Level 16
: 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
The hand started innocuously enough with action folding around to Ehsan Amiri in the small blind, who just completed and Chao Duan checked his option in the big blind.
The flop fell 
and Amiri check-called a 10,000 Duan flop bet to keep the duo in action to the 
turn where the action went check, check.
All the fireworks happened on the 
river - Amiri now led for 55,000 and after some consideration, Duan moved all-in for ~260,000 and Amiri made a speedy call.
Duan, holding 
had rivered two pair, which was rather unfortunate as Amiri had made his straight on the turn with 
and the field is now down to 12 players. Amiri stacked up to 380,000 after the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
380,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
and 80,000 already in the pot in a heads-up hand between Vincent Huang and Honglin Jiang, Huang had checked the action over to Jiang, who fired for 30,000. Huang called and the dealer burned and turned the 
.
. This saw Huang take a stab for a sizable 180,000 and Jiang hit the think tank. Eventually, he dropped in a single green 25k chip to represent the call and the cards were revealed.
for ace-high but was behind to Jiang's 
rivered trips. Huang dropped down to 150,000 after that little misadventure, which Jiang is riding high on 800,000.
resulting in Bownds falling in 14th place.
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, improving Abdine to a flush, resulting in Jiang hitting the rail first on Day 2.
, which brought checks from both players, as did the 
, which was enough to win the pot.
