Matt Savage Eliminated -- Three Times

From the hijack, chiqiao raises, WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage reraises from the cutoff to 10,600, and chiqiao calls.

The flop comes , chiqiao checks, Savage bets big, and chiqiao moves all in.

Savage calls with for ace high, and he’s in the lead at the moment against chiqiao’s (flush draw).

The turn card is the , the river card is the , and chiqiao turns a heart flush to win the pot and eliminate Savage, collecting his ¥1,500 bounty.

chiqiao  –  114,600  (57 bb)
Matt Savage  –  Eliminated

Matt Savage tells us that this was actually his third elimination today (awarding three ¥1,500 bounties), coming in rapid succession.

Savage says he started off on a high note, doubling up in his first hand after he got it all in on a flop of with (trip sixes) against his opponent’s . And he built it up even further from there.

But then he three-bet it preflop to 10,600 with in a three-way pot, and the flop came . Savage bet 27,000, and both players called.

The turn card was the , and Savage shoved his remaining 40,000 or so — and one of his opponent’s snap-called with for a set of deuces. There was no heart on the river for Savage, and that was his first of three eliminations today.