WPT Prime Cambodia ($1,100)

Kaifan Wang defends his big blind by calling Tom Maguire's hijack raise of 150,000. The flop lands 2♥ 6♣ 7♠ , Wang checks to Maguire who continues for 110,000, Wang tanks for two time banks then shoves. Maguire snap-calls and both show top pair.

Maguire is ahead A♠ 7♦ , Wang needs help with J♥ 7♣ , the turn 2♦ and river 8♣ are not outs for Wang to finish in 22nd place.

Battle of preflop bets begins with a raise of 120,000 from Armon Van Wijk at cutoff. Small blind Kai Wang three-bets 410,000 but still doesn't push out Van Wijk who sends out a four-bet of 700,000. Wang assesses the bet then pushes around2.2M. Van Wijk snap-calls and Wang exclaims "Oh no!"

Wang opens up A♥ 8♠ and he is behind Van Wijk's Q♣ Q♦. The board offers no help running 6♣ 9♠ 9♥ 3♥ 5♦ for a big double up to the Aussie.

Three ways to the A♦ Q♠ T♠ 2♦ turn, Marius Kudzmanas bets 275,000. Khorshad Sagor moves all-in from the next seat and Kaifan Wang folds, as does Kudzmanas.

One hand later, Kudzmanas pushes for 505,000 and scoops the blinds.

Sagor limps the next hand and Manuel Carvalho raises to 370,000. It folds back to Sagor, who jams for 1,350,000. Carvalho can all but laugh and sigh-folds after asking for an exact count.

Neng Zhao loudly screams "hoooollldddd" when he attempts to knock out his table neighbour Armon van Wijk in a flip with J♥ J♦ versus A♥ Q♥ .

The A♠ 9♠ 3♣ K♣ 7♥ board provides the ace and Zhao falls silent.

"I am a monkey, monkeys always win," van Wijk clarifies and then adds "you actually had a real hand ... I thought you were full of shit."

Also involved in the hand was Manuel Carvalho, who had folded preflop.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 10 players with at least two million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

Yuhan Liu is all in preflop for 55,000 with two players looking to bust him. With the main pot a 285,000 the side pot is at 140,000. On the flop 2♥ 3♣ J♥ , Kaifan Wang lays out a bet to fuel the side pot but Ali Hassan quickly folds. At showdown, Wang and Liu have the same hand, Liu A♥ 8♦ , Wang A♦ 8♣ . The turn J♠ assures the split pot.

Ali Hassan flips for his tournament life and the last 470,000 holding the A♣ Q♥ . Yunsheng Sun is ahead with T♣ T♥ but Hassan gets there on the Q♠ 9♣ 8♦ 2♠ K♣ board.

"What did you fold?" Hassan asks and Micheal O'Neill replies "I also had ace-queen," after which Hassan calls him a nit.

Sun is down to slightly more than two blinds and they go in the next hand with the 5♦ 2♦ . Kaifan Wang calls on the button with 8♦ 7♠ and wins with eight-high on the A♦ Q♥ 4♠ T♣ Q♦ .

A scan of the field during the break turned up nine players with at least 1.4 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

Calvin Tan is dealt 4♦ 4♥ and gives it min-raise from late position, Kaifan Wang and big blind Micheal O'Neil 8♥ 5♠ defend their blinds and call. At the flop T♠ 6♦ 4♣ , Tan bets his set and blinds still call to take it to the turn 3♦ . With his open-ended, O'Neill steals control with a bet of 130,000, Tan calls while Wang check-folds. On the river 2♣ , O'Neill connects and fires 330,000 for his straight, Tan uses up a time bank before making the call then sees the bad news.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 19 players with at least 825K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

Ali Hassan raises 25,000 from under the gun, button player Micheal O'Neill and big blind Martin Sedlak give him some action. Hassan continues for 30,000 at the flop Q♥ 5♣ 8♠ , only O'Neill takes him on for a turn card J♣ . Hassan slows down and checks, O'Neill takes control for 80,000, Hassan calls and the board completes 4♠. Again Hassan passes to O'Neill who fires 140,000, Hassan folds.

Next hand, after O'Neill isn't done. He three-bets 75,000 on top of Kai Wang's open bet, Hassan isn't done either and announces all in for around 550,000. Wang quickly folds while O'Neill says "I can't pay that", and folds. Hassan says "I had better than Ace-Queen" as he arranges his chips.

Kaifan Wang looks down at K♣ J♠ and bumps it up to 25,000 from cutoff, several spots over big blind Alex Tchong has A♥ 6♣ defends with a shove of 160,000, Wang can easily afford and tosses it in. With the board running K♥ K♠ T♦ J♥ Q♠ , both improve with Wang way ahead of the straight to end Tchong's run.