Ben Lai defended his small blind against Dan Smith and eventually ended up calling a bet worth 65,000 on the river. Smith rolled over for a bluff and Lai scooped the pot with .
Over on table one, Nick Petrangelo defended his big blind against a raise by Troy Quenneville and check-called a bet on the flop. On the turn, Petrangelo bet 75,000 and Quenneville called before the fell on the river.
Petrangelo now fired a bet worth 92,000 and Quenneville called, then mucked when he was shown for a full house.
On the flop, Michael Addamo checked and called a bet worth 33,000 by Troy Quenneville from under the gun. The on the turn was checked through and Addamo then led the river for 12,000 only. Quenneville raised it up to 96,000 and Addamo called, but tapped the table when Quenneville showed the .
Nick Petrangelo raised to 20,000 on the button and Michael Addamo three-bet to 80,000 in the small blind. Troy Quenneville flat-called from the big blind and Petrangelo got out of the way.
The flop came and Addamo continued with a bet worth 60,000, which Quenneville called. After the turn, Addamo made it 180,000 to go and Quenneville called once more before the on the river triggered a check by the Aussie. Other players walked over to see the action and Quenneville moved all in, Addamo quickly folded and conceded the second pot in a row to Quenneville.
We caught the action on the turn in a heads-up pot between Shuo Li and Xiaoyang Luo with the board reading and over 70,000 in blinds and antes already in the middle of the table.
Luo was in the big blind and had checked the action over to Li on the button who led out for a bet of 20,000. Luo check-raised to 50,000 and Li quickly called to bring play to the river.
First to act, Luo moved his remaining 114,000 into the middle and Li called extremely quickly. Luo turned over and a disappointed Li rocked back in his chair, flashing Luo before throwing his hand into the muck.
Flush from his recent double-up Xiaoyang Luo opened the action from late position and Zhong Wang moved all-in over the top for his last 200,000.
Luo thought it over and ran the shot clock down to 10-second before deciding the chance to eliminate a player was too good to pass up on and made the call.
Xhong Wang:
Xiaoyang Luo:
The flop was a very sweaty and despite holding the best hand in poker Wang could not hold on to his lead. The turn gave Luo more outs to go with his open-ended straight draw and caught one of them when the hit the river to give him two pairs to send Wang crashing out of the tournament.
Play paused here as the 16 remaining players are now redrawing for new seats.
Play has now resumed with 32 minutes left of the current level before the 16 remaining High Rollers go on their last break of the day. Full redraw details to follow so watch this space.
Adrian Attenborough raised to 23,000 from the hijack and Xiaoyang Luo three-bet to 75,000 from one seat over. Attenborough called and checked a flop of , which then prompted a bet worth 90,000 by Luo. Attenborough quickly folded and Luo scooped the pot.
Xiaoyang Luo raised to 22,000 and Ben Lai called in the cutoff. On the flop, Luo continued for 23,000 and was called by Lai before the duo checked the turn. On the river, Luo checked and Lai claimed the pot without showdown by betting 60,000.
Manig Loeser shoved once and Ryan Yu did so as well for under 10 big blinds.
Then, Xixiang Luo made it 23,000 to go and Loeser shoved from the button for 173,000. Luo used one time bank chip and eventually folded with a few seconds left on the clock, he has two time extensions remaining.
Soon after, Yu moved all in again and it was Yang Wang who asked for a count. The shove of the Canadian was for 121,000 and Wang folded, as did all other remaining players that were still to act.