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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
for a semi-bluff with the open-ended straight draw, which Pan did not look too thrilled about.
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.
. There was already a mountain of chips in the pot and it did not take Pan long to make the call.
