Sukonthachartnant Busts Li

We have had an early casualty with a massive hand playing out in a three-way pot between Boyao Li, new arrival Phanlert Sukonthachartnant and Qiang Lin.

Pre-flop it was Li who opened the action from middle position with a raise to 1,200 and action folded around to Sukonthachartnant in the cut off who re-raised to 3,200 in total.

Qiang Lin made the call from the button and action folded back around to Li who did not take long before re-popping to 10,000 in total.

Sukonthachartnant threw in the call fairly swiftly and Lin decided the pot odds were just too good to resist and came along for the ride as well keeping the action three-way to a flop.

That’s a raiser’s flop if ever we have seen one, and Li also thought so, moving all-in for 37,750 in total. Sukonthachartnant called pretty quickly, which is usually never a good sign if you are the all-in player, and Lin folded.

Boyao Li:
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant :

While Li had flopped top two pair he was trailing to Sukonthachartnant's set of jacks and stayed that way when the turn and river ran out and respectively.

Sukonthachartnant scooped the huge pot and Li headed for the rail. While Li has the option of a re-entry he does not look in any hurry to do so at present. There have been 27 entries so far, with 24 players remaining in contention, though this figure may not be completely accurate as the entry period is still open until the level 10 - the first level of play on Day 2. We will update as soon as we know more.