Steve O'Dwyer raised to 20,000 with the and Winfred Yu called with the , as did Chan Wai Leong with the . The flop was checked through and the appeared on the turn. Again neither player bet and the appeared on the river.
Leong checked and O'Dwyer made it 45,000 to go. That took down the pot uncontested after two folds.
Isaac Haxton raised to 20,000 with the and Stephen Chidwick moved all in for 49,000 with the from two seats over. Haxton called and had Chidwick at risk on the money bubble with the superior hand.
The flop left Chidwick in desperate shape andhe was drawing dead on the turn to make the river a formality. Haxton bumped up his stack to 51 big blinds, just one ante shy of chip leader Winfred Yu, while Cheong Cheok Leng survived the bubble with just five big blinds.
All remaining six players now have HKD$494,000 locked up for their efforts, while Chidwick will be back in action tomorrow in the HKD$1,000,000 Main Event.
Richard Yong opened the action to 20,000 from under-the-gun and the action folded around to Stephen Chidwick on the button, who moved all-in for 163,000.
Yong made a quick call for his tournament life with 113,000 behind and turned over , which was leading Chidwick's .
The kept Yong' nose in front, and while the British pro picked up some additional outs on the turn the river saw Yong double and Chidwick drop a chunk of chips, right on the money bubble. Yong climbed to 248,000 after the hand while Chidwick is now dangerously short with 50,000.
Chip leader Winfred Yu opened the action from the hi-jack with a raise to 20,000 from the cutoff with and action folded around to Isaac Haxton in the big blind.
Haxton peeked down to see and took his time over the decision before re-raising to 75,000.
Yu did not take long to make the fold, but still holds the lead, while Haxton padded out his stack some to climb to 426,000.
Chip leader Steve O'Dwyer open-shoved on the button and Winfred Yu called out of the big blind for 262,500 as second biggest stack on the money bubble.
Winfred Yu:
Steve O'Dwyer:
O'Dwyer had a massive sweat on the board of , but ultimately the better hand preflop held up to let Yu double into the chip lead on the money bubble.
Steve O'Dwyer raised to 20,000 with the and Cheong Cheok Leng called with the . Chan Wai Leong moved all in for just 33,000 with the and O'Dwyer moved all in over the top to force out Leng.
Steve O'Dwyer raised to 16,000 with the and Cheong Cheok Leng moved all in for 93,000 with the . O'Dwyer asked for a count and folded.
Isaac Haxton raised to 17,000 with the and O'Dwyer folded the . Richard Yong called out of the big blind with the and the flop fell . Yong checked and Haxton bet just 9,000, Yong check-raised to 30,000 and Haxton called.
After the turn, Yong checked and a bet of 60,000 by Haxton won the pot.
Isaac Haxton opened the action with a button raise to 18,000 with from the button.
Steve O'Dwyer made a huge all-in shove from the small blind with which effectively shut down any further action and saw both big blind Stephen Chidwick and Haxton make quick folds.
That padded O'Dwyer's stack out some more, and he climbed to 618,000, while Haxton dropped some to 296,000.
In a battle of the blinds, Isaac Haxton limped in with the and Steve O'Dwyer raised to 28,000 with the . Haxton called and the flop fell . Both players checked and Haxton bet the turn for 20,000, forcing a fold.