Main Event

An all-in preflop situation saw three players table pocket pairs - Ikemoto Mao with Q♥ Q♠ against Terashima Tomoki’s J♥ J♣ and Lin Yuhang’s 8♦ 8♠ . The board ran T♠ T♦ Q♣ 8♣ 7♣ , earning Ikemoto the main pot and Lin the side pot vs Terashima.

Button Ikemoto Mao went with K♦ 9♦ for her remaining 130,000 and faced small blind Tian Viacheslav’s A♥ J♦ . At risk, Ikemoto quickly flopped top pair on 8♠ K♠ 2♦ Q♠ 3♣ to land the win.

Cutoff Liu Zhexu opened to 2,200, called by the small blind. Big blind Ikemoto Mao put in a raise to 6,000 and saw Liu push out a heftier 15,000. Ikemoto completes and sees flop 7♥ 9♣ 6♦ . Liu continued for 16,000, Ikemoto with a check fold.