APPT Main Event ($1,750)

Yao Liu of China—who has made it deep on only one bullet—raises from UTG for 6,000 and gets a call from the hjack from American Hamid Siddiqui. However, another Chinese player in Dong Lyu Lyu 3-bet shoves from the cutoff for 38,000 and gets a call from Yao. Siddiqui gets out of the way.

Dong turns over K♠ Q♣ while Yao already has a made hand with 9♣ 9♥ .

The runout goes: 8♣ 2♥ 6♠ T♣ 7♣ to give unnecessarily give Yao a backdoor straight and eliminate his countryman from futher contention in Day 1A.

Yao’s stack nears the 200,000 chip mark.

The action is folded to the cutoff of France’s Leo Soma who raises to 6,000 and gets greeted by a 3-bet to 20,000 from the SB of Chinese player Dong Lyu Lyu. Soma calls.

The flop goes 4♠ K♥ T♣ as Dong continues for 13,000 and gets called by the Frenchman. The turn is the 8♣ as both slow down and check. The river is the 7♥ and once again no further action ensues.

Dong shows A♠ Q♦ which missed its gutshot Broadway draw while Soma somehow made it to showdown with A♦ 4♦ for bottom pair but enough to take down the pot.

China’s Dong Lyu Lyu opens the action from the cutoff for 6,000 and gets a BB defense from Jakkapong Sreprasom of Thailand.

The flop comes 3♠ 3♦ 6♦ as Sreprasom checks and a CBet of 6,500 comes in from the Chinese payer. Sreprasom calls. The turn is the 2♦ and this time, both players check. The river is the K♥ and this time, Sreprasom leads out for 6,000 and gets raised by the Chinese player to 16,000. Sreprasom calls.

Dong shows A♥ 4♥ for a missed straight while Sreprasom tables 9♦ 3♠ for trips on the flop but could not fire big on the river due to the presence of many potentially made draws.