Jose Severino fired a hefty bet of 38,700 on the final board of . His opponent, Akira Ohyama, tanked for a couple of minutes and then tossed in the chips to make the call. After he did, Severino tabled the for a full house, tens full of eights. Ohyama mucked his hand and dropped all the way back to 35,000 while Severino climbed amongst the leaders with 175,000.
When Guillaume Patry opened it up to 4,500 from the cutoff seat, the player in the big blind would make the call as a flop hit the felt. The big blind player checked and Patry bet 4,500. This is when a check-raise was thrown in. Patry called the 11,000-chip bet and the turn was dealt.
Turn:
Patry made the hand a lot simpler her, shoving all in for over 30,000. It was enough to quickly send his opponent's cards into the muck as he took down the handy little pot.
Action folded to Junzhong Loo in the hijack seat and he raised to 4,000. In the cutoff seat, Michael Guzzardi three-bet to 9,200. Action folded back to Loo and he moved all in for 44,400. When Guzzardi asked for a count, the dealer told him it was 32,000 to call. After a minute, Guzzardi called, but Loo was upset because it was actually 44,000 total. Still, Guzzardi had committed the chips and the hands were tabled.
Guzzardi:
Loo:
The flop, turn and river ran out and Guzzardi won the pot to send Loo home. He's now up over 100,000 in chips.
Lawrence Chung moved all in for 32,700 on the final board of . Tom Alner was his oppoonent and tanked for awhile prior to calling. Chung showed the and Alner mucked his hand, claiming to have a smaller flush.
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Elton Tsang is sitting behind a very handsome stack right now and it comes complements of Guillaume Patry's stack.
Tsang and Patry got it all in preflop, with Patry the player at risk. A flop was just as bad as it can get for Patry and when the turn and river bricked out, it was all over for Patry, while Tsang is one of the chip leaders.
Kenneth Wong raised to 4,600 from the cutoff seat and Lawrence Chung reraised to 12,000 from the small blind. After Wong gave it up, Chung showed the .
Shortly after that, Chung sent Tetsuro Tomita to the rail and now has right around 200,000 in chips.
After Jin Ho Doo raised from the hijack seat to 4,200, Akira Ohyama reraised all in for approximately 25,000 from the cutoff seat. Action folded back to Doo and he called with the . Ohyama had the better hand with the .
The flop came down and Ohyama stayed in front. The turn gave Doo a flush draw with the and then the river gave him a winner pair with the . Ohyama finished second best and was eliminated.