‘FPO Championship’
Level 24 (12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entries: 557
Players Remaining: 11
Avg. Chips: 1,520,000
Sang Kim has been quiet over the course of this Day 3 session but he just announced himself to this FPO Championship field in a big way. Kim doubled with pocket kings against chip leader Henry Lu and it now looks like Kim playing one of the bigger stacks in the room with just shy of 2,000,000.
Sang Kim came into this Day 3 session near the top of the FPO Championship leaderboard and at both tables he’s been at, he’s had to contend with the white hot Henry Lu. Kim claims he’s waited the better part of two hours to pick up a hand against Lu and with just over 15 minutes remaining in Level 24, he finally did.
That hand was picked up with Lu opening to 50,000 from late position and after Mike Dentale flatted on the button, Kim three-bet to what looked to be 225,000. The big blind folded and Lu slid out a full stack of pink 25,000 value chips for a four-bet of 550,000. Dentale got out of the way and Sang announced “all-in”, with Lu calling and turning over {6c}{6h}.
He was likely hoping for a flip but Kim turned over {Kc}{Ks} and that left the big stack searching for two outs to score the knockout. After the {Kd}{9h}{3h} flop, Lu needed running cards and while Kim was standing, away from the table, celebrating what he thought was a guaranteed double, one of those runners came on the turn as the {4h} fell.
At first, the {5d} river card made Table 2 think that that flush did come in but on second glance, the river missed Lu’s draw. Kim then returned to the table to see just how close he’d come to actually not doubling up but once the dust settled, he had just under 2,000,000 in front of him
Kim began stacking his chips and made sure that the table and Lu knew that Sang “was back”, after waiting the better part of two levels to make his move up this FPO Championship leaderboard. Almost immediately after Sang’s double, short stack Chris Tryba cut down Henry Lu a bit more, as his {8s}{7c} ran down Lu’s {As}{10c} on a board of {Js}{6h}{5d}{7h}{8c}.
That all-in was for much less than Sang’s, as Tryba is now playing just under 650,000. A complete rundown of the remaining stacks will be posted shortly, as this field is on another break.