Konstantinos Misailidis had re-entered only to bust out again in rapid fashion. His K♠K♣ were cracked by the 6♣6♠ of Yuan Xiang Cheong, who flopped a set on the 10♥6♥3♣9♥4♦ board. Whether or not the Greek will re-enter again remains to be seen.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Just before the blinds went up, there was uproar over on table six as a three-way all-in had unfolded. Thijs Hilberts bet a four-way flop of 9♦7♥2♥ to receive one caller and a raiser. Hilberts then jammed with the covering stack and two players committed their chips behind him.
Hilberts revealed the J♦J♣ and was up against K♥9♥ as well as the 10♠8♦ of Won Jae Lee. The 6♣ turn improved Lee and the 4♠ river brought no change anymore.
Fu Chi Sze was flipping for his tournament life with the J♥10♥ and Valeriy Pak looked him up holding the 7♦7♠. The A♥8♣2♠ flop and 3♦ turn were blanks but the 10♠ river came to the rescue for Sze.
Joseph Magnotti defended his big blind against a raise by Alexis Cruz and then check-called for 1,500 on the 9♣9♦4♠ flop. On the 6♣ turn, Magnotti check-called for another 4,000 and checked the 2♠ river. Cruz fired a bet of 16,000 to get snap-called and turned over the 9♠8♦ for trips nines.
Magnotti shook his head as he exposed the 9♥3♥ for the inferior kicker and lost a bigger portion of his stack.
Cruz leaped to two times the starting stack, which is only beaten by the large stack of Wai Keong Yong next to Magnotti.
There are 84 players out of 103 entries remaining more than half-way through level five. Konstantinos Misailidis was among those to depart but already re-entered for the second attempt.
Winfred Yu raised to 1,100 and Enrico de Rosa three-bet all-in for the 2,100 he had left. Dieu Phuong Linh Nguyen then reraised to 4,000 and Yu called, inquiring how many players from Vietnam had Nguyen on this trip. "I will buy percentage on the next bullet ... donation," Yu joked in table chat.
The board fell 6♠3♣2♥ and Nguyen continued for 5,000. "You can fold now," she said but Yu called. On the 5♠ turn, Nguyen pushed all-in and Yu called with the slightly superior stack.
Enrico de Rosa: J♣J♠
Dieu Phuong Linh Nguyen: Q♥Q♦
Winfred Yu: 9♣4♣
The 3♠ river brought no chip as the suited cards of Yu knocked out two opponents.
Jose Colada has become the 100th entry for the day but not all players have shown up yet to take a seat, as 84 players out of 95 entries are in contention. Thanh Ha Duong was among those to bow out while Gyeong Tae Yoo avoided the same feat.
Yoo three-bet jammed for 9,500 with 9♠9♦ and flipped against an opponent holding the A♥K♣. The pair remained ahead on the 7♦5♦5♠10♥10♦ runout to keep the South Korean in the mix.
Level: 5
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
On a heads-up flop of J♣10♥7♦, Emil Condez instantly called the shove of a shorter stack from South Korea. He was miles ahead with K♠K♣ versus K♦J♠ and that remained to be the case on the Q♥ turn and 2♣ river.
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