Filipino Mike Takayama has been on fire in the past hours. In the last five hands of the day, he won two pots making him shoot up in the ranking.
Hand 1
Short stack Keshu Peng went all-in for his last 9,000 and was called by Takashi Miyamoto. Mike Takayama was not happy with the situation and made it 50,000 to put Miyamoto all-in as the Japanese played 25,800 total. Miyamoto made the call.
Keshu showed 5 5 while Takayama had 7 7 and Miyamoto 9 6 .
The board ran out A A 5 3 8 Keshu found a fortune triple up while the rest of Miyamoto's chips went to Takayama.
Hand 2
The second hand we saw Takayama win we joined the action on the turn when the board was J Q 5 2 . Takayama and his opponent Takahiro Nakai both checked. Nakai fired out 6,500 on the 3 river and saw Takayama 3-bet to 20,500. Nakai thought about it while most other tables started to bag their chips. With pain on his face, Nakai made the call and saw Takayama's A 4 for a rivered straight. To show how unfortunate the Japanese was he flashed his 3 3 for a rivered set.