A huge pot played out between Je Ho Le and Chien Jenyen that has blown the tournament wide open. We only caught the tail end of the hand, but that was pretty exciting.
The action happened so fast we did not even get a chance to count the pot, but we can tell you what we know for sure. It was a blind on blind battle between Taiwan’s Chien Jenyen and Korea’s Je Ho Lee and the action was at the river with the community cards spread and we arrived just as Lee pulled the trigger and moved all-in from the big blind.
Jenyen called immediately and from the look on Lee’s face, it appeared he had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The Korean player sheepishly tabled for a stone cold bluff. Unfortunately for Lee his timing was a little off as Jenyen had rivered two pairs with . Lee dropped down to 2.3 million after that little misadventure and Jenyen stacked up to 2 million.
We missed his exit but the short-stacked Canlin Chen has become the latest casualty and the field is now down to the last fifteen players. With the ‘unofficial’ final table being a ten-handed affair the tournament needs to lose five more players to get down to that. However, the official final table is eight-handed so the field is still seven bust outs away from finishing.
Jeffrey Lo opened the action with a raise to 65,000 from under-the-gun plus one and now flush with chips Sahashi Hideki is back to his aggressive ways and the Japanese player re-raised to 120,000 and the action was on Eugene Co in the hi-jack.
Co quickly moved all-in for 765,000 and Lo made a quick fold. Hideki thought about it before he too decided to let it go and Co padded out his stack with an extra 200,000-plus, all without showdown.
While this was going on a big hand also played out on the other table, with Yuefeng Pan opening the action from the button with a raise to 160,000. Small blind Linh Tran responded by moving all-in for 510,000 and, with chips to spare, Pan made a quick call.
Linh Tran:
Yuefeng Pan:
Both players had pretty looking suited hands but it was Tran who would be the one to pick up his flush draw on the flop, though Pan paired his four to extend his lead in the hand slightly. It didn’t matter though and while the turn was not the heart Tran needed the river was and the Vietnamese-Canadian stacked up to 1.1 million while Pan took a hit and dropped to 2.5 million.
We’ll admit that the title is factually accurate whilst also being a little misleading as all the chip went in pre-flop, but it was a pretty sick run out.
It was Sahashi Hideki who was the man to send our latest casualty, Jesus Fernandez, to the rail and the Japanese player was the initial pre-flop aggressor, opening the action with a raise to what looked to be 80,000 in the hi-jack.
Sitting in the small blind Fernandez took a gander at his hole cards and moved all-in for a little over 600,000 – which was also around the same as Hideki had. The Japanese player made the call and the cards were turned over.
Jesus Fernandez:
Sahashi Hideki:
Fernandez thought it was his lucky day when the flop came down to give him a set and see him take the lead. However, what the poker gods giveth they can also taketh away and the turn was the meaning the UK-based Spaniard needed to hit the deck’s sole remaining four. The river was not it and the field is now down to 16.
Play was just minutes old after the players returned after the dinner break and the field was thinned by one more. It was Malaysia’s Wai Kiat Lee who became the latest casualty, getting all the chips in pre-flop with and against the of Taiwan’s Chen An Lin.
Unfortunately for Lee the flop came down queen-high and that was that. Lee headed off to collect the HK$72,600 for 18th place and Chen An Lin stacked up to 1.9 million.
There have been some more rapid bust outs with Kevin Choi, Jacky Wong, Victor Chong, JC Alvarado and Kuang Zhen Yu all hitting the rail in quick succession.
and we arrived just as Lee pulled the trigger and moved all-in from the big blind.
for a stone cold bluff. Unfortunately for Lee his timing was a little off as Jenyen had rivered two pairs with 
. Lee dropped down to 2.3 million after that little misadventure and Jenyen stacked up to 2 million.
flop, though Pan paired his four to extend his lead in the hand slightly. It didn’t matter though and while the 
to give him a set and see him take the lead. However, what the poker gods giveth they can also taketh away and the turn was the 
meaning the UK-based Spaniard needed to hit the deck’s sole remaining four. The 
of Taiwan’s Chen An Lin.