WPT Cambodia: Championship Warm Up Final Day live updates

17:30: Jonald Garcia wins the Championship Warm Up
Level 33: 200K-400K ante 400K

It’s al over! Jonald Garcia outdraws Marc Joseph to clinch the Championship Warm Up title. Last hand, Joseph with , Garcia with , the board runs .

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17:25: Jonald Garcia doubles up! Marc Joseph down to 10 bb
Level 33: 200K-400K ante 400K

Preflop raise war leads to both players all in. Marc Joseph with , Jonald Garcia at risk with . The board runs for a flush over straight to Garcia.

Jonald Garcia – 20,400,000 (51 bb)
Marc Joseph – 4,000,000 (10 bb)

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17:08: Deal reached!
Level 33: 200K-400K ante 400K

The players have agreed on an even deal of USD 54,000 each. They will play for the trophy and the remaining USD 1,989.

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17:05: Chip counts after the break
Level 33: 200K-400K ante 400K

Chips in play: 24,450,000

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	11,750,000	29
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	12,650,000	32

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16:45: Marc Joseph answers back
Level 32: 150K-300K ante 300K

Button Marc Joseph raises 850,000, big blind Jonald Garcia calls. Joseph c-bets the flop , Garcia calls, then both check the turn . On the river , Joseph bets 1,000,000, Garcia check-calls then mucks to Joseph’s .

Marc Joseph – 13,400,000 (45 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 11,000,000 (37 bb)

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16:40: Jonald Garcia takes the lead
Level 32: 150K-300K ante 300K

For the first time today, Jonald Garcia has grabbed the chip lead. On a raised pot, flop comes . Both players check to the turn . Joseph bets 600,000, Garcia calls. On the river , another 600,000 by Joseph, Garcia raises to 1,600,000, Joseph calls then mucks to Garcia’s straight.

Jonald Garcia – 14,200,000 (47 bb)
Marc Joseph – 10,200,000 (34 bb)

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16:30: Jonald Garcia near par
Level 32: 150K-300K ante 300K

Button Jonald Garcia limps, Marc Joseph raises 700,000, Garcia three-bets to 2,000,000, Joseph calls. At the flop , Garcia bets 1,400,000, fast fold by Joseph.

Jonald Garcia – 11,900,000 (40 bb)
Marc Joseph – 12,500,000 (42 bb)

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16:20: Marc Joseph catches the bluff
Level 31: 125K-250K ante 250K

On a flop , big blind Jonald Garcia bets 450,000, Marc Joseph check-calls. Both players check the turn . On the river , Garcia bets 975,000, Joseph calls. Garcia shows missed draw, Joseph wins the pot with bottom pair.

Marc Joseph – 15,400,000 (62 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 8,900,000 (36 bb)

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15:45: Top pair is good for Marc Joseph
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Button Marc Joseph opens 500,000, Jonald Garcia calls, flop is . Garcia check-calls 700,000. Both check the turn and river . Garcia shows , Joseph wins it with .

Marc Joseph – 14,200,000 (51 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 10,200,000 (71 bb)

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15:40: Jonald Garcia wins two good pots
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Jonald Garcia is closing in on evening up with two sizable pots dragged in. The first hand was a straight beating top pair. The second hand saw a larger pot initiated by Garcia. From the button, he raised to 600,000, Joseph defended. Both checked the flop . Joseph bet the turn 1,275,000, then both checked the river . Joseph had , Garcia with .

Jonald Garcia – 11,100,000 (56 bb)
Marc Joseph – 13,300,000 (67 bb)

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15:30: Chip counts
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Chips in play: 24,450,000

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	8,500,000	43
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	15,900,000	80

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15:08: Marc Joseph with trips for a big pot
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

On a board and 1,075,000 in the pot, big blind Marc Joseph bets 875,000, button Jonald Garcia calls. On the river , Joseph fires 2,000,000, Garcia calls. Joseph takes the pot with trips.

Marc Joseph – 17,100,000 (37 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 7,300,000 (86 bb)

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15:02: Heads up!
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Chips in play: 24,450,000

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	11,225,000	56
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	13,225,000	66

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15:00: Samuel Adams chunked and out in 3rd place
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Marc Joseph raises from the button, Samuel Adams defends the big blind, flop comes . Joseph c-bets 475,000, Adams check-raises, Joseph shoves, Adams snap-calls and shows . Joseph has flush. The turn and river doubles up Joseph while Adams plunges to 2 bb. Next hand, Adams is all in with and falls to Joseph’s .

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14:50: Chip counts after the break
Level 30: 100K-200K ante 200K

Chips in play: 24,450,000

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	9,700,000	49
2	Samuel Adams	New Zealand	7,400,000	37
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	7,300,000	37

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14:40: Samuel Adams cracks aces
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

On a flop , Marc Joseph shoves, Samuel Adams shoves, Joseph with the fast call and shows . Adams has . The turn changes nothing but the river does for a winning two pair to Adams.

Samuel Adams – 7,400,000 (49 bb)
Marc Joseph – 7,300,000 (49 bb)

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14:30: Yuwen Pan eliminated in 4th place – USD 24,046
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

End of the line for Yuwen Pan in 4th place. After losing a chunk to Marc Joseph, he dropped to 2bb on a failed bluff then exited immediately after.

Joseph opens 350,000, Pan defends the big blind. Both players check the flop and turn to see the board complete . Pan leads out 775,000 leaving himself 300,000, Joseph tanks then finds the guts to call. Pan opens bluff, Joseph wins it with .

Next hand Pan is all in with , Joseph and Jonald Garcia call. The board completes . Joseph bets the river, Garcia folds. Joseph cleans out Pan with trips.

Marc Joseph – 11,100,000 (74 bb)
Yuwen Pan – Eliminated in 4th place

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14:25: Marc Joseph has the flush
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

Utg Yuwen Pan raises 300,000, button Marc Joseph and big blind Samuel Adams call, flop comes . Action is checked to Joseph who sends out 375,000. Only Pan calls. Both players check the turn , then Joseph bets 575,000 on the river , Pan tank-calls. Joseph shows flush, Pan mucks.

Marc Joseph – 8,300,000 (55 bb)
Yuwen Pan – 1,350,000 (9bb)

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14:15: Samuel Adams survives the flip 
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

Samuel Adams three-bets jams 2,225,000 with , initial raiser Marc Joseph calls with . Board runs {qh] for a winning straight to Adams.

Samuel Adams – 4,675,000 (31 bb)
Marc Joseph – 8,000,000 (53 bb)

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14:10: Battle of the big stacks, Marc Joseph drags it in
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

From utg, Jonald Garcia raises 325,000, big blind Marc Joseph calls, flop runs . Garcia c-bets 325,000, Joseph check-calls. On the turn , Garcia bets 400,000, again Joseph flat. The river , Garcia bets 575,000, Joseph check-raises 2,100,000, Garcia tank-folds.

Marc Joseph – 10,000,000 (67 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 8,400,000 (56 bb)

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14:00: Jonald Garcia back on the grind, rises to 10M
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

Jonald Garcia has taken command of the table, winning several pots in succession to rise to 10,000,000. His latest pot was a battle of the blinds against Samuel Adams. On a raised pot preflop, Garcia bet 250,000 on a flop then called Adams’s 800,000, raise. Both players checked the turn . Garcia bet 1,225,000 on the river , Adams folded.

Jonald Garcia – 10,000,000 (67 bb)
Samuel Adams – 2,400,000 (16 bb)

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13:55: Yuwen Pan doubles up again
Level 29: 75K-150K ante 150K

Yuwen Pan earns his third double up of the day, this time through Jonald Garcia with dusting on a board .

Yuwen Pan – 4,775,000 (32 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 7,700,000 (51 bb)

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13:40: Yuwen Pan wins the flip
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

All in preflop, Samuel Adams looking to eliminate Yuwen Pan , however, an ace turn up on a board .

Yuwen Pan – 2,825,000 (23 bb)
Samuel Adams – 2,325,000 (19 bb)

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13:25: Jonald Garcia takes the lead
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

After knocking out Xin Zhao, Jonald Garcia picked up another two pots to take over the chip lead. Defending his big blind against raiser utg Samuel Adams, the board completed . Garcia bet 425,000 onto a 1,400,000 pot, Adams called then mucked to two pair.

Next hand, Yuwen Pan defended his big blind on a raise by button Garcia then called a flop bet. On the turn Pan lead out 450,000, Garcia pushed, Pan folded with 1,000,000 behind.

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	10,400,000	83
2	Samuel Adams	New Zealand	3,300,000	26
5	Yuwen Pan	China	1,000,000	8
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	9,500,000	76

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13:20: Xin Zhao eliminated in 5th place – USD 18,073
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

All in preflop, Xin Zhao needing help with dominated by Jonald Garcia’s . With the board running , Zhao was out in 5th place.

Jonald Garcia – 8,250,000 (66 bb)
Xin Zhao – Eliminated in 5th place

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13:05: Xin Zhao doubles up through Jonald Garcia
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

From utg, Jonald Garcia raises 275,000, cutoff Samuel Adams calls, button Xin Zhao shoves (for the fourth time – no callers on the previous three), Garcia calls, Adams gets out of the way.

Zhao is ahead with , Garcia with , no improvement for Garcia on the board to pay the double up.

Xin Zhao – 3,400,000 (27 bb)
Jonald Garcia – 4,800,000 (38 bb)

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12:45: Yuwen Pan celebrates the double up
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

Battle of the blinds, Yuwen Pan shoves with , big blind Marc Joseph calls with , board runs for a double up to Pan.

Yuwen Pan – 2,325,000 (19 bb)
Marc Joseph – 11,000,000 (88 bb)

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12:40: Chip counts after the break
Level 28: 75K-125K ante 125K

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	5,800,000	46
2	Samuel Adams	New Zealand	4,200,000	34
4	Xin Zhao	China	2,580,000	21
5	Yuwen Pan	China	1,350,000	11
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	12,100,000	97

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12:25: Choi Hun Tae eliminated in 6th place – USD 13,732
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Choi Hun Tae was next on Marc Joseph’s chopping block. From utg, Joseph min-raised, big blind Choi defends, flop is . Joseph c-bets 275,000, Choi check-calls. On the turn , Joseph pushes, Choi tank-calls for his last 1,100,000 and shows draw. Joseph has top pair. The river is .

Marc Joseph – 12,600,000 (126 bb)
Choi Hun Tae – Eliminated in 6th place

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12:07: Choi Hun Tae survives 
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Having just lost to Samuel Adams, Choi Hun Tae three-bet shoves with on the big blind, initial raiser Xin Zhao from cutoff calls with . Board runs for flush and a double up to Choi.

Choi Hun Tae – 1,550,000 (15 bb)
Xin Zhao – 1,200,000 (12 bb)

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12:05: Samuel Adams doubles up
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Samuel Adams all in for 1,650,000, big blind Choi Hun Tae calls, Adams ahead with , Choi . Board runs .

Samuel Adams – 2,450,000 (24 bb)
Choi Hun Tae – 675,000 (6 bb)

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12:00: Koen Breed eliminated in 7th place – USD 10,543
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

From utg+2, Marc Joseph min-raises, hijack Jonald Garcia calls, button Koen Breed three-bets 700,000, both Joseph and Garcia call. At the flop , Breed shoves, Joseph snap-calls, Garcia gets out of the way.

Breed
Joseph

The turn gives Breed a straight but the river sent Joseph back up with a boat to eliminated Breed.

Marc Joseph – 11,400,000 (114 bb)
Koen Breed – Eliminated in 7th place

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11:46: Chip counts
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Seat	Player	Flag	Stack	BB
1	Jonald Garcia	Philippines	4,900,000	49
2	Samuel Adams	New Zealand	2,300,000	23
3	Koen Breed	Netherlands	3,000,000	30
4	Xin Zhao	China	2,200,000	22
5	Yuwen Pan	China	3,800,000	38
6	Choi Hun Tae	Korea	3,225,000	32
7	Marc Joseph	South Africa	6,000,000	60

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11:45: Marc Joseph doubles up through Choi Hun Tae
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Hijack Choi Hun Tae opens for 225,000,  cutoff Marc Joseph three-bets 875,000, Choi four-bet shoves, Joseph snap-calls. Choi , Joseph , board runs for trips to Choi, then a runner runner turn , river for a flush to Joseph.

Marc Joseph – 6,000,000 (60 bb)
Choi Hun Tae – 3,225,000 (32 bb)

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11:35: Marc Joseph takes down a pot
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Raising preflop, Marc Joseph c-bet 300,000 on the flop , big blind Yuwen Pan called. On the turn , Joseph fires 775,000, Pan check-folds.

Marc Joseph – 3,200,000 (32 bb)
Yuwen Pan – 3,850,000 (38 bb)

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11:33: Xin Zhao shoves
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Second hand of the day, Xin Zhao shoves, no callers.

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11:30: Race to victory begins!
Level 27: 50K-100K ante 100K

Seat 1: Jonald Garcia – Philippines – 4,275,000
Seat 2: Sam Adams – New Zealand – 2,525,000
Seat 3: Koen Breed – Netherlands – 3,375,000
Seat 4: Xin Zhao – China – 2,250,000
Seat 5: Yuwen Pan – China – 3,425,000
Seat 6: Choi Hun Tae – 6,000,000 (chip leader)
Seat 7: Marc Joseph – South Africa – 2,600,000

Chips in play: 24,450,000
Average stack: 3,492,857
Opening Day 3 blinds: 50K-100K ante 100K