The numbers are in and the HK$206,000 Single Re-entry has attracted 62 entries, which include 12 re-entries to balloon the prize pool to an impressive HK$12,152,000 (~US$1,563,900).
The top eight places will be getting paid with first place awarding a whopping HK$3,645,000 (~US$469,090) in prize money. You can see how the rest of the field pays out under the payout tab at the top of the page.
Xuming Qi raised to 18,000 from early position and Zuo Wang moved all in for 103,000 from two seats over. The rest of the table folded and the action was back on Qi, who called all in for slightly less.
Xuming Qi:
Zuo Wang:
The flop of and the turn were a huge sweat for Qi, but ultimately he failed to get there on a blank river to join the rail.
David Peters raised to 18,000 and short stack Sam Greenwood moved all in for around 100,000 from the small blind, which Peters called.
Sam Greenwood:
David Peters:
The board ran out and the final community card sent Greenwood to the rail. He left a fruit at the table and came back one minute later to grab it for some run good in the Main Event.
David Peters was the aggressor in this particular hand, opening the action from early position with a raise to 18,000. Action folded around to Oliver Price on the button who made the call prompting Peters to ask the Brit how much he was playing – a little over 320,000.
The flop looked to be a good one for a man raising from early postion and Peters fired out a 22,000 continuation bet, which after some deliberation Price called.
The turn brought a second barrel from Peters, this one a slightly larger 55,000 and Price called once more to bring play to the river, completing a possible heart flush.
The clock ticked down to 2 seconds before Peters settled on his bet size and pushed out a towering stack of yellow 5k chips for a third barrel totalling 110,000. Third time’s the charm as they say, and that was enough to get Price to give it up.
Artem Metalidi is back on track and above average after winning a flip for his tournament life. The Ukrainian was all in and at risk with the and Sam Greenwood looked him up with the .
After a board of , Greenwood failed to improve and dropped back to less than 20 big blinds.
Georgios Zisimopoulos, Kahle Burns and Sergio Aido have been eliminated in quick succession to reduce the field to the last 21. Aido three-bet shoved with ace-king and found a caller in Quan Zhou, who held . The board came and Aido was left drawing dead after the turn.
Action folded around to Daniel Dvoress on the button and he popped it up to 16,000. Chip leader Mikita Badziakouski was the player in the big blind and with chips to spare he made the call to take play heads-up to the flop.
Badziakouski thought about betting, looked like betting and then… checked. Dvoress checked it back and the turn came down . Badziakouski checked once more and Dvoress decided to take a stab for 15,000.
Badziakouski counted out chips for a raise but thought better of it and threw in the call and the hit the river.
This brought another check from Badziakouski and Dvoress pushed out a bet of 24,000, which was quickly called. Dvoress turned over for the rivered backdoor diamond flush and Badziakouski let out a deep sigh before throwing his hand away.
Louis Salter busted before the break, as did Juicy Li and while we missed their exit hands neither player chose to re-enter.
Shuo Li got his last 133,000 in via three-bet shove and initial raiser Rafael Moraes looked him up with the . Li was ahead with the and the board ran out .