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Mongolia fighting back

Table 1, hand #109.

Action is folded to Asi Moshe in seat 5 who finds the calling chips, Yang follows suit in seat 6, Bold Uundai raises to 200 on the button. Sangeeth Mohan calls from the SB as do both Asi and Yang. The flop comes out 9d 10s 2h. Check-check is followed by a 600 bet from Yang. Bold finds a raise to 2,000 and Yang immediately announces all-in, Bold calls. Hands revealed: Yang is ahead with Q 10, Bold is holding 10 8, no flush draws. The turn brings a queen leaving Bold with extremely slim chances to catch up, he needs a jack and a jack only. The river – a jack!! Mongolia makes a dent in the Chinese lead.

Play is almost coming to an end for day 1, most of the players have headed for dinner, and we will be rounding off the Day 1 action in our next update.

Standings after 120 hands:

Position	Nation	4th Session Points	Change
1st	Australia	580	▲
2nd	China	577	▼
3rd	CPG	544.5	▲
4th	Israel	543	▲
5th	Singapore	537	▲
6th	Japan	514	=
7th	India	504	▲
8th	Mongolia	484.5	▼

A minute with Joe Barnard

Standings after 110 hands:

Position	Nation	4th Session Points	Change
1st	China	542	=
2nd	Australia	530	=
3rd	Singapore	499	=
4th	CPG	498	▲
5th	Israel	496.5	▼
6th	Japan	473.5	▲
7th	Mongolia	461.5	▲
8th	India	459.5	▼

A minute with Joe Barnard

As a relatively new format and technology the Match Poker concept is under constant scrutiny and always in the process of improving. After a hectic start to the day we found a more relaxed “COO” Joe Barnard in the corner of the room with a bottle of water in his hand, catching a moment for himself. Guess we ruined that moment when we asked him a couple of questions:

Your immediate thoughts on the event today? “This is living and breathing proof that poker is a sport.” On the question of where Joe has seen the most important improvements since the European nations Cup in Cyprus Joe replies “improved and faster technology, pot-limit preflop, shorter sessions with no substitutions, multiple seat draws from session to session, mood of the staff and in particular for the teams and their players a much better service in shape of frequent and actual standings and stats made available for analysis”.

Standings after 100 hands:

Position	Nation	4th Session Points	Change
1st	China	492	=
2nd	Australia	476	=
3rd	Singapore	458	▲
4th	Israel	455.5	▼
5th	CPG	455	=
6th	India	425.5	▲
7th	Japan	425	▼
8th	Mongolia	413	=