Level: 12
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Level: 12
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
The remaining 18 players are heading into their first 10-minute break of the day.
Hand 1
Erik Seidel open-shoved for his last 94,000 from the button and Phil Ivey called.
Erik Seidel: ![]()
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Phil Ivey: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Seidel doubled with a full house.
Hand 2
Soon after, Ivey raised the button and Peter Chan three-bet to 70,000 out of the small blind. Ivey shoved for 334,000 and Chan carefully checked his stack before folding.
Hand 3
In the last hand before the break, Ivey raised from the cutoff and John Juanda defended the big blind. Juanda ended up check-calling all streets for 20,000 on the ![]()
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flop, for 55,000 on the
turn and another 150,000 on the
river. Ivey flashed ¢Ad,Ac] for top set and Juanda mucked the
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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660,000
250,000
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250,000 |
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580,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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200,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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100,000
170,000
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170,000 |
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Mustapha Kanit arrived for the day in a very colorful shirt, but it didn't bring him any luck. The Italian was never able to spin up the stack and then three-bet shoved for just 88,000 out of the cutoff. Initial raiser Dan Cates, who had raised to 20,000 from under the gun, glanced up to the other side of the table while enjoying a massage, asked for the count.
After being called, Kanit turned over his cards and Cates asked "is that kings?" when he could barely spot the cards. Kanit only had ![]()
though. "Oh, king jack, I am ahead then," Cates added and rolled over his ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Kanit headed to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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955,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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Busted | |
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Sergio Aido raised to 25,000 and Elton Tsang three-bet to 65,000 from one seat over. The action folded back to Aido, and the Spaniard four-bet to 192,000 in order to force a fold.
Over on table one, Wai Kin Yong raised to 25,000 and called the three-bet to Koray Aldemir from one seat over in the cutoff, who made it 51,000 to go. Both players checked down the board of ![]()
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and Yong showed ![]()
for a backdoor straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,380,000
180,000
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180,000 |
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855,000
95,000
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95,000 |
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415,000
15,000
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15,000 |
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310,000
20,000
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20,000 |
Within quick succession, both Phil Ivey and Pratyush Buddiga doubled up over on table three.
Ivey got his stack of 196,000 in preflop in a battle of the blinds with Erik Seidel.
Phil Ivey: ![]()
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Erik Seidel: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Ivey rivered a nine to stay in.
Soon after, Buddiga and Jack Salter were at it preflop, and it was a flip for Buddiga's tournament life and the remaining 279,000 chips.
Pratyush Buddiga: ![]()
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Jack Salter: ![]()
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The flop came ![]()
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and Salter asked for spades. That hope was already destroyed on the
turn, and Salter needed one of the remaining two nines in the deck in order to avoid a setback. It was the
that fell on the river and Salter's stack was halved.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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570,000
70,000
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70,000 |
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410,000
220,000
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220,000 |
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300,000
290,000
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290,000 |
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290,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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Hand 1
Elton Tsang opened to 22,000 from the hijack and Daniel Colman called on the button. The flop came ![]()
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and Tsang checked, Colman bet 24,000 and Tsang called. After the
turn, Tsang repeated the same action with a check-call for 55,000 before checking the
river.
Winfred Yu had arrived to film the action on his phone via Facebook Live, and Mustapha Kanit was doing the commentary. Tsang then faced a bet worth 80,000 by Colman, before check-raising to 250,000. Colman was sent into the think tank and the clock was called. The minute ran down without any action, and Yu joked "show the bluff for the camera" to Tsang.
Tsang obliged and flipped over the
. "Queen is good, right? Ace queen is the nuts there," he added.
Hand 2
Colman raised to 23,000 in the cutoff and Rainer Kempe shoved the small blind for around 120,000. Colman quickly called and put the German at risk, after he had done so a few days ago on the final table of the 6-Max Event as well.
Rainer Kempe: ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Kempe was gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,000,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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950,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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Busted | |
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Koray Aldemir defended his big blind against a raise by Devan Tang and bet small on the ![]()
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turn. Tang raised it up to 100,000 and Aldemir called before the
river completed the board. Aldemir checked and Tang eventually checked behind to get shown ![]()
. The straight was good for Aldemir, who moved back up to 40 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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400,000
115,000
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115,000 |
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375,000
255,000
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255,000 |
Winfred Yu walked over into the tournament area to see what was going on and chatted with Mustapha Kanit. The Italian had just forfeited his big blind to a raise of Wai Kin Yong, and said "I am just chilling. But I need some help, a double." Yu asked who he wanted to double against and Kanit replied "maybe from Wai Kin, and from Jungle (Dan Cates), but not from him," pointing at Yu Liang in one seat over.
"Please translate for him," Kanit said to Yu, who then translated for Liang. What followed was a smile by the Chinese and the next hand saw Yong raise it up to 22,000. Liang three-bet out of the big blind and scooped the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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330,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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330,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
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120,000
223,000
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223,000 |
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Sergio Aido remains the chip leader into the second level of the day, but Daniel Colman is catching up, with Rainer Kempe dropping into the danger zone of less than 20 big blinds.
David Peters opened to 27,000 from the cutoff and Colman called on the button, as did short stack Kempe in the big blind. The trio checked down a board of ![]()
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entirely. Kempe turned over ![]()
for a pair of tens and Peters mucked, Colman had that beat with ![]()
for two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,200,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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1,020,000
220,000
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220,000 |
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600,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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150,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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