Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Thijs Hilberts was up against a player's shove for his tournament life, with the board reading .
Hilberts finally made the call with 14,700 behind him, and he was far ahead with against his opponent's .
Hilberts could lose only from the , and it was the that completed the board on the river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Thijs Hilberts |
63,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
A player moved all in for around 15,000 from the cutoff and Kinam Kim called on the button. The blinds both folded and the cards were turned over.
All-in Player:
Kinam Kim:
The all-in player was dominated and behind, and there was no help on the board and he was eliminated.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kinam Kim | 70,000 |
Pete Chen was spotted heading to the exit having been eliminated. He has until the end of Level 9 to jump back into the Main Event.
Players who have entered recently include Lester Edoc, firing his second bullet of the day, and Christopher Mateo.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lester Edoc |
30,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Christopher Mateo
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Pete Chen | Busted | |
|
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gab Yong Kim |
89,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
Siyuan Wang |
77,000
77,000
|
77,000 |
Richard Marquez | 45,000 | |
Jaideep Sajwan |
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
Si Yang Phua |
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Corbin White | 17,000 | |
Alexis W Lim |
15,500
15,500
|
15,500 |
There was a three-way all in between Christopher Mateo, Masayuki Suzuki and a third player on a flop.
The third player showed for a pair and a flush draw and was behind the top pair of Suzuki.
However, Mateo held and was ahead with two pair. The turn was the and as Suzuki called the king, the came on the river.
Mateo thumped the table with his fist in apparent frustration, before a tablemate reminded him that he would win the side pot.
Suzuki tripled to almost double starting stack as a result.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Masayuki Suzuki
|
57,000 | |
Christopher Mateo
|
33,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
After a quick look at the main tournament area, it seems that James Bonanno has the biggest stack so far.
There are almost 500 players at the moment in the Main Event, and they are separated between in the main room, and an outside room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
James Bonanno
|
195,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
The player under the gun opened to 2,300 and Arravind Udayakumar three-bet to 4,600. The initial raiser called.
The dealer dealt the flop, but as she spread the flop she realized that she had burned twice. However, with the flop already exposed there was no way to reassemble the deck in the correct order.
The floor was called who decided that the flop would remain and that there would be no card burned on the turn.
Both players checked and the turn was the . It checked to Udayakumar who bet 5,100 and his opponent called.
The player checked the river to Udayakumar who bet 15,000 and was called. He showed for a rivered full house and took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Arravind Udayakumar |
61,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
A player opened under-the-gun, a middle position player shoved, and Yuichiro Harada was in the small blind, re-shoving his own stack.
The big blind player tanked for a bit before folding, the initial raiser folded quicker and the two players remaining in the hand opened their cards.
Harada:
All-in Player:
The board ran out and Harada kept his advantage to bust a player.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yuichiro Harada | 105,000 |