Earlier in the day, we told everyone that Joseph Cheong had registered in this tournament while waiting for the last remaining heads-up match to finish in the $5,000 Mixed-Max event.
The heads-up match was between Aubin Cazals and Warwick Mirzikinian and eventually Cazals overcame Mirzikinian — after a long nine hours of play. Cheong then left Event 9 to discuss with Cazals and the WSOP Tournament Directors what the plan was going to be for the final match for the bracelet. At this stage, Cheong and Cazals were wondering if he would be able to postpone the match for the bracelet until Tuesday, so he could therefore still take part in Day 2 of this event.
PokerNews Reporter Rich Ryan has given an explanation of how that discussion went down, right here. What we can tell you is that Cheong will have to play the heads-up match at 9:00 AM tomorrow. While this will most likely not give him enough time to finish the heads-up battle before Day 2 of this event starts, it was the only compromise that could be decided on.
It will be very interesting to see if Cheong now goes for boom or bust in this event. We will let you know if he starts getting a bit more active.
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flop and the 
turn. However, the 
spiked on the river, awarding the original short stack player the best hand with a set of deuces. Parker and the late position player were eliminated this hand and Boeree was able to scoop a nice side pot from their eliminations. Boeree is now sitting on around 46,500.
flop.
, but a 
landed on the river forfeiting himself from the shortstack's chips.
and Juanda's opponent checked for a second time. Juanda continued with his aggression, betting 2,450. His opponent peeled one chip at a time off of his stack for a call.
and Juanda's opponent rapped the table once more. Juanda checked behind, allowing his opponent to table 
for a rivered straight. Juanda laughed and shook his head, showing the 
to the table. While this is a slight hit to JJ's stack, he is still sitting pretty with 67,500.
on the turn changed nothing and the 
on the river sealed the deal for Jarvis has he took the double.
for top pair. Bonding was outkicked by his opponent, however, who held 
respectively, making Bonding's opponent's pair of queens with a ten kicker the best hand. Bonding is now down to roughly 17,500.
