WPT Prime Cambodia ($1,100)

Shai Arbel was once sitting on 900K now he has dropped significantly after a couple of losing sessions that included two showdowns. On the first bout, he calls Daniel Skoglund's 112,000 shove. Arbel is ahead with A♦ K♥ against Skoglund's A♣ 5♠ . However, the board favors Skoglund with a five on the flop that holds throughout a board 2♥ 3♥ 5♥ 6♠ J♦ . Next showdown was against Somashekhar Sanampuri whose Ace-King dominated Arbel's Ace-Jack.

With the board showing T♥ 7♦ 3♠ 9♠ on the turn, a player gets it all in from middle position for about 250,000 with A♥ A♦ , but she needs to improve to stay alive against the T♣ 7♣ (two pair, tens and sevens) of Shai Arbel, who is under the gun.

The river card is the 5♦ , and Arbel wins the pot with his two pair to crack aces and eliminate his opponent from Day 1B.

Shai Arbel raises to 15,000 from the small blind and Hugues Girard calls from the big blind. Both invest 10,000 on the 6♥ 5♠ 3♣ flop and Arbel check-calls for 25,000 on the Q♦ turn.

Arbel checks the T♠ river and reluctantly folds when Girard bets 35,000.

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:

Almost all of the chips of Hugues Girard shifted to Shai Arbel.

Guy Taylor then vanishes from the table when he cannot call a river shove by Kyle Bao Diep on the T♥ 9♣ 3♠ J♣ 8♦ river, suspecting a bluff. "Oh no worries, if it's a bluff he will put it on his stories," the Brit jokes and busts the next hand.

Shai Arbel three-bets 6,000 from the big blind and initial raiser from the button Tom Verbruggen tosses it in. At the flop A♣ A♠ 4♠ , Arbel fires 3500, then a larger 8000 on the turn 8♣ . Verbruggen calls both but folds to Arbel's shove on the river 7♦ .