WPT Cambodia Championship ($3,500)

"I should have gone all-in preflop," Paul Hoefer sighs when he bet-folds the river for nearly half his stack and is left on fewer than 20 big blinds. He then adds it was a three-bet pot on which the board shows A♦ 9♦ 3♥ T♣ K♠ . Hoefer bets 190,000 and Sho Homma jams to force a fold from his table neighbour, with Homma exposing the Q♠ .

In the next hand, Jhon Hendri jams for 171,000 and Homma calls with the 7♠ 7♥. Hendri laughs as he exposes the dominated 2♥ 2♣ , which fails to improve on the Q♦ T♦ 4♦ 4♥ 3♥ board.

On a board of A♣ 3♦ K♠ Q♥ J♥ , a big pot is in the middle and Adrien Berger tanks for two time banks before betting. Jhon Hendri does the same then shoves. Berger snap-calls and both have a ten card for the straight to split the pot. Bert Perry comments, "you won't get those time banks back guys". Hendri has 4 left and Berger has 6.

Jhon Hendri's open from under the gun finds two callers, hijack Adrien Berger and big blind defender Jiaxian Pan. At the flop 4♠ 4♥ Q♠, Hendri continues for 30,000 to lose Pan while Berger calls then both check the turn 5♣ . Hendri checks again on the river K♥ , Berger takes charge for 110,000 and wins the pot.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 14 players with at least 700K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

One last hand is still playing while the final break is underway and Jhon Hendri check-calls a second barrel for 95,000 on the 4♠ 3♣ 2♥ 8♥ turn by John Matsuda. He then checks the J♣ on the river and Matsuda goes all-in with the covering stack.

Hendri uses three time banks and calls to see Matsuda roll over K♣ 9♥ for a bluff. Hendri has that beat with 5♠ 5♥ for only a pair of fives and doubles very close to the bubble, as only 96 players remain.

Kunal Patni won a big flip with jacks against the ace-king of Joshua McCully, who busts soon after. In the meanwhile, Konstantin Held emerges from his undercover run and nearly doubles the stack he started with so far, now sitting between Hugues Girard and Ngoc Ha Nguyen. The same table has already lost Joris Michl and Dhaval Mudgal.

There is a squeeze to 53,000 in front of Jhon Hendri and he then faces the shove by Zijing Zhan for 112,000 with all other players out of the way. Hendri tanks for nearly two minutes with 51,500 behind and eventually calls all-in, turning over the 7♥ 6♥ .

His risk doesn't pay off, as the A♥ J♣ of Zhan lock up the pot on the turn of the 5♥ 2♠ 2♣ A♣ Q♣ board.

Gary Lin bets the Q♠ 5♥ 2♦ 8♥ turn for 15,000 and Ngoc Minh Le gives it some thought before splashing in a lot of T-5,000 chips for a big raise. These chips nearly splash into the main pot and Lin instantly folds.

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