APPT Main Event ($1,650)

Picking up the action on 2♠ 8♦ 8♥ J♠ and 150,000 in the middle, Jinlong Hu check raises to 150,000 against Agharazi Babayev's 65,000, who decides to call, flicking a time bank in the dealers direction, and then leading 150,000 of his own on the 7♣ river. Hu decides to let it go and is among the short stacks again.

With 23 fighters left the top spots go to:

Looking at Agharazi Babayev's limped SB, Hieu Ngo decides to make it 45,000 and we see the flop T♣ A♥ Q♣ . Check-call 35,000 for the 2♥ turn, another check call for 67,000 to see the river J♣ . This time Agharazi Babayev cant find the call for 75,000 and flings his cards in the middle.

Agharazi Babayev opens 25,000 from HJ, gets called by CO Hieu Ngo and we see the flop A♣ A♠ 8♥ with Agharazi Babayev slowing down to check-call Hieu Ngo's 25,000 lead. Checking down 6♠ and arriving at the river J♠ , Agharazi Babayev takes the lead again with 25,000 and adds a small pot to his big stack.

With the remaining 71 players all guaranteed at least $2,700 the top stacks are :

With a pumped up pot of 380,000 we see Agharazi Babayev and Mystery Bounty Runner-Up Xiaosheng Zheng check it down to the river T♦ 3♣ 3♦ 2♣ A♦ . Xiaosheng Zheng calls and mucks 140,000 to Agharazi Babayev's T♣ T♠ full house.

Agharazi Babayev starts us off with a 13,000 raise from UTG and both blinds defend. Checked down to the river A♦ 9♣ T♣ 4♥ 2♠ , a delayed c-bet does the trick and Babayev bags the pot.

More chips for Erik Rozhynskyi who kicks off the hand with an 8000 raise then fires down the streets 3♣ 8♣ T♥ A♠ Q♦ for 16,500, 27,000 and 33,000. Big blind challenger Agharazi Babayev folds to the river bet.

Nonstop betting by Erik Rozhynskyi that he starts preflop for 7000. Big blind Agharazi Babayev takes the challenge. The dealer fans the flop K♥ 3♠ Q♥ , Rozhynskyi continues for 6500 and the challenge continues with Babayev calling. On the turn A♠ , another 27,500 bet from Rozhynskyi is called by Babayev but on the river 5♠ , Rozhynskyi’s shove ends the battle uncontested.

Agharazi Babayev of Azerbaijan gets shown the door by Korea’s Hong Hyunil as both go all-in preflop.

Babayev tables A♥ 5♥ while Hong shows A♣ 9♠ .

The runout had Babayev drawing dead on the turn: Q♠ 7♠ 2♦ 9♣ and the 6♣ on the river made the ouster of the Azerbaijani official.

Heavy action opened by Ira Blumenthal for 800 is called by Manwoo Park then button Agharazi Babayev three-bets 3200. This doesn't shake off Blumenthal and Park to go o the flop 3♦ 9♥ 6♠ . Action is checked to Babayev who c-bets 2500 and is called again by both to head to the turn 5♠ . Betting a larger 8000 still sees no folds to boost up the pot further and the river comes A♥ . Babayev shoves, and surprisingly this time takes it down without further challenge.

On a raised pot preflop, Jeremy Jehanne bets 8500 on the flop 4♠ 8♣ T♣ , Agharazi Babayev calls and early aggressor Armon Van Wijk gets begs off. No action on the turn T♥ for a free river K♥ . Babayev comes out for 25,000, Jehanne shoves, Babayev is well covered and decides to hold on to his chips.

Somasekhar Sanampuri of India opens the action from UTG for 1,600 and gets a call from Korea’s Kim Donghyup in the CO. Meanwhile, Agharazi Babayev of Azerbaijan 3-bets to 6,400 from the D gets called by the two aforementioned gentlemen.

The flop comes 6♥ 8♥ 5♦ . Sanampuri and Kim check and Babayev continues firing for 5,500. Sanampuri calls but then Kim goes in the tank and then opts to check-raise all-in for his remaining 29,500. Babayev then re-raises all-in himself, forcing the Indian player out the hand.

Kim flips over A♥ J♣ for two over cards to the flop while the Azerbaijani brandishes A♦ A♣ .

The turn is the 9♣ and the river of the Q♠ solidified matters, eliminating Kim and bringing Babayev’s stack over the 100,000 chip mark.