APPT Main Event ($1,650)

UTG min raises and gets called by HJ Sven Mcdermott and Hu Jinlong in the big blind. The flop 7♥ 3♣ Q♠ gets checked to Sven Mcdermott, making it 50,000, Hu Jinlong check-raises to 150,000 with Sven Mcdermott calling, eliminating the initial raiser in the process. The turn 9♥ has Hu check-folding to a 150,000 bet from Mcdermott.

Noyan Slamiya jams his remaining 120,000 with A♦ A♥ and gets called by Hu Jinlong with A♠ 6♠ . With 3♣ 9♠ 2♠ K♥ 7♠ Hu hits a flush and sends Noyan Slamiya packing.

Jinlong Hu opens 40,000 from the button and calls Michael Falcons BB jam for all his chips.

Picking up the action on 2♠ 8♦ 8♥ J♠ and 150,000 in the middle, Jinlong Hu check raises to 150,000 against Agharazi Babayev's 65,000, who decides to call, flicking a time bank in the dealers direction, and then leading 150,000 of his own on the 7♣ river. Hu decides to let it go and is among the short stacks again.

Min-raise and a call from UTG Jinlong Hu and SB Noyan Slamiya gives us the flop 8♠ 5♥ 9♠ , with Slamiya donk-shoving 220,000 into Hu's shorter stack that goes in the middle as well. Two blanks keep Jinlong Hu's top set in the lead.

Opening 40,000 in +1 and then calling Michael Falcons 220,000 shove from CO, Hu Jinlong needs to hit with K♠ Q♣ against Falcon's 4♦ 4♥ . He does so when the dealer tables 4♠ T♥ Q♠ 5♦ 4♣ , but still loses against quads.

With 23 fighters left the top spots go to:

SB Hu Jinlong needs a time bank before calling Nevan Chang's 95,000 all-in from the button.

Playing hand for hand, Hu Jinlong likes A♠ J♦ enough to put his remaining 109,000 in the middle for a show down with Lee Sunghak from CO and A♣ K♦ . The poker gods answer Hu Jinlong's prayers and channel the board T♣ 3♣ 3♥ J♠ 4♣ for a double up and another hand on the bubble.

In what initially started with five players interested to see a flop, a preflop betting war between China’s Hu Jinlong in the HJ and then BB of Jeremy Jehanne from France made it heads up to the flop.

That flop is 6♠ 6♥ 8♦ as suddenly after a heated preflop exchange, both players check. The turn is the 8♠ . Again, Hu and Jehanne don’t pull the trigger. The river is the Q♠ . Hu unloads a 15,500 bet. Jehanne goes into the tank but eventually folds.

With the win, Hu inches closes to the 90,000 chip mark.