Picking up the action on the flop, Nick Petrangelo checked from early position and Raghav Bansal bet 28,000 on the button. The on the turn went check, check, and Petrangelo also checked the river. Bansal now made it 51,000 to go and the clock ticked down to almost zero before Petrangelo tossed in a chip for the call.
Bansal turned over for top pair and that won the pot.
There have been two near simultaneous double-ups on the two remaining tournament tables within seconds of each other.
For the first it was Ryan Yu and Yang Wang battling it out with Yu the man to pull the trigger first after becoming embroiled in a raising war with Wang. Yu moved all-in pre-flop for 175,000 in total and Wang made a speedy call.
Ryan Yu:
Yang Wang:
Despite holding a dominated hand Yu spiked his jack on the flop with the turn and the river completing the hand to grant the Canadian player the double to 363,000 while Yang dropped down to 240,000.
Over on the other table we arrived in time to see Shou Li check-raise all-in over the top of a Xiaoyang Luo 50,000 turn bet on a board reading .
Luo asked for a count – Li had 270,000 – and did not take too long to make the call and the cards were turned over.
Shou Li:
Xiaoyang Luo:
Li must have felt good about the hand when he discovered he already had the hand locked up with a set of tens and he climbed to 675,000 while Luo dropped to 270,000.
Shortly after this Raghav Bansal and Nick Petrangelo played a sizable pot with Bansal the initial aggressor, opening the action with a middle position raise to 24,000.
Petrangelo made the call from the small blind and checked the flop over to Bansal, who thought it over for 15-seconds or so before continuation betting for 23,000.
The US player then check-raised to 73,000 in total to send Bansal into the tank for 20 seconds before the Indian player decided to make the call and the hit the turn.
Both players checked and the river completed the hand before Petrangleo led for 167,000.
Bansal thought it over but eventually let it go.
“Show the bluff,” Bansal told Petrangelo, who obligingly flashed him the before raking in the pot to climb to 650,000 while Bansal dropped a little to 1.1 million.
The remaining 16 players have been sent into their last 15-minute break and two further levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled unless the last eight are reached prior to that. This seems rather unlikely at the moment, though.
In the early levels of Day 2, Adrian Attenborough and Raghav Bansal were among the chip leaders and have since taken different directions. Attenborough dropped some chips and has now joined the short stacks, while Bansal is in the top three.
Bansal raised to 30,000 from the cutoff and Attenborough defended the big blind. On the flop and the turn, both players checked. Attenborough also checked the river and then got out of the way when Bansal bet 45,000.
One hand later, Ben Lai opened to 35,000 and Bansal three-bet to 85,000, which claimed the pot without showdown.
Action folded around to small blind Manig Loeser who moved all-in for 159,000. Big blind Yang Wang stood up in his chair to see how much the shove was for, looked down at his hand and called instantly.
Manig Loeser:
Yang Wang:
Loeser was the at risk player and was in bad shape with a dominated hand and found no help on the flop. However, the turn gave him the lead and the German would just need to fade Yang’s flush draw and did so when the landed on the river to grant Loeser a double to 236,000 while Yang dropped to 104,000.
Dan Smith opened the next hand with a raise to 27,000 and now flush with chips Loeser moved all-in again and Smith quickly folded.
Within two hands, the hopes of Shuo Li to make yet another final table here in Macau have vanished and he departed in 16th place.
Hand 1
Nick Petrangelo raised to 25,000 from under the gun and Li three-bet to 71,000 from the cutoff, which Petrangelo called. On the flop, the American checked and Li continued for 75,000, which Petrangelo called.
After the turn, Petrangelo bet 115,000 and Li asked how much stack he had behind before moving all in for a very similar stack. Petrangelo quickly called and the cards were turned over.
Nick Petrangelo:
Shuo Li:
The river changed nothing whatsoever, and Li was reduced to just 29,000 chips.
Hand 2
Two hands later, he tossed in the last red T-25,000 chip and Xiaoyang Luo moved all in from the button to isolate successfully.
Shuo Li:
Xiaoyang Luo:
The board ran out and Li had to settle for a payday worth HK$236,000, which equals approximately $30,680.
Yang Wang moved all-in for his last 85,000 from middle position and after checking the amount Dan Smith made a quick call from the big blind and it was off to the races.
Yang Wang:
Dan Smith:
Wang was in front the whole way, rivering a full house for good measure to guarantee the double when the board ran out to climb back up to 194,000 while Smith dropped a little to 1,050,000.
Adrian Attenborough moved all-in for the last of his chips from under-the-gun and action folded around to Sergey Lebedev in the big blind who quickly called and the cards were turned over.
Adrian Attenborough:
Sergey Lebedev:
While Attenborough was in front the Australian player could not maintain his lead when the board ran out with Lebedev spiking top pair on the river to send Attenborough to the rail in 15th place for a payday worth US$ 34,060).