Jerry Yang Eliminated by Kyle Kitagawa, Kitagawa Takes the Chip Lead

Jerry Yang raises to 3,500 on the button and Kyle Kitagawa three-bets to 9,000 out of the big blind. Yang calls and they go to a flop of .

Kitagawa bets 10,000 and Yang calls. The turn is the and Kitagawa bets 24,000. Yang takes a minute and then moves all in for about 85,000. Kitagawa snap-calls.

Kitagawa shows and has Yang’s drawing dead in the biggest pot of the day. The river is an irrelevant and Yang heads immediately heads for the doors without even looking at the river. Kitagawa drags the pot and is the first player to cross the 200,000-chip mark.

Kyle Kitagawa – 258,000
Jerry Yang – Eliminated