5K HR ($5,000)

After nearly losing all his chips in his previous hand, Lithuania’s Edgaras Kausinis is once again all-in preflop, this time against big stack Charlie Chiu of Taiwan.

Kausinis has 6♣ 4♣ which are live cards to Chiu’s A♥ 7♣ .

The runout never gave Kausinis a glimmer of hope: K♥ 2♦ 9♠ 7♥ 4♠ .

Chiu’s stack is now at 1.4 Million. We are now on bubble time.

Lithuania’s Edgaras Kausinis raises from utg+1 to 105,000 and gets called on the button by Jack Sinclair of England.

The flop is Q♥ 7♥ 2♠ as both check. The turn is the 3♦ and once again no action ensues. The river is the 2♣ and both still check.

Kausinis shows J♦ T♦ while Sinclair turns over A♦ K♥ for the win.

A short-stacked The Naing from Singapore opens from utg for 20,000 and is greeted with a 3-bet shove from Australia’s Yita Choong in the cutoff. Edgaras Kausinis of Lithuania makes the call from the button prompting The Naing to fold.

Choong tables 9♥ 9♦ while Kausinis shows A♣ Q♠ .

The flop is K♦ 5♥ 5♣ but the turn produces the A♦ to give the Kausinis the lead. None of Choong’s two outs arrived on the river as the 3♣ sealed the Australian’s fate.

The WPT Cambodia 5K HR resumes today, February 23, 2025 a NagaWorld in Phnom Penh with the prize pool already beyond half a million USD!

At Day 1, registration stayed open all day, attracting 117 entries. That number will continue to increase with one level remaining today for last minute weekend warriors to jump in. Late comers will still have a decent 100,000 (25 bb) stack at their disposal however will have to act fast to try to catch the leader, Thian Andhoko, who has over six times that amount.

Cards start flying at 11:30am. We will have the final numbers shortly after registration closes at 12:20pm. SMP will be onsite to bring you the action from start to finish.