
Day 2 Final
Christian Cloutier Eliminated In 10th Place

After suffering two bad runouts, Christian Cloutier takes a stand with A♥ J♣ only to run inot Anh Tuan Ho's A♠ Q♦ . The board ends his title bid after it completed 8♠ 8♥ 6♣ Q♥ 3♣ .
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HA Ho Anh Tuan | 1,480,000(74 BB) |
CL | busted |
Another Unlucky River Burns Cloutier Again

Christian Cloutier has T♥ T♠ and raises to 32,000. Big blind Van Xuan Nguyen calls with J♥ 7♠ and both see a flop 5♠ 6♥ 7♦ . Nguyen checks, Cloutier shoves, Nguyen tank-calls.
Looking bleak for Nguyen with the turn 4♣ but luck finds the river with J♦ showing up and Nguyen celebrates his nth double up as Cloutier gets rivered again.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
VX Van Xuan Nguyen | 400,000(25 BB) |
CL | 260,000(16 BB) |
Anh Tuan Ho Gets Lucky

Anh Tuan Ho opened from utg with A♥ J♦ and big blind Christian Cloutier defended his chips with J♥ 7♠ . When the flop fanned out 6♦ 7♦ J♠ , Cloutier trapped with two pair, Anh c-bet his top pair for 27,000, then Cloutier sprung into a shove. Despite being well covered, Anh called his 322,000 stack and saw the bad news.
No change came on the turn 8♣ but when the river landed A♦ , Anh celebrated his luck as Cloutier paid up.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HA Ho Anh Tuan | 722,000(45 BB) |
CL | 400,000(25 BB) |
Table 7 Update
Player | Chips | Table | Seat |
---|---|---|---|
VT Van Tien Dinh | 645,000(54 BB) | 7 | 1 |
WS Wattana Sophontanakup | 295,000(25 BB) | 7 | 2 |
CZ Cheng Zhang (2) | 266,000(22 BB) | 7 | 3 |
CL | 655,000(55 BB) | 7 | 4 |
CW Cheuk Wai Wong | 509,000(42 BB) | 7 | 7 |
JS Jinlin Shi | 200,000(17 BB) | 7 | 8 |
Gavin Flynn Falls To Cloutier

Gavin Flynn was passing by the media table and we got a short story on how he plunged into 19th place. He lost a chunk of chips in a missed flush draw then jammed with Jack-Four with 20 bigs and was surprised to be called by Cloutier with Ace-Seven. The ace held to bring the field down to 18 players.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
CL | 595,000(60 BB) |
GF Gavin Flynn | busted |
Jinlin Shi Picks Up A Pot

Jinlin Shi added several big blinds to his ammunition by starting off the hand with a 12,000 raise that's called by Christian Cloutier and Cheuk Wai Wong. The three-way quickly ended on the flop A♣ 4♦ 7♠ with Shin's 28,000 bet uncalled.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
CW Cheuk Wai Wong | 557,000(93 BB) |
CL | 381,000(64 BB) |
JS Jinlin Shi | 160,000(27 BB) |
Much Needed Double For Xinhong Chen

With action folded to the button Christian Lortie Cloutier, he slides out a tower amounting to a huge 100,000. Small blind Xinhong Chen with just 44,000 decides to risk it as the big blind folds.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
XC Xinhong Chen | T♥T♠ SB | 120,000(20 BB) |
CL | Q♣3♥ D | 190,000(32 BB) |
Chen is ahead and only needs to dodge one overcard. With the board running 7♠ T♣ 2♥ A♠ 6♥ , he does just that for a double up.
Dinh Van Tien Takes The First Pot Of Table 7
Table 7 was expected to be an action-heavy felt and sure enough, the starting hand already saw a big pot that opened with a 12,000 raise from David Koy. Several spots down at cutoff, Dinh Van Tien (DVT) and small blind Christian Cloutier called.
Three-way to the flop 2♠ K♣ 4♣ , brought another 14,000 from Koy, DVT raised is up to 36,000, Cloutier got out of the hand while Koy paid to see the turn T♣ . Checked to DVT, he fired 41,000 and it was enough to claim the pot.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
VT Van Tien Dinh | 395,000(66 BB) |
CL | 289,000(48 BB) |
120,000(20 BB) |
Player | Chips | Table | Seat |
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VT Van Tien Dinh | 324,000(54 BB) | 7 | 1 |
AM Avneesh Munjal | 314,000(52 BB) | 7 | 2 |
CZ Cheng Zhang (3) | 107,000(18 BB) | 7 | 3 |
CL | 301,000(50 BB) | 7 | 4 |
XC Xinhong Chen | 56,000(9 BB) | 7 | 5 |
118,000(20 BB) | 7 | 6 | |
CW Cheuk Wai Wong | 646,000(108 BB) | 7 | 7 |
JS Jinlin Shi | 172,000(29 BB) | 7 | 8 |
SK Salih Kaya | 394,000(66 BB) | 44 | 1 |
HJ Hyungtaek Jo | 124,000(21 BB) | 44 | 2 |
XL Xiangshun Li | 94,000(16 BB) | 44 | 3 |
80,000(13 BB) | 44 | 4 | |
SR Stephen Rosenthal | 251,000(42 BB) | 44 | 5 |
VX Van Xuan Nguyen | 121,000(20 BB) | 44 | 6 |
AR Aladin Reskallah | 203,000(34 BB) | 44 | 7 |
HH Hoseong Ha | 81,000(14 BB) | 45 | 2 |
HA Ho Anh Tuan | 96,000(16 BB) | 45 | 3 |
PN Pham Ngoc Quoc Bao | 280,000(47 BB) | 45 | 4 |
350,000(58 BB) | 45 | 5 | |
JM Joseph Magnotti | 138,000(23 BB) | 45 | 6 |
KT Krankka Tommi | 46,000(8 BB) | 45 | 7 |
YL Yingmeng Li | 305,000(51 BB) | 45 | 8 |
JP Jinseong Park | 78,000(13 BB) | 46 | 1 |
EA Edgar Antezana | 119,000(20 BB) | 46 | 2 |
GF Gavin Flynn | 291,000(49 BB) | 46 | 3 |
KH Kurushima Hiroya | 85,000(14 BB) | 46 | 4 |
KU Kotaro Uchida | 219,000(37 BB) | 46 | 5 |
JJ Jongbea Jang | 267,000(45 BB) | 46 | 6 |
CA Chun An Lin | 306,000(51 BB) | 46 | 7 |
WS Wattana Sophontanakup | 150,000(25 BB) | 46 | 8 |