APPT Main Event ($1,650)

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.