Yap and Alvarado Battle
First to act, Jun Wah Yap peeked down at his cards and made it 28,000. Being as it’s JC Alvarado’s big blind we were pretty sure we would get to see a flop as the Mexican does like to defend, and were proved correct when Alvarado made the call to take play heads-up to a flop of 
.
After several seconds thinking it over Alvarado checked the action over to Yap, who quickly led out for 30,000. Alvarado called to keep both players in action and the 
came in on the turn.
This saw Alvarado check again and Yap fire for a slightly more substantial 57,000, which was again called and the dealer peeled off the 
river.
Alvarado checked for a third and final time and Yap quickly pushed out a big stack of blue 5k chips with a couple of yellow 1k chips thrown in for good measure for a bet of 138,000.
“That was the worst river…” grumbled Alvarado and paid a lengthy visit to the think tank. It was so long in fact that a tablemate called the clock and the Mexican eventually folded to drop down to 685,000 leaving Yap to scoop the pot and recoup some of the chips he lost to Leung earlier. Yap climbed to 550,000 after the hand, but the biggest stack at the table and the tournament for that matter belongs to Korea’s Je Ho Lee, who is the current frontrunner with a stack of 1.5 million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,500,000 | |
|
685,000 | |
|
550,000 |