With just 2,500 in the middle and three checks on the turn, Jun Obara moved all in for his remaining 7,000 after the river and both of his opponents folded. Obara, who was an early big stack, grabbed the pot but remains with fewer than one third of the starting stack.
Two tables over, Jinyon Park used his big stack to raise the turn. The big blind had bet 3,000 and Park simply tossed in several yellow T-5,000 chips to force a fold.
Kunal Patni was eliminated for the second time and entered soon after while fellow Indian player Rajeev Kanjani lost a big chunk of his stack, 17,900 to be exact, when an opponent made top set with on a board of .
Last but not least, Sameer Rattonsey put his hopes on for the nut flush draw on the flop. He was called by Chien Huu Nguyen with and the turn and river were blanks.
Sam Nee was in a satellite until a few minutes ago and just entered the tournament area with a Main Event tickets in his name. Vijay Narula did so as well, having busted his second bullet for Day 1b only a few minutes into the new level, and the tables 19 and 20 opened to accomodate the growing field.
An interesting hand played out between Freddy Kwek Wei and Zhining Chen and we picked up the action pre-flop. Wei (small blind) had a 2,000 bet out on the felt in front of him and was facing a re-raise of 6,500 in total from Chen, who was sitting under-the-gun plus one.
Wei thought for a minute and slid in the call and the flop fell a monochrome , which brought checks from both players and the hit the turn.
Wei now led for 7,200 and after thinking things over Chen made the call and the river completed the hand, but not the betting, with Wei tanking for around a minute before moving all-in for slightly over 20,000.
It was Chen’s turn to tank as, with 21,500 behind, this represented a big call for the majority of his chips. Eventually after three minutes or so Chen open-folded to gasps from the rest of the table. Wei did not show and quietly scooped the pot.
Both Georges Georgiou and Rajeev Kanjani chipped up without showdown. The former bet half pot for 5,500 on a flop of to force a fold while Georgiou had already made it to the turn of a board . There were around 9,000 in the middle and the small blind checked, while Georgiou bet 7,000.
That was enough to win the pot and Georgiou claimed the chips without having to show his cards.
Mark Gruendemann entered again and lost some chips while Vijay Narula was eliminated and entered again with a fresh stack. Table 17 opened and players were moved there, among them were Peter Plater and Yo Seb Rhee.
India’s Keshav Chadha opened the action with a raise to 550 from under-the-gun with neighbour Gay Peng Tan making the call. Action folded around to Kai Loon Ang, sitting in the cutoff, who decided to play his position aggressively and re-raised to 2,600 in total.
While this was enough to get Chadha to bow out Tan was going nowhere and he threw in a quick call to take play heads-up to a flop of .
Tan check-called Ang’s 3,200 continuation bet and both players checked the turn. The river completed a possible club flush and saw Tan check for a third time and Ang decided to take a stab at the pot for 6,100.
“Snap call!” said Tan while snap calling and a sheepish Ang turned over for ace-high meaning Tan’s were good enough to take down the pot.
“You should never try to bluff a fish,” Tan needled Ang as he stacked up his newly won chips, though Ang still has plenty in his stack.
A short-stacked Vijay Narula got the last of his chips in pre-flop against Gay Peng Tan and scored a timely double-up.
Vijay Narula:
Gay Peng Tan:
The window card saw Narula take a lead in the hand that he would not relinquish with the rest of the board running out to bring Narula up to just over 9,000 while Tan dropped to 24,700.
Hilario Lagnada was the next casualty of Day 1c while Jun Obara almost doubled up his starting stack. Iori Yogo had not participated in any of the events during the festival in the Grand Ballroom at the City of Dreams complex yet, but the Japanese just walked in with a ticket in the hand and sat down for bullet number one.
turn, Jun Obara moved all in for his remaining 7,000 after the 
river and both of his opponents folded. Obara, who was an early big stack, grabbed the pot but remains with fewer than one third of the starting stack.
turn. The big blind had bet 3,000 and Park simply tossed in several yellow T-5,000 chips to force a fold.
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for the nut flush draw on the 
flop. He was called by Chien Huu Nguyen with 
and the 
river were blanks.
, which brought checks from both players and the 
river completed the hand, but not the betting, with Wei tanking for around a minute before moving all-in for slightly over 20,000.
to gasps from the rest of the table. Wei did not show and quietly scooped the pot.
to force a fold while Georgiou had already made it to the turn of a board 
. There were around 9,000 in the middle and the small blind checked, while Georgiou bet 7,000.
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to bring Narula up to just over 9,000 while Tan dropped to 24,700.
