WPT Prime Cambodia ($1,100)

Vyacheslan Shin moves all in from the cutoff for about 750,000, and Yita Choong quickly calls from the big blind with A♥ A♣.

Shin turns over 9♦ 9♣ , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes K♣ Q♥ 7♣ 5♥ Q♦ , and the aces hold up for Choong to win the pot and eliminate Shin in 13th place.

First deal of the day and Vyacheslav Shin quickly doubles up with A♠ 7♥ landing the full house to stay ahead of caller Patrik Demus's Q♣ J♣ on a board 9♦ 7♦ 7♠ 8♠ 3♠ .

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:

Alexander Puchalski raises from the hijack to 150,000, Vyacheslan Shin moves all in from the cutoff for 510,000, and Puchalski thinks for a while before he calls with J♦ T♠

Shin turns over A♣ K♠ , and needs it to hold to stay alive.

The board comes A♥ 8♦ 3♠ 9♥ 4♥ -- Shin flops a pair of aces, Puchalski turns an open-ended straight draw, and the river card is a blank. Shin wins the pot with his pair of aces to double up in chips.

Daniel Byshell raises UTG+1 to 100,000, Vyacheslan Shin reraises from the button to 250,000, and Byshell four-bets all in for 655,000.

Shin calls with A♠ Q♣ , and Byshell turns over A♦ K♠ . Byshell needs his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board comes A♣ 8♣ 8♠ 2♥ J♣ , and Byshell wins the pot with two pair and his king kicker to double up in chips.

On the river of a three-way pot with the board showing K♦ Q♠ 9♠ A♣ 5♥ , Vyacheslan Shin bets 150,000 in the small blind. Andres Vasquez calls from the big blind and Micheal O'Neill folds in an early position.

Shin wins the pot with the A♠ Q♥ , Vasquez flashes his cards for a second and mucks.

Vasquez is down to 335,000 and doubles through Yita Choong in the next hand with A♣ K♥ versus K♠ Q♠ thanks to trips on the A♦ Q♣ J♣ A♠ 2♦ board.

David Sommer is not as fortunate. He arrives on the table with a short stack and busts right away.

Daisuke Ogita raises to 85,000 and Yita Choong defends the big blind. On a flop of A♣ Q♦ 3♠ , Choong checks and Ogita bets 100,000 to force an instant fold.

In the very next hand, it folds to Choong in the small blind and he piles into Joshua Gebissa to force a fold.

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