Championship Warm Up ($600)

Haile Kuo pushed his last nine big blinds in the middle and was looked up by David Murphy right behind.

Kuo in trouble, bound for the exit as board K♣ 9♣ 6♦ Q♥ 8♦ failed to save him from his demise.

Patrik Demus fired a three bet against an utg open and saw David Murphy push all-in from the small blind. Initial raiser opted out, leaving Demus to call off for his 86,500 stack.

Demus ahead, landed a slam dunk win through board K♦ Q♥ 2♠ K♥ 8♣ for the full double up.

Patrik Demus opened utg+1 and called a 22,000 button three bet from David Murphy.

On flop 6♠ 3♣ J♠ , Demus check called another 27,000, revealing turn K♠ . Both checked it through to river 7♠ , where Murphy sent out a final 29,000. Demus snap called with the second nuts Q♠ T♣ , only to run into Murphy's nutted A♠ A♥ .

Wallace Yuen opened utg and called a 17,000 three bet from David Murphy on the hijack.

On flop 6♥ 4♥ 2♥ , Yuen immediately gave it up after Murphy continued for another 20,000.

An all-in preflop situation saw Haile Kuo risk his entire 48,000 against utg raiser David Murphy.

In for a flip, Kuo dodged a potential elimination, having spiked a set on board A♦ 2♠ Q♠ 8♥ T♥ to survive through.

Hwang Wei Choong sent out a 2,800 three bet on the small blind and saw initial raiser David Murphy defend.

Action on flop A♠ 6♠ 7♦ was checked through to turn T♥ , where Choong continued for 1,000. Murphy raised to 7000 more, building up the pot as Choong made the call.

River Q♣ however, welcomed no more bets, revealing Choong's K♥ K♠ for the win.