Greenwood Busts Yu, Yu Doubles Through Trickett
There is now only one Yu left in the field with the departure of Liang Yu at the hands of Lucas Greenwood. It was a battle of the blinds that saw Yu’s tournament come to a close when action folded around to Greenwood in the small blind, who put the short-stacked Yu all-in pre-flop.
While he thought over his decision long and hard Yu elected to make the call for his tournament life and the cards were turned over.
Liang Yu: 
Lucas Greenwood: 
Yu gave a wry chuckle when Greenwood turned his hand over and he saw he was leading but unfortunately for the Chinese player, despite flopping a flush draw to go with his ace-high on the 
flop the rest of the board ran out 
and 
respectively to give Greenwood top pair and he climbed to 100,000 while Yu headed for the rail.
The field’s sole remaining Yu – Winfred Yu – managed to bag himself a double shortly afterward after moving all in from the small blind with 
with Sam Trickett making the call from the big blind with 
.
The board 
to grant Yu the double and he climbed to 49,600 while Trickett dropped to 32,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | 30,000 |
|
49,600 | 20,600 |
|
32,000 | -33,000 |
|
Busted |
from the button and Gipson calling with 
from the big blind.
and Loeser woke up in the small blind with 
, which held to see Loeser climb to 121,000 while Peters headed for the exit.
and Wu was mulling over his options as we arrived. Eventually, the US player elected to check it over to Cheong, who tanked for quite some time before checking it back.
with Gabe Patgorski making the call from the big blind with 
hit the window, with the rest of the board running out 
with Hao making the call from the big blind with 
.
and O’Dywer headed for the rail while Hao stacked up to 245,000. While this is a chunky stack it is not the largest and it appears that Gabe Patgorski has taken some chips off Fedor Holz with the US player further extending his lead to what looks to be roughly 335,000 while Holz is sitting on around 135,000. 
.
.
completed the hand.
for a flopped top pair and a rivered diamond flush.
landed on the turn, prompting Yu to pull the trigger for his remaining chips. 
river, Yu headed for the exit while Hao stacked up to 320,000 and seized the chip lead.
against the 
