Shunu Zang opened the action with a raise from middle position and Shashank Rathi flat-called on the button to also call a continuation bet on the flop. On the turn, Zang check-called before ending up check-calling a 60,000-bet of Rathi on the river.
Rathi turned over his for top pair and that was good enough to scoop the pot.
Shing Fung "Rono" Lo and Steve O'Dwyer have both moved above 600k in chips and may very well give it a go to storm into the lead in the upcoming last level. The Irish-American won a small pot off Devan Tang when both had made a pair of eights on a king-high board but O'Dwyer held the slightly higher kicker.
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn raised from under the gun and was met with a three-bet by Shashank Rathi to call and see a flop of . Both players checked and the Thai then shoved the turn for roughly 90,000 chips. Rathi snap-called and tabled his while a gutted Kampanatsanyakorn turned over his .
The river was of no help and Rathi moved into the lead.
The 500 chips are being removed from play by having one of the participants on each of the remaining four tables buying them off the opponents and exchanging them swiftly and without interrupting the current hands. About one hour is left before everyone gets to bag and tag for Day 2.
Tom Alner three-bet shoved for 85,000 chips out of the big blind and the initial raiser, who had made it 21,000 to go, called to create the below coin flip:
Opponent:
Alner:
The flop was a disaster for the Brit as he had two sixes and backdoor flush outs only. The turn changed nothing and the dealer then burned and turned the as final community card.
A few recent eliminations required the need to break a table and Celina Lin as well as Randy Lew, who had been sitting next to each other, drew the very same constellation for their new table as well.
Xue Qian Wu was responsible for one of those aforementioned bustouts after he called a button-shove for 60,000 out of the big blind. His opponent knew he was in very bad shape as soon as the call was announced and sheepishly turned over his . Wu had two over cards in and stayed ahead with the board running out .
A minute ago, a short stack had raised and folded to the three-bet shove by the player to his immediate right and flashed . Soon after the seat was empty and Jack Hu confirmed what happened. He raised with pocket fives and called the three-bet shove of the very same player, who held pocket fours again and failed to improve.
Zhou Zhou ended up finding a runner runner flush with against the top pair of Nick Wong and the latter had shot three barrels with top pair to hit the rail at the start of the penultimate level of Day 1.
flop. On the 
turn, Zang check-called before ending up check-calling a 60,000-bet of Rathi on the 
river.
for top pair and that was good enough to scoop the pot.
. Both players checked and the Thai then shoved the 
turn for roughly 90,000 chips. Rathi snap-called and tabled his 
while a gutted Kampanatsanyakorn turned over his 
.
river was of no help and Rathi moved into the lead.
turn changed nothing and the dealer then burned and turned the 
as final community card.
and stayed ahead with the board running out 
against the top pair of Nick Wong and the latter had shot three barrels with top pair to hit the rail at the start of the penultimate level of Day 1.
