On the three-way turn of 
, Michael Falcon in the small blind bet 2,000 and picked up one call by Jiani Wu in the big blind, while Seung Soo Jeon folded on the button. The 
appeared on the river to pair the board and Falcon was quick to move all in for around 11,000.
Wu folded and the Dane raked in the pot to recover earlier losses.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
19,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Several new faces showed up including Linh Tran, Victor Chong, Shengyu Li and Kota Miyakita, who all took part in the High Roller tournament. Bach Hoang Nguyen played on Day 1a of the Main Event and busted, but he is back for more and started pretty well thus far.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
35,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
33,000 | |
|
31,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
12,400 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
We have discovered how Shravan Chhabria made the majority of his chips with one of the protagonists in the hand in question, Chris Morrison, stopping by the press desk to tell us all the gory details.
While Mr. Morrison did not furnish us with the pre-flop raise details he did tell us that a three-way pot developed on an all spade flop with all three players, Chhabria, Morrison and another unlucky opponent had all flopped the flush.
There was heavy betting all the way through the hand but all the chips did not go in until the river with a player holding the queen-high flush moving all-in for the last of his chips, Chhabria re-raised with the nut flush, and after thinking it over Morrison folded his jack-high flush.
Chhabria now has a stack of close to 70,000 and Morrison has 26,000 after finding the fold on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
26,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
It was Korea’s SJ Kim kicking off the action in this particular hand, making it 350 to go and received zero respect for his early position raise.
Sam Polishetty and Eugene Khoo made the call from middle position and the hi-jack respectively, pricing in big blind Jun Obara.
Both Obara and Kim checked the 
flop over to Polishetty, who took a stab for 1,000 and was promptly called by Obara, Kim folded and Polishetty called to take the action three-way to the 
turn.
This time it was Obara and Polishetty who checked the action over to Khoo in the hi-jack, and he fired for 3,500 with both Obara and Polishetty making the call.
The 
river saw all three players check and first to show was Obara, who turned over 
for a turned two pair. Polishetty mucked but Khoo turned over 
to take the pot, climbing to 45,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Japan’s Kuniyoshi Imazu opened the action with a raise to 350 from early position with Korea’s Seung Soo Jeon the only caller in the small blind.
Following a Jeon check, Imazu continuation bet the 
flop for 525 and was called to keep the action heads-up to the turn, which both players checked.
The 
river saw Jeon lead out for 925 and Imazu quickly folded, dropping down to 27,000 while Jeon had around 32,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
|
27,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Andre Peters raised to 300 and Ayhan Agdas called from one seat over with the words "call no matter what," to which Peter Plater replied "challenge accepted." Ngoc Pham called as well before John Riad three-bet to 900, picking up calls from all previous players.
On the 
flop, all players checked. Agdas bet 2,200 on the 
turn and Pham raised to 6,200, which only Agdas called. The river was checked and Riad immediately said "full house" over to Agdas. Indeed, that was shown as Agdas flipped over for sevens full and Pham mucked. "Nice check back," Agdas said over to Pham and claimed the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
29,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
22,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
The dealer over on table four announced a seat open just before the blinds went up and Maxim Sorokin was kind enough to provide the details of what happened. According to Sorokin, a limped pot that involved Mark Gruendemann on the button and Frederic Hernandez in the big blind led to a king-high all diamond flop and Hernandez bet 200, which Gruendemann called.
After a blank on the turn, Hernandez check-raised from 600 to 3,000 and Gruendemann called before a fourth diamond hit on the river. Hernandez made it 6,000 to go and Gruendemann moved all in, which Hernandez called with the 
for the nut flush. Gruendemann only had the 
for the second nut flush and was the first player to bust on Day 1b
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Haoyu Wang opened the action with a raise to 300 with Kunal Patni making the call from the button and both blinds coming along for the ride.
Small blind Anacleto Quijano checked the 
flop, as did the big blind and Wang, seemingly undeterred at picking up three customers, fired for 450 with both Patni and Quijano making the call, while the big blind bowed out.
The 
turn saw Quijano check and Wang fire a second barrel of 1,500, wand while this was enough to get Patni to give it up Quijano made the call to take play heads-up to the river.
This brought a third check from Quijano and 2,500 third barrel from Wang, which was enough to take down the hand and Wang climbed to over 35,000.
Another player that looks to have been busy in India’s Shravan Chhabria, who we have seen scooping several pots every time we pass his table but have yet to catch in the thick of the action. Chhabria has run his initial 30,000 starting stack up to roughly 60,000 already making him one of the early front runners.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | |
|
35,000 | |
|
|
25,000 |
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