APPT Main Event ($1,750)

India’s Neeraj Gajria opens from the hijack for 6,000 and gets callers in the blinds with Mao Renjie of China joining from the SB and South African Edgar Antezana in from the BB.

The flop comes K♣ J♣ 2♦ as all check. The turn is the Q♣ and that’s where Mao movies in with a bet of 6,000 to which no one calls.

Mao’s stack nears the 400,000 mark.

In a battle of the blinds, China’s Dong Lyu Lyu raises it to 4,000 from the SB but gets the door slammed in his face by Neeraj Gajria of India who 3-bets it to 42,000 and wins the pot.

Amit Kaushik of India opens the action from the hijack and gets a call from fellow Indian Neeraj Gajria but then last year’s APPT Main Event runner-up Kim Donghyup of Korea 3-bets all-in and gets called by Kaushik, the initial raiser. Suddenly, Gajria also shoves and Kaushik calls as well. Gajria covers his opponents.

Kim turns over A♠ Q♠ while Kaushik is dominated with his A♥ J♥. Gajria is ahead with J♣ J♠ .

The runout goes: 2♠ 4♥ K♣ 5♣ 2♠ as the Jacks hold for Gajria and in the process eliminates two players as his stack now rises to 108,000.

Kim is now on his third bullet over at Table 15.

A pot that went 4-bet preflop between Kim Su Jung in the hijack and Neeraj Gajria of India in the bb sees the flop: 8♥ K♣ 5♠ .

Gajria picks up all his remaining 8,600 in chips and puts them in the middle of the table and gets called by the Korean.

The Indian flips over A♠ A♣ while Kim shakes his head again in revealing he has Q♥ Q♠ .

The turn is the A♥ to have Kim drawing dead while the river makes it official as the 6♥ arrives.

This time, though, Kim does not bust out but has his stack reduced to just 9,000 as Gajria now approaches the 90,000 chip mark.

Neeraj Gajria opens from the cutoff for 300 and gets a customer in Ha Hoseung of Korea.

The flop comes 8♥ A♠ K♣ as Ha checks. Gajria fires a CBet of 800 and it’s enough to get the job done.

China’s Yao Liu opens from utg for 300 and gets called in the +1 position by Geeraj Najria. However, Russian Dmitry Nemiroysky 3-bets it to 1,000 on the button and still gets called by both.

The flop is A♠ J♥ 3♦ as three players check. The turn is the Q♦ and this time, Yao leads out for 2,000 and gets raised by Gajria to 4,000. Nemiroysky and eventually Yao opt to fold.