Darren Judges of the United Kingdom may have been confused about the details of the hand after the fact, but he walked away with 13,000 of Chino Rheem's chips. Judges raised to 2,600 from under the gun, then called Rheem's late-position reraise to 7,700. He checked the flop over to Rheem, who made it 5,500 to go. It took Judges a minute, but he did eventually ship 40,000 chips -- his whole stack -- into the middle. Rheem quickly surrendered.
"I'm guessing in the range of two kings," said Rheem.
"Nearly," Judges replied. "I was going to check-raise the flop."
"You did check-raise the flop."
"No, I check-raised the turn, didn't I?"
"We didn't see a turn, buddy," replied Rheem. The whole table laughed, but Judges got the last laugh -- his stack is now at 61,000.
Poker Pack members Nam Le and David 'Chino' Rheem are both seated next to each other.
Le is sitting on 60,000 with Rheem on his immediate left with 71,000. They aren't alone though, as Singaporean Ivan Tan is seated on the left of both with 30,000 in chips.
Play has slowed down and it may be due to the Asian Poker Tour TV crew filming another video featuring the lovely Riza Santos.
Santos is stationed on a stage in the middle of the tournament floor in a stunning black dress. Along with the many APT models wondering the floor, Santos is doing a great job at distracting the 61 remaining males in the field.
The tournament staff have broken another table. We're down to seven tables now. Play has correspondingly slowed down as the short stacks try to turtle their way to the double-up and the medium stacks start thinking about making tomorrow. There's an hour and a half left to go in the day. 63 players remain.
[Removed:197]'s tournament is over. Just before the break, he got his money in with the best possible starting hand -- pocket aces. He was called by Nik Lackovic with pocket nines, but couldn't fade the cards he needed to fade. He's out.
Michael Pedley opened to 1,800 from under the gun and found two callers.
The flop fell and action checked to Pedley, who led out for 4,500. Both of his opponents folded. One of them flashed and Pedley kindly obliged by showing for a seven-high bluff.
Bryan Huang opened with a raise from middle position and was met with a reraise from Kwang Soo Lee on his immediate left. Huang put in another raise and Lee moved all in.
Priced in to call, Huang called the remaining few thousand and tabled to be up against Lee's .
The flop came down , putting Huang in the lead. The crowd gathered around to join in the excitement. Huang and good friend Ivan Tan saw the fall on the turn followed by the on the river.
As another Poker Pack member hit the rail, Huang soared up the leaderboard to stack his chips up to over 77,000 and some change.