were good enough to send Dorrance-Bowman to the payouts table in 22nd place.
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Batsuren Tserendorj Eliminated
We've finally lost our last of the ten Mongolians that entered this event. Batsuren Tserendorj was all in with and called by Mark Pagsuyuin, who tabled pocket ten. There was no joy for the Mongolian by the time the river came down, sending him home in 21st place with $4,600.
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flop. Kers checked again on the 
turn, prompting Kim to bet 50,000.
. Kim's 
was drawing thin and did not fill up with the 
river.
.
to double up Pagsuyuin.
. Gaernter had 
and would require some assistance to stay alive in the tournament.
.
, was drawing against Tikholiz's small overpair, 
, on a board of 
. Kim never improved, 
turn and 
river. 
flop was unkind to Sha, and when the 
. Unlike Sha, Ng never looked like facing elimination. The board ran out 
to move him up to about 180,000.
and called by Mark Pagsuyuin, who tabled pocket ten. There was no joy for the Mongolian by the time the river came down, sending him home in 21st place with $4,600.
