WPT Cambodia Championship ($3,500)

Not long ago, Xin Yuan was down to only 80,000 - ten big blinds in this level. He open raises and earns two callers to then simply push all-in after the Q♦ T♠ 3♦ flop from an early position. Marc Joseph calls all-in for 226,000 in the cutoff and they have to wait for all other tables to finish.

Marc Joseph: A♠. Q♣

Xin Yuan: A♦ J♦

Joseph is ahead with top pair and top kicker but needs to dodge a lot of outs. One of them instantly comes with the T♦ turn to leave Joseph with two queens and two tens as only outs. The river is the A♣ and the bubble bursts.

Before their table breaks, Marc Joseph tangles with Sho Homma and they create a pot of nearly 150,000 to the 5♣ 4♥ 2♣ 8♥ 9♥ river. Homma checks and Joseph bets 100,000 with only a few chips behind. The snap fold follows and they head different ways soon after.

Several other updated counts can be found below.

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♥ .

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.

The Day 1a field is approaching 200 entries and among the latest joiners are Adam Friedman, Thi Bao An Nguyen, Kyosuke Nagami, Luc Ramos, Xianling Chen, Javier Gomez, Remy Murcia, Joris Michl, Naj Ajez, Lander Lijo, Abhinav Iyer, and Dhaval Mudgal to name just a few of the new faces.

Marc Joseph is also in contention as well after making the trip to Cambodia from South Africa. He tangles with early big stack Peter Kiem and they check the T♣ 4♣ 4♥ K♣ turn, Kiem then bets the J♦ river to force out Joseph.