After a raise and a call, Shuo Li three-bet to 2,650 in the small blind and Antoine Saout four-bet to 7,000 out of the big blinds. The action folded back to Li, who called. After a flop of , two minutes passed and Saout asked the dealer if his opponent had already made a move, which had not been the case.
After another 30 seconds, Li bet 6,000 and now it was Saout who had to give it some consideration. Eventually, the Frenchman folded and dropped below starting stack, while Li is building his stack well above that.
Koon Siu Dennis Ng and Philipp Gruissem just tangled in a pot that saw the stacks go in after the turn with Gruissem at risk. On the flop of , Gruissem check-raised and was called to see a pot of 10,000 emerge to the turn. Gruissem bet 7,000 and Ng eventually moved all in to receive the call by Gruissem.
Philipp Gruissem:
Koon Siu Dennis Ng:
The on the river was a blank and Gruissem doubled for 26,300 not long after having entered the tournament towards the end of the previous level.
On the heads-up flop of , Daniel Laidlaw faced a bet worth 5,000 by Xia Lin and raised it up to 13,000. Lin wasted little time before moving all in for what looked like 25,000 and Laidlaw quickly called.
Xia Lin:
Daniel Laidlaw:
The turn left Lin drawing dead, making the river a formality. Laidlaw bumped his stack once more, while Ryan Yu next to him is also among the bigger stacks after four levels.
In one of the last hands of the level, a three-way all in emerged and Tim Nicolajsen was the short stack at risk with around 10,000 only, while Dmytro Denysenko and Hua Li were still in the pot. The remaining chips went in after the turn and all three cards were turned over.
Tim Nicolajsen:
Dmytro Denysenko:
Hua Li:
The on the river bricked and Nicolajsen was eliminated, while Denysenko doubled through Li.
Home turf advantage can count for a lot, regardless of the sport and several of the field’s notable Asian players are doing pretty well versus some of the visitors.
For Hong Kong’s Justin Chan, Macau is like a second home, although his opponent in this particular hand – Russia’s Artem Lobus – can also boast some impressive results here.
Chan was the aggressor, opening to 700 from the cutoff, with Lobus making the call from the button to take play heads-up to the monochrome flop, which brought checks from both players.
The turn brought a fourth spade to keep the board all black and Chan checked for a second time. Lobus decided to take a stab and bet out 1,100, which Chan called to bring the action to the river.
Chan checked again and Lobus checked it right back, mucking his cards when Chan turned over to take the pot.
While Bryan Huang is not a Macau native the Singaporean has been playing here so long that he might as well be. Following an early position raise to 700, Huang called from mid position, as did Belarus’ Kiryl Radzivonau from the big blind to take the action three-way.
The flop brought a check from Radzivonau and the original raiser so Huang opted to take control of the hand with a bet of 1,100. Radzivonau made the call and the third player bowed out to take play heads-up to the turn.
That was it for the betting in this particular hand with the action going check, check and repeating on the river.
Radzivonau turned over for a missed open-ender meaning Huang’s was enough to take it down.
A sizeable pot was brewing between Albert Paik and his heads-up opponent. We caught the action on the turn of a board with about 12,000 already in the middle.
With action on Paik, he checked, and his opponent made a bet of 6,200. Paik though for a moment before sliding out a raise worth 15,600.
Wanting to no believe Paik, his opponent decided to find a better spot and submitted his holdings to the muck.
Paik gave his tablemates a wink and stacked his new earned chips.