APT Main Event (55,000 TWD)

Keigo Kubo made it 2,000 to go from early position and was called by the blinds, Andy Mai and Puimast Big.

The blinds checked on the monotone flop of 9♣ J♣ T♣ , and Kubo made a continuation-bet of 2,500. Only Mai came along.

Both players checked the 8♦ turn to see the 7♦ fall on the river, completing a straight and bringing the possibility of a chop pot. The action went check-check again.

Mai tabled A♠ 8♣ against Kubo’s A♦ J♥ , and the hand was indeed chopped.

Keigo Kubo opened the hijack to 500 and received three callers: Chia Yun Wu on the button, Hirokazu Kobayashi in the small blind, and Rishi Mirpuri from the big blind.

On the flop of Q♣ 4♦ 9♣ , the action checked to Wu who bet 1,000, which Kobayashi and Mirpuri called.

The trio checked through the runout of 6♦ 6♠ .

Mirpuri tabled K♥ 9♦ for a flopped pair of nines to overcome the flopped pair of threes from Kobayashi’s 4♠ 3♠ , while Wu tossed his cards into the muck.