After two hours of play, the field is already down to just 77 hopefuls and the money bubble for the top 71 finishers is very close. The first scheduled 10-minute break is underway in which the T-500 chips are raced off.
Xixiang Luo three-bet jammed for 55,000 on the button and the initial raiser Junnie Pamplona called.
Xixiang Luo: A♦9♦
Junnie Pamplona: A♠J♠
Neither player connected with the 8♠4♥3♣10♥8♣ board and the kicker played.
Nevan Chang then scored yet another double, this time through Dylan Foster. The Aussie check-jammed the K♠6♥2♠8♥ turn and Chang called for 85,000.
Nevan Chang: A♦A♣
Dylan Foster: K♥4♣
"Again?" Foster grinned as Chang had just doubled not long ago with aces. The 2♦ river was brought no upset and Chang doubled.
Shortly after one table over, Tianyuan Tang called a preflop shove by Ashish Munot for 123,000 and had the slightly worse ace in the following showdown.
Ashish Munot: A♠K♠
Tianyuan Tang: A♣Q♣
The J♦10♥6♠10♠8♦ board made sure that ace-king high was good enough for the double of Munot.
"He had the nuts," Dylan Foster exclaimed while Sven McDermott then explained that he was all-in with pocket queens against the pocket aces of Jimmy Torres. According to McDermott, a queen appeared on the flop but an ace followed later on.
That hand took place moments after Ilia Miakishev screamed out in celebration when his A♣K♠ rivered a flush on the 7♣5♣2♣9♠9♣ board to dispatch Shankui Li.
Jin Woo Kim had just lost an all-in against Kien Tat Heng to be left with fumes and moved all-in for 13,500 from under the gun. The small blind looked him up with the Q♥J♦ and Kim was marginally ahead with the K♣2♥. The 8♦7♦7♣2♣9♠ board kept Kim in contention as the bubble is looming.
Ashish Munot raised to 8,000 and Jun Lai three-bet to 26,000. The initial raiser then jammed with the superior stack and Lai used two time bank extensions before he called.
Jun Lai: A♣K♥
Ashish Munot: AxQx
The K♣9♦7♠4♠Q♦ board kept Lai ahead all the way as he doubled for 123,000.
On the tail end of a heads-up pot to the K♣5♠3♠7♠6♦ river, Yunsheng Sun bet 36,000. Dylan Foster then announced his all-in with the covering stack and Sun rather quickly sent the cards into the muck.
Jimmy Torres had chipped up significantly and then three-bet an open raise by Nevan Chang to 30,000 while on the button. "Let's go," Chang said and grappled in the 66,500 he had behind for Torres to call.
Nevan Chang: A♠A♦
Jimmy Torres: 10♥10♣
The hot run of Torres almost continued after he gained equity with the 9♦8♣6♥ flop but the K♣ turn and 5♦ river kept Chang in contention with a double.
Jenam Yu was all-in for 61,000 with the A♥10♥ and Quan Qiu had him well covered, revealing the 10♦10♠.
The K♦6♦4♦ flop left Yu on the ropes and nothing changed with the 8♥. However, the A♠ river delivered one of two outs and Yu doubled.
"I had pocket sevens and would have busted there," Guy Taylor mentioned in the table chat.
Hal Rotholz was at risk with a short stack holding the K♠Q♦ and was up against the A♥Q♠ of Feng Ji Chua. An ace came to leave Rotholz on the brink but he rivered broadway to survive.
One hand later, Rundulf Gonzales got his short stack in with the 10♥9♠ and Thomas Carlin called holding the K♣K♥.
The Filipino found no help on a J♥5♣2♥2♦K♦ board to bow out.
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