Day 2
Double Elimination By Nicola Spicher

Lei Zhang slides his last 22,000 in the middle and gets called by Nicola Spicher and Sun Yunsheng. The flop 5♠ 4♦ J♦ has Nicola Spicher bet-call in a hurry when Sun Yunsheng jams for 178,000.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
Q♠J♣ | busted | |
LZ Lei Zhang | T♣8♥ | busted |
NS Nicola Spicher | K♠K♥ | 660,000(83 BB) |
Nicola Spicher Chips Up

Getting to the action on a 9♦ 7♣ 2♦ flop with 65,000 in the pot we see Nikolai Zhivoderov lead with 15,000, called by Nicola Spicher, who later jams against Sun Yunsheng's rasie of 65,000, who decides to let it go.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
NS Nicola Spicher | 260,000(33 BB) |
200,000(25 BB) |
ITM And Payouts
With the remaining 71 players all guaranteed at least $2,700 the top stacks are :
Player | Chips |
---|---|
AB Agharazi Babayev | 905,000(113 BB) |
SM Sven Mcdermott | 840,000(105 BB) |
HN Hieu Ngo | 730,000(91 BB) |
MF Michael Falcon | 645,000(81 BB) |
CM Christopher Mateo | 585,000(73 BB) |
AB Adrien Berger | 570,000(71 BB) |
DK Donghyup Kim | 553,000(69 BB) |
DK Dongkyu Kim | 540,000(68 BB) |
HA Huseyin Akgul | 470,000(59 BB) |
353,000(44 BB) | |
335,000(42 BB) | |
AC Abraham Ceesvin | 332,000(42 BB) |
ER Erik Rozhynskyi | 310,000(39 BB) |
Nikolai Zhivoderov Chips Up

Nikolai Zhivoderov makes it 12,000 from +2, Sun Yunsheng defends his BB and the dealer shows 2♦ K♦ 6♠ . Zhivoderov c-bets 11,000, Sun calls and we check it down to 6♥ 8♠ . Sun leads 25,000 with A♠ 9♣ and Zhivoderov takes it down with K♥ T♠ .
Player | Chips |
---|---|
NZ Nikolai Zhivoderov | 330,000(66 BB) |
240,000(48 BB) |
Day 1B
End of Day 1B - 29 Players
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MF Michael Falcon | 491,000(123 BB) |
DK Donghyup Kim | 313,000(78 BB) |
AB Aleksandr Blokhin | 291,000(73 BB) |
NZ Nikolai Zhivoderov | 280,000(70 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 265,000(66 BB) |
XZ Xiaosheng Zheng | 247,000(62 BB) |
244,000(61 BB) | |
GW Guiyang Wang | 230,000(58 BB) |
IB Ira Blumenthal | 220,000(55 BB) |
VL Vladimir Litasov | 211,000(53 BB) |
YL Yannick Leonard | 201,000(50 BB) |
NT Ngoc Thai Huynh | 177,000(44 BB) |
NC Nevan Chang | 174,000(44 BB) |
HA Huseyin Akgul | 173,000(43 BB) |
JT Jean Testa | 163,000(41 BB) |
KL Kolja Lucking | 152,000(38 BB) |
NW Naoki Watanabe | 128,000(32 BB) |
JP Junpeng Pan | 122,000(31 BB) |
FL Ferdinand Lu | 118,000(30 BB) |
MH Meerwais Hussaini | 114,000(29 BB) |
HI Homma Itsuki | 112,000(28 BB) |
DS Dmitry Suchkov | 112,000(28 BB) |
BM Bruno Moyse | 106,000(27 BB) |
JY Jun Yamada | 101,000(25 BB) |
HZ He Zhou | 99,000(25 BB) |
85,000(21 BB) | |
DH Danny Huynh | 81,000(20 BB) |
NQ Nguyen Quang Huy | 74,000(19 BB) |
RR Robin Roth | 41,000(10 BB) |
Tetsuya Tsujisaka Burned And Booted

End of the road for Tetsuya Tsujisaka, well at least for today. Tsujisaka shoved with J♠ J♥ , Yunsheng Sun called with 4♦ 4♠ , the board ran 3♥ Q♣ 4♥ K♠ 8♦ for a set to Sun.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
265,000(88 BB) | |
TT Tetsuya Tsujisaka | busted |
Current Top Stacks
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MF Michael Falcon | 237,000(158 BB) |
HA Huseyin Akgul | 229,000(153 BB) |
IB Ira Blumenthal | 170,500(114 BB) |
NT Ngoc Thai Huynh | 147,500(98 BB) |
JT Jean Testa | 129,500(86 BB) |
SP Slaven Popov | 125,500(84 BB) |
TT Tetsuya Tsujisaka | 121,500(81 BB) |
121,000(81 BB) | |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 114,500(76 BB) |
VL Vladimir Litasov | 113,000(75 BB) |
CS Chudapal Siarhei | 112,500(75 BB) |
DS Dmitry Suchkov | 101,500(68 BB) |
SC Sha Chengchun | 96,500(64 BB) |
91,000(61 BB) | |
RS Roman Shcherbakov | 85,000(57 BB) |
Jun Mitani Jams Queens Into A Set
With 30,000 already brewed, and 5♣ J♣ A♦ 9♣ board, big blind Yunsheng Sun checks his set, cutoff Jun Mitani shoves 15,700 and sees the bad news.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
5♦5♥ BB | 98,500(82 BB) | |
JM Jun Mitani | Q♦Q♣ CO | busted |
The river T♥ is no help to the ladies and Mitani packs up.
Day 1A
Rockets Triple Up Anshu Zheng

Yunsheng Sun open shoves 45,000, Anshu Zheng joins in with 48,500, and big blind ShaoShuai Li calls to attempt for a double knockout.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
3♣3♥ UTG+1 | busted | |
A♠A♣ D | 148,000(37 BB) | |
SL Shaoshuai Li | A♦8♦ BB | 148,000(37 BB) |
Sun's small pair doesn't improve to get the boot as Zheng claims a near triple up.
Missed Draws Awards Queen High
Three players in a raised pot go to a flop 8♠ 5♦ 5♠ , big blind Yunsheng Sun leads out 11,500, preflop aggressor Anshu Zheng folds and Sven McDermott continues to the turn 2♦ . Sun dips in his stack again and tosses in 26,000, McDermott calls once again and both proceed to check the river K♥.
Sun flips open 6♥ 7♦ missed draw, McDermott wins the pot with Q♠ J♠ better air.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
SM Sven Mcdermott | 544,000(181 BB) |
115,000(38 BB) | |
46,000(15 BB) |
Chip Count
Player | Chips |
---|---|
SM Sven Mcdermott | 450,000(150 BB) |
MT Mike Takayama | 324,000(108 BB) |
SL Shaoshuai Li | 287,000(96 BB) |
FL Frank Lillis | 255,000(85 BB) |
SP Seonghun Park | 197,000(66 BB) |
CM Christopher Mateo | 180,000(60 BB) |
LQ Li Qi | 170,000(57 BB) |
AC Abraham Ceesvin | 163,000(54 BB) |
152,500(51 BB) | |
143,000(48 BB) |
Current Top Stacks
Player | Chips |
---|---|
SM Sven Mcdermott | 228,000(152 BB) |
FL Frank Lillis | 198,000(132 BB) |
SL Shaoshuai Li | 195,500(130 BB) |
AC Abraham Ceesvin | 184,000(123 BB) |
SA Supakit Anukoolpitaknil | 182,500(122 BB) |
LQ Li Qi | 177,500(118 BB) |
JF Jacson Feng | 175,000(117 BB) |
WL William Lius | 127,000(85 BB) |
AV Armon Van Wijk | 127,000(85 BB) |
MA Michael Adam Bihari | 125,000(83 BB) |
117,000(78 BB) | |
KB Koen Breed | 110,000(73 BB) |
MT Mike Takayama | 108,900(73 BB) |
DK Donghyup Kim | 105,000(70 BB) |
HJ Hu Jinlong | 104,500(70 BB) |