
Day 1A
Guo Scores Double Knockout to Deliver Day 1a Money Bubble


William Jia opened to 10,000 from early position, a player in middle position called and Biao Guo shoved with a covering stack from the cutoff. Zhiyong Yan called with his stack of 7,000 in the big blind, Jia called with his stack of 83,000 and the middle position player folded.
Zhiyong Yan: J♣ T♠
William Jia: A♥ A♠
Biao Guo: A♣ K♥
The board ran out T♣ Q♦ 4♥ 6♦ J♦ . Guo had rivered a Broadway straight to send both players to the rail but Jia was the bigger stack and will receive a min-cash while Yan became the bubble boy.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
BG Biao Guo | 270,000(54 BB) |
WJ William Jia | busted |
ZY Zhiyong Yan | busted |
Jia Doubles With Rockets

William Jia opened to 12,000 from the hijack, Biao Guo three-bet shoved with a covering stack from the big blind and Jia called, putting himself at risk.
William Jia: A♣ A♦
Biao Guo: K♠ J♠
Jia held with the best hand on the 9♦ 7♥ 7♠ K♣ A♠ runout to double up through Guo.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
BG Biao Guo | 156,000(31 BB) |
WJ William Jia | 102,000(20 BB) |
Top Stacks
Player | Chips |
---|---|
307,000(123 BB) | |
LB Leng Bin | 120,000(48 BB) |
JW Jiaxing Wang | 114,000(46 BB) |
EX Erdun Xu | 99,000(40 BB) |
ST Shen Tong | 94,000(38 BB) |
MJ Mok Jo Seng | 93,000(37 BB) |
WJ William Jia | 75,000(30 BB) |
LA Lu Anton Zhen Zhao | 45,000(18 BB) |
BG Biao Guo | 42,000(17 BB) |
DZ Dingyun Zhang | 39,500(16 BB) |
QJ Quan Jin | 36,000(14 BB) |
YH Yang Haibo | 35,500(14 BB) |
QS Qi Sun | 25,800(10 BB) |
ZY Zhiyong Yan | 18,500(7 BB) |
Yang Doubles Through Jia

William Jia opened to 5,000 from the hijack, Haibo Yang three-bet shoved for 16,000 from the button and Jia called with a covering stack to put him at risk.
Haibo Yang: K♣ Q♥
William Jia: 9♣ 9♠
The K♦ 3♠ 5♠ 4♠ Q♥ runout gave Yang top two pair to double up through Jia.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
WJ William Jia | 81,000(32 BB) |
YH Yang Haibo | 38,000(15 BB) |
Domination Rotation
With two players seeing a board of 2♣ 8♣ 6♣ and 17,000 in the middle, William Jia checked in the cutoff and Teng Shon bet 7,000 from the button. Jia made the call.
Jia check-called another bet from Shon on the J♦ turn, this time for 11,500. Both players then checked the A♠ river.
Jia had third pair with K♠ 8♠ but Shon had second pair with K♣ J♠ to win the pot.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
ST Shen Tong | 90,000(45 BB) |
WJ William Jia | 73,000(37 BB) |
Jia Doubles Through Yang

With two players seeing a board of 4♣ J♣ 5♥ and 20,300 in the middle, Haibo Yang bet 4,500 from the small blind and William Jia called from the button.
On the 4♦ turn Yang checked, Jia shoved for 28,700 and Yang called with a covering stack.
Haibo Yang: A♣ K♣
William Jia: Q♣ J♦
Jia was ahead with two pair and after improving to a full house on the 4♠ river he doubled up through Yang.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
WJ William Jia | 86,700(54 BB) |
YH Yang Haibo | 19,200(12 BB) |
Top Stacks
Player | Chips |
---|---|
KC Kong Chung Lam Allan | 120,000(120 BB) |
102,200(102 BB) | |
EX Erdun Xu | 100,400(100 BB) |
NY Ng Yi Wen Nicholas Michael | 96,700(97 BB) |
DZ Dingyun Zhang | 73,000(73 BB) |
YH Yang Haibo | 67,500(68 BB) |
JW Jiaxing Wang | 65,500(66 BB) |
LA Lu Anton Zhen Zhao | 64,600(65 BB) |
MJ Mok Jo Seng | 48,900(49 BB) |
BG Biao Guo | 48,200(48 BB) |
YZ Yifan Zhang | 40,800(41 BB) |
QS Qi Sun | 39,000(39 BB) |
31,400(31 BB) | |
LB Leng Bin | 30,400(30 BB) |
QJ Quan Jin | 27,500(28 BB) |
ST Shen Tong | 27,500(28 BB) |
JB Jin Bo | 27,300(27 BB) |
QL Qi Liu | 25,600(26 BB) |
DH Dong Hou | 25,200(25 BB) |
LC Lim Chin Yu | 23,700(24 BB) |
LJ Lam Ji Ho | 23,000(23 BB) |
ZY Zhang Yang | 22,800(23 BB) |
WJ William Jia | 22,700(23 BB) |
YL Youkan Li | 22,500(23 BB) |
JX Jiang Xinxin | 21,800(22 BB) |
ZY Zhiyong Yan | 21,700(22 BB) |
DL Duan Lin | 20,000(20 BB) |
JL Jehoon Lee | 17,100(17 BB) |
JZ Jiahao Zhang (2) | 15,300(15 BB) |
TC Tang Chi Ngong | 12,500(13 BB) |
XX Xiao Xian | 700(1 BB) |
Zhu Flips Jia to the Rail

In a preflop confrontation William Jia was all in from the cutoff for 21,900 and up against Changmin Zhu who covered him.
William Jia: A♦ J♣
Chagmin Zhu: 6♥ 6♣
Jia failed to connect with his overcards on the 5♥ T♣ 4♠ 3♣ K♥ runout and was eliminated by Zhu.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
66,600(83 BB) | |
WJ William Jia | busted |
Zhang Eliminates Jia

In a preflop confrontation William Jia was all in for 12,500 from the small blind and up against Jiahao Zhang who had him covered in the big blind.
William Jia: Q♠ J♠
Jiahao Zhang: A♥ K♦
The Q♥ 8♣ 4♦ K♥ 8♦ runout gave Zhang top pair to send Jia to the rail and take the pot.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
JZ Jiahao Zhang (2) | 41,600(69 BB) |
WJ William Jia | busted |