Soon after losing a big portion of his stack, Yu Zheng was all-in with Q♠J♠ against the A♥A♠ of Yi Yang.
The K♥5♠3♠ flop and 10♣ turn were a huge sweat for Zheng, but he failed to improve with the 3♦ river to bow out in 38th place.
Huan Wen shoved for his last 107,000 from the cutoff and at was folded to Yunkyu Song, who snap-called from the big blind to put Wen at risk.
Huan Wen: A♠Q♣
Yunkyu Song: J♦J♠
The 5♥2♣8♠ flop changed nothing, but the 4♣ turn gave Wen outs to a wheel in additional to his ace.
It was Wen's lucky day, as the 3♦ river filled his wheel and got a "Aye ya!" from Song, who was forced to surrender a chunk of his stack over to Wen.
With plenty of chips in the middle to the K♣Q♥5♠A♣ turn, Zhanhui Zheng was all-in for 133,000 with A♠K♥ and had turned the superior hand. Yu Zheng had outflopped him with K♦Q♦ only to find himself behind once more and couldn't improve on the 10♠ river to lose a big portion of his stack.
Level: 24
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Pocket kings have been responsible for several knockouts today, and Fangzhou Zhu continued the trend in a recent hand.
Zhu opened from early position and it was folded to Jinhao Xu, who shoved for approximately 200,000 from the small blind. Zhu called and the board was run.
Jinhao Xu: A♣Q♣
Fangzhou Zhu: K♥K♠
The 3♣5♣8♠ flop gave Xu a real sweat with a flush draw in addition to his ace, but the 3♦ turn and 3♥ river bricked out — eliminating Xu from the tournament as pocket kings continue to be a hot hand today.
Calvin Lee jammed for the last 21,000 and Gary Thompson just flat-called, then instantly called all-in when William Jia pushed all-in over the top out of the big blind.
Calvin Lee: A♠K♦
Gary Thompson: Q♠Q♣
William Jia: A♥Q♥
The queens held on a board of 6♦6♣3♠7♣9♠ and Thompson knocked out Lee while doubling through Jia for 138,000.
Jiaming Zhao opened to 18,000 and then called the shove by Chen Shen for 73,000 with the K♣Q♦. It was a classic flip as Shen was the player at risk holding the 5♥5♠.
The 9♥4♥2♦10♣8♠ board failed to provide any paint and Zhao had to fork over a portion of his massive stack.
Kaihua Liu shoved for 125,000 from the hijack and was called by Yunkyu Song in the cutoff. It was then folded to Song Yang, who called all in for around 70,000 from the big blind for a three-way all in.
Song Yang: 3♠3♣
Kaihua Liu: A♦10♥
Yunkyu Song: K♦K♥
"Wow, you like to gamble!" Song said upon seeing Yang's hand.
It was a great spot for Song, and the 2♠6♣9♠7♥6♥ runout came clean for his cowboys to score the double knockout.
A short-stacked Gao Luo put his hopes on the 7♣7♦ via three-bet shove and was up against Xuecong Wu with the A♦3♦. No ace came but three diamonds on the [Jh9d4hKd45d] runout to send the next player to the rail in a frantic opening period.
Pingfeng Wu called the preflop shove by Zhanhui Zheng for 87,000 and was miles ahead with A♣Q♣ versus J♠9♥. The A♠9♣3♣ flop gave both players a pair but Wu also had the nut flush draw to go with his already decent lead.
The 7♠ turn changed nothing but the 9♦ river gave Zheng a miracle escape.
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