Mixed bag of ups and outs and bad beats

Thailand player James Chavanarojrit stares down and hopes for a double up against a player with . With the board running low, his pair holds up. 

On the first hand of the day, short stacked Bao Pham dodged a player’s [pc10d10h][/pc] with his straight on a board . Later, he eliminates a player with king-nine dominating queen-seven throughout to surge over 300,000. He is just about average.

WPT Tokyo Main Event champion Shingo Endo is well ahead with , Chi Chung Ho is in bad shape with , small chance on the turn but it doesn’t materialize on the river. 

After a raise war, Nghia Trong Nguyen is all in with ace-queen and runs into Thanh Tien Nguyen’s pocket aces. No luck arrives on the board and he packs up. 

Lady luck continues to shine on Hue Dang as she ships another maximum. Dang’s gets the best of on a board against Khanh Hoang Nguyen’s

David Appleton delivers a bad beat bust to Hoang Huy Pham. Right after Pham earns a double up through Quang Minh Nguyen with pocket fours holding up, he shoves again and this time has a much better . David Appleton calls with . The board runs to crush kings. Pham leaves and Appleton climbs to 500,000.