The players are on a 10-minute break. Just like yesterday, the 90 minute levels mean that players will return from break and play 30 minutes of the same level.
Isaac Haxton and Erik Siedel were eliminated in the first section of play today. Yuguang Li is still leading in chips.
Word reached media row that Connor Drinan doubled up just before the players had a break.
Apparently, Jiaxiu Liu raised to 5,500 and Drinan called from the small blind along with the big blind. The flop fanned and Drinan check-raised Liu's c-bet, then bet 25,000 on the turn and jammed for around 95,000 on the river. Liu tanked for ages on the river, called, and mucked upon seeing the American's for top set.
Here are some updated chip counts, as well as some recent eliminations.
Sparrow Cheung has been eliminated. Cheung was one of the players who had a shot at taking over first place in the APOY rankings. Yuguang Li, Yat Wai Cheng, and Ka Cheong Wong are still in the field, and all of them could still claim the number one spot with a win.
Ivan Luca raised preflop to 5,200 and Yuki Ko reraised to 17,000 from the big blind. Luca called and the two players were heads up to the flop of . Ko led out for 10,000 and Luca called. The turn was the and Ko took another stab at the pot with a 16,000 bet, Luca called.
When the hit the river both players checked and Ko showed , he mucked his hand after Luca turned over .
Zhengye Yao, who finished Day 1a at the top of the leaderboard has been eliminated. He lost a big pot early today against Christoph Vogelsang with pocket jacks against Vogelsang's pocket kings.
Christoph Vogelsang is back on the up after slipping back from his great start.
He defended his big blind after Shunu Zang raised his button to 5,000. The flop fanned and Zang continued for 7,000. Vogelsang check-called to the turn that was checked through. The German pondered on the river before he led for 13,000. Zang called and mucked upon seeing his opponent's .