Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
After a raise from under the gun by Yinjie Mei and a cold-call by another player, Shutian Wang jammed for the last 5,400 and Mei reraised to more than 10,000 to isolate successfully.
Shutian Wang:
Yinjie Mei:
The board came and Wang was drawing dead on the turn.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yinjie Mei
|
70,000 | |
Shutian Wang
|
Busted |
The poker room of the Landing Casino is bursting with poker players as barely any open seat remains. Floor staff just announced to make all tables ten-handed to accommodate the growing field and there are already up to 338 entries with 298 players remaining. There is no doubt anymore that the field size of the previous year will be surpassed, it is just a matter of being able to sit new entries as soon as possible.
The second-ever Red Dragon Main Event champion Denny Deng Feng Yu as well as Kenichi Takarabe have entered the field to make it four former champions in the Day 1b field. Chen An Lin has also entered as the field size for the second of three flights approaches 350 entries.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kenichi Takarabe | 30,000 | |
Denny Deng Feng Yu
|
30,000 | |
Chen An Lin | 30,000 |
Hao Tian was already on his second bullet for the day and ended up all-in for more than the starting stack against Aijie Qi.
Hao Tian:
Aijie Qi:
The board gave Tiaan the superior two pair and he doubled.
Some further updated counts can be found below.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Xinglong Huang |
82,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
Hao Tian |
63,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
Xixiang Luo |
36,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Andre Lettau |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Robbie Schiffbauer |
28,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Aijie Qi
|
2,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Jizhong Wang was all in with the and in prime shape to double back into contention as Hsin Jou Lu only tabled the .
However, the board came to improve Lu to a full house and send Wang to the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Hsin Jou Lu
|
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Jizhong Wang
|
Busted |
The eliminations keep pouring in as more than 50 players already ran out of chips, some of them already back in the for the second bullet of the day.
Among those to bust was also Shengyong Wang when he lost a flip with against the of Yongjang Li on a board of .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yongqiang Li
|
24,000 | |
Shengyong Wang
|
Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/500
Ante: 500
The poker room of the Landing Casino continues to burst with action as barely any open seat remains and those unfortunate to bust either re-enter or have their seats filled with new players. Up to 387 entries mean a total field size of 639 entries and that surpasses the record of the previous year by more than two dozen already.
All of that is already locked up in level six and the registration for Day 1b remains open until the end of level nine and following break. On top of that is also the turbo heat 1c as of 8 p.m. local time with 12 levels of 20 minutes.
A raise to 1,300 was called once and Peng Wu then squeezed to 4,200. Dong Chen was the only caller on the button and the flop was checked. Wu bet the turn for 5,800 and Chen called to see the on the river on which Wu made it 8,000 to go.
Chen called and Wu briefly showed a small pocket pair that Chen had beat to chip up.
Further assorted counts can be found below.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bing Zhou
|
90,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Kengo Sakurai
|
78,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Kelvin Beattie |
75,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Jieming Xu
|
74,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Peng Wu
|
65,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Dong Chen |
58,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
|
||
Zhiao He |
23,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Daniel Lee |
11,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |