APPT Main Event ($1,750)

Taiwan’s Charlie Chiu raises from the cutoff to 6,000 and is re-raised from the button by Sameer Agarwal of India to 19,000.

Chiu’s response is a 4-bet shove for 69,500. Agarwal lets it go.

Charlie Chiu of Taiwan opens from the +1 position for 5,000 and the action folds to the SB of Vietnam’s Nguyen Hoa Thinh who 3-bets it to 16,500. Chiu makes the call.

The flop is Q♠ Q♦ 4♣ as Nguyen CBets to 9,000. Chiu calls. The turn is the 2♣ and the Vietnamese player unloads 15,000. Chiu still calls. The river is the 3♦ and this time, Nguyen pulls the breaks and checks. The Taiwanese player checks behind.

Nguyen tables A♠ K♠ while Chiu shows 7♥ 7♠ , calling every street with his middling pair. The victory catapults Chiu’s stack past the century mark.