We are not sure how it happened, but Linh Tran’s seat is now empty, meaning the field is now down to 11 players and is just one bust out away from the unofficial final table. Tran takes home HK$94,400 for his 12th place finish.
Danny Tang got the last of his chips in over the top of a Jeffrey Lo open and managed to catch a much-needed double. Lo had and was trailing to Tang’s .
Both players missed the runout by miles, meaning Tang’s king-high was good for a pot of over 1 million in chips.
Zhao Yanchao has been involved in two out of the three last big pots we have seen and the trend continued after the break. Unfortunately for Yanchao however, it would be the last pot he played.
Action folded around to Yanchao in the small blind and he moved all-in for close to 800,000 and Kosei Ichinose made a quick call – generally not a good sign if you have just shoved.
Zhao Yanchao:
Kosei Ichinose:
While Yanchao caught a piece of the flop Ichinose had plenty of redraws and while the turn was not one of his outs, the river was and the field is down to 12, with Yanchao collecting HK$94,400 for his 13th place finish while Ichinose stack up to 2 million.
There were three back-to-back massive hands before the break that saw lots of chips change hands. Danny Tang endured a nasty blind versus blind cooler against Sahashi Hideki that saw all the chips go in. Tang held but unfortunately for the Hong Kong player, Hideki had and Tang dropped down to 550,000.
Then Eugene Co earned a full double from Zhao Yanchao. Co was the initial aggressor with and Yanchao called in position with . The flop saw Co check call a 100,000 Yanchao bet and the hit the turn.
Co check-called again, with Yanchao betting 200,000 this time. The river saw Co make the nut flush and open ship and Yanchao beat him into the pot, only to discover the bad news. Co climbed to 2.1 million.
Then Yanchao and Sahahsi Hideki tangled with all the chips finding their way into the middle once again. It was Yanchao the man to shove first with and the Japanese player looked him up with .
Yanchao hit two pair on the flop and the turn and river saw the Chinese player climb to 800,000 while Hideki dropped down to 2.58 million.
The field has just lost two players in quick succession. The first to fall was Stanley Leung, who ran into the of Jeffrey Lo, with all the chip going in pre-flop and Leung hit the rail in 15th place for HK$ 94,400 while Lo stacked up to 1.9 million.
Then another huge hand played out between Albert Paik and Yuefeng Pan that saw the latter take all his chips back with interest.
We only caught the tail end of the hand, just as Paik shoved all-in on the river on a board reading . There was already a mountain of chips in the pot and it did not take Pan long to make the call.
Paik had pulled the trigger at the wrong time with as Pan had for the rivered straight. Paik busted in 14th for an HK$ 94,400 payday.
We arrived on the turn to catch a big hand that played out between Lim Chin Wei and Yuefeng Pan, who is bleeding chips at the moment. With the board reading there was over 1 million in chips in the pot and Pan (hi-jack) was facing a big bet of 575,000 from Wei (cutoff).
Pan tanked long and hard but eventually let it go and Wei proudly tabled for a semi-bluff with the open-ended straight draw, which Pan did not look too thrilled about.
Albert Paik was one of the shorter stacks but that is no longer the case the US player has just earned a double-up courtesy of Yuefeng Pan.
Paik got the last of his chips in from the hi-jack and Pan called the cutoff and the cards were turned over.
Albert Paik:
Yuefeng Pan:
The board ran out [x] to give bring Paik right back into contention with a stack of 1.2 million. However, Pan still has plenty of chips with a stack of 3.4 million.
and was trailing to Tang’s 
. 
runout by miles, meaning Tang’s king-high was good for a pot of over 1 million in chips.
flop Ichinose had plenty of redraws and while the 
river was and the field is down to 12, with Yanchao collecting HK$94,400 for his 13th place finish while Ichinose stack up to 2 million.
and Yanchao called in position with 
. The 
flop saw Co check call a 100,000 Yanchao bet and the 
river saw Co make the nut flush and open ship and Yanchao beat him into the pot, only to discover the bad news. Co climbed to 2.1 million.
and the Japanese player looked him up with 
.
turn and 
river saw the Chinese player climb to 800,000 while Hideki dropped down to 2.58 million.
into the 
as Pan had 
for a semi-bluff with the open-ended straight draw, which Pan did not look too thrilled about.
[x] to give bring Paik right back into contention with a stack of 1.2 million. However, Pan still has plenty of chips with a stack of 3.4 million.