Sanat Mehrotra looked up the short stack all-in of Minh Quang Nguyen who was at risk for a mere 7,100.
Minh Quang Nguyen:
Sanat Mehrotra:
The inferior hand got there on the board and Nguyen quickly left the tournament area. The same table also features one of the biggest stacks in the room, which happens to be Vo Ho Duong Thai.
In a three-way all-in, former big stack Abhinav Iyer had the bets of it against Seokyoung Lee as short stack but was covered by newly-arrived Ming San Chung.
Seokyoung Lee:
Abhinav Iyer:
Ming San Chung:
The board gave Chung a full house on the river and that secured the double knockout.
Several players have already doubled and tripled their starting stacks and local player Ha Ngoc Nguyen is now up almost five-fold. In the latest all-in showdown, she took on Khanh Tran Vu Truong with versus and there was no upset to boost the stack of Nguyen further.
With many local players sporting the same family names, it was no surprise to see "Nguyen" involved once more. This time, however, that happened to be Anh Duc Nguyen from the United States who was flipping for his tournament life against Chun Min Tai.
Anh Duc Nguyen:
Chun Min Tai:
Board:
The king on the flop was enough for Tai to deal the final blow.
Junnie Pamplona raised to 3,000 and received two callers on a table filled with notables in the Asia-Pacific region. On the flop, Pamplona bet 4,000 and was instantly raised to 11,000, which he called. Pamplona checked the turn and folded when facing another bet worth 10,500 to get shown the .
One table over, Jun Hee Kim was happy to call a river bet on a king-high board by Kannapong Thanarattrakul. His had made trips kings on turn and river and that was good for the win.