APPT Main Event ($1,650)

Three players in a limped pot battle on a flop 4♦ 3♣ T♣ . Big blind Sergius Santos kicks it off for 1200, hijack Manwoo Park calls, cutoff Dmitry Suchkov raises 7000, Santos calls and Park opts to leave them to it. On the turn J♦ Santos leads out again betting 3700, this time Suchkov just calls, and the river A♦ completes the board. Santos fires a third time though a light 3000 only, Suchkov calls then mucks to T♠ 9♥ two pair.

Action packed preflop opens with a 600 raise by cutoff Shaun Harmer, small blind Quan Qiu bumps it up to 2000, big blind Dmitry Suchkov four-bets 5000 losing Harmer while Qiu calls. On the flop 2♣ T♥ 4♦ , Suchkov lays out 3000, Qiu check-calls for the turn 3♥ . Suchkov wastes no time counting and shoves, Qiu surrenders his hand.

With the river 8♠ , Simakin's cowboys do the job and clean out Suchkov.

Action begins with a raise from UTG by Aleksandr Simakin for 2,000. He gets four callers in fellow Russian Dmitry Suchkov in the +1, Japan’s Jun Mitani in the HJ, and a pair of Chinese players in the CO’s Qiu Weiren and Li Shaoshuai in the BB.

They all see the flop of 3♠ 6♦ 2♥ as Li and Simakin check. Suchkov leads out for 3,500 and gets calls from Mitani and Qiu. Li then check-raises to 11,000 forcing the original raiser and the flop aggressor out of the hand. Mitani and Qiu, however, makes the calls. The turn is the 6♣ and now Li goes all-in. Mitani calls all-in as Qiu folds.

Li shows 3♣ 3♦ for a set on the flop and a full house on the turn. Mitani reveals 4♣ 4♥ for a gutshot on the flop and now reduced to two outs to stay in the tournament.

The river card is the Q♣ sending the player from Japan to the rail and bringing Li’s stack over the 100,000 mark.

Nikolai Zhivoderov raises from UTG to 1,200 and gets re-raised by fellow Russian player Dmitry Suchkov to 4,200. Xu Zinan of China opts to call from the BB while the initial raiser Zhivoderov opts to fold.

The flop is 9♣ 6♠ 7♥ as Xu checks. Suchkov bets 5,000 and that is greeted with a check-raise by Chinese player to 20,000. Suchkov 3-bets to 35,000 effectively putting Xu all-in. Xu calls his remaining 25,100.

Suchkov flips over A♠ A♣ while a disappointed Xu shows J♦ J♣ .

The board was completed by the K♠ and the 2♥ . Xu is out, but there is still plenty of time to re-enter.