Travis Rawlins had been paid off for 1,800 not long ago when his flush with found a customer. The opponent had rivered an ace and mucked the after the showdown only to disappear right now, sending his stack over to the player in seat nine.
Rawlins is off to a decent start with a stack of 17,000 chips, he faces Darryll Fish as notable on the very same table.
Malaysian Victor Chong joined one other player in calling a preflop raise, then checked the flop.
The original raiser led for 800, the other caller raised it up to 2,400 and Chong jammed in for 8,800 more. The original raiser folded, later claiming two aces, but the third player in the hand tank-called with the .
Chong calmly turned over for the flopped set, and after the turn, made quads on the river to lock up the hand and rise up near the top of the early chip leader board.
It is not the Aussie Millions of Rory Young yet. He played the opening event a few times but crashed out rather early. Today has been no different, after he just bluffed off his stack against table neighbor Jez Menzel. After having doubled another player, Young put his hopes on and shoved the river after Menzel had checked to him.
The latter however made the call with and Young rushed out of the tournament area.
Xuan Liu is also on her fourth attempt, but thus far it looks better with a stack of around 15,000 chips.
The third level is not even completed yet and seemingly more than one dozen players have already been eliminated in the Exhibition Hall. One participant to have benefited from that is Karam Bahi, who knocked out an opponent a few meters away from the media desk to more than double his stack.
There are quite a few women in today's field and Kitty Kuo just knocked out one of them. On the heads-up flop of , the opponent of the Taiwanese check-raised from 700 to 1,400 and Kuo called. On the turn, Kuo called a bet of 2,000 and then shoved all in when the fell on the river and her opponent had checked.
The shove was called and Kuo flashed for a set of jacks, her opponent mucked the for a lower set. Next to Kuo is another familiar face from previous flights in Arunas Sapitavicius.
Xuan Liu faced a raise to 500 and a call, squeezing to 1,600 and picking up one caller. On the flop , her opponent bet 2,500 and Liu called before the on the turn was checked through. A appeared on the river and the opponent of Liu moved all in with pocket tens, the Canadian called with for a higher full house.
In a confrontation button versus small blind, Carlos Lai flopped trips jacks on the flop and his opponent got the stack in with for the nut flush draw. Lai looked him up with and locked up the hand on the turn already. The meaningless river was a blank and the Aussie soared to the top of the early leader board.
Malaysia's Ron Tan raised it to 800 under the gun plus one and got one caller before a short stack behind three-bet shoved for 1,300.
It folded to the small blind and he bumped it to 3,600 total. The big blind folded and it came back to Tan, who promptly five bet, raising it up 5,500 more.
The caller mucked and the small blind tanked for a good three minutes before the all-in player called the clock. The small blind dumped his hand before the countdown and claimed queens as Tan showed the .
The all-in shorty held but was done in by Tan's kings on an board.