With the board already being complete, Steve O'Dwyer and Yubin Zheng clashed once again and the Chinese tossed out a bet of 11,000. O'Dwyer was taking a lot of time and eventually grabbed two brown and a blue chip, throwing them towards the middle of the table.
As soon as Zheng flipped over his for a straight, the Irish-American just nodded and let out a deep sigh.
Geng Liu raised to 1,100 from the hijack before Bryan Huang bumped it up to 3,200 from the big blind. The bet was called and both players watched the flop come down .
Huang threw out a continuation bet of 4,600 which was called before both players opted to check when the fell on the turn.
The river brought the and Huang reached for his chips and cut out a bet totalling 8,500 in chips. Liu stared at Huang and his stack for a moment before announcing all in for 26,800 in chips. The bet had Huang covered who went into the tank for a few minutes.
Huang eventually made the call and watched as Liu rolled over for a flopped full house.
Chun Lei Zhou aka "samrostan", a high-stakes cash game player from Macau, has entered the tournament during the break and the screens now show 286 entries for Day 1b. It remains to be officially confirmed though if that is indeed the final number for today.
Randy Lew opened to 700 and was met by a three-bet to 2,050 by the player on the button to fold his cards just before the end of the level. The PokerStars Team Online member is almost back up to starting stack and one table over, fireworks got underway.
Lester Edoc raised to 650 and Vivian Im called from one seat over before the player on the button three-bet to 1,550. Edoc now squeezed to 4,650 and was called only by the player on the button. On the flop, Edoc immediately pushed his opponent all in and the latter called off for around 14,000 chips with .
Edoc held the and was hoping for diamonds. The on the turn destroyed the hope of a suckout and a meaningless river completed the board.
Arriving at the river of a board, Steve O'Dwyer had led for 2,500 into a pot of 4,700 and his opponent from one seat over moved all in. The Irish-American carefully counted his stack and tanked for a fair amount of time before eventually pushing chips to the middle for a call.
"Good call," his opponent immediately sat and tabled his . Some other players on the table were somewhat surprised to see O'Dwyer flip over the winning and he is now back to more than the starting stack after his 10,025 were matched up. Yubin Zheng, who had previously doubled up through him, is sitting on more than three times the initial chips.
Yoshiro Nagata's stack has slipped a bit down to 45,000 but he is still among the bigger stacks in the tournament room. On the very same table is now Aaron Lim after registering late while Eddy Liang busted from one table over. Elias Abou Saleh is down to half the starting stack there, too.
Registration is open for another half an hour and the field for Day 1b has grown to 283 entries, of which more than 40 already lost their entire stack of 20,000 chips. The overall number of entries is now 490 and that is just 4 shy of the 2014 result. Will it be cracked? After the next break, the answer will be right here on the blog.
PokerStars Team Online member Randy "nanonoko" Lew just experienced a roller coaster of emotions when his pair of aces got cracked by an opponent with a pair of tens and the American received a "nitroll" as per his Twitter feed. Down to 6,000 chips and 20 big blinds, he flopped two pair against two opponents and his final jam on the river wasn't called to get him back up to 12,000.
board already being complete, Steve O'Dwyer and Yubin Zheng clashed once again and the Chinese tossed out a bet of 11,000. O'Dwyer was taking a lot of time and eventually grabbed two brown and a blue chip, throwing them towards the middle of the table.
for a straight, the Irish-American just nodded and let out a deep sigh.
. 
fell on the turn. 
and Huang reached for his chips and cut out a bet totalling 8,500 in chips. Liu stared at Huang and his stack for a moment before announcing all in for 26,800 in chips. The bet had Huang covered who went into the tank for a few minutes. 
for a flopped full house.
.
and was hoping for diamonds. The 
on the turn destroyed the hope of a suckout and a meaningless 
river completed the board.
board, Steve O'Dwyer had led for 2,500 into a pot of 4,700 and his opponent from one seat over moved all in. The Irish-American carefully counted his stack and tanked for a fair amount of time before eventually pushing chips to the middle for a call.
and he is now back to more than the starting stack after his 10,025 were matched up. Yubin Zheng, who had previously doubled up through him, is sitting on more than three times the initial chips.
