Andrew Scott and Ivan Tan have been competing with each other for the last two days after establishing a US$1,000 last longer bet before the start of the tournament. The only catch is that to win the bet, the longer-laster must cash. Scott had an anguished decision recently after he raised to 7,000 and Bryan Huang raised enough to put Scott all in.
Scott started to tank, trying to figure out what his odds were. "Take your time, Andrew," said Michael Pedley as he got up from the table. "I'm going to relieve myself."
Tan then stood up from an adjacent table and said, "Andrew, if you bust I'm going to fold to the money to win our prop bet."
"I know, I know," said Scott. "It won't be a big sample size though." He started to run the numbers in his head, with a steady stream of them coming out of his mouth. Huang responded by saying "Meow, meow, meow. Fold like a girl. Meow, meow, meow."
Scott finally called with and was elated to see Huang show . Tan and Huang started shouting "Two sides!" (a baccarat reference). They got it on a board of .
"What about this one, boys?" said Scott, pointing to the queen. The turn and river blanked out.
"Bryan," chided Scott. "Caught with your hand in the cookie jar."
"I always get caught," responded Huang. He's down to 62,000. Scott has new life with 74,000. And for those wondering, Pedley was back from the bathroom by the time the stacks were counted down.
Susumu Toge is running over everyone at his table -- including Steve Sung. We came to a hand between the two men with 50,000 chips already in the middle. The flop came out . Toge tanked for a minute before betting 30,000. Sung tanked equally as long before calling.
Both players silently tapped the felt, "check," on the turn and river. Toge turned over at showdown, having turned two pair, tens and nines. Sung flipped over , showing that Toge had turned a three-outer, then mucked.
Toge is up to 255,000. Sung is still in the thick of things with 105,000.
Ron Kluber is hanging tough on Table 4. Sitting in the big blind, he took a raised flop with Steve Sung. The dealer spread out . Kluber checked to Sung, who made a continuation bet of 7,500. Kluber raised that to 29,500, inducing a fold from Sung after 30 seconds.
"You scare me, man," Kluber told Sung after the hand. "You scare me." Scary or not, Sung is down to 95,000 chips. Kluber is up to 105,000.
It must be the sound of everyone sucking in their guts. With only 33 players remaining, we're functionally on the bubble of the tournament. Play has slowed down drastically, but the shorties won't be able to turtle forever. Blinds go up in 18 minutes.
It was a battle of the blinds between Liz Lieu and Ivan Tan. Tan tried to make a move on Lieu with , but she snap-called all in with pocket queens. The board ran out to give Lieu a much-needed double-up to 62,000. Tan is now in danger of bubbling on his last longer bet with Andrew Scott; he has just 26,000.
Kim Tae Hyung opened from late position to 8,500 and Michael Pedley made the call from the cutoff.
The flop fell down and Pedley made it 15,000 and was met with an instant all-in reraise from Hyung, with Pedley calling quicker than his horse "Corporation" bounds out of the gate back home in Australia.
Pedley:
Hyung:
Drawing very slim, it would remain that way for Hyung when it fell the and on the turn and river. As Hyung slipped to 78,000, Pedley galloped ahead to over 110,000 in chips.