The next table has opened and is actually full-ring for the time being. Action popped off right away with a large pot developing between ryan0504 and kmaki17 when they checked down the 9♦6♠5♣4♥10♦ river eventually. kmaki17 showed the 7♣7♥ for a pair of sevens and missed straight draw, which ryan0504 had beat with the Q♠9♣ for flopped top pair.
Mid-way through the third level of the day, the tournament screens show more than 60 entries and there have been four eliminations so far which includes the same player bowing out on two occasions already. There is no run-away chip leader but several contenders have already doubled their tally.
On a flop of Q♠J♥7♠, cotton bet 1,700 in the small blind and ritsuki called on the button. The same action repeated on the 7♦ turn for 3,000 and cotton then checked the K♣ on the river. ritsuki now bet 27,000 to cover his opponent and cotton tank-folded.
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Level: 3
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
On the heads-up turn of K♥Q♥2♠A♣ with some 12,000 in the middle, sato-shi bet 7,500 and kiwi1027 check-called. They checked the 4♥ on the river with a possible flush draw got there and kiwi1027 tabled the A♦J♦ for turned top pair. sato-shi had that beat with the K♣Q♠ to win the next healthy pot.
With bets of 5,500 and 2,700 respectively already pulled into the middle, the board showed 10♥9♥6♦Q♦9♦. tw was in the small blind and fired a rather large bet of 17,000, which only needed to get through quon. His opponent tanked for two minutes and then called, but couldn't beat the A♦10♠ of tw.
On the tail end of a J♠3♥2♣A♣A♦ board, iso paid off a bet worth 6,000 by ibukig and was shown the A♠8♠ for trips aces to lose nearly one third of her starting stack in the progress. This happened on yet another new table as the field now reached more than 50 entries in level two.
dada1989 was knocked out and there was another casualty on the feature stage table with sato-shi earning most of those chips by the looks of it.
irom has lost some of his early profit and couldn't get shoji84 to fold when he bet the Q♣J♥7♣K♠Q♥ river for 1,600. shoji84 called with the A♣9♥ and caught his opponent bluffing with the 9♣3♦.
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