WPT Prime Cambodia ($1,100)

Patrik Demus lays out a min-raise, a few spots over Peter Kiem looks down at K♦ Q♥ and sends in his last 2,055,000. This sends Demus tanking for a minute then calls with A♠ T♥ . Kiem is in trouble, and with the board running 5♦ 8♦ 9♥ 9♦ T♣ , Kiem finishes in 11th place.

In a battle of the blinds between Khorshad Sagor and Peter Kiem, the latter bets small once and then leads the K♠ 5♥ 2♣ Q♥ 4♠ river for 425,000. Kiem calls and Sagor flips over A♦ A♠ much to the bemusement of the table, as everyone chuckles.

It is the third time Sagor picks up aces in the first level today, winning with two of them including a big double.

"I lost the minimum, I had a king," Kiem mentions.

Peter Kiem raises to 250,000 and Yita Choong three-bets to 550,000 on the button. It folds back to Kiem who quickly moves all-in and Choong snap-folds.

Choong then opens to 250,000 in the cutoff and Khorshad Sagor calls from the big blind. On the Q♥ T♣ 8♣ flop, Sagor check-calls for 175,000 and the 3♠ turn goes check, check. Sagor leads the 5♦ river for 375,000 and Choong is momentarily flustered but pays it off. He gets shown T♠ 9♠ for a pair of tens by Sagor and that wins the pot.

Peter Kiem moves all in under the gun for 785,000, Patrik Demus calls button, and Khorshad Sagor moves all in from the big blind for about 3,460,000. Demus folds, saying he had pocket eights.

Kiem turns over Q♥ T♥ , and he needs to improve to stay alive against Sagor's K♥ K♣ .

The board comes J♠ 9♦ 2♣ 4♦ 8♥ , and Kiem rivers a queen-high straight to win the pot and triple up in chips.

Sagor has just had pocket aces and pocket kings on back-to-back hands, and lost both times.

After 11 levels of play, Day 2 comes to an end with 13 players remaining, and the big stack belongs to Yita Choong, who bagged 9,655,000 (77 big blinds). He is closely followed by Manuel Carvalho, who finished with 9,325,000 (75 big blinds). Carvalho was on a bit of a roller coaster this evening, going from the chipleader all the way down to about one million in chips and then rebounding to finish second in chips closely behind Choong.

The players will keep their same seats, and here are their official chip counts:

Day 3 begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:30 am, and they will play all the way down to a winner.

* First-place amount includes the winner's $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Here are the official chip counts from the break for the final 18 players, followed by the remaining payouts at stake:

Khorshad Sagor three-bets an open raise by Patrik Demus and the initial raiser calls. On the Q♣ 8♣ 6♥ flop, Demus checks and then folds when he faces a bet worth 350,000.

Amit Kaushik and Peter Kiem are flipping for stacks in the most classic confrontation, as Kaushik's A♠ K♥ is up against Q♦ Q♥ .

Kaushik takes the lead on the A♣ K♦ 9♥ flop, but the T♥ turn and J♦ river improve Kiem to broadway.

That leaves Kaushik on just 45,000 and he gets them in from under the gun. Andres Vasquez raises to 100,000 on the button but folds when James Rann jams the big blind with A♥ J♦ . Kaushik's K♦ 2♣ pair up on the Q♣ T♠ 6♦ Q♥ K♣ runout but the same card gives Rann broadway, too.