Kaplan Thriving
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
A trio of players that increased their stack nicely can be found in the update below. Special mention for Jordan Kaplan, who started the day as one of the shorties with just over starting stack and is now above average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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300,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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205,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
175,000
151,300
|
151,300 |
on a board of 
. The valuebet of Lee was called and he moved up to 230,000 chips. His recent profit also came off the elimination of Jia Liang as well.
off suit".
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on the turn. The river brought the 
and Luo thought for a minute before splashing out 31,000 in chips. His opponent took a minute before reluctantly making the call. 
for queens up which was enough to take down the pot as his opponent mucked his hand.
turn, Wai Leong Chan fired a bet of 17,500 from the under-the-gun position. Jordan Kaplan was in late position and made the call before the 
fell on the river. This time the bet was worth hefty 62,500 and Kaplan got out of the way.
, both Steve O’Dwyer and Yoshiro Nagata checked the action over to the player on the button. He bet out 9,000 and was called by O’Dwyer before Nagata opted to bump it up to 18,000 in chips. The original raiser thought for a minute before folding his hand then O’Dwyer called. 
completed the board. With that pot O’Dwyer moves up to 229,500 in chips. Nagata drops down to 45,000.
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turn and 
. Yin continued for 35,000 and was called before checking the 
. Gu had spiked an ace on the flop to take down the pot leaving the tournament with one elimination from the money.