Championship Warm Up ($600)

Li Guangming of China makes a bold move by going all-in blind from utg for 121,500. However, it didn’t get very far as right on utg+2 Germany’s Martin Sedlak re-raises all-in to isolate his opponent and no one else came into the pot.

The Chinese player shows T♠ 8♠ , a decent hand from a “no look” shove. However, Sedlak tables A♣ T♦ , dominating his foe.

The first three community cards go: 7♦ 6♣ 2♠ (giving Li an open-ended straight draw). The turn, though, is the 5♦ and the river is the 6♥ to eliminate Li and put Sedlak in a favorable position to contend for the chip lead.

Malaysia’s Yoke Wei Woon open s the action from utg+1 for 2,600 and draws in two callers.

The flop is T♦ 3♦ 8♦ as all check. The turn is the J♥ as it is checked around to the button where Martin Sedlak of Germany leads out for 6,500. The caller in the sb folds but Yoke sticks around. It is heads-up to the river that brings in the T♣ . This time, both check.

Yoke turns over K♥ T♥ for trips on the river as Sedlak mucks his hand.

With the pot at 12,700 and a board of 7♣ 5♣ 3♥ 8♣ , Deepankur Gupta of India checks from the utg+2 position to his opponent from Germany, Martin Sedlak who bets 7,000. Gupta calls. The river yields the 5♥ as Gupta checks again. Sedlak reaches for chips and unloads 20,000. Gupta makes the call.

The German tables A♣ 9♣ for the nut flush on the turn. Gupta mucks. Sedlak breaches the six-figure chip mark with the victory.