Mikael Rosen raised to 55,000 from under the gun, with both Diwei Huang and Charles Chua making the call.
They saw a flop of and Rosen led out with a bet of 105,000. Huang made the call before Chua announced a raise to 300,000 in total. Rosen deliberated before declaring he was all in! Huang stepped aside quickly and Chua asked for a count. It was another 338,000 to Chua, and with so much in the pot he thought long and hard before making a big fold with !
Rosen took down the monster pot to jump to over 1.2 million chips!
Tian Chen, sitting in the small blind, was the first player to come into the pot. He open-shoved against Kuok Wai Will Cheong's big blind. Cheong asked for a count (179,000) and then went into the tank, resting his chin on hands that he clasped in front of himself. After about a minute, he folded, allowing Chen to increase his stack to 220,000.
At this point of the tournament, taking down the blinds and antes is worth 51,000. Given that the average stack is about 750,000, that's not an insignificant amount by any stretch of the imagination.
Diwei Huang has been adept at applying maximum pressure to his opponents at today's final table. He raised to 60,000 under the gun and was called only by Mikael Rosen from the big blind, who was the beneficiary of a double-up just a few hands ago.
On a flop of , Rosen checked to Huang, the preflop raiser. Huang followed up his preflop bet with a bet of 60,000. Rosen paused about 30 seconds before reraising to 140,000. Almost before his chips hit the felt, Huang reraised to 330,000 and clamped his hand firmly over his mouth. Rosen, with one fist to his own mouth, looked back and forth from the board to Huang, studying both intently. After about a minute, he folded. Huang showed a jack as he collected the pot.
It didn't take long to find some fireworks after the last break. Mikael Rosen opened a pot with a raise to 55,000. Action folded to Tian Chen in the big blind, who didn't take long before reraising to 255,000. Rosen, who started the hand with about 430,000, shipped the rest of it in. Chen was practically priced in at that point and made the call.
Rosen:
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Rosen was the first player today to show pocket aces in the hole. It was a bad time for Chen to pick up jacks. Neither player improved on a flop of . The turn drew a murmur of excitement from the crowd. Any queen, any jack or any seven would send Rosen to the rail. He survived when the fell on the river.
Twenty-five minutes later, cards are back in the air. We had an extended delay there so that the production crew could film an interview conducted by Erin McNaught with Celina Lin.