Sakurai and Yang Thriving

Level 12
: 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

There were two casualties on table nine and one of them was Changyang Liu, new chip leader on the table is Jian Yang.
One table over, Kengo Sakurai sent Jie Xu to the rail when they clashed with two decent pocket pairs.
Jie Xu:
Kengo Sakurai:
Xu flopped a set but Sakurai got there via runner-runner straight on a board of .
Further early casualties can be found below.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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250,000
123,500
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123,500 |
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165,000
78,000
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78,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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