With roughly 230,000 in the middle on a ![]()
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completed board, Jake Schindler bet 190,000 in the small blind. Loni Hui faced a decision in early position as the television cameras awaited her move, and she ultimately folded to concede the pot, although she still holds a stack of around 2 million.
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Michael Riddle got his last 115,000 in from the small blind and found a customer in the big blind in John Sascha.
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Riddle was in good shape to double up, and after the board ran out ![]()
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, he would be able to stay in his seat at the table.
However instead of staying to stack his chips, Riddle bolted for the doors, garnering a look of confusion and questions from his tablemates about why he left.
"He went to the bathroom," said one tablemate.
"Yah, he pissed himself with excitement," joked Stevan Chew, to the laughter of the rest of the table.
Wilson Luong opened to 35,000 with his ![]()
before Robert Koellner peaked down at his ![]()
. He jammed for 260,000 from middle position. Koray Aldemir, who had just doubled up, was on the button and was in possession of a pair of aces. He shipped in his stack and Luong wasted little time folding.
Koellner brought in some immediate outs followinig the ![]()
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flop and added some chop outs on the
turn. However, Aldemir made aces up on the
river and added more chips to his growing stack.
The action was caught on the river in a heads-up pot. Imran Bhojani was looking at a board of ![]()
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There was about 400,000 in the pot and Bhojani led from out of position for 700,000, every chip in his stack. His opponent thought for quite some time before making the call.
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for the flush. His opponent was not forced to show his cards, but the table presumed among themselves that he had a straight.
Robert Koellner opened to 35,000 with ![]()
from the cutoff and was called by reigning WSOP Main Event Champion Koray Aldemir and Yao Yin from the blinds.
Aldemir held the ![]()
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flop. Yin bet 75,000 with his ![]()
and Koellner got out of the way. Aldemir called.
Aldemir checked again and Yin immediately moved all in as the covering stack on the
turn. Aldemir, with 415,000 behind, made the call after taking some moments to think over his options.
The
river was safe for the German and brought his stack to over 1,000,000.
With the pot already around 255,000 on an ![]()
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flop, Jeremy Wien checked over to the button, who put in a bet of 85,000. Wien, from the hijack, then put in a raise of 205,000 which had the button sucking through his teeth. After a couple of seconds, he eventually folded.
Wien, who has recently lost half his stack getting all in and holding ![]()
on an eight-high diamond board against ![]()
, with an
hitting, is now back up close to a million.
Ramon Colillas opened to 30,000 on the button and both blinds called.
The trio checked to the river on the ![]()
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board, and the small blind bet 40,000. The big blind folded, and Colillas raised to 180,000, causing his opponent to quickly let go of his hand and concede the pot to the Spaniard.
Albert Hoekendijk was all-in and at risk on the secondary feature table. He had the ![]()
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held by Wilson Luong.
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flop kept the pocket tens in front and the Dutchman picked up the pot.
Shortly after Zilong Zhang doubled up Dan Smith, the two found themselves in another pot on a board of ![]()
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with around 300,000 in the middle. Zhang fired a bet of 215,000 and Smith folded.
"Want to see it?" asked Zhang.
"Sure," Smith replied, prompting Zhang to table ![]()
for a presumed bluff with king-high.