On the river of a board , Kazuhiko Yotsushika bet 7,000 for the size of the pot and Oliver Weis reraised the pot, giving his opponent from Japan the option to call all in or fold with less than half the starting stack behind. Yotsushika called and showed [AsQdJc6h for jacks and sixes, then sighed with a big relief when Weis only showed for the worse hand and a busted flush draw.
That hand cut Weis' stack into half while Yotsushika moved back above starting stack after a mediocre start into Day 1.
Shuo Li was on the final table of the HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller last night and finished 7th for HK$620,000. He was sharing the same table as eventual champion Quan Zhou for quite some time throughout the late stages of the tournament and the Chinese just signed up for the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller event.
And wouldn't you know, Li sat down directly next to Zhou as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.