Team Singapore Eliminated in 7th Place by Team China

Sep 21, 2018

Team Singapore

Calvin Tan (Singapore) is all in from the small blind for about 100,000 with Spade JHeart J, but needs to improve to stay alive against the Spade AHeart A of Yang Zhang (China) in the cutoff.

The board comes Spade 8Heart 2Diamond 2Spade 9Diamond K, and the pocket aces hold up for Zhang to win the pot for Team China and eliminate Team Singapore in seventh place.

Here are the updated chip counts after the hand:

Seat 1.  Hong Kong SAR  –  242,000  (24 bb)
Seat 2.  China  –  445,000  (45 bb)
Seat 3.  Korea  –  307,000  (31 bb)
Seat 4.  Taiwan SAR  –  340,000  (34 bb)
Seat 5.  Netherlands  –  370,000  (37 bb)
Seat 6.  Malaysia  –  215,000  (22 bb)

7th Place:  Singapore
8th Place:  New Zealand
9th Place:  Japan

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