HK$16,500 Main Event Day 3 | 2018 Oriental Poker Championship

05-27-2018 18:45 UTC+8

Sun in the Bin

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Level 24 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

The sun has set on Sun Bin's OPC Main Event hopes with the USA's Austin Walton the man to crush his dreams. It was Walton who was the instigator, making it 50,000 to go from UTG+1 with Bin making the call in the hi-jack, Paul Teoh came along for the ride from the cutoff and Sen Mu opted to join the party from the big blind.

The flop saw Mu check, Walton c-bet 135,000 and Bin shove for 296,000 in total. Both Teoh and Mu got out of the way and Walton did not take long to make the call.

Sun Bin:
Austin Walton:

While Bin had a heap of outs with a pair and a draw the turn and river were of no help and he headed for the exit, while Walton stacked up to 1,120,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Austin Walton	1,120,000	395,000
Sun Bin	Busted

Tags: Austin Walton Sun Bin

Level: 24

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 4,000

05-27-2018 18:32 UTC+8

Chen Collects From Zhou, Zhang Takes From Sun

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Yazhou Chen made it 40,000 to go from the cutoff, and was immediately three-bet to 112,000 by Xiaobo Zhou in the cutoff. When it folded back to Chen he'd make the call, bringing a flop of . Chen checked it to the last aggressor, and Zhou continued for 90,000. Call.

The turn was the which slowed things down. Both players checked, and when the river landed Chen decided to lead out for 160,000. That was enough to get a fold from Zhou.

While Chen was raking in that pot, up on the feature table we saw Wayne Zhang scooping a huge pot of his own from Sun Bin. Zhang is chipleading now with 2.37 million

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei Yi Zhang	2,370,000	270,000
Xiaobo Zhou	1,235,000	-115,000
Yazhou Chen	1,000,000	370,000
Sun Bin	356,000	-504,000

Tags: Sun Bin Wei Yi Zhang Xiaobo Zhou Yazhou Chen

05-27-2018 18:25 UTC+8

Two-Table Re-Draw and Counts

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Ivan Leow	Malaysia	1,750,000
1	2	Sang Hwang	Hong Kong	1,050,000
1	3	Yuefeng Pan	China	700,000
1	4	Dong Liang Cheng	China	852,000
1	5	Albert Paik	USA	1,120,000
1	6	Xu Ya Hui	China	250,000
1	7	Chuanshu Chen	China	460,00
1	8	Yazhou Chen	China	756,000
1	9	Xiaobo Zhou	China	1,350,000

2	1	Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	Thailand	1,600,000
2	2	Wei Yi Zhang	China	2,100,000
2	3	Sun Bin	China	860,000
2	4	Ming Juen Teoh	Malaysia	642,000
2	5	Chang Bo Feng	China	592,000
2	6	Jia Feng Wang	China	575,000
2	7	Sen Mu	China	375,000
2	8	Wing Kei Chan	Hong Kong	152,000
2	9	Austin Walton	USA	725000

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei Yi Zhang	2,100,000	660,000
Ivan Leow	1,750,000	250,000
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	1,600,000	120,000
Xu Ya Hui	1,350,000	910,000
Xiaobo Zhou	1,350,000	300,000
Albert Paik	1,120,000	-10,000
Sang Hwang	1,050,000	40,000
Sun Bin	860,000	175,000
Dong Liang Cheng	852,000	-31,000
Yazhou Chen	756,000	756,000
Austin Walton	725,000	40,000
Yuefeng Pan	700,000	-400,000
Ming Juen Teoh	642,000	272,000
Chang Bo Feng	592,000	122,000
Jia Feng Wang	575,000	-301,000
Chuanshu Chen	460,000	-490,000
Sen Mu	375,000	-25,000
Wing Kei Chan	152,000	-348,000

05-27-2018 18:16 UTC+8

Last Two Tables

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

We've had another elimination, meaning we're down to 18 and the final two tables. We'll have all the details shortly.

05-27-2018 18:13 UTC+8

Ruan Down

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Another one bites the dust as Jiayu Ruan has fallen in 20th place to Albert Paik.

Paik had opened the hijack to 50,000 and Ruan shoved for his 120,000 which was called when it folded back. Paik had which was flipping against Ruan's , but the big slick took the lead on the flop and by the end of the board Paik had made the nut flush.

He's up to 1.13 million now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Paik	1,130,000	430,000
Jiayu Ruan	Busted

Tags: Jiayu Ruan Albert Paik

05-27-2018 18:01 UTC+8

Li Loses Flip To Walton

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

The sole representative of the USA, Austin Walton, will be sticking around for a while having just scooped in all of Yuan Chao Li's chips.

Li had opened to 50,000 from the cutoff and Walton jammed for 376,000 from the small blind. Jia Feng Wang thought for a long time in the big blind before making an agonised fold, and Li then called off his stack with 252,000 behind.

Walton:
Li:

The two were flipping, and the first card in the window was a jack. However, on closer inspection Walton had flopped a set on the board, eliminating Li and bringing Walton's stack up to 685,000. After the hand, Wang told Walton she had laid down pocket eights. "It's a good fold," he told her. "When I shove I think that's an easy fold there."

Player	Chips	Progress
Jia Feng Wang	876,000	276,000
Austin Walton	685,000	320,000
Yazhou Chen	Busted

Tags: Yuan Chao Li Austin Walton Jia Feng Wang

05-27-2018 17:55 UTC+8

Sukonthachartnant Surges

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Chuanshu Chen and Phanlert Sukonthachartnant have just about swapped stacks after this big pot.

Picking up the action on a board, Chen led for 84,000 into a roughly 170,000 pot from the big blind position. Action was on his sole opponent Sukonthachartnant, who thought for a long time before making the call. The river then came the , on which Chen fired another bet of 150,000. Sukonthachartnant called, and Chen mucked instantly meaning Sukonthachartnant didn't have to show.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	1,480,000	730,000
Chuanshu Chen	950,000	-460,000

Tags: Chuanshu Chen Phanlert Sukonthachartnant

05-27-2018 17:50 UTC+8

Double for Li

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Yazhou Chen moved all-in from middle position for 163,000 and was looked up by Paul Teoh from the blinds. Chen rolled over and found himself behind to Teoh's .

However, the window card saw Chen take the lead, with the rest of the board running out to double him to 356,000 while Teoh dropped to 370,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ming Juen Teoh	370,000	-30,000
Yazhou Chen	356,000	-44,000

Tags: Ming Juen Teoh Yazhou Chen

05-27-2018 17:47 UTC+8

Big Chip Movements

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Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

A lot of chips have changed hands recently on several tables, so here's how it all went down. Sen Mu managed to earn a much needed double up at the expense of Austin Walton, with Mu the man to move all-in from UTG+1 for 179,000 with . Walton made the call from the small blind with and Mu was racing for his tournament life. The board ran out to give Mu two pair and the double to 400,000, while Walton dropped to 365,000.

Thne Ivan Leow played two sizable pots and lost both to drop a chunk of chips. In the first, it was a blind on blind battle between Seng Hwang (small blind) and Leow (big blind). We arrived just as Hwang jammed the river for 575,000 on a board reading . There was close to 500,000 in the pot already and Leow tanked long and hard before folding. Hwang flashed the Malaysian player a card, we are guessing a big diamond but could not see from where we were standing, and raked in the pot to climb to just over 1-million.

Then Leow played another blind on blind battle, this time against Yuefeng Pan that resulted in a double up for the latter. It all started with a Leow small blind limp and Pan made it 70,000 to go in the big blind. Leow then check-raised to 210,00 and after some time in the tank Pan slid out the call.

Leow quickly jammed the flop and Pan called instantly, so it was quite surprising to see the cards when they were turned over.

Ivan Leow:
Yeufeng Pan:

Pan evidently gave Leow zero credibility and called off for his tournament life with ace-high - and it was ahead. The turn and river saw Pan double to 1.1-million, while Leow dropped to 1.5-million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Leow	1,500,000	-670,000
Yuefeng Pan	1,100,000	570,000
Sang Hwang	1,010,000	-240,000
Sen Mu	400,000	70,000
Austin Walton	365,000	-165,000

Tags: Sen Mu Ivan Leow Yuefeng Pan Austin Walton