According to Christophe Pereira, Lu Lin had made a straight with early on to crack the set of an opponent and peek at around 80,000 chips, now he is down to around 60,000 though. Another big stack on table 23 is Yuexin Wang, who was down to 6,000 chips at one point and even tops Lin's stack at the moment.
We arrived at the table to find around 8,000 in the pot and the board showing .
The player in the small blind had checked and Akira Ohyama had moved all in for his remaining 5,675 in chips. The player in the small blind thought about his decision for a over a minute before finally making the call.
Ohyama then turned over for a pair of nines and was eliminated from the tournament when his opponent tabled for a higher pair.
Johnny Chan had to give up a pot on the turn when his opponent bet 4,100 out of the small blind into what looked like 7,000. Chan was down to about half the starting stack but doubled that preflop for 11,075 with versus on a board of .
The action started with the player in middle position raising to 1,000. He was called by the player on the button as well as the small blind before Xing Zhou bumped it up to 4,500 from the big blind. The original raiser called as did the small blind and the three watched the flop come down .
The small blind then instantly moved all in for his remaining 5,400 in chips. Zhou reached for his chips and splashed a raise to 11,000 which was enough to get the other player out of the hand.
Zhou:
Opponent:
Zhou was looking in great shape with the over pair with his opponent only holding ace-high. The on the turn was no problem, however, the on the river completed an unlikely gut-shot straight for Zhou’s opponent who cheered in joy.
Zhou was noticeably upset, shaking his head in disbelief at what had just occurred. He drops down to 12,950 following the hand.
Joining the action on a flop of with three players involved, Alberto Gomez called a bet of 1,300 whereas the third player in the hand out of the blinds mucked. On the turn the Spaniard called another bet of 2,000 before the action was checked to him on the river.
Gomez wasted little time and bet 10,000 to scoop the pot without having to show his cards.
Gab Yong Kim bet a three-way flop of for 1,500 but quickly folded when one of the opponents had raised to 3,500. The South Korean is now on a table with Geng Liu and considerably down in chips while the latter is up almost the same amount.
Sheng Sun and Jack Hu had already busted and now the third-placed Scott Davies from yesterday's HK$50,000 Freezeout has also been sent to the rail as well. According to Lester Edoc, he got it in preflop with against the of Wan Zhang and two kings on the flop immediately destroyed all hopes.
$8,646,455 in total earnings and a best score of $750,000, that's the Hendon Mob profile of Johnny Chan in a nutshell. The American doesn't play as many tournaments anymore but did come to Macau last year to participate. He is back at the felt now and ready to teach all the young guns some lessons.
Apparently two players from India are waiting for the transfer of funds for at least one hour and that's the reason why the official number for Day 1b has not been confirmed yet. It still stands at 286 but may be corrected depending on the money appearing or not.
early on to crack the set of an opponent and peek at around 80,000 chips, now he is down to around 60,000 though. Another big stack on table 23 is Yuexin Wang, who was down to 6,000 chips at one point and even tops Lin's stack at the moment.
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for a pair of nines and was eliminated from the tournament when his opponent tabled 
for a higher pair.
turn when his opponent bet 4,100 out of the small blind into what looked like 7,000. Chan was down to about half the starting stack but doubled that preflop for 11,075 with 
versus 
on a board of 
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on the river completed an unlikely gut-shot straight for Zhou’s opponent who cheered in joy. 
with three players involved, Alberto Gomez called a bet of 1,300 whereas the third player in the hand out of the blinds mucked. On the 
river.
against the 
of Wan Zhang and two kings on the flop immediately destroyed all hopes.
