Sixiao "Juicy" Li was able to score a clutch double elimination by slaying both Hoang Anh Do and Lawrence Chung.
Li opened the action by raising to an unknown amount from under the gun. Do three-bet all in from the hijack for his last 47,000 and Chung re-shipped over the top for 68,000 total. Li called both players and the hands were tabled.
Li:
Do:
Chung:
Do was in the lead with his pocket eights but Li struck gold on the flop, pairing her king and putting her in a dominating position. The hit the turn and the hit the river, giving Li what was ultimately the best hand. She reduced the field by two and boosted her stack to about 360,000.
Naoya Kihara opened to 20,000 from middle position and Jason Lee shipped all in for 128,000 from the cutoff. It came back around to Kihara and he announced a call.
Kihara:
Lee:
The board fell and Kihara made a pair of jacks, securing his scooping of the pot and eliminating Lee from play in 16th place.
Xuan Liu was under the gun and started the action with a raise to 12,000. It folded to Sung Soo Chon on the button who flat called. The buttons folded which prompted the dealer to spread out on the felt.
Liu tossed out a c-bet of 14,000 and Chon stuck around. Fourth street brought the and Liu slowed with a check. Chon took this opportunity to bet 30,000 and Liu wasted little time check-raising all in for 177,000 total. Chon called.
Liu:
Chon:
Chon had top pair but it was no good against Liu's pocket kings. The finished off the board and Liu was pushed a massive pot. She's now sitting on about 420,000 in chips.
Welcome to Day 3 of PokerNews' coverage of the 2013 PokerStars.net APPT Seoul. The starting field of 222 players is down to just 21, each with hopes of capturing the first-place prize of ₩163,400,000 (KRW) (roughly $147,141). Leading the way into Day 3 is Aaron Lim with 741,000, followed by Masahiro Osada (540,000) and Team PokerStars Online's Naoya Kihara (528,000).
Here is the Day 3 table and seat draw.
Table
Seat
Player
Chips
1
1
Ted Wang
39,000
1
2
Aaron Lim
741,000
1
3
Paul John Elliot
309,000
1
4
Jae Kyung Sim
84,000
1
5
Shih Jung Liu
44,000
1
6
Naoya Kihara
528,000
1
7
Jason Lee
127,000
1
8
--empty--
--
2
1
Masahiro Osada
540,000
2
2
Kevin Petersen
92,000
2
3
Lawrence Chung
55,000
2
4
Chane Kampanatsanyakakorn
380,000
2
5
Sixiao "Juicy" Li
237,000
2
6
Xuan Liu
54,000
2
7
Casey Kastle
165,000
2
8
--empty--
--
4
1
Jordan Westmorland
59,000
4
2
Ryan Pignatelli
74,000
4
3
Sung Soo Chon
328,000
4
4
Taku Miyanaga
39,000
4
5
Nicky Tao Jin
187,000
4
6
Hoang Anh Do
47,000
4
7
Takahisa Watanbe
121,000
4
8
--empty--
—
Play resumes at noon local time and will commence until a winner emerges. Be sure to keep it here throughout the day as the quest to crown a new APPT champion concludes.
flop, pairing her king and putting her in a dominating position. The 
hit the turn and the 
hit the river, giving Li what was ultimately the best hand. She reduced the field by two and boosted her stack to about 360,000.
and Kihara made a pair of jacks, securing his scooping of the pot and eliminating Lee from play in 16th place.
on the felt.
finished off the board and Liu was pushed a massive pot. She's now sitting on about 420,000 in chips.
