WPT Cambodia Championship ($3,500)

There were 347 entries on Day 1A of the WPT Cambodia Championship, and on the final hand of the night, Joshua Gebissa knocked out Daniel Neilson to catapult into the chip lead with 571,000.

There were 109 survivors from this flight, and the full list of official chip counts will be released later tonight. In the meantime, here is a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

Day 1B begins tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:30 am, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 10 (around 9:45 pm).

On the last hand at his table, Daniel Neilson opens 5000, Joshua Gebissa makes it 18,000, Neilson four-bets 52,000, Gebissa takes it to 90,000, then Neilson says "I don't like it but I'm all in", and Gebissa snap-calls. Both players have about even stacks, roughly 10 bb difference.

It's a flip with Neilson showing Q♦ Q♠ and Gebissa with A♣ K♣ . The flop and turn are blank then an ace finds the river. Gebissa ships it and soars to the top of the counts while Neilson speeds off.

Getting close to the end of Day 1A and Yuhang Chen is involved in two pots that don't go his way. The first sees a board complete K♠ Q♠ 8♦ 7♣ 7♦ with 43,500 in the pot, he bets 17,000 from the big blind position, small blind Amin Riyazati check-raises, and a fast fold from Chen.

Next hand, Chen hopes to recover with K♣ K♠ and Jesus Fernandez challenging with J♣ J♦ however, the board helps Fernandez as it lands J♥ Q♦ 3♠ 7♥ 8♣ .

Late game surge for Joris Michl as he picks up two pots, the latter of which cleans out short stacked Robert Sherwood. All in preflop, Sherwood shows K♠ J♦ , Michl with 6♦ 6♥, the board comes J♥ A♦ K♥ to quickly improve Sherwood to two pair but with the the turn and river both hearts 3♥ A♥ , Michl takes the lead as well as all the chips with a runner runner flush.

Marc Joseph tells us he had a very difficult time at the previous table and at the new one, he quickly picks up a pot. He opens for 5000 and finds four callers to the flop 9♥ 6♦ T♥ . Joseph c-bet 11,500 to trim the field to one challenger who proceeds to fold on Joseph's shove on the turn 4♥ .

Peteris Enders is all in for 48,000 with K♦ T♣ , and he needs to improve to stay alive against Kevin Ewald's T♠ T♦ .

The board comes 7♥ 5♣ 4♣ J♥ K♣ , and Enders spikes a king on the river to win the pot and double up in chips.

Dhaval Mudgal is all in from the cutoff for 28,500 with A♣ T♠ , and he needs to improve to stay alive against the A♠ K♠ of Kevin Ewald, who is under the gun.

The board comes K♣ 5♥ 4♦ 7♥ 6♦ , and Ewald wins the pot with a pair of kings to eliminate Mudgal from Day 1A.

Upeshka Da Silva folds on a board 6♦ A♥ 4♥ J♠ 5♥ with 78,000 in the middle after Kristopher Rundquist bets 40,000. Da Silva is down to just 11 bigs.

End of the road for short stacked Joseph Adams who is all in holding Q♠ T♠ trips on a board Q♥ 9♦ 5♥ Q♣ J♣ that is still behind Kevin Ewald's A♠ Q♦ trips with top kicker.

Konstantin Held defends on the big blind with a three-bet of 20,000, middle position raiser Harsh Bubna answers with a four-bet to 40,000, Held puts on the brakes and calls. They proceed to check to the turn 4♥ 8♠ Q♥ Q♠ . Held bets around 35,000, and Bubna calls.

On the river 6♦ , Held tanks for five minutes then shoves 139,500, Bubna pulls down his headphones and assesses the situation for a few minutes then open-folds K♣ K♠ . Held returns the gesture and shows A♦ J♦ .

With the final board showing T♥ 6♥ 6♠ 3♣ 8♥ on the river and about 45K already in the pot, Peteris Enders checks from the small blind, Aaron Lim moves all in from early position for 23,000, and Enders calls with Q♠ T♦ for two pair, tens and sixes.

But Lim turns over A♥ T♣ to win the pot with the same two pair and an ace kicker.

Thomas Eychenne raises under the gun to 5,500, Hugo Bohn Machado calls from middle position, Yakiv Syzghanov calls from the cutoff, and Xuan Liu calls from the big blind.

All four players check to the turn on a board of T♣ 6♦ 4♦ 4♥ , and it checks to Syzghanov, who bets 9,500. Liu folds, Eychenne calls, and Machado folds.

The river card double-pairs the board with the T♠ , Eychenne bets 32,000, and Syzghanov quickly calls. Eychenne shows T♦ 8♦ to win the pot with a full house, tens full of fours, and Syzghanov mucks.

Level 10 comes to an end, and Level 11 begins with increased blinds of 1,500-2,500 and a 2,500 ante. Play continues without a break.

With 134 players remaining from a Day 1A field of 347, the average chip stack is around 129,500 (52 big blinds). Day 1B begins tomorrow at 11:30 am.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 11, around 11:45 pm.

Preflop action builds a pot of 19,000 with three players in the hand. The flop comes 8♥ J♦ 9♦ , big blind Donghyup Kim checks, next to him Yannick Jobin goes all 15,000, cutoff Georgios Skarparis raises 30,000, Kim tosses his hand to the muck, Jobin shoves and Skarparis snap-calls.

Jobin flips open J♥ J♣ set and needs to improve against Skarparis's Q♣ T♦ straight. The turn K♣ and river 3♥ are no help o Jobin to pack up and go.

With 19,500 in the pot, action heats up with three players attacking the flop 9♦ 4♣ 5♣ . Following two checks, hijack Joshua McSwiney bets 3500, sending the option back to the big blind Abhijith Cheruku who goes all in for 12,000. Two spots over, Aladin Reskallah raises to 30,000, McSwiney shoves 79,500, Reskallah snap-calls.

Abhijih Cheruku: K♥ 5♥

Aladin Reskallah: A♣ K♣

Joshua McSwiney: J♠ J♥

With the turn Q♥ and river 5♦ , Reskallah misses his outs to plunge to 1,000 then busts on the next hand. Cheruku celebrates his triple up, and McSwiney ships the much larger side pot.

By the turn board 9♠ 6♠ A♦ 2♦ , with 17,500 in the pot, Eduard Burd bets 8000 that pushes out a player while Max Deveson calls. On the river T♠ , both players check. Deveson shows Q♥ Q♠ , Burd wins the pot with A♣ J♠ .

Rob Sherwood raises UTG+1 to 4,000, and Asish Ghosh calls from the big blind.

Both players check to the turn on a board of 8♣ 6♠ 2♣ 7♥ , Ghosh bets 3,500, and Sherwood calls.

The river card is the Q♠ , Ghosh bets 6,500, and Sherwood calls. Ghosh quickly mucks his cards to forfeit, and Sherwood wins the pot without showing his cards.

Sherwood finished as the runner-up in the WPT World Championship back in December, earning a whopping $2.2 million without even winning the event.

With registration closed, the new level brings shoves around the room. One of the beneficiaries is Marc Joseph who calls the light 10,500 all in and proceeds to dominate with A♠ Q♠ over A♥ 3♣

Florencio Campomanes also bites the dust. He sends in his last 7,000 and loses to Frank Lillis with A♣ 6♥ staying ahead of K♣ 7♠

Another all in was Remy Murcia who says he can feel it coming. And indeed it did. He is all in with A♦ Q♦ and improves on the board T♠ K♣ 7♦ J♥ 6♥ to overcome Xianhua Fu's A♣ K♥ .

For Simas Karaliunas, he defends his big blind with a shove that pushes out small blind Jon Kyte who tries to steal with a 7000 raise.

"Better to be lucky than good," Kunal Patni jokes after sending Rahul Bhatia to the rail, adding he had just picked up three big hands in a row. The last one is a classic flip with the 6♠ 6♣ for Bhatia and A♦ Q♣ for Patni.

There is no help on the flop and turn, but the Q♠ river pairs up Patni.

A scan of the field during the break turned up nine players with at least 250,000 in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:

The players return from break to begin Level 10, with increased blinds of 1,000-2,000 and a 2,000 ante.

Registration is now closed, and the tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of347 entries for Day 1A. That means there is already more than $1.1 million in the prizepool, so we should easily crush the $1.5 million guarantee tomorrow with Day 1B.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 11, around 11:45 pm.

Kevin Ewald defends his big blind by calling the under the gun raise from Aladin Reskallah. At the flop Q♦ 6♦ J♠ , Ewald test bets, Reskallah calls, then both check the turn 5♥ . No more checking for Ewald on the river 7♦ with a big shove of 67,000, Reskallah tanks for around five minutes and the clock is called. Down to a seconds, Reskallah folds.

Following a limp and a raise by Yakiv Syzghanov, Motoyoshi Okamura pushes all-in for57,000 and the limper folds. Syzghanov calls and the cards are tabled.

Motoyoshi Okamura: K♥ T♥

Yakiv Syzghanov: A♣ T♣

The kicker plays on the T♠ 7♠ 2♥ 2♦ 6♦ board to send Okamura to the rail just before the end of the late registration period.

Down to the last 15,000, Ivan Karatayeu is all-in with the 6♠ 6♥ and flips against Victor Li with the A♥ 9♣ . The T♦ T♥ 9♥ 2♥ 8♣ board pairs Li's kicker and Karatayeu exits the tournament area.

From middle position, Vishal Ojha is dealt K♦ T♦ and bumps it up to 3000. Two spots over at hijack, Dylan Foster likes his 9♦ 8♦ and three-bets 9,500. Ojha calls then they check to the turn 6♥ Q♠ 7♣ T♣ . Following another check from Ojha, Foster bets his straight for 14,000 and gets called. On the river 2♠ , Ojha checks again, Foster goes all in for around 38,000, Ojha is covered and tanks then calls to see the bad news.

Four ways to the K♠ 7♠ 2♣ 5♠ turn, Ran Koller in the small blind pushes all-in for 11,500 into a pot of 16,000. Jiazhi Zhong calls in the big blind and so does Abhinav Iyer from an early position. Yang Liu in the hijack then moves all-in for 32,500 and Zhong calls with few chips behind.

Iyer moves all-in over the top and Zhong shrugs, calls for the last few blinds still at his disposal.

Ran Koller: 2♠ 2♥

Jiazhi Zhong: K♦ 7♣

Yang Liu: A♠ 3♠

Abhinav Iyer: K♣ K♥

Iyer not only has the biggest stack but also best hand with the top set. Koller has one out, Zhong is drawing dead and Liu has the most equity to escape with his gutshot wheel draw and nut flush draw. The river is the 8♥ and Iyer knocks out three shorter stacks, though, remains just behind table neighbour Hongru Zhang chip wise.

Shmuel Bechor moves all in from the hijack for 19,500, and Max Deveson calls from the small blind with T♠ T♦ . Bechor turns over A♦ J♥ , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes Q♣ 9♠ 7♥ K♠ 7♣ , and Bechor turns a gutshot straight draw, but improves no further. Deveson wins the pot with his pocket tens to eliminate Bechor.

With the board showing Q♠ Q♣ J♠ 2♠ on the turn, Asish Ghosh checks, his opponent bets 7,000, and Ghosh check-raises to 26,000. His opponent tanks for a while before he moves all in for roughly 40,000, and Ghosh quickly calls with A♠ 3♠ for an ace-high flush.

His opponent turns over Q♦ T♠ for trip queens, and he needs to make a full house on the river to stay alive.

The river card is the 8♥ , and Ghosh wins the pot with his flush to eliminate his opponent.

Just before the new level, Travis Endersby raises and finds two callers to the flop 2♦ 3♣ K♥ . Action is checked to Erik Rozhynskyi, he bets 3700, button player Peteris Enders calls, and Endersby folds. The turn 4♥ brings a larger 7500 bet from Rozhynskyi then Enders moves all in for 37,700.

Rozhyinskyi can afford it but tanks for some time until he decides to fold and show A♠ A♦ . Enders can't believe it as he flips open K♣ 7♠ and says repeatedly to Rozhynskyi "thank you thank you!"

Tom Eady raises to 3,000 in the hijack and Upeshka De Silva calls in the cutoff. Joe Sandaev then three-bets to 9,500 on the button and receives two callers. The A♣ Q♦ 4♠ flop is checked to Sandaev, who continues for 6,000 and picks up calls from Eady as well as De Silva.

They check the T♠ turn and Eady bets the 6♦ river for 17,000. De Silva calls and Sandaev folds for them to chop up the pot with A♥ T♥ and A♦ T♦

On a heads-up turn of 8♠ 7♠ 4♦ 2♠ , Tobias Schwecht in the big blind checks and Fabian Gumz bets 6,500. Schwecht calls and checks the J♦ on the river. Gumz now bets 17,000 only for Schwecht to move all-in.

After double-checking his cards, Gumz calls and Schwecht reveals J♥ 7♦ for two pair. However, Gumz earns the double with K♠ 4♠ for the king-high flush.

Last year's runner-up Joshua McCully from Australia entered not long ago and has not been able yet to run up a profit. He is involved in a heads-up pot with Adrien Berger right now and bets the J♠ 7♠ 4♠ flop for 2,000. Berger check-raises to6,000 and forces out the Aussie.

Also on the table are Peter Kiem, John "Bert" Perry, Kou Vang and Aliaksandr Shylko.

The players return from break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 1,000-1,500 and a 1,500 ante.

The tournament clock shows 335 entries so far on Day 1A, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 10, around 9:45 pm.

The field is playing 11 one-hour levels today, and action is scheduled to end shortly before midnight.

Joris Michl raises 2500 then calls Erwan Regnault's 8,000 re-raise. They take it to the flop 2♦ T♦ 8♥ where Regnault continues for another 8000 and Michl check-calls. Both players take it easy on the turn 6♥ then Michl leads out 17,200 on the river 3♦ . Regnault gives it some thought then tosses his hand to the dealer.

Travis Endersby opens 2600, Martin Stausholm three-bets 8500, Endersby shoves, Stausholm snap-calls for his tournament life. Upon revealing, it's a flip with Stausholm Q♥ Q♣ up against Endersby's A♦ K♠ . When the board runs 3♦ 3♠ 7♦ J♥ 5♦ , Endersby misses for a big double up to the Dane. A♠ Endersby pays up he shakes his head and says "I don't like this table" and laughs.

Two players call Brian Green's 2600 raise then they see a flop land 5♠ 6♥ 2♥ . From the big blind, Yakiv Syzghanov bets 3300, Green folds, small blind Hugo Machado check-calls. The turn J♣ sees a larger bet of 18,000 from Syzghanov which is enough to for Machado to choose to fold.

From under the gun, Yakiv Syzghanov opens 2500 and finds three callers to the flop T♦ T♠ 5♣ . Syzghanov continues for 3500, Motoyoshi Okamura and small blind Raffaele Sorrentino call, then the turn 4♠ is checked by all. On the river 4♥ , Sorrentino leads out 10,500 and wins the pot with no callers.

Sorrentino is dragging in the chips, Syzghanov ask what he had, Sorrentino says "Ten-Ten", this gets a laugh from Syzghanov who asks again a few minutes later and Sorrentino laughs while giving the same answer.

Two players are at risk against Egidijus Digrys and Abhinav Iyer has the best of it with K♠ K♦ . Two seats over, Junghyun An tables the Q♦ Q♥ and Digrys attempts to reduce the field by two contenders with the A♥ K♥ .

The J♠ 9♣ 5♦ K♣ 6♥ and Iyer essentially triples up while An busts.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 14 players with at least 200,000 in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:

Facing a raise from Najeem Ajez that's called by Hon Cheong "Ivan" Lee, small blind Amin Riyazati three-bets 15,000. Action goes back to Ajez, he calls while Lee gets out of the way. The two Aussies then check down the board A♦ Q♥ T♦ K♣ 8♦ . Riyazati flips open A♣ K♠ and wins the pot.

Sungmin Cho raises to 2,400 and Donghyup Kim jams for the last 18,400 two seats over. All players behind fold and the table big stack calls.

Kim flips with 8♦ 8♣ versus K♥ Q♥ and doubles in style by hitting quads on the A♥ 8♠ 7♠ 8♥ Q♦ board right before the players head on their next 15-minute break.

Over on table 14, a larger preflop contest is brewing when Issam Fayad gets his stack into the middle for what appears to be more than 90,000. He is looked up by Kristopher Rundquist and vaults out of the chair when exposing his A♥ K♥ .

Rundquist also jumps up after exposing the A♥ Ah and retains a strong lead on the 9♥ 3♦ 2♠ flop. The 6♥ turn is about as sweaty as it can get, but there is no upset on a blank 3♠ river.

Masato Yokosawa check-raises the A♠ T♦ 6♣ flop to 6,000 and Tom Verbruggen calls. The 8♦ turn is checked by Yokosawa, who then calls a bet worth 5,200, and he check-calls all-in after the K♣ river.

Verbruggen shows J♠ 2♠ for a bluff and Yokosawa earns the double with A♥ A♣ for top set.

Jacob Hamed raises to 2,400 and earns one caller. Jianfeng Sun then three-bets to 13,000 and it folds back to Hamed, who pushes all-in. The caller folds and Sun calls all-in for 47,500 with the 9♦ 9♣ .

Nines have a flip against A♠ J♦ and hold on the Q♣ 4♦ 3♣ 4♥ T♠ board. Apparently, Hamed had lost with jacks before as pointed out by Marc Joseph and he replies "I just had to try again with the ace-jack".

Big pot preflop amounting to 22,800 with two players left vying for it. Lars Kamphues bets 5400 on a flop J♠ 9♠ 6♦ , Nang Quang Nguyen check-calls. After they both check the turn 7♣ , Nguyen leads out a very light 2000 on the river A♠ . Kamphues calls.

Nguyen shows K♦ J♦ top pair on the flop, Kamphues has A♥ Q♥ top pair on the river to claim the pot.

From lojack, Shalom Elharar opens 3000, then calls hijack Jennifer Cassell's three-bet of 9000 to see the flop J♠ J♥ 6♣ . Cassell continues for 4000, Elharar check-raises 10,000, Cassell flats to head to fourth street T♠ . Elharar leads out 30,000, Cassell snap-jams, Elharar snap-calls.

Cassell flips open A♦ A♣ which trails Elharar's K♠ J♦ . The river 7♦ is no help to Cassell to pack up and go.

Victor Li is sitting on the largest stack at table 2 and continues to grind it out to reach 200K. Catching a couple of hands, he three-bets 14,000 on top of a raise that was called by two players. Everyone folds.

On another hand, he three-bets to 7500 and Renat Boghdanov defends his raise by calling it. On the flop A♥ Q♥ 4♥ , Li continues for 4800 and wins the pot.

Another level draws to an end with now up to 319 entries and some 210 players remaining. They are entering level eight with new blinds of 600-1,200 and a big blind ante of 1,200, the action continues without a break.

Day 1a will play a total of eleven levels of 60 minutes each, after which all survivors will bag and tag their chips for the night.

Getting to the table with 16,000 in the pot and a board 8♥ T♦ 5♣ K♦ . Jianfeng Sun has 13,500 out front only to be faced with a shove from Jacob Hamed. Sun goes deep in thought and eventually opts to keep his covered stack.

From the button, Benny Glaser calls big blind Simas Karaliunas's three-bet of 4500 to take the bout to the flop 5♥ 6♣ T♣ . Karaliunas sends out a stack of orange chips that well cover Glaser who commits the rest of his chips.

At risk player Glaser has J♠ J♥ , Glaser is in trouble with K♦ T♠ , the turn 7♥ and river J♦ finishes Glaser as Karaliunas ships it.

The videographer of Masato Yokosawa finishes the recording of the popular Japanese vlogger, because despite having more than the average not long ago, he is out.

According to Thomas Boivin, Yokosawa four-bet jams 90 big blinds with ace-queen and he calls with A♦ K♥ . Both pair their kicker on the K♣ Q♣ T♥ 7♥ 5♣ runout and that spells the end for Yokosawa.

Four players are in for 2200 preflop trims to heads up when Raffaele Sorrentino bets 4500 on a flop 9♠ 5♣ 6♠ and is called by big blind Yakiv Syzghanov. After they check the turn 4♥ , Syzghanov fires 20,500 on the river K♣ , Sorrentino calls then mucks to the 7♠ 3♥ straight.

Thomas Boivin calls a raise to 2,500 and they both opt to check the A♠ Q♠ 6♦ flop. It checks to Boivin on the 2♣ turn and he now betts 6,000, which ends up winning the pot. The Belgian has already more than doubled his stack since entering the field late.

Following a min-raise, Joshua McSwiney three-bets all in for his last 6700, Leo Soma isolates then shows Q♣ Q♦. McSwiney needs help however it doesn't come on a board K♦ A♦ 4♦ A♥ K♠ . Both play the two pair on the board, Soma ships the pot with a higher kicker.

Joseph Adams three-bets 7,000, Tobias Schwecht four-bets to 20,000, everyone else folds and Adams makes the call. When the flop comes A♥ J♦ T♦ , Adams jumps out with a 7000 bet, Schwecht quickly folds.

Action folds around to the small blind Hongru Zhang, he raises 3500 and big blind Michael Gathy defends. More chips go in the pot as Zhang continues for 4500 at the flop T♠ 8♦ 3♦ and Gathy making the call. On the turn A♦ , Zhang checks, Gathy bets 9000, Zhang raises 18,000, Gathy gives it up.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 12 players with at least 150K in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:

The players return from break to begin Level 7, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a 1,000 ante.

The tournament clock shows 301 entries so far on Day 1A, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 10, around 9:45 pm.

The field is playing 11 one-hour levels today, and action is scheduled to end shortly before midnight.

Victor Zhenyu Li and Konstantin Held are facing a flop of 3♠ Q♥ 9♣ and a massive 34,800 in the pot. Following a check. Konstantin Held bets 7000 and Li check-calls for the turn 5♦ . They both check it for a free peek at the river 4♥ . Li goes all in for 26,200, Held makes the reluctant call then sees the bad news. Held's K♣ Q♦ top pair is outkicked by Li's A♦ Q♠ .

I-Chun "Charlie" Chiu kicks off the hand with a raise that's called by Hwang Wei Choong and button Hayato Kitajima. At the flop 7♣ J♠ 9♦ , Hwang lays out a bet that pushes out Chiu while Kitajima flats. More chips go flying on the turn 8♦ with a bet of 6300 from Hwang, Kitajima raises 14,600, Hwang shoves, and Kitajima snap-calls.

Kitajima reveals his flopped straight Q♠ T♠ , all Hwang can hope for is a split, however it doesn't show on the river 8♠ . Chiu says he had pocket eights and if so, he would have had quads.

All in preflop with Denis Romanovich flipping open A♣ K♠ and shorter stacked Alan Fernandez with 6♦ 6♠ . An ace quickly finds the board and holds to the end 4♠ 7♥ A♠ 9♦ 5♠ .

Yiannis Liperis raises under the gun to 1,800, Hun Tae Choi calls from the button, and Michael Gathy reraises from the big blind to 8,800. Liperis and Choi both call.

The flop comes 6♦ 4♦ 2♣ , and Gathy bets 10,000. Liperis folds, and Choi thinks for a while before he raises to 25,000. Gathy folds, and Choi takes the pot.

Heads-up to the K♥ 3♥ 3♣ 6♠ turn, Abhijith Cheruku checks and then calls a bet worth 5,500 by Kunal Patni. He checks the 5♣ on the river and Patni double-checks his cards, then knuckles it back.

Cheruku flips over 6d6c[/pc6 for sixes full of treys and Patni rolls his eyes visibly.

In a preflop all-in contest, Rui Bouquet has two opponents at risk with A♦ K♦ . Jinlong Hu is the shortest stack with 21,300 and has the best of it with A♠ A♣ . Shankui Li needs to improve with 6♣ 6♦ and does so on the 7♥ 6♥ 4♥ T♠ 8♠ board to knock out Hu and double through Bouquet.

From middle position, Patrik Demus opens then calls button Erik Rozhynskyi's 4000 re-raise. At the flop 7♥ K♥ 5♣ Demus check-calls Rozhynskyi's 2000 continuation bet then they check the turn Q♣ . On the river 3♦ , Demus shoves 12,600, Rozhynskyi assesses the board then folds after about a minute or so.

Egidijus Digrys is all-in for a mere 1,700 from under the gun and he is looked up by Georgios Skarparis as well as Georgios Skarparis, which create a larger side pot. Carvalho leads the K♠ 9♥ 3♠ flop for 3,200 and he calls a raise to 10,500 by Skarparis.

After the Q♥ turn, Carvalho jams for 21,700 and Skarparis folds.

Digrys shows A♥ 3♥ and has some outs to beat the K♥ J♥ of Carvalho, but the T♠ river is not among them.

In a three-bet pot to the 7♠ 4♥ 2♣ flop, table big stack Peter Kiem bets and Aliaksandr Shylko calls. Kiem bets the 5♠ turn and calls Shylko's raise to then check the A♦ on the river. Shylko jams for 20,800 and Kiem reluctantly folds.

Christian Harder three-bets, initial raiser four-bets, Harder jams, gets called then shows Q♣ Q♦ which is ahead of 9♦ 9♠ . The flop 9♣ 4♦ Q♥ improves both with Harder way ahead and delivers the boot after the turn A♥ and river 4♠ .

With the final board showing T♥ 7♣ 3♥ 7♠ K♠ , Erwan Regnault bets 20,000 from middle position, and Gary Guerrero thinks for a while before he says, "If you have it, you have it." Guerrero calls.

Regnault turns over 8♥ 7♥ for trip sevens, and Guerrero rechecks his cards and waits a surprisingly long time before he mucks. Regnault wins the pot.

From the big blind seat, Rui Bouquet calls Shankui Li's raise then they check it to the turn K♥ 8♦ 6♠ 6♦ . Li resumes for 4500, Bouquet check-calls then the river 7♥ is checked by both. Bouquet is first to show and has K♠ 2♥ to win the pot.

In a heads-up pot to the A♠ K♠ 8♣ 8♥ turn, Arjun Agrawal leads from the small blind and Rahul Bhatia raises to 11,000. Agrawal then clicks it back to 18,500 and a surprised Bhatia goes into a brief tank before folding.

Three players call Manuel Carvalho's raise for a flop 4♣ 9♦ 4♠ . Carvalho continues for 1600, only Georgios Skarparis and Shankui Li call. At the turn J♦ , Carvalho fires 7100, Skarparis makes it 18,500, Li folds and Carvalho quickly gets rid of his cards. Skarparis says "I know you are bluffing."

Facing a raise, middle position Jungsup Yun three-bets 4,000 then big blind Iurii Brechalov four-bets 10,500, initial raise folds, Yun five-bet jams 22,800. Brechalov snap-calls.

Yun is behind with A♣ Q♣ as Brechalov shows A♠ K♦ . The board felts 9♠ 4♥ T♣ 8♥ Q♥ . Yun rivers a pair to land a double.

Level 5 comes to an end, and Level 6 begins with increased blinds of 400-800 and an 800 ante. Play continues without a break.

The tournament clock shows 277 entries so far on Day 1A, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 10, around 9:45 pm.

The field is playing 11 one-hour levels today, and action is scheduled to end shortly before midnight.

Heads-up to the A♣ K♥ Q♥ flop, Brian Green bets 3,000 in the cutoff and Sreekanth Narayanan calls on the button. Green then ups his sizing to 15,000 on the 6♠ turn and Narayanan folds. With more than five starting stacks at the end of level five, Green appears to be unstoppable right now.

According to Naj Ajez, a three-bet pot escalates with more than 50,000 chips in the middle to the Q♣ 7♥ 5♥ T♥ J♣ river. Vishal Ojha jams for the last 25,600 and Yinghao Zhuo is in the tank and eventually calls with the covering stack.

Ojha tables 4♦ 4♥ for just a pair of fours and Zhuo earns the knockout holding 7♠ 7♣ for a flopped set of sevens.

Akhilendra Singh limps from middle position for 600, and Yita Choong raises from middle position to 2,500. Kristopher Rundquist calls from the small blind, Alberto Morales Flores calls from the big blind, and Singh also calls.

All four players check to the turn on a board of 7♥ 6♣ 3♥ 5♠ , and Rundquist bets 2,200. Flores and Singh both call, and Choong folds.

The river card is the 4♠ , putting a seven-high straight on the board with no flush possibilities. Rundquist thinks for a while before he checks, and Flores bets 9,000. Singh and Rundquist both fold, and Flores takes the pot.

(We'll never know if he had an eight in his hand.)

Travis Endersby has A♦ A♥ and raises 1400 from early position. The blinds defend - Dhaval Mudgal and Frank Lillis - to take the action to the flop 7♣ A♠ 8♣ . Blinds check then call Endersby's 1500 continuation bet. On the turn A♣ , Endersby lands quads and bets 3200, blinds check-call again to see the river 5♥ . Endersby fires near pot of 18,000, only Mudgal calls then mucks saying "Nice hand sir" upon seeing the aces in the hole.

Battle of the blinds builds a pot of 4200 before the flop K♠ 6♥ Q♣ . Small blind Aliaksandr Shylko leads out 1000, Xianling Chen pays it, then both check the turn 3♠ . By the river 4♣ , Shylko sends out 3600, Chen tanks for a couple of minutes before making the call. Shylko flips open Q♥ J♥ to win the pot.

Hun Tae Choi checks the J♥ T♣ T♦ 9♣ 6♦ river and table neighbour Hongru Zhang bets 15,000 into a pot of around 17,000. Choi reluctantly calls and instantly mucks when Zhang reveals the Q♦ Q♣ .