Mystery Bounty Hunter - Sponsored by Natural8 Flight B

Keita Minami topped flight B in the Mystery Bounty Hunter - Sponsored by Natural8.

Minami bagged and tagged 435,000 from the second and faster-structured flight that took place today. Minami, representing Japan, never seemed to be in danger throughout the day and finished strong by eliminating Kyongrok Moon to burst the bubble and secure his place in day 2.

In 2nd is South Korea's very own Sungkyu Jeon who finished the day with a very respectable 323,000 in chips.

Behind Jeon in 3rd is Gavin William Best of Australia who bags 315,000.

Kyle William Joseph Jones comes in last place with 69,000 chips and I am sure the Canadian will want to change that and make a run at the final table.

Of the 90 entrants in flight B, just 13 made it through the field to secure at least a min-cash and a shot at the Mystery Bounty Hunter title. They will join 18 others who qualified from flight A tomorrow at 12.30 pm local time.

The bubble has burst, without the drama from flight A, in the second flight of the Mystery Bounty Hunter.

Kyongrok Moon is the unlucky guy who came in 14th place.

Keita Minami eliminated Moon with his A♥ A♦ against Moon's K♠ 6♥.

The board coming T♣ 9♥ Q♠ 3♣ K♦ and Moon was sent into the night without a cash.

18 players remain in contention for the 13 spots that will make day 2 here in flight B.

We are deep into level 16 which means blinds are 2,500/5,000/5,000. The average stack is 158,824.

In the Mystery Bounty Hunter flight B I caught the end of big pot played between Phan Hung Cuong and Samuel Lee Deering.

Deering held K♣ K♥ while Cuong held T♣ 8♣ on a board of 6♠ 9♠ T♦ 8♥ 5♦.

Cuong's turned 2 pair was good enough to win the 240k pot while Deering did not look impressed at his tablemate's actions during the hand.

"Why did you call pre?" exclaimed Deering. "Was it because it was suited?".

The pot is shipped in Cuong's direction and Deering is left to debate the hand while typing the hand into a poker odds calculator.

Kyle William Joseph Jones shoved his last 40,000 or so chips into the middle and Fang Zhang in seat 1 called off her last 30,000 to put herself at risk.

Jones needed help as he showed Q♥ 9♥ and was up against the A♦ J♦ of Zhang.

The board ran out Q♠ 2♠ T♥ 3♣ 2♣ to give Jones the pot and send Zhang, the last remaining female in flight B, to the rail.

24 remaining in flight B of the Mystery Bounty Hunter. Nobody seems to be breaking away from the field in terms of chip count.

The average stack is 112,500 but there are no players with even double that stack.

Keita Minami from Japan has around 200,000 chips whilst Gavin Williams Best from Australia appears to be the current chip leader with 208,000.

Into level 14 of the faster-structured flight B of the Mystery Bounty Hunter.

The blinds are now 1,500/3,000/3,000.

There are 29 players remaining and 13 players will make it into day 2 to join 18 players from Flight A.

We are zooming through in flight B of the Mystery Bounty Hunter.

Currently the players are playing through level 9 which is the 500/1,000/1,000 level.

57 entries remain from 84 that have registered. The average stack is 44,211.

Flight B of the Mystery Bounty Hunter is speeding along into level 5 with blinds currently at 200/400/400.

Remember this flight has a faster blind structure than Flight A with 20-minute blinds instead of 30-minute levels.

5 players have already lost their stacks with most re-entering.

Flight B of the Mystery Bounty Hunter is underway. This flight will play 20-minute levels instead of 30-minute levels like Flight A is currently playing.

So far there are 13 entrants for this flight. Both flights will end today and reconvene tomorrow for day 2.