Day 1C
Raise And C-Bet For An Easy Pot To Jun Beum Chun

Raising 1600, Jun Beum Chun and the blinds see a flop J♥ 5♦ 9♦ , Chun c-bets 1800 and wins the light pot.
Player | Chips |
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LK Luke Keay | 60,000(75 BB) |
RN Rindra Norodom | 40,000(50 BB) |
JB Jun Beum Chun | 16,300(20 BB) |
Rindra Norodom Shows The Winner

On a board running Q♥ 7♦ A♣ 5♦ Q♠ , Rindra Norodom bets every street for 1000, 2400, and 3000, and big blind Luke Keay check-calls to keep him honest. Norodom isn't bluffing and shows Q♦ 9♦ trips, Keay shows his K♠ T♠ hole cards.
Top Stacks At The New Level
Player | Chips |
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KF Kosei Fujiwara | 89,400(179 BB) |
JX Jijun Xu | 84,000(168 BB) |
YY Yu Yan | 77,500(155 BB) |
LK Luke Keay | 77,200(154 BB) |
AV Artem Vezhenkov | 73,200(146 BB) |
KK Khamid Khudayberganov | 70,000(140 BB) |
SS Somasekhar Sanampuri | 67,500(135 BB) |
ER Erik Rozhynskyi | 65,200(130 BB) |
YX Yinfei Xiao | 57,000(114 BB) |
CL Curtis Lim Siew Jian | 55,700(111 BB) |
AG Asish Ghosh | 53,500(107 BB) |
OS Oliver Schulze | 52,400(105 BB) |
YY Yadi Yao | 52,000(104 BB) |
SR Supanat Rojsukthavorn | 51,700(103 BB) |
WK Woojin Kim | 51,300(103 BB) |
BM Bien Mai | 46,200(92 BB) |
AV Anzhela Vasylenko | 43,300(87 BB) |
GC George Cuc | 40,500(81 BB) |
EB Eric Bennici | 39,000(78 BB) |
KK Kim Kunwoo | 38,000(76 BB) |
QQ Quan Qiu | 37,200(74 BB) |
Grigorian's Ladies Burned By The River

Heavy preflop action built a pot of 8400 before the flop ran 9♣ T♥ 4♣ . The battle continued with Luke Keay betting 2000, Arsen Grigorian raised 6500, Keay three-bet 17,000, Grigorian four-bet jammed for a total of 36,500. Keay has more behind and calls.
Player | Hand | Chips |
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Q♦Q♣ D | busted | |
LK Luke Keay | A♠9♠ MP | 88,900(296 BB) |
Grigorian is way ahead and stays that way on the turn 4♠ however with the river 9♦ , Keay improves and burns down the ladies.
Coolers abound: Keay two-pair walks into Vezhenkov’s set

American Luke Oliver Keay opens from the D for 700 and gets 3-bet on the BB Russia’s Artem Vezhenkov for 2,500. Keay makes the call.
The flop is 3♠ T♣ 8♦ as Vezhenkov continues for 4,600. Keay raises it to 7,000 and the Russian opts to call. The turn is the A♥ as Vezhenkov fires again, this time for 6,000. Once again, Keay raises it, now to 18,000. Vezhenkov once again calls. The river is the 6♥ as now Vezhenkov checks. Keay moves all-in and Vezhenkov puts his remaining 15,500 in the middle for the call.
Keay shows A♣ T♥ for two pairs on the turn while Vezhenkov turns over A♠ A♦ for top set on the turn. The cooler now brings Vezhenkov’s stack close to the 90,000 mark.
Player | Chips |
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AV Artem Vezhenkov | 86,400(288 BB) |
LK Luke Keay | 31,000(103 BB) |
Oe out on Keay’s set
In dire need of a double up, Japan’s Kentaro Oe goes all-in for his remaining 6,000 and is isolated by Luke Oliber Keay of the United States.
Oe tables A♣ 4♣ while Keay shows 7♥ 7♣.
The flop immediately dashed the hopes of the Japanese player: 3♠ 7♠ A♥ , giving the American middle set. Needing running cards for a miracle comeback, Oe was drawing dead on the turn when the T♠ appeared. The 8♦ on the river officially busted the Japanese player.
Player | Chips |
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LK Luke Keay | 72,000(240 BB) |
KO Kentaro Oe | busted |
Day 1B
Current Top Stacks

Player | Chips |
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MF Michael Falcon | 153,000(153 BB) |
DK Donghyup Kim | 145,000(145 BB) |
HA Huseyin Akgul | 130,000(130 BB) |
JT Jean Testa | 117,000(117 BB) |
LK Luke Keay | 116,400(116 BB) |
TT Tetsuya Tsujisaka | 107,000(107 BB) |
HI Homma Itsuki | 103,500(104 BB) |
MP Manwoo Park | 103,400(103 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 99,400(99 BB) |
YL Yannick Leonard | 96,400(96 BB) |
AV Anzhela Vasylenko | 95,800(96 BB) |
RS Roman Shcherbakov | 84,000(84 BB) |
YX Yinfei Xiao | 80,900(81 BB) |
HZ He Zhou | 80,000(80 BB) |
RR Robin Roth | 73,000(73 BB) |
NW Naoki Watanabe | 70,700(71 BB) |
JL Jungyeob Lee | 68,000(68 BB) |
VL Vladimir Litasov | 68,000(68 BB) |
XZ Xiaosheng Zheng | 66,700(67 BB) |
DS Dmitry Suchkov | 66,300(66 BB) |
SC Sha Chengchun | 65,600(66 BB) |
MT Michael Truong | 61,200(61 BB) |
EZ Emad Zarghami | 59,000(59 BB) |
SH Shaun Harmer | 52,000(52 BB) |
FG Francis Garson | 51,900(52 BB) |
AK Akihiro Konishi | busted |
Cooler Sends Keay Up As Popov Plunges

Jijun Xu raises 600, finds one caller, then folds to Slaven Popov's 2000 re-raise. Quiet caller Luke Keay answers with a four-bet of 65,000, Popov shoves and Keay risks it with less behind.
Player | Hand | Chips |
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LK Luke Keay | A♥A♥ UTG+1 | 55,300(277 BB) |
JX Jijun Xu | UTG | 20,300(102 BB) |
SP Slaven Popov | K♦K♥ D | 4,700(24 BB) |