Naoya Kihara opened to 4,600 from middle position. Andrei Kaigorodtcev looked down at his cards from the next seat over and shipped all in for his last roughly 48,000. It folded around to Aaron Lim in the blinds who flat called. Kihara got rid of his cards and the hands were turned over.
Lim:
Kaigorodtcev:
The two were racing going to the flop where the dealer spread out . Kaigorodtcev retained his lead and held it even through the on the turn. The on the river, however, spelled disaster for Kaigorodtcev as he suddenly had the second best hand and was eliminated from play. Lim scooped up his chips and is now sitting on 190,000.
Andrew Moreno opened to 4,000 from UTG+2 and was called by Kevin Petersen in the small blind and Ted Wang in the big blind.
The flop came down and the blinds checked to Moreno who bet 5,000. Both tagged along to see the turn where Petersen checked. Wang bet 6,000 and after a few moments, Moreno raised all in for roughly 33,000. Petersen folded, but Wang called immediately.
Moreno:
Wang:
Moreno was outkicked and found no help from the river.
We caught up to see Xuan Liu and Hoang Anh Do each commit 15,000 before the flop.
The two saw a trio of eights fall on the flop. Do continued with a bet of 15,000 and Liu stuck around. The hit the turn and after about thirty seconds Do announced that he was all in. Liu quickly got rid of her cards and Do took down the pot.
We caught the aftermath of a hand where the completed board read . Masahiro Osada was all in for his tournament life on the river and was called by John Kim. Kim turned up but was ultimately behind Osada's for a set of tens. Kim then shipped over the 53,000 necessary to call the all in and was crippled to about 32,000. Osada, on the other hand, is sitting pretty with around 110,000.
The completed board read and we saw PokerStars Team Online member Naoya Kihara fire out a bet of 26,100. At the other end of the table, Manami Hayamizu pondered her action.
Thirty seconds passed before Hayamizu dropped in a call. Kihara rolled over for top pair and Hayamizu threw here hand at the muck. Kihara scooped up the pot and is now over 260,000 in chips.