Valeriy Pak and Danh Tuan Luu get their chips into the middle following a 932 flop. Luu is ahead with97 versus 96 and earns the double thanks to the A turn and K river.
Danh Tuan Luu - 350,000 (44 bb)
Valeriy Pak - 530,000 (66 bb)
Masato Yokosawa then raises to 16,000 and reluctantly calls the shove by fellow countryman Motoyoshi Okamura for 92,000 in the cutoff.
Motoyoshi Okamura: AJ
Masato Yokosawa: 77
Okamura gets there with a wheel on the 54223 runout.
Motoyoshi Okamura - 204,000 (26 bb)
Masato Yokosawa - 103,000 (13 bb)
Hand #1: Money Bubble Bursts! Andrej Desset Eliminated by Bao Pham
Photo: Andrej Desset
In the first hand of hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, the flop shows Q64, and Andrej Desset has a bet of 68,000 in front of him on the button. Bao Pham moves all in from the hijack, and Desset goes into the tank with the shorter stack.
All of the other tables finish their action, and the crowd around this table slowly grows larger.
Desset uses three of his Time Chips to tank for about two minutes before he calls all in for 195,000 with AQ for a pair of queens.
Pham turns over K2 for a club flush draw, and Desset needs his hand to hold to stay alive.
Photo: Andrej Desset
The turn card is -- the 9
The large crowd erupts in celebration as Pham clinches the pot with a club flush, and the meaningless river card is the 5. Bao wins the pot to eliminate Desset and burst the Money Bubble.
Bao Pham - 823,000 (103 bb)
Andrej Desset - Eliminated on the Money Bubble
After the crowd slowly dissipates from the table, another player looks at Pham and says, "It must be nice to have so many people rooting for you to win a hand."
Photo: Andrej Desset
