Yanchao Busts Alvarado
Level 15
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Big pocket pairs are not fairing so well for some of the players. This time the man on the chopping block was Mexico’s JC Alvarado and the man doing the chopping was Zhao Yanchao.
Alvarado was the initial aggressor, making it 55,000 to go from middle position and Zhao Yanchao went straight to all-out Global Thermonuclear War and ripped in his whole 900,000 stack. Alvarado thought it over for a good while but made the call for his tournament life with 
and Yanchao turned over 
.
Unfortunately for Alvarado this time the classic race went in the favor of the man holding ace-king and the flop came down king-high and we lose one more, while Yanchao stacked up to 1.9 million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,900,000 | |
|
Busted |
min-raised from under-the-gun and saw Yuefeng Pan re-raise to 115,000 in total from the blinds.
, which Pan led for 100,000. Chong called once more and the 
hit the turn and this is when all the chips went in with Pan pulling the trigger and Chong making the call for his tournament life.
. Unfortunately for Chong, the 
came in on the river and he’s now out while Pan has around 3 million in chips.
runout saw Lo’s hand hold and he climbed to 1.2 million while Lee took a hit and dropped down to 2 million.
flop was not the one Soyza was looking for and it pretty much gave Wei everything, including all of Soyza’s remaining chips. Soyza headed to the cash desk to collect the HK$58,100 for his 25th place finish while Wei stacked up to 1.6 million.
and you just knew what was going to happen next. The 
river completed the Korean’s backdoor flush and guarantee the 35 remaining players an HK$50,900 payday and Lee stacked up to 2.55 million while the unlucky Toeh headed for the rail empty-handed.
and was looked up by Lee, who had the chips to spare, with 
and the tournament clock has been paused as play is now hand-for-hand.