Nick Petrangelo raised to 36,000 from under the gun and JC Alvarado called out of the big blind. On a flop of , both players checked. The on the turn triggered a bet worth 60,000 by Alvarado and Petrangelo called before the river then completed the board.
Alvarado checked, Petrangelo bet 175,000 and that represented most of Alvarado's remaining stack. The Mexican folded and fell back to around 15 big blinds.
Oliver Weis won a decent sized pot from Zuo Wang shortly after play restarted to take a 128k bite from the Chinese players stack when Wang folded out on the river before there were some fireworks that resulted in the elimination of Yat Wai Cheng.
Pre-flop it was Timothy Adams who was the aggressor, raising to 32,000 from the cutoff, with Cheng choosing to defend his big blind. The flop saw Cheng check the action over to Adams, who c-bet 30,000.
Cheng did not take long to reach for chips, but they were not for calling with and he check raised to 90,000 in total.
Adams thought it over for around 20 seconds before announcing he was all-in and Cheng called immediately.
Yat Wai Cheng:
Timothy Adams:
While Cheng’s pair of jacks was leading the poker gods had other plans and the turn and river ran out and respectively to give Adams the straight and send a disgruntled looking Cheng to the rail in 11th place.
There was a last gasp burst of action just before the dinner break with France’s Imad Derwiche getting the last of his chips in pre-flop with and Germany’s Oliver Weis making the call with .
The board ran out to grant Derwiche the double and he climbed to around 250,000. Weis did not look too unhappy about this as had chips to spare.
The German player managed to recoup his losses just a few hands later, though it would be Yat Wai Cheng who would be footing the bill.
Pre-flop it was Cheng who was the initial aggressor, opening the action with a raise to 26,000 from the hi-jack, only to see Wies come over the top from the button to the tune of 72,000.
Cheng made the call taking the action heads-up to a flop, which both players checked. The turn brought a second check from Cheng and a bet of 64,000 from Weis. The shot clock ticked down and Cheng made the call with just seconds to spare to bring the action to the river.
Cheng checked once more and Weis reached for chips, sliding out a chunky bet of 165,000. This sent Cheng into the tank for the second time in the hand and he shot Weis a suspicious stare. Evidently, Cheng did not believe Weis as he made the call, but could only pitch his cards into the muck when Weis turned over for the nut full house.
While we missed Nick Wong’s exit hand the Hong Kong player was kind enough to fill us in on the details.
According to Wong he got the last of his chips in pre-flop with king-ten offsuit and Mexico’s JC Alvarado woke up in the big blind with pocket queens. Wong failed to hit anything and that was the end of his tournament.
Neel Murthy is another one the most recent casualties and while we missed all of the gory details his tournament too is now over.
Just as we were getting seat draw information and stack sizes Italy’s Dario Sammartino and China’s Canlin Chen get all the chips in pre-flop, though it was Sammartino who pulled the trigger first with Chen making the call.
Dario Sammartino got the last of his chips in with king-nine offsuit and Chen made the call with ace-seven offsuit.
Both players missed the flop by miles meaning Chen’s ace-high was good enough to send Sammartino to the rail.