Gab Yong Kim raised to 650 from under the gun and watched as Eddy Liang then came over the top for 1,800 from the cut off. With the decision falling back on Kim, he reached for his chips, and splashed another raise to 5,650. The bet was enough to take down the pot as Liang opted to muck his hand moments later.
Jack Hu just check-raised all in after a ten-high board with the monster and received a hero call by a short stack with the to see his stack get reduced to half. He did smile though and could not help but laugh. "Back to life".
The action started with the player in middle position raising to 700 and getting called by five players including Yubin Zheng in the cut off and Steve O’Dwyer on the button.
The flop came down and the big blind checked. The original raiser then threw out a 2,200 continuation which was called a short time later by the player to his left. The hijack folded leaving Zheng to reach for his chips and slide out a raise to 7,700. O’Dwyer paused for a moment before announcing all in for just over 24,000 in chips. A string of folds found it’s way back to Zheng who made the call.
O’Dwyer:
Zheng:
Zheng had flopped a set and was up against O’Dwyer’s flush draw. The board ran out the and to see O’Dwyer miss his spade, leaving him with just 3,000 chips.
Yoshiro Nagata had a wide grin all over his face when the final community card fell and gave him the best hand. What had happened? The Japanese was involved in a clicking war with raises to 1,000, 3,000, 6,000 and 12,000 by Nagata before he had to call off a shove for 19,000 by his opponent.
Nagata flipped over and was up against . The flop and flop were not necessarily useful, but the on the river brought a miracle full house for the Japanese and he is up to more than three times the starting stack.
With level 3 underway, there are two hours remaining to sign up for the event as the late registration closes after four hours of play. So far, the 264 entries of Day 1b and the 207 from Day 1a make for an overall field of 471 and that is just shy of the 494 from last year.
"I only beat queen-ten," Kim Wittendorff said in the last hand before the break while staring at a board of . His opponent had bet 1,500 and the Dane sat in the big blind. Ultimately he made the call and was promptly shown the to nod and muck his cards.
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and received a hero call by a short stack with the 
to see his stack get reduced to half. He did smile though and could not help but laugh. "Back to life".
and the big blind checked. The original raiser then threw out a 2,200 continuation which was called a short time later by the player to his left. The hijack folded leaving Zheng to reach for his chips and slide out a raise to 7,700. O’Dwyer paused for a moment before announcing all in for just over 24,000 in chips. A string of folds found it’s way back to Zheng who made the call. 
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to see O’Dwyer miss his spade, leaving him with just 3,000 chips.
and was up against 
. The 
on the river brought a miracle full house for the Japanese and he is up to more than three times the starting stack.
and both players checked. 
on the turn was met with an instant 2,000 bet from Sun. It was enough to take down the pot as his opponent mucked his hand.
