Thomas Ward is having a solid day. On this hand, Zhou Zhou opened for 110,000 and Ward reraised to 210,000. Zhou called. The flop came and Zhou checked to Ward. Ward bet 185,000 and Zhou called.
The turn was the and Zhou checked again. Ward bet 420,000 and before the dealer could finish getting a count, Zhou folded.
Hsien Yuan Yang has moved up to 1.75 million after a very interesting hand.
Nan Tu limped from the button and Connor Drinan studied him for a bit before he completed from the small blind. Yang was in the big blind and raised to 150,000. Tu then back-raised to 350,000 and that was enough to force out Drinan, but not Yang, who shoved to win the hand.
Nan Tu doubled up against Zhou Zhou after getting all in on the turn with a flush draw.
Tu opened preflop to 85,000 and Zhou defended his big blind with a call. The flop came and Zhou checked to Tu. Tu bet 95,000 and Zhou called.
Zhou checked the on the turn and the action was on Tu. Tu tanked for a minute before betting 450,000. Tu put all but 200,000 of his stack in. While the dealer was in the middle of counting the bet, Zhou reraised putting Tu all in. Tu called off the rest of his stack and needed help from the river.
Tu had a flush draw with against the two pair of Zhou, . The river was the and was good for a double up for Tu.
Registration closed after one level of play in the Super High Roller today and there ended up being 34 entrants in total, with 17 rebuys. They all helped form a prize pool of $24,235,200.
The top six players will finish in the money with payouts as follows:
Steve O'Dwyer busted 15th in the Main Event yesterday and is the current chip leader with around two million. Brynn Kenney's in second on about 1.4 million, followed by Mustapha Kanit and Kitson Kho who both have around 1.25 million.
They will play down to the money today and return to play out to a winner tomorrow, where PokerNews will feature live updates.
Qi Luo got unlucky to bust to Zhou Zhou just now and the latter soared back into the chip lead.
Zhou opened to 90,000 before Luo moved all in for around 500,000. Zhou asked for a count but before he was given a number, he said, "F*&k it!" and called.
Zhou:
Luo:
"Queen!" shouted Jason Mo from the rail.
"It's coming, I'm telling you," said Conor Drinan, who suffered a three-outer to Zhou earlier on.
Connor Drinan and Zhou Zhou missed the first three hands coming back from the break. As Drinan was returning, Nan Tu shoved all in, in an attempt to take down the dead money. Hsien Yuan Yang, who seems to only play big hands called, putting himself at risk. Qi Luo folded in the big blind leaving Tu and Yang heads up.
Tu had and Yang was way ahead with . The board came out and Yang doubled up.
and Zhou checked to Ward. Ward bet 185,000 and Zhou called.
and Zhou checked again. Ward bet 420,000 and before the dealer could finish getting a count, Zhou folded.
and Zhou checked to Tu. Tu bet 95,000 and Zhou called.
on the turn and the action was on Tu. Tu tanked for a minute before betting 450,000. Tu put all but 200,000 of his stack in. While the dealer was in the middle of counting the bet, Zhou reraised putting Tu all in. Tu called off the rest of his stack and needed help from the river.
against the two pair of Zhou, 
. The river was the 
and was good for a double up for Tu.
.
. The board came out 
flop. Luo continued for 125,000 before Tu check-raised him all in. 
after tanking for two minutes.