Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
The following players are no longer in the running:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yang Xu | Busted | |
Qian Tang | Busted | |
Jun Zhou | Busted | |
Chuanshu Chen | Busted | |
Anthony Mak | Busted |
There are now 48 players remaining with the departure of Hong Yin Lin. The Hong Kong player had been nursing a short stack since the start of the day so did not have all that many options available to him. Down to his last 61,000 and about to hit the blinds, Lin moved all-in from under-the-gun.
This shove got around halfway around the table before it got called, with Jian Dong Yu choosing to look Lin up from the cutoff with the rest of the table getting out of the way.
Hong Yin Lin:
Jian Dong Yu:
Lin looked disappointed to find himself in such bad shape with dominated holdings, but there was a ray of hope on the flop. However, this was quickly dashed with the appearance of the turn. The was not the jack Lin needed to survive and he headed to the payout desk, while Yu stacked up to 300,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jian Dong Yu |
300,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
Hong Yin Lin | Busted |
Former frontrunner Shi Qiang Lin has dropped yet more chips, and there has been several players on the move as tables are broken and their inhabitants relocated.
One man who is on the move is Korea's Jeho Lee, who has also climbed to the top of the chip counts with a stack of 1.1 million chips - the only player to have reached and breached the seven-figure stack mark so far today.
Other big stacks belong to Sun Bin (851,000), Wei Ran Pu (810,000) and Cang Sheng Ni (730,000).
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeho Lee |
1,100,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
Sun Bin |
851,000
131,000
|
131,000 |
Wei Ran Pu |
810,000
460,000
|
460,000 |
Cang Sheng Ni |
730,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Liang Song |
620,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Yu Li |
610,000
299,000
|
299,000 |
Xiao Tian Yang |
610,000
301,000
|
301,000 |
Richard Lim |
410,000
-180,000
|
-180,000 |
Diego Sarmiento |
390,000
-108,000
|
-108,000 |
Shi Qiang Lin |
380,000
-280,000
|
-280,000 |
|
||
Lin Zhe Chen |
370,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Chi Fu Sze |
340,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
Ke Fei Na |
220,000
-122,000
|
-122,000 |
|
||
Mauro Francolini |
200,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Kwok Chun Lai |
105,000
-96,000
|
-96,000 |
The casualties are mounting, with the following players no longer in contention:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Zheng Shan Hao | Busted | |
Antonio Martins | Busted | |
Jiang Gou Zhou
|
Busted | |
Yue Wang | Busted |
Sparrow Cheung shoved all in for 89,000 in total from the button and Xiao Jun Yu asked for a count in the small blind. The dealer confirmed the amount and Yu tanked. Yu looked at his cards without really protecting them. Shan Huang in the big blind told Yu to protect his cards as he could see them. Yu turned away from Huang a bit and then tanked a bit longer. Yu then folded. Huang confirmed the amount again and then called.
Cheung asked for the floor and explained the situation. According to Cheung, it wasn't fair to him that Huang called with the extra information he managed to gather by seeing Yu's cards. The floor listened to the explanation of all three players and then conferred with the tournament director. When the floor came back, he gave Yu a 1-round penalty for not protecting his cards.
A huge discussion ensued as none of the three involved players agreed. The tournament director was pulled into the discussion and the whole situation was explained to him again. The TD stood by his initial ruling and Yu wasn't happy. Voices were raised and both Cheung and Huang defended Yu as he didn't do it intentionally. After several minutes, Yu's penalty was reduced to 3 hands.
The TD also ruled that the call was valid and the hand had to go on.
Sparrow Cheung:
Shan Huang:
The board ran out to not provide any help to Cheung and he was sent to the rail after all the commotion.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shan Huang |
265,000
-121,000
|
-121,000 |
Sparrow Cheung | Busted |
The 43 remaining Main Event competitors are on their first 10-minute break of the day.
Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Action has resumed following the break and the field has been thinned by two, courtesy of Ke Wang, who is responsible for both bustouts in back-to-back hands.
We arrived to catch the aftermath of the first, with Hong Kong's Kwok Chun 'Derx' Lai on his feet as stacks were being counted down. Lai's cards were already in the muck, with Wang having face up on the felt in front of him, having flopped a set of sixes in the big blind.
Lai was covered and headed for the exit as Wang stacked up to 480,000, which he added to the very next hand. It was one-time chip leader Shi Qiang Lin who instigated the action, opening to 34,000 from under-the-gun.
It folded around to Yue Feng Tang, who moved all-in for his last 122,000. Wang seemed keen, asking for a count before making the call, which was enough to convince Lin to get out of the way.
Yue Feng Tang:
Ke Wang:
Tang was at-risk and behind, and stayed that way when the cards ran out to give Wang the win. Tang is out and Wang is up to 675,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ke Wang |
675,000
410,000
|
410,000 |
Kwok Chun Lai | Busted | |
Yue Feng Tang | Busted |