Championship Warm Up ($600)

With the pot at 76,000 on a board of K♠ T♣ A♦ J♣ J♥ Belarus’ Chudapal Siarhei puts in a river bet of 66,000. Kyle Bao of Vietnam goes into the tank anew but this time decides to make the call.

Siarhei tables K♦ J♦ for a runner-runner full house. Bao mucks and sees his stack dwindle to a mere 28,500. Siarhei’s stack climbs to above the 420,000 mark.

Vietnam’s Kyle Bao has the action folded to him on the button and he raises it 10,000. Jeremy Jehanne of France 3-bets it to 36,500. Folded back to Bao, he 4-bets to 68,000. Jehanne executes a 5-bet shove that puts the Vietnamese pro into the tank and he eventually folds.

Jehanne, a member of the renowned Team Scimitar now has over 300,000 in his stack.