Bradley Livermore limped into the pot from under the gun plus one. Tobias Giles raised to 1,600 from middle position before Vincent Xu three-bet to 4,000 from the hijack. Robert Campbell then announced he was all in for 28,200. Livermore and Giles quickly folded. Xu asked for a count then called.
Xu:
Campbell:
The board ran out , improving Xu to a higher pair on the flop, resulting in Campbell's pocket kings being cracked sending the 2019 WSOP POY to the rail early in proceedings.
With the community cards spread Andrew Wheldon was all-in with against the of David Bowen. Wheldon wished the table good luck and headed for the exit, while Bowen stacked up to around 46,000.
Tony Kambouroglou is also seated on this table, just to the left of Corey Kempson, and has evidently been a busy bunny over the last few levels and has run his stack up to the giddy heights of 130,000.
Singapore's Lionel Zheng opened the action with an early position raise to 1,100 with Shurane Vijayaram making the call from one seat over and button Lirui Zhang and both blinds making the call to take action five way to a flop of .
This was checked around and the peeled off on the turn, bringing in a bet of 2,600 from Vijayaram. Zhang flat called the button, the player in the small blind called as did the big blind before Zheng check-raised to 10,600.
Vijayaram gave Zheng a grilling and after a minute or so in the tank, he opted to fold, telling PokerNews after the hand he had . Action was back on Zhang who made the call and both blinds bowed out.
The river saw Zheng pull the trigger and move all-in with Zheng asking if he had ace-king, before Hollywood tanking and making the call with for a set, which was good. Zheng showed and mucked to drop to 37,000 while Zhang climbed to 61,000.
Alex Lee has had quite the 2019 so far when it comes to poker and has already amassed live winnings of US$278,209 for the calendar year making it the most successful of his poker career to date.
We caught Singapore's most handsome player in a hand against tablemate Sherif Reyad with the board reading and close to 6,000 in the pot.
Lee checked from the blinds, and Reyad took down the pot with a bet of 3,000 to climb to 31,000, while Lee dropped to 55,000.