Ryan Yu moved all in for his last 23,500 and JC Alvarado did so from one seat over for 28,000. Ben Lai called and the rest of the table folded. While the trio turned over their cards, Yu said "I like my hand right now." after finding himself with two live cards.
Ryan Yu:
Dario Sammartino:
Ben Lai:
The flop came and Yu picked up an open-ended straight draw, which got there with the turn. Sammartino had a flush draw, but the river was a blank. Yu tripled up and Lai won the small side pot to eliminate Alvarado.
Raghav Bansal had built his stack further since the last break and just now had Van Sang Nguyen at risk with versus . Nguyen however spiked the on the flop and doubled to around starting stack.
One of the first hands back after the break saw Belarusian Mikita Badziakouski earn a double-up at the expense of Bulgaria’s Viliyan Petleshkov. Action folded around to Petleshkov in the small blind and he glanced over at Badziakouski’s stacks, which was around 42,000, and moved all-in.
Badziakouski beat him into the pot and the cards were turned over.
Mikita Badziakouski:
Viliyan Petleshkov:
It was left to a good old-fashioned race to decide Badziakouski’s fate and his snowmen held when the board ran out .
The pocket jacks of JC Alvarado were already in the muck, with a board showing , the Mexican had to pay off the 38,800 of Dario Sammartino who held .
According to Morten Mortensen, Alvarado had three-bet out of the blinds and then bet the flop before both players checked the turn. Alvarado then pushed on the river and Sammartino called with top pair.
Live Satellite winner Neel Murthy continued to thrive in the last hand of the level and just took a big pot off Masaya Nakagawa. Preflop, Murthy raised to 4,500 and Nakagawa three-bet to 11,500 in the cutoff. On the flop, Murthy check-raised to 35,000 and Nakagawa called before the appeared on the turn.
Murthy bet 55,000 and Nakagawa used one time bank chip before calling. The appeared on the river and Murthy announced all in. Nakagawa used his last time bank chip and eventually folded with five seconds remaining.
A blind on blind battle just occurred between Yang Zhang and Masaya Nakagawa saw the former get a little unlucky, at least when it comes to running a good hand into a great one.
Zhang got all his chips in pre-flop from the small blind with only to see big blind Nakagawa wake up with . There was no help for Zhang on the flop, turn or river and he took a big hit, dropping down to a measly 19,000 and was eliminated shortly afterward while Nakagawa stacked up to 214,000. Another player who has recently hit the rail is Davidi Kitai.
We caught a hand between Sergey Lebedev and Georgios Zisimopoulos with the former walking away a winner. Pre-flop it was Lebedev who opened the action with a raise to 5,500 from the cutoff and Zisimopoulis chose to defend from the big blind.
Lebadev c-bet 4,500 on the flop and Zisimopoulos checked-called keeping the action heads-up to the turn.
This saw Zisimopoulos try to take control of the hand with a bet of 7,200 but Lebedev was not a believer and made the call quickly.
The river saw both players check and while Zisimopoulos turned over this was not enough to best Lebedev’s and the Russian player scooped the pot to climb to 270,000.
A total of 180 entries have generated a prize pool of HK$17,460,000 (~$2,248,160) and the top 27 spots will receive a return on their investment. The minimum cash is worth HK$175,000 (~22,750) and the winner can look forward to a payday of HK$3,870,000 (~503,100).
and Yu picked up an open-ended straight draw, which got there with the 
turn. Sammartino had a flush draw, but the 
river was a blank. Yu tripled up and Lai won the small side pot to eliminate Alvarado.
versus 
on the flop and doubled to around starting stack.
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flop, Murthy check-raised to 35,000 and Nakagawa called before the 
appeared on the river and Murthy announced all in. Nakagawa used his last time bank chip and eventually folded with five seconds remaining.
only to see big blind Nakagawa wake up with 
turn.
