
D1A
Upeshka Da Silva In The Danger Zone
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.
Player | Chips |
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K Kristopher Rundquist | 150,000(60 BB) |
UD Upeshka De Silva | 28,000(11 BB) |
Thomas Boivin Leads the Field at the Break with 385,500

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:
Player | Chips |
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TB Thomas Boivin | 385,500(193 BB) |
BG Brian Green | 339,000(170 BB) |
YS Yakiv Syzghanov | 332,500(166 BB) |
AB Adrien Berger | 313,500(157 BB) |
SC Sungmin Cho | 311,000(156 BB) |
HZ Hongru Zhang | 298,500(149 BB) |
K Kristopher Rundquist | 292,500(146 BB) |
AG Asish Ghosh | 284,000(142 BB) |
AG Apoorva Goel | 270,000(135 BB) |
Issam Fayad Runs Into Aces
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.
Player | Chips |
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K Kristopher Rundquist | 252,000(210 BB) |
IF Issam Fayad | busted |
Alberto Morales Flores Takes a Multi-Way Pot with a Straight on the Board
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.)
Player | Chips |
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AF Alberto Flores | 120,000(200 BB) |
K Kristopher Rundquist | 56,000(93 BB) |
YC Yita Choong | 47,000(78 BB) |
AS Akhilendra Singh | 37,000(62 BB) |
Rolands Norietis Raises the Flop

In a single-raised pot with 500 preflop three ways, the flop shows 9♦ 8♠ 2♦ . Kristopher Rundquist bets 1,000 when checked to and Bas de Laat calls. Rolands Norietis then check-raises to 4,000 and Rundquist eventually folds, as does de Laat.
"Top top," Rundquist says and adds "it's possible he had an overpair".
Player | Chips |
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RN Rolands Norietis | 53,500(268 BB) |
BD Bas de Laat | 48,500(243 BB) |
K Kristopher Rundquist | 48,500(243 BB) |