Main Event

Hijack Fokin Valeriy opened the action and called a 470,000 all-in from button Tanigawa Shuji behind. Tanigawa shows A♥ J♥ and is in for a race against Fokin’s K♦ Q♣ . The board ran 9♥ K♥ 8♠ 7♣ K♣ , landing trips for Fokin to knock Tanigawa out.

With 600,000 in the middle on flop 9♥ 8♥ 3♦ , button Tanigawa Shuji reshoved all-in with J♠ 9♠ with big blind Luo Jianming calling off his remaining 880,000 with K♦ K♣ . Crushed against the overpair, Tanigawa shot down to 12 BB after the turn T♣ and river 5♠ failed to save him.

Cutoff Zhao Yao defended his open and called a 225,000 three bet from button Tanigawa Shuji. On flop 8♦ 9♥ 6♣ , Zhao check called for 150,000, and got to showdown after the turn T♠ and river 2♦ was checked through. Zhao shows 5♦ 5♣ and ships the pot after Tanigawa mucked.

Tanigawa Shuji defended his big blind vs cutoff Aghayev Farhad’s open and saw flop 6♦ 6♥ 9♣ . Action went check check and moved on to turn 2♣ . Tanigawa led for 65,000 and a final 100,000 on river K♠ with Aghayev calling behind both streets. Tanigawa shows K♦ Q♣ and takes it down.

Button Ma Li opened to 50,000 and saw small blind Tanigawa Shuji bump it up to 225,000. Ma risks her 725,000 stack with T♥ T♣ and is behind Tanigawa’s A♥ A♠ . Ma in luck, quickly landed a set on T♠ J♠ 4♣ 7♥ Q♣ to bag the win.

Hijack Ishikawa Soma opened to 45,000, followed by a raise to 100,000 from button Liu Yin. Small blind Tanigawa Shuji shoved all-in for 575,000 and saw Ishikawa put in his remaining 150,000. Liu gets out of the way and the two run the board. Ishikawa shows Q♦ Q♣ and is up against Tanigawa’s A♣ K♣ . The board rolled T♣ K♥ 3♦ 5♠ J♦ , knocking out Ishikawa from the Main Event games.

234 players remain on the felt with ITM beginning at 134 runners.

Top Chip Counts

Average stack: 228,541 Total chips in play: 53,250,000

Hijack opened to 6,000, cutoff Tanigawa Shuji fired a three bet to 20,000. Small blind Pan Hai covering both, shoved all-in and collected the pot after no calls were made.