Daren Yoon opened to 3,600 from the button and was called by a player in the small blind before Hugh Cohen made it an additional 6,800 to go from the big blind.
Yoon passed, but the small blind made the call to see a flop fall and Cohen fire out 18,900 following a check.
Two minutes went by before Cohen's opponent made the call only to ship 24,000 on the turn card. Faced with an all in bet, Cohen made the call for his tournament life tabling his to trail his opponent's .
Unfortunately for Cohen, the river landed the to see his tournament end a few tables shy of the money.
Connie Lai found herself all in holding against an opponent's .
The board rolled out to see Lai double through to 27,000.
Just a few hands later however, Lai's tournament would come to an abrupt end when, after a Richard En under the gun open to 5,000, she moved all in from the big blind with En making the call.
En:
Lai:
The board ran out to see Lai miss her many outs and wind up on the rail as En climbs to 115,000 in chips.
That was what echoed through the poker room as Tony Hachem placed his hands on his head in shock.
Quickly rushing over to his table we found that Hachem had check-raised all in on a flop and found an insta-caller.
Hachem:
Opponent:
The turn landed the - and accordingly the "Yes!" - before the landed on the river - and the reason behind the "No!"
Shaking his head in despair, Hachem collected his belongings before shaking each and every player's and on the table before exiting the APPT Cebu Main Event.
With that elimination, Team PokerStars is no more!
Within a few hands Wen-lan Yeh has gone from top five in chips to railbird.
After exchanging a series of raises with Inwook Choi before he was all in, it was Yeh's heavily trailing Choi's .
The final board of would see Choi double through to roughly 200,000 while Yeh would slip to 60,000 in chips.
The following hand after Caroline De Weerdt opened under the gun to 4,200, Yeh moved all in for 60,000 and De Weerdt insta-called once the action returned to her.
Yeh:
De Weerdt:
The final board read to see Yeh bumped to the rail in dramatical fashion as De Weerdt climbs to 135,000 in chips.
Alexander Beeckx opened to 6,000 only to have Mishel Anunu move all in for his last 15,000 from the small blind. Beeckx made the call to put Anunu at risk as the cards were tabled.
Anunu:
Beeckx:
The board ran out to see Anunu eliminated and Beeckx climb to 190,000 in chips.