Masanori Ishihara raised to 2,600 under the gun and the action folded to Cheng Cheng who moved all in for 18,600 from the button. An Tai Young was seated in the small blind and he made the call putting the action back on Ishihara.
"All in," Ishihara announced, and Young looked back down at his cards before letting them go. Cheng had a chance to triple up and the showdown went as following.
Ishihara:
Cheng:
The board ran out and Ishihara hit a flush to knock out Cheng and quite a chunk from Young in the process.
We came to the table with a flop of on the board and a 1,800 bet in front of Sam Razavi, who was on the button. The player in the big blind called, as did Sang Hyun Park who was under the gun.
The turn came and both the big blind and and Park checked over to Razavi, who bet 3,400. The big blind folded and Park raised to 8,400. Razavi made the call and we saw the river. Park led for 9,300 and Razavi looked ready to put calling chips in the middle but paused for a minute. Eventually, he made the call and slid his cards to the muck after Park said "flush, no good" and turned over .
The South Korean capital is home to about 25 million people and therefor traffic can get a bit crazy from time to time. Defending champion Aaron Lim just experienced the Seoul traffic first hand as he was about 40 minutes late for the start of the tournament.
Lim started the day with only 14,700 chips and he was already blinded down to 7,100 when he finally arrived. As of right now Lim's still in the hunt but his stack has taken a big hit already by not showing up on time.
Under unknown circumstances we've just lost Dylan Honeyman. Honeyman was knocked out by Chinese fan favorite Juicy Li, as she's now up to around 70,000 chips.
Just last month Hao Chen managed to win the Macau Millions Main Event for $70,867 but unfortunately he did not manage to continue his good run here today. Chen, one of the most physically imposing players in the field, ended up all in before the flop with and he was called by Minh Hau Nguyen's .
The board wasn't kind to Chen who hit the rail after the dealer put the river card out.
Australian pro Matt Wakeman just managed to find himself a quick double up to put him close to the current average. Wakeman got all his chips into the pot before the flop holding and he his hand held up against .
Wakeman's now a much stronger force with about 40 big blinds in front of him.
We observed Winfred Yu pushing all his chips in the middle a few times without any callers. So we took notice when he chose to reraise the 2,400 bet from Daniel Belov preflop. Belov called 2,400 more for the privilege of seeing the flop which came .
Both players checked the flop and the turn was dealt. Belov checked to Yu who bet 7,300. Belov then raised enough to put Yu all in and Yu snap-called. The hands were table showing Belov turned a set with his but Yu, holding , flopped his.
The river came which awarded Yu the pot and left Belov pretty short.
APPT President Danny McDonagh just announced today's plan after explaining to the remaining players what the breaking order looks like. We're playing no more and no less than eight levels today and that means we'll finish around 8:30 p.m. local time again.
McDonagh also stated that it's likely there will still be three, perhaps two, tables remaining at the end of the night. The third and final day therefor could be a little longer than usual, but players will surely be energized and filled with adrenaline when playing for the millions of Won on Sunday night!
We caught the action in a blind battle between Annica Ivert and Yonh Zhi Jin on the turn when the board read . Ivert bet 8,300 from the small blind and Jin tanked for quite a while before making the call.
On the river the hit and this time Ivert opted to check.
Jin started to put together a bet, at least that's what it seemed like, before fumbling the chips back into his stack. Chips were now scattered and with shaking hands Jin tried to put his stack back together. All of this easily took 90 seconds and Sam Razavi could not hide his frustration, as the player could've easily announced a bet or put some chips forward.
The fumbling went on for another minute before, out of nowhere, he decided to check. Ivert sheepishly turned over for bottom pair and Jin showed his for three of a kind to take down this pot.