APPT Main Event ($1,650)

The action opens from UTG with China’s Xu Jijun raising to 1,800 and gets a call from Patrick Selin of Sweden on the BB.

The flop is 9♦ 8♥ T♦ as Selin checks. Xu continues for 1,500 and is greeted with a check-raise shove from his opponent 36,600. Xu makes the call.

Selin shows Q♦ Q♠ for an over apir to the board while Xu flips over J♦ J♣, also for an over pair but also an open-ended straight draw,

The turn is the 5♠ and the river is the 5♦ to have the Swede’s Queens hold and have him obtain a much needed double up. Selin once again nears the 80,000 chip mark.

China’s Xu Jijun and George Cuc of Spain find themselves all in with the latter’s tournament life on the line.

Xu shows Q♥ Q♣ while Cuc has J♦ J♣. The runout was clean for Xu: 3♣ K♣ 8♠ 4♦ A♦ as Cuc hits the rail and Xu’s stack near the 80,000 mark.

China’s Xu Jijun and Jun Mitani of Japan battle in an all-in preflop situation with the runout going: 2♦ 7♥ 9♠ 3♥ 4♣ .

Xu turns over 4♥ 5♥ for a pair of fours and Mitani initially mucks his hand but then recovers his hand and then flips it over to reveal A♣ 7♣ for what would have been a pair of sevens. He thought he had lost. However, since the Japanese player threw his hand in the muck, it is considered dead and Xu eliminates him. Mitani appealed his fate but it was denied.