Day 2 - Final
Frank Lillis's Suited Gapper Ends Him

Facing a raise from Jean Testa, small blind Frank Lillis three-bets all in for 257,000 with J♠ 9♠ . Testa does not hesitate to call and shows a dominating K♥ K♣ . The board runs flat for Lillis 6♥ 3♦ 2♠ 7♦ A♣ to exit the tournament.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
803,000(50 BB) | |
FL Frank Lillis | busted |
Frank Lillis Scores A Double On Li Qi's Bluff
Frank Lillis defends the small blind by calling Li Qi's 40,000 raise to see a flop 4♣ 5♣ A♠ . Lillis leads out 25,000, Li jams a stack that well covers Lillis who calls anyway for his tournament life.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
FL Frank Lillis | K♣K♥ | 266,000(17 BB) |
LQ Li Qi | T♦8♦ | 687,000(43 BB) |
Li is completely bluffing and fails as the turn A♦ and river 8♥ complete the board.
Great Board For Frank Lillis
Down to 10 bb, Frank Lillis open shoves and is flipping against Wooseok Kim. The board favors the Irish for the pot.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
FL Frank Lillis | K♥J♦ | 254,000(21 BB) |
WK Wooseok Kim | 6♣6♦ | 136,000(11 BB) |
Frank Lillis Pocket Pair Takes It

Frank Lillis three-bets 140,000 to induce a fold from raiser Wooseok Kim but caller Li Qi sticks around to see the flop 3♥ T♠ T♦ . Lillis continues 10,000, Li check-calls. The turn A♣ and river 8♠ see no bets.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LQ Li Qi | K♦Q♦ | 670,000(67 BB) |
WK Wooseok Kim | 250,000(25 BB) | |
FL Frank Lillis | 7♠7♥ | 349,000(35 BB) |
Chip Leader Li Qi Rails One

Frank Lillis opens for 16,000 and is joined to the flop 4♥ 8♥ K♠ by two callers. Heavy betting follows starting with big blind Li Qi's 20,000, Lillis calls, cutoff Tomas Dedinas raises it to 85,000, Li tanks using up two time banks then calls while Lillis opts to give it up.
On the turn A♥ , Dedinas bets 30,000, Li check-raises all in and Dedinas risks it with much less behind.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LQ Li Qi | 5♥6♥ BB | 792,000(99 BB) |
TD Tomas Dedinas | K♣Q♣ CO | busted |
FL Frank Lillis | UTG+1 | 267,000(33 BB) |
With the river 7♣ , Dedinas is eliminated.
Day 1 - Flight A
Anthony Braid Wins The Three-Way

From the button, Anthony Braid limps in, short stacked small blind goes all in for 6200, more chips get dumped in the pot with big blind Frank Lillis laying out four-bet of 12,000. Braid calls and they head to the flop J♥ T♥ A♠ . Lillis c-bets 6000 then snap-calls Braid's 15,500 jam.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
FL Frank Lillis | A♣K♠ BB | 85,200(85 BB) |
A♦J♠ D | 61,200(61 BB) | |
J♣T♦ SB | busted |
With the turn 5♣ and river 6♥ , one player busts and Braid ships it.
Top 20 at the Break

Player | Chips |
---|---|
104,500(174 BB) | |
97,000(162 BB) | |
86,000(143 BB) | |
72,000(120 BB) | |
SS Songklot Sermsirimongkol | 67,200(112 BB) |
BW Bing Wang | 67,000(112 BB) |
67,000(112 BB) | |
64,000(107 BB) | |
63,600(106 BB) | |
FL Frank Lillis | 63,000(105 BB) |
61,200(102 BB) | |
RS Randolph Schain | 58,500(98 BB) |
56,500(94 BB) | |
54,800(91 BB) | |
JY Jia Yi Low | 53,000(88 BB) |
49,200(82 BB) | |
46,600(78 BB) | |
HZ He Zhou | 46,500(78 BB) |
AV Armon Van Wijk | 46,000(77 BB) |
CZ Cheng Zhang (4) | 41,000(68 BB) |
Day 1 - Flight B
End of Flight B - 12 Players
Player | Chips |
---|---|
393,000(49 BB) | |
FL Frank Lillis | 315,000(39 BB) |
XZ Xiaosheng Zheng | 232,000(29 BB) |
KA Konstantin Anokhin | 199,000(25 BB) |
HI Homma Itsuki | 190,000(24 BB) |
CL Chi Ling Tsang | 150,000(19 BB) |
WK Wooseok Kim | 144,000(18 BB) |
DD Dorian Debals | 139,000(17 BB) |
AB Andrei Budykin | 126,000(16 BB) |
MT Maxime Tantaro | 123,000(15 BB) |
MS Manabu Sato | 122,000(15 BB) |
109,000(14 BB) |
Cheng Zhang Bubbles!

Cheng Zhang three-bets all in for his last 8 bb and gets the harsh boot on the bubble against Frank Lillis's big pair.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
FL Frank Lillis | K♠K♥ | 315,000(39 BB) |
CZ Cheng Zhang (4) | 8♦8♠ | busted |
Chip Counts - 16 Remain

16 players remaining, 12 to ITM
Player | Chips |
---|---|
310,000(52 BB) | |
XZ Xiaosheng Zheng | 227,000(38 BB) |
FL Frank Lillis | 210,000(35 BB) |
KA Konstantin Anokhin | 175,000(29 BB) |
WK Wooseok Kim | 170,000(28 BB) |
HI Homma Itsuki | 166,000(28 BB) |
CL Chi Ling Tsang | 138,000(23 BB) |
MS Manabu Sato | 137,000(23 BB) |
135,000(23 BB) | |
DD Dorian Debals | 97,000(16 BB) |
AB Andrei Budykin | 93,000(16 BB) |
MT Maxime Tantaro | 86,000(14 BB) |
CZ Cheng Zhang (4) | 80,000(13 BB) |
RN Rindra Norodom | 57,000(10 BB) |
BM Bruno Moyse | 45,000(8 BB) |
YC Youngjo Cheon | 40,000(7 BB) |