David Wang was the latest player to enter while Edison Nguyen was eliminated in a showdown with Ka Kwan Lau. Nguyen had gotten the remaining chips in with and Lau had the . Lau flopped a four and rivered an ace for two pair to eliminate Nguyen, but the latter soon after re-entered to fire the optional second bullet.
Players are just allowed to re-enter once should they run out of chips during the first nine levels today.
Kazuhiko Yotsushika flopped top pair, turned two pair and rivered a full house with queen-nine on a board of to score a full double up through Minh Phhuy Nguyen and the latter was down to 3,750 after the showdown. Nguyen raised the pot from early position and Yotsushika three-bet the pot the next hand, which prompted Nguyen to call all in.
Minh Phuc Nguyen:
Kazuhiko Yotsushika:
The board ran out and Nguyen doubled.
On the next hand, Ka Kwan Lau raised the button and Chun Yuan Wang three-bet the big blind to create a pot of 7,800 to the flop of . Wang continued for 2,300 and Lau called before the turn and river were checked through. Wang showed the for aces and sevens, and Lau tapped the table in defeat.
Sylvain Loosli entered a few minutes into level four while a big pot was brewing over on table two. Anson Tsang in the hijack, Shuo Li in the cutoff and Quan Zhou on the button all invested 6,000 each to go three-way to the flop of . Tsang instantly bet the pot for 18,000 and Li folded.
Zhou checked all of his four hole cards and then open-mucked with a smile on the face, causing laughter at the table.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy joined in the break but only got to play his first hand just now as soon as level four kicked off. He shares a table with Oliver Weis and Jan Collado, the latter is among the early big stacks along with Quan Zhou.
There have been no casualties thus far and HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller champion Quan Zhou appears to be the current chip leader along with Jan Collado. The 16 players headed into their first 15-minute break of the day and registration will remain open for another six levels, which equals four hours and breaks.
Ka Kwan Lau raised to 1,000 first to act over on table three and Chun Yuan Wang called on the button, as did Kazuhiko Yotsushika in the big blind. On the flop, the action checked to Lau and he continued for 2,100. Only Wang called before the duo checked the turn.
After the river, Lau made it 4,300 to go and Wang checked his cards twice, studied the board and his opponent, and called. Lau showed for aces and deuces, which was good enough to win the pot and push Lau's stack back to where the Spaniard started with.
Fabian Geisel, Minh Phuc Nguyen and Kenneth Wong all entered towards the end of level three and that boosted the field up to 16 entries, which caused a third table to open.
The already completed board showed and there were 15,150 in the pot and Jan Collado checked in the cutoff. Hok Lee, who had sat down less than half an hour ago, fired hefty 11,000 and Collado gave it some thought before tossing in the call. Lee immediately mucked his cards and dropped to just over half the starting stack.
Soon after, Kazuhiko Yotsushika and Jiwei Deng went at it, but the pot wasn't that big just yet. Both checked the Js6c3dJd] turn and Yotsushika bet the river for 2,700. Deng raised it up to 10,800 and Yotshushika was taken aback, then said he had a jack. "You have a jack?" a surprised Deng said.
Yotshushika gave it another minute and called to get shown by Deng and first showed his face up. He then also revealed for a busted straight draw and mucked the fourth card. "That was a weird check on the turn. I don't know what I would have done if you pot the turn, I am short stacked," Deng said.
Deng moved back to just under starting stack, while Yotsushika dropped a lot of profit from his previous double up.
Wei Zhao defended his big blind against the raise of Anson Tsang and bet the flop for 1,400, which Tsang called in the cutoff. On the turn, Zhao made it 3,500 to go and that won the pot.
One hand later it was Joseph Kushner who checked his option in the big blind with the flop showing . Ka Kwan Lau bet 1,500 and Kushner called before the turn and river went check, check. Kushner flashed for a pair of aces, but Lau had that beat with for a set of threes.
and Lau had the 
. Lau flopped a four and rivered an ace for two pair to eliminate Nguyen, but the latter soon after re-entered to fire the optional second bullet.
to score a full double up through Minh Phhuy Nguyen and the latter was down to 3,750 after the showdown. Nguyen raised the pot from early position and Yotsushika three-bet the pot the next hand, which prompted Nguyen to call all in.
and Nguyen doubled.
turn and 
. Tsang instantly bet the pot for 18,000 and Li folded.
river, Lau made it 4,300 to go and Wang checked his cards twice, studied the board and his opponent, and called. Lau showed 
by Deng and first showed his 
face up. He then also revealed 
for a busted straight draw and mucked the fourth card. "That was a weird check on the turn. I don't know what I would have done if you pot the turn, I am short stacked," Deng said.
flop for 1,400, which Tsang called in the cutoff. On the 
river went check, check. Kushner flashed 
