Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
The field has been cut down to just 123 hopefuls who are now on their second 15-minute break of the day, in which the T-500 chips will be raced off.
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, the hijack pushed all in for 130,000 and that sent Nan Hong into the think tank. Hong was covered by a few big blinds and eventually sent his cards into the muck.
Tetsuya Enoki got his stack of around 160,000 in preflop against Tianyuan Tang and it was a big flip that decided over his fate.
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The Japanese hit the ![]()
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flop to reduce the outs of Tang to four tens or running cards for a full house. Right away, the
hit on the turn and the
river came a blank. Both players took out their smartphones to grab a picture of what happened and Enoki then headed to the rail.
Meini Gong was all in for the last 26,500 and Paul Newey reshoved for 122,000 from the cutoff to isolate successfully.
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flop took away some outs for Gong and he failed to connect with the
turn and
river to bust before the money. Fewer than 135 players remain in contention in the fourth level of the day.
Yan Rao opened the action with a raise to 11,000 and picked up a call by Zhewen Hu. The flop brought ![]()
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and a small continuation bet worth 8,000 by Rao followed, which Hu called. After the
turn, Rao opened for a bet of 18,000 and that did the trick right there to shut down all further resistance.
Both Rao and Hu are up for the day and remain in contention to take home a portion of the prize pool.
Meini Gong clashed with Paul Newey and the latter was the player at risk for around 18 big blinds with the ![]()
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and the king on he flop kept Newey in the running for a Main Event cash on his visit to South Korea.
Jiayi Jin raised and Alvin Yifan Zheng moved all in for what appeared to be 116,000. Szymon Wysocki looked him up from one seat over and Jin folded.
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and that spelled the end for Zheng's hopes to become a two-time champion.
Now it was the turn of Jamie Lee to send a short stack to the rail when he called a button shove for 46,500.
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, Lee paired up on the turn and dealt the final blow after a blank river.
There are fewer than 150 players remaining and below are some updated counts.