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Sascha Manns Chunks Wenchao Liu

by Tricia David • May 22, 2026 - 8:20 AM

Sascha Manns and Haruki Kwashima

Sascha Manns has climbed to 3M territory after getting the best of two players. The first one was Wenchao Liu who lost nearly all of his chips to Manns. Though we missed the hand, this boosted Manns to around 3M and Liu down to 365,000.

Wenchao Liu

Liu was eliminated on the next hand by Evgenii Chzhen with queen-jack over queen-ten.

Following Liu out was Haruki Kawashima who was down to crumbs and went all in at under the gun holding A ♣️ 6 ♠️ and Manns defended on the big blind.

Manns went on to deny Kawashima the double up with 9 ♦️ 4 ♦️ pairing up on a board of J ♦️ 10 ♦️ K ♥️ 4 ♣️ 8 ♣️.

Player Chips
Sascha Manns 3,200,000
Evgenii Chzhen 1,810,000
Wenchao Liu 0
Haruki Kawashima 0