WPT Cambodia Championship ($3,500)

With the board showing 8♦ 5♣ 3♥ T♥ on the turn, Zijing Zhan checks from early position, Daniel Charlton moves all in from the cutoff, and Zhan uses five Time Chips to tank for a long time before he calls all in for 392,000 with A♥ J♥ for a heart flush draw with two overcards.

Charlton turns over 9♠ 9♣ , and Zhan needs to improve to stay alive.

The river card is the 2♦ , and Charlton wins the pot with his pocket nines to eliminate Zhan in 41st place.

Artem Vezhenkov and Amin Riyazati join the under the gun raiser Azizjon Rakhimov to the flop K♦ 2♠ 7♥ Following two checks, Vezhenkov bets 35,000 and only small blind Riyazati calls.

Vezhenkov fires again on the turn 3♣ for 115,000, Riyazati calls, and the board completes 6♣ . Vezhenkov fires for the third time for 215,000, Riyazati uses up a time-bank then calls. Vezhenkov shows K♠ 7♠ and wins the pot.

Adam Friedman kicks off the hand with a raise from hijack and only Yoon Kang calls from cutoff. When the flop comes 8♥ 2♣ 9♦ , Friedman continues for 32,000 and Kang calls. They then check the turn 6♥ to head to the river K♠ . Friedman returns with a 62,000 bet, Kang pushes and well covers Friedman. After a time bank used, Friedman commits the rest of his stack.

Kang has 9♥ 9♠ set, Friedman shows J♥ J♣ , Kang ships it and eliminates Friedman in the process.

With the final board showing Q♥ 9♦ 3♣ 3♦ 8♣ on the river, Renat Bohdanov bets 115,000 from the big blind, and Martin Stausholm moves all in from UTG+1 for 579,000.

Bohdanov uses three Time Chips to tank for a while before he folds, and Stausholm takes the pot.

In a limped battle of the blinds, Aurimas Stanevicius leads the J♥ T♦ 5♥ flop for 15,000 and Ngoc Ha Nguyen calls in the big blind. The Lithuanian bets the 7♦ turn for 70,000 and Nguyen folds.

One hand later, Renat Bohdanov opens to 30,000 with Stanevicius on the button and Dominik Nitsche in the big blind calling. The Q♦ 8♥ 5♦ flop is checked to Stanevicius and he bets 37,000 to win the next pot.

After a flop of 9♦ 8♦ 2♣, Ankit Ahuja bets 70,000 from the big blind, Juyeol Lee moves all in from the hijack for 382,000, and Ahuja waits for an exact count before he calls with A♠ 9♣ for a pair of nines.

Lee turns over A♦ J♠ for ace high, and needs to improve to stay alive.

The turn card is the K♠, the river card is the 4♥, and Ahuja wins the pot with his pair of nines to eliminate Lee in 45th place.

Thi Bao An Nguyen moves all in from UTG+1 for 177,000, and Azizjon Rakhimov calls from the big blind with 2♠ 2♣ . Nguyen turns over 9♦ 9♣, and needs it to hold to stay alive.

he board comes T♠ 8♥ 3♣ A♦ 7♠ , and the pocket nines hold up for Nguyen to win the pot and double up in chips.

Catching the action on a board 3♣ 3♦ 2♣ with four players in and a pot of around 200,000 weighing down the middle. After the blinds check, Yujian Sun bets 75,000 from under the gun, down the orbit Daniel Charlton raises 150,000, blinds fold and Sun calls.

On the turn Q♥, Charlton sends out 325,000, and after two time banks run out, Sun surrenders his hand.

The second short stack in a row exits from table three. First to go is Amit Kaushik after a torrid second level and Dylan Foster then hits the rail against fellow Aussie Amin Riyazati, who currently leads the Player of the Festival ranking as well.

Foster jams for 105,000 and Riyazati in the big blind has not looked at his cards yet. He peels the first one, which is the K♠ and says "the first one is good". The second card is, too, as it's the K♦ .

Foster has a mountain to climb with J♦ T♦ and Riyazati flops a full house on the A♥ A♠ K♥ 9♦ 4♣ board.

"This is the last thing I want," Riyazati sighs before both embrace and part ways.

Following a raise of 30,000 from under the gun Ngoc Ha Nguyen, hijack player Renat Bohdanov three-bets 85,000, then on the button Aditya Agarwal makes it 150,000. This is enough to get Nguyen to fold while Bohdanov calls.

At the flop K♦ J♦ 7♣ , Agarwal continues for 105,000, Bohdanov calls, then they keep it safe and check down the rest of the board 2♠ 4♠ .

Bohdanov flips open A♥ Q♥ , Agarwal has T♦ T♣ to drag in the pot.

Three players in for 30,000 take it to the flop 5♥ 8♠ 6♥ . Action is checked to Ankit Ahuja, he bets 30,000. Only Juyeol Lee pays to continue and they see a turn Q♦ . Lee checks again, Ahuja fires a larger bet of 140,000, and after using up a time extension, Lee gives up his hand.

"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.

From under the gun, Lynn Gilmartin raises to 30,000 and Dylan DeStefano calls on the button whereas Hugues Girard comes along from the big blind.

With the flop showing J♥ 5♥ 3♥ , Girard check-folds when Gilmartin bets 55,000 and DeStefano calls.

Gilmartin leads the T♥ turn for 100,000 and then jams the A♠ river. DeStefano calls both times and doubles for 212,000 on the river with A♥ 9♥ for the flopped goods, as Gilmartin is unable to improve on her J♦ J♠ for a set of jacks.

A scan of the field during the break turned up nine players with at least 1.3 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

The players return from break to begin Level 19, with increased blinds of 10,000-15,000 and a 15,000 ante.

With 48 players remaining from a field of 750, the average chip stack is around 781,000 (52 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $10,200 each.

The field is playing five 90-minute levels today, with action ending around 8:15 pm.

Raffaele Sorrentino is all in from the big blind for about 100,000 with A♥ J♠ , and needs to improve to stay alive against the A♦ Q♥ of Supakit Anukoolpitaknil, who is UTG+1.

The board comes J♣ T♦ 5♦ T♥ Q♠ , and Sorrentino pairs his jack on the flop, only to see Anukoolpitaknil pair his queen on the river. Anukoolpitaknil wins the pot to eliminate Sorrentino in 49th place.

From middle position, Peteris Enders opens a huge 71,000 and gets a call from Renat Bohdanov. They proceed to check down the board J♥ K♣ K♦ 6♠ Q♦. Bohdanov shows A♥ Q♥ , Enders claims the pot with A♠ A♦ .

Four players contribute 24,000 preflop proceed to check down the board 3♥ 3♠ 8♠ K♥ Q♣ . Adrien Berger is first to show 6♦ 6♠ , Supakit Anukoolpitaknil has better Q♦ 7♦ and wins the pot as the rest fold.

Neng Zhao in the big blind gets it in against Dylan DeStefano on a flop of 7♥ 6♦ 2♥ and his T♥ 8♥ for a gutshot and flush draw has two live cards as well, as DeStefano exposes the A♣ 7♦ for top pair and top kicker.

The turn is the 4♥ to seal the double for Zhao, who then says "unlucky buddy" once the T♠ river completes the board.

Yujian Sun opens to 32,000 and Thomas Boivin three-bets to 175,000 with fewer than that behind. Collin Ho then jams for 374,000 and Sun asks for a count but folds, Boivin calls all-in.

Ho is ahead with K♣ K♦ versus A♣ K♠ and there is no ace on the 7♣ 6♥ 3♠ 5♣ 3♦ runout to send Boivin out in 52nd place.

On a heads-up turn of J♠ 8♦ 7♠ 5♠ , Amin Riyazati checks and Sho Homma bets 70,000 for Riyazati to call from the big blind. Riyazati checks again the J♥ on the river and Homma now bets 200,000. Two time banks later, Riyazati calls and is good with T♣ 9♦ for the jack-high straight, as Homma is caught bluffing with A♦ T♦

Hugues Girard raises and subsequently four-bet jams for 245,000 with the A♠ A♥. He is called by three-bettor Koen Breed with the 9♠ 9♦ and the superior pair holds on a board of J♦ 5♦ 2♠ 7♠ K♥ .

Nils Pudel opens to 24,000 and Dylan DeStefano calls in the next seat out of the cutoff. Lynn Gilmartin comes along from the big blind and checks the J♥ 9♥ 4♥ flop. Her two opponents check as well and they head to the 6♦ turn.

Gilmartin checks and Pudel bets 45,000. DeStefano calls but both get out of the way when Gilmartin check-raises to 150,000.

Aurimas Stanevicius raises UTG+1 to 25,000, Bo Jin moves all in from middle position for 38,000, and Peteris Enders reraises over the top from the cutoff to 200,000. Stanevicius folds.

Jin turns over 4♦ 4♣ , and needs it to hold to stay alive against Enders' K♥ Q♥ .

The board comes K♦ 8♠ 7♥ K♠ T♥ , and Enders pairs his king on the flop and turns trips to win the pot and double up in chips.

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.

With the turn showing Q♦ 9♠ 8♠ 6♥ Sungmin Cho bets 75,000 and Amit Kaushik calls in the next seat. They are heading to the J♥ river on which Cho lets his shot clock run to almost zero before he announces a bet of 250,000. He first pushes forward two full stacks of T-5,000, another nine chips of the same denomination and then adds five yellow T-1,000 chips.

Kaushik uses two time banks and eventually calls, but quickly mucks when Cho tables J♦ T♦ for the flopped queen-high straight.

Heavy preflop betting begins with Aditya Agarwal on hijack raising 25,000. At cutoff, Martin Stausholm three-bets 75,000, then small blind Bo Su four-bets to send the action back to Agarwal who five-bets 390,000. Stausholm gets out of the way and Su shoves after using up one time-bank. Agarwal snap-calls and shows the nuts.

Aditya Agarwal: A♠ A♦

Bo Su: K♣ K♥

The board runs out Q♠ 3♦ 8♦ 9♠ A♣ to secure a massive double up for Agarwal as Su takes a nosedive.

Shortly after the elimination of Guy Taylor, Yoon Kang raises to 24,000. Ryan Plant three-bets to 72,000 and everyone including Kang folds.

Daniel Charlton then raises the button to 25,000 and Kang comes along from the big blind. The flop comes A♦ K♦ 9♦ and Kang checks, Charlton bets 18,000 to win the pot.

Xin Yuan raises under the gun to 25,000, Wonho Lee moves all in from UTG+1 for 65,000, and Yuan calls with A♠ T♠ .

Lee turns over K♦ 9♦ , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes A♥ 6♥ 2♦ 3♦ 3♥ , and Lee turns a diamond flush draw, but improves no further. Yuan wins the pot with two pair, aces and threes, to eliminate Lee in 56th place.

Amit Kaushik has A♣ J♠ and raises it up to 24,000 from early position. Wonho Lee defends his big blind then more chips find the flop 9♣ K♥ 4♠ with Lee check-calling 13,000.

After they check the turn J♥ , Kaushik resumes with a bet of 65,000 on the river 9♠ , Lee tanks for two time banks, then calls and mucks.

On a completed board of A♣ K♣ J♠ 2♠ A♠ , Amit Kaushik checks in the big blind. Artem Vezhenkov bets 250,000 from under the gun and Kaushik uses one time bank to then move all-in with the covering stack.

Vezhenkov immediately leans back in the seat and sighs. He uses one time bank and calls for 583,000, instantly asks if Kaushik has ace-king. Kaushik only has A♦ 2♥ for aces full of deuces, which he has beat with the A♥ J♦ for aces full of jacks.

Daniel Neilson wakes up with T♣ T♦ on the button and goes into a preflop battle against Peteris Enders who has Q♣ Q♦ . The chips all go in on Neilson's five-bet shove. With the board landing 2♦ 9♠ 5♠ 6♣ K♦ , Neilson gets up and leaves the tournament area.

Aurimas Stanevicius squeezes to 137,000 preflop with 35,000 behind and Renat Bohdanov then moves all-in. On the pay jump bubble, Stanevicius uses all of his new time bank extensions before he calls all-in with the A♣ T♣.

Bohdanov is ahead with 7♣ 7♠ but the over cards strike twice on the T♥ 9♠ 6♥ 2♥ T♦ runout.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 10 players with at least one million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

The players return from break to begin Level 18, with increased blinds of 6,000-12,000 and a 12,000 ante.

With 57 players remaining from a field of 750, the average chip stack is around 658,000 (55 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,600 each.

The field is playing five 90-minute levels today, with action ending around 8:15 pm.

After a flop of K♠ 6♥ 6♦ , Ngoc Ha Nguyen checks from the big blind, and Amin Riyazati checks from middle position.

The turn card is the T♦ , Nguyen bets 45,000, and Riyazati calls.

The river card is the 5♠ , Nguyen bets 100,000, and Riyazati uses a Time Chip to tank for a while before he calls. Nguyen shows A♠ A♦ to win the pot with two pair, aces and sixes, and Riyazati mucks.

Edgar Antezana has A♥ K♥ at under the gun and gives it a bump to 20,000. The blinds call and it's off to the flop 4♠ 8♥ T♥ . Antezana continues for 26,000, small blind Victor Li challenges with a check-raise of 90,000, big blind Sumit Sapra tanks for one time bank then folds while Antezana snap-shoves. Li snap-calls and shows 5♥ 6♥ .

The turn 3♠ changes nothing while the river K♣ ensures the win for Antezana and the double up.

Small pot for Sungmin Cho who defends on the big blind then calls Xin Yuan's 17,000 continuation bet on a flop 6♦ 3♥ J♣ . They proceed to check the turn 7♦ and river 6♣ . Cho flips open J♦ 3♦ and claims the pot as Yuan folds.

There will be a WPT Players Party tonight from 8:00 pm until 10:00 pm on the 6th floor pool deck. There will be plenty of food and refreshments available for players to unwind, whether or not they have bagged chips for Day 4.

To join the party, players must bring their tournament receipt for either the $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Cambodia or the $3,500 WPT Cambodia Championship.

Ronald Haverkamp defends on the small blind and heads to the flop 7♠ K♣ Q♣ where Jerwin Pasco continues for 25,000. Adam Friedman calls then Haverkamp check-raises to 85,000. This is enough to claim the pot. Haverkamp shows K♥ Q♥ .

In a clash Day 2 chip leader Ivan Karatayeu in the big blind versus Day 3 chip leader Daniel Charlton on the button, the former just calls a preflop raise and that then sets the stage on a board of Q♠ 8♦ 4♥ 2♣ 4♠ . Karatayeu leads the turn to earn a call and bets around 170,000 with a single chip behind on the river.

Charlton moves all-in and Karatayeu calls with K♥ Q♥ for flopped top pair. Charlton, however, has that beat with 9♦ 4♦ and his table neighbour Neng Zhao bursts out in laughter with some Aussie slang thereafter.

In three-way action to the K♠ 4♠ 2♣ J♦ T♥ river, Thi Bao An Nguyen bets 65,000 in the big blind. Ankit Ahuja raises to 190,000 from under the gun and Xin Yuan three-bets to 400,000. Nguyen folds and Ahuja jams, Yuan calls.

Nguyen exposes her Q♣ 9♦ for the bottom end of the straight, while Ahuja with A♣ Q♥ and Yuan with A♦ Q♦ both have broadway.

Zijing Zhan finally arrived around 12:31 pm, an hour after play began. Fortunately, he still has a sizable stack of 574,000 to work with.

Juyeol Lee has been on attack mode for nearly an orbit. Facing a raise from the button Kevin Ewald, he drops two chips in from the small blind and attempts to take one back but it's binding so he is forced to three-bet. Action goes back to Ewald who calls. At the flop T♥ 7♦ 5♦ , Lee checks, Ewald shoves and drags in the pot while showing Lee A♠ 7♠ .

Next hand, Lee three-bet shoves on the button on top of Shmuel Bechor's raise then wins with no callers. Repeat action at cutoff, Lee shoves 282,000 to push out raiser Dominik Nitsche from the pot.

Still feeling feisty, Lee loses 20,000 on the next hand by calling a raise then folding at the flop but makes up for it by shoving on the next two hands to collect the blinds and ante.

Still not done, Lee opens from under the gun and big blind Ewald calls. At the flop Q♦ Q♣ A♠ , Lee continues for 18,000 and wins the pot again.

On the eighth consecutive hand, Lee three-bets 75,000 from the big blind and raiser Dominik Nitsche calls. They proceed to check to the turn J♠ Q♥ J♣ Q♣ where Nitsche bets 125,000 and wins the pot with Lee folding

Apoorva Goel jams from the small blind into the big blind of Martin Diaz and the Spaniard calls with around eight blinds, exposing the A♠ only at first. He then also squeezes the 5♣ and is up against Goel's K♥ T♦.

The J♠ 8♠ 3♣ T♥ 8♥ runout pairs the ten on the turn and sends Diaz to the payout desk.

Zijing Zhan bagged up 654,000 (65 big blinds) at the end of Day 2, but now that the first level of Day 3 is half over, Zhan hasn't shown up.

Most of his chips are still in his bag, so we aren't able to get an accurate count of his current stack, but each round of the blinds he is losing 25,000 in chips. Zhan has enough to climb the payout ladder for a while until he shows up, but his stack won't last forever.

Jeremy Jehanne three-bets to 90,000 on the button and Lynn Gilmartin then jams for 497,000 behind. It folds back to Jehanne and he asks for a count, eventually calls without asking for a stack and shows his A♦ K♦ .

Gilmartin is at risk with the K♥ K♣ and has an additional sweat to endure until the 8♠ 8♦ 4♠ T♦ turn. No ace or diamond follows as the river is the 7♣ , propelling the WPT anchor to seven figures.

Yinghao Zhuo raises and Ankit Ahuja three-bets to 60,000 one seat over on the button. Both blinds fold and Zhuo four-bets to 180,000. Ahuja opts to call and the flop comes 8♣ 7♣ 2♣ , after which Zhuo checks. Ahuja bets 145,000 and that forces out his table neighbour.

Supakit Anukoolpitaknil raises from the cutoff to 22,000, and Kunal Patni moves all in from the small blind for about 185,000. Jiaxian Pan moves all in over the top from the big blind for 259,000, and Anukoolpitaknil folds.

Patni turns over A♦ 4♦ ,and he needs to improve to stay alive against Pan's A♣ Q♠.

The board comes J♥ 8♥ 8♠ 5♦ 6♠ , and Pan wins the pot with his queen kicker to eliminate Patni in 68th place.

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.

Catching the action on the river with a big pot in the middle, Yujian Sun is all in on a board 5♣ 6♦ 8♥ A♣ 5♦ with A♠ Q♣ on hand and wins a double up off Daniel Charlton with A♥ 9♥ .

On the river of a Q♦ 7♥ 4♣ J♠ A♣ board, Wonho Lee checks and Amit Kaushik goes into the tank before he moves all-in. Lee snap-calls and shows the Q♣ J♣ for turned two pair.

Kaushik, however, has broadway with K♥ T♣ and doubles for 192,000.

Jeremy Jehanne kicks off the action at Table 8 with a min-raise frum under the gun that finds two callers in Lynn Gilmartin and Dylan DeStefano on the big blind. When the flop comes Q♥ J♥ 6♦, Jehanne continues for 25,000, Gilmartin folds while DeStefano check-raises to 85,000. Jehanne calls to take it to the turn 9♣ .

DeStefano barrels a second time for 80,000 and still doesn't shake off Jehanne who calls. On the river Q♠ , DeStefano puts the brakes on, Jehanne tanks for one time bank then checks as well. Destefano has a missed flush K♥ 4♥ , Jehanne collects the big pot with Q♣ T♦ .

On a flop of 9♠ 9♣ 5♥ with 95,000 in the middle, Kevin Ewald checks and Juyeol Lee bets 35,000. Ewald check-jams for 167,000 and Lee goes deep into the tank. He uses three time banks and then folds with two seconds left on the action clock.

John Perry raises from the cutoff, Jiaxian Pan reraises from the small blind, and Perry reraises to 115,000. Pan reraises to 230,000, and Perry six-bets all in for about 785,000.

Pan uses three Time Chips to tank for about two minutes before he folds, and Perry takes the pot.

Thomas Boivin raises from under the gun to 20,000 and Somashekar Nahadeva calls in the small blind. Nahadeva check-calls for 25,000 on the 8♠ 8♥ 5♦ flop and another 85,000 on the J♦ turn.

Nahadeva checks the K♠ on the river and Boivin moves all-in to get snapped off. Nahadeva doubles for 166,000 with J♣ J♥ for jacks full, while Boivin takes a major hit holding the K♦ Q♣.

In the meanwhile, Karan Sitlani is heading to the payout desk as first casualty on Day 3.

Almost all of the 72 survivors still in contention have taken their seats and unbagged their chips. The action is underway for level 17 with blinds of 5,000-10,000 and a big blind ante of 10,000.

From a field of 750, there are only 72 players remaining in the WPT Cambodia Championship, and Day 3 begins today at 11:30 am. The field will play five 90-minute levels, and action should end shortly after 8:00 pm.

* First-place amount includes the winner's $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

The action resumes at 11:30 am, so stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT Cambodia Championship.