After a raise to 5,200 and the call by JP Kelly in the cutoff, Aaron Lim called in the small blind and the player in the big blind squeezed to 20,000. The initial raiser and Kelly called, Lim mucked. On the flop, the player in the big blind led for 30,000 and was called by the Brit only to see the on the turn.
Now Kelly's opponent tanked for more than two minutes before betting 45,000 and receiving a rather quick call. On the river Kelly called the shove immediately and quickly flipped over his for a straight, the opponent busted with . Thanks to the third player in the hand, the Brit essentially doubled his stack.
The registration has been officially closed and no more players can sign up for the event or purchase a rebuy stack anymore. Time to look around for some updated chip counts and catch some of the action.
The players have been sent into the second break and the screens showed 72 unique entries and 21 rebuys thus far. However, those numbers are not final and will definitely change still as at least two players registered and other participants including Steve O'Dwyer ordered more stacks on the way out.
On a flop of , a bet of 19,000 was in front of Seng Yee Leow and Jordan Kaplan moved all in for what looked like 49,000 in total. Leow didn't want to call and rather sent his cards into the muck before heading into the break.
Simon Sing raised to 4,500 and the player in the big blind shoved for 27,900. Sing reluctantly called with and was shown the monster hand . The Board ran out and that was it for the short stack, who received an early break.
Upon arriving on the turn, three players including Tom Alner in the big blind had checked and the on the turn saw no betting action either. On the river, Alner fired 11,000 and was called by the initial raiser only. The Brit turned over his for a straight and the opponent flashed for a pair of kings.
Over on table 22 the emotions just cooked up with the board reading and there were already more than 100,000 chips in the middle. The player on the button had moved all in for 78,600 and Seng Yee Leow was suddenly without cards. The dealer had grabbed the cards while they were not really anywhere near the muck and the Malaysian complained to floor staff.
Since the cards could not be retrieved from the muck anymore, his hand was declared dead and the pot shipped to the opponent.
"Pick one card" was the offer and Leow selected the . The Malaysian said "You have stolen from me, I confirm I have a pocket."
It was a roller coaster run-out of the board after Elias Abou Saleh and his opponent Simon Sing had both flopped trips. On the turn, the Lebanese had improved to a full house with the and called the river shove of Sing to get shown the for a higher full house.
Saleh threw his cards in disgust almost over the entire table and rushed out of the tournament area. Sing moved to around 145,000 chips after being rather short not long ago.
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flop, the player in the big blind led for 30,000 and was called by the Brit only to see the 
on the turn.
river Kelly called the shove immediately and quickly flipped over his 
for a straight, the opponent busted with 
. Thanks to the third player in the hand, the Brit essentially doubled his stack.
, a bet of 19,000 was in front of Seng Yee Leow and Jordan Kaplan moved all in for what looked like 49,000 in total. Leow didn't want to call and rather sent his cards into the muck before heading into the break.
and was shown the monster hand 
. The Board ran out 
and that was it for the short stack, who received an early break.
turn, three players including Tom Alner in the big blind had checked and the 
for a straight and the opponent flashed 
for a pair of kings.
and there were already more than 100,000 chips in the middle. The player on the button had moved all in for 78,600 and Seng Yee Leow was suddenly without cards. The dealer had grabbed the cards while they were not really anywhere near the muck and the Malaysian complained to floor staff.
