Jian Zhang defended his big blind against the button-raise of Kim Wittendorff and they both checked down the flop. The fireworks then started on the turn and Zhang went broke with for two pair. Wittendorff was looking to add another nice stack of chips to his own, holding the , but the on the river let Zhang erupt in celebration for the entire poker room to hear.
David Steicke opened from early position and unknown action followed but must have contained at least a three-bet, as three players headed to the flop and there were 48,000 chips in the middle of the table. Eddy Liang was one of the other two players and bet 18,000.
Steicke carefully counted his stack and then moved all in for 42,200 to get the third player out of the way. Liang had pretty much half the remaining stack to call and opted to wait for a better spot instead.
Sheng Sun attempted yet another hero call in a pretty big pot and this time he faced the likes of KC Wong. On the river, Wong made it 35,000 to go and Sun studied the board for quite some time before making the call. However, he could not beat the of his opponent and tapped the table.
It was a tough last few hours for Percy Yung, who started well and fell far worse all the way down to just 19,000 chips. Those went in preflop in a coin flip against Scott Davies with versus . The American was ahead until the river of a board and was still smiling in defeat. In fact, the WSOP APAC champion even high-fived with his opponent after the double up.
We arrived at the table to find the board showing .
With around 80,000 in the pot, Sheng Sun checked his option over to Pieter Necker, who moved all in for his remaining 63,100 in chips.
Sun deliberated over the call for minutes before making the call.
Necker reluctantly rolled over his for trip nines with a king kicker and was shocked when Sun tabled his giving him the winning hand with the higher kicker.
"I need a miracle," Billy Argyros said just before the start of the hand. The Australian had to give up his big and small blind previously and then moved all in for just over 10,000 from the button. Sheng Sun had just been moved to the table and called from one seat over before both players poked some fun and very slowly turned over their cards.
Argyros:
Sun:
The flop was great for Argyros as he made top two, but the turn and river completed a back door straight for his opponent instead.
Jack Hu, that is. Hailing from Chinese Taipei, he is mainly a cash game player but jumped into the tournament to now be a contender for the overall lead. Pieter Necker had limped, Hu raised to 4,000 and was called by the player from one seat over to create a three-way flop of .
Hu continued for 1,000 and was check-called by Necker only before the South African led the turn for 15,000 and the river for 35,000. Hu called both bets and Necker tapped the table after the river to declare his defeat without showdown. "Flush?" someone on the table asked and Hu replied with "no, tens" before the dealer flipped over his .
The registration is officially closed and as of level 10, the duration has increased to 60 minutes each. Three more levels will be played tonight before bagging and tagging takes place. This should bring us to around 3.30am local time.
From early position, Xing Zhou got the remainder of his short stack of around 18,000 chips in with the and table chip leader Kim Wittendorff looked him up with the out of the blinds in one of the last hands before the recent break. The board ran out and the Danish Dynamite remains atop the overall counts.
flop. The fireworks then started on the 
turn and Zhang went broke with 
for two pair. Wittendorff was looking to add another nice stack of chips to his own, holding the 
, but the 
on the river let Zhang erupt in celebration for the entire poker room to hear.
flop and there were 48,000 chips in the middle of the table. Eddy Liang was one of the other two players and bet 18,000.
of his opponent and tapped the table.
versus 
. The American was ahead until the river of a 
board and was still smiling in defeat. In fact, the WSOP APAC champion even high-fived with his opponent after the double up.
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for trip nines with a king kicker and was shocked when Sun tabled his 
flop was great for Argyros as he made top two, but the 
turn and 
river completed a back door straight for his opponent instead.
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