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Flight B

Noel ZarateNoel Zarate
6/7/2025, 1:53:33 PM

Villanueva Eliminates Two with Weakest Preflop Hand

Level 13: 1,000 / 2,500 ante: 2,500
Renato Villanueva Jr

Malaysia’s Lim Kok Leong goes for it all as he open shoves his last 25,500 in the +1 position and is called by local bet Chierro de Leon from the CO for less, putting his remaining 18,000 in the middle of the table. In the BB, Filipino Renato Villanueva sees the pot and determines that there is no further preflop action so he joins in. Villanueva covers both.


Lim turns over A T while de Leon shows A J . Way behind is Villanueva’s Q J .


The flop, though, flipped the script: Q T 3 as suddenly Villanueva takes the lead with top pair, Lim needs to hit a four-outer and de Leon is praying to nail a gutshot. The turn is the 3 and the river card is the 5 as Villanueva successfully KOs two players and pads his chip count to come into the big stack conversation.

PlayerChips
148,000(59 BB)
KL
Kok LimMalaysia [MYS]Malaysia
busted
CD
Chierro De LeonPhilippines [PHL]Philippines
busted