
D1B
Najeem Ajez Muscles With His Towers Of Chips

Following a min-raise, Najeem Ajez three-bets 55,000, Chong Jing Lee four-bets 110,000, initial raiser folds, Ajez calls. At the flop 6♠ 8♣ T♠ , Ajez check-raises all in, Lee tanks with 241,000 remaining then folds giving up his 40,000 flop bet.
Player | Chips |
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NA Najeem Ajez | 1,300,000(130 BB) |
CL Chong Lee | 241,000(24 BB) |
Najeem Ajez Catapults To A Million, Duy Anh Nguyen Falls
Biggest hand of the day has come down between Najeem Ajez and Duy Anh Nguyen. Hand opens with a raise of 16,000 from under the gun+1 Nguyen, to his immediate left, Ajez three-bet 52,000, the rest of the table fold and it's back at Nguyen who four-bets128,000. Ajez steps on the brakes and calls.
At the flop 5♥ Q♥ 6♣ , Nguyen leads out 80,000, again Ajez flats. The turn 5♦ sees Nguyen slow down and check, Ajez takes the reins with a 120,000 bet, Nguyen answers with a shove, and Ajez snap-calls.
Duy Anh Nguyen: T♥ T♠
Najeem Ajez: A♣ A♦
Nguyen is way behind and with the river 7♣ , Ajez ships it and rises to over a million.
Player | Chips |
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NA Najeem Ajez | 1,050,000(131 BB) |
DA Duy Anh Nguyen | busted |
Rui Bouquet Leads the Field at the Break with 1,032,000

A scan of the field during the break turned up 11 players with at least 400K in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:
Player | Chips |
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RB Rui Bouquet | 1,032,000(129 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 634,000(79 BB) |
626,000(78 BB) | |
KT Krisztian Torok | 624,000(78 BB) |
593,000(74 BB) | |
513,000(64 BB) | |
TB Thi Bao Nguyen | 503,000(63 BB) |
YL Yongjia Lin | 427,000(53 BB) |
PD Patrik Demus | 404,000(51 BB) |
MS Michael Smith | 403,000(50 BB) |
CN Cao Ngoc Anh | 402,000(50 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 397,000(50 BB) |
Rui Bouquet Leads the Field at the Break with 639,500
A scan of the field during the break turned up eight players with at least 300K in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:
Player | Chips |
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RB Rui Bouquet | 639,500(160 BB) |
TD Thi Dang | 470,000(118 BB) |
SA Shai Arbel | 413,500(103 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 379,000(95 BB) |
376,000(94 BB) | |
IK Ivan Karatayeu | 368,000(92 BB) |
365,000(91 BB) | |
HT Hun Tae Choi | 351,000(88 BB) |
Najeem Ajez Shoves For The Pot
Najeem Ajez three-bets 21,000 and doesn't shake the initial raiser Mikael Andersson. At the flop 6♣ 5♦ 8♥ chips go flying starting with Ajez's continuation bet of 17,000. Andersson check-raises 45,000, Ajez goes all in which is enough to push out Andersson from the pot.
Player | Chips |
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NA Najeem Ajez | 378,000(126 BB) |
MA Mikael Andersson | 80,000(27 BB) |
Updated Counts in the Field
Player | Chips |
---|---|
RB Rui Bouquet | 500,000(167 BB) |
HT Hun Tae Choi | 470,000(157 BB) |
417,000(139 BB) | |
NA Najeem Ajez | 300,000(100 BB) |
AS Arun Sriram | 290,000(97 BB) |
TL Tero Laurila | 250,000(83 BB) |
TL Tero Laurila | 250,000(83 BB) |
TV Tom Verbruggen | 245,000(82 BB) |
AV Andres Vasquez | 235,000(78 BB) |
AK Amit Kaushik | 210,000(70 BB) |
AR Aladin Reskallah | 140,000(47 BB) |
LY Li Yun | 130,000(43 BB) |
CT Chao Ting Cheng | 112,000(37 BB) |
AF Adam Friedman | 110,000(37 BB) |
AR Amin Riyazati | 100,000(33 BB) |
EW Eric Wasylenko | 90,000(30 BB) |
TB Thomas Boivin | 70,000(23 BB) |
Updated Counts in the Field
Player | Chips |
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LY Lin Yu | 220,000(138 BB) |
HG Hugues Girard | 210,000(131 BB) |
MK Michael Kim Falcon | 150,000(94 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 110,000(69 BB) |
CW Chien Wang | 95,000(59 BB) |
FR Fabian Rolli | 95,000(59 BB) |
KB Koen Breed | 95,000(59 BB) |
KL Kolja Luecking | 80,000(50 BB) |
GS Georgios Skarparis | 75,000(47 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 75,000(47 BB) |
JS Josip Simunic | 75,000(47 BB) |
TL Tero Laurila | 70,000(44 BB) |
MJ Marc Joseph | 65,000(41 BB) |
HC Hon Cheong Lee | 55,000(34 BB) |
KH Konstantin Held | 45,000(28 BB) |
DK David Kozma | 17,000(11 BB) |
Updated Counts and Casualties
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HG Hugues Girard | 220,000(220 BB) |
MS Muhammad Shamsudin | 130,000(130 BB) |
130,000(130 BB) | |
MK Michael Kim Falcon | 125,000(125 BB) |
AR Aladin Reskallah | 120,000(120 BB) |
JK Jon Kyte | 115,000(115 BB) |
NA Najeem Ajez | 90,000(90 BB) |
AK Amit Kaushik | 75,000(75 BB) |
AF Adam Friedman | 65,000(65 BB) |
KB Kyle Bao Diep | 45,000(45 BB) |
MD Max Deveson | 42,000(42 BB) |
RM Remy Murcia | 40,000(40 BB) |
MJ Marc Joseph | 38,000(38 BB) |
YL Yiannis Liperis | 30,000(30 BB) |
AA Arjun Agrawal | busted |
PN Pradeep Nudurumati | busted |
WL Wonho Lee | busted |