The action escalated on a three-way flop of 8♦6♥5♥ on which Dmitriy Tymoshenko eventually pushed all-in. Louis Bilodeau went all-in over the top and Joong Hoon Eum opted to call it off for the 27,500 he had behind.
Dmitriy Tymoshenko: A♥A♦
Joong Hoon Eum: 6♦6♣
Louis Bilodeau: 9♣7♣
The 8♠ turn improved Eum to a full house and that didn't change anymore on the 5♣ river. Tymoshenko was eliminated and Eum nearly tripled up.
On a heads-up turn of K♣6♥5♦Q♣, Ke Yan bet 3,000 and called a raise to 8,000 by Hyunyeong Kang on the button. That led to the 8♥ river on which Yan checked and snap-called a bet of 16,000 by Kang. He was shown the Q♠Q♥ for a set of queens and mucked his 6♣6♠ with disgust.
Three ways to the Q♦7♦3♦J♦ turn, Tracy Crisostomo checked and Hal Rotholz bet 400. Ashish Ghosh folded but Crisostomo came along to then check-call the J♠ river for another 600. Rotholz tabled the K♦5♠ for a king-high flush and earned the pot.
The field size for Day 1b has already climbed to 265 entries of which 262 players remain. A trio of hopefuls saw their stack decimated to zero and that also included Spain's Guillem Segarra Lopez.
Jun Obara arrived in Manila two days ago and jumped right into a side event without cashing. He then took down Event# 35 -High Roller Knockout [₱50K Bounty] last night while Day 1a of the Main Event took place.
Just now, Obara tangled with Ke Yan when they checked the 9♥8♥5♦2♥ turn and Yan bet the 7♣ river for 1,600. Obara called with the K♠Q♣ and chopped versus K♥Q♦.
Picking up the action on the J♠8♥4♠J♦ turn, Feras Elnatsha bet 600. Toshihiro Hibi raised to 2,000 and Elnatsha called. Both opted to check the K♣ river and Elnatsha held the winning hand with the 10♦10♥.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
On the tail end of a 8♥7♣5♣9♣A♠ board, Joshua Lebowitz paid off Nikolay Bochukov and then mucked when he was shown the A♣6♣ for the nut flush by his opponent. The encounter cost Lebowitz nearly a fifth of his starting stack and propelled Bochukow near the top in the first level of the day.
In a single-raised pot to the J♦8♥3♥ flop, Peter Bennett and Ngoc Khanh Le both checked. That brought them to the Q♣ turn on which Bennett bet 400 and won the pot.
The same table also features Anthony Abram and Alex Tan as well. Bennett came close to bagging chips on Day 1a but bowed out in the final level of last night.
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