We came across the table with a mountain of chips in the pot and the board spread out .
Masaki Nakano had just checked his option over to Tai Tan who was his opponent. Tan cut out a bet and slid in 135,000 in chips. Nakano thought about his decision and made the call only to muck his hand when Tan tabled his for the flush.
Tan raked in the pot and moves up to 460,000 in chips, a clear leader of the next largest stack.
We are three elimination away from the money, and that means it's time for a short-stack update. The following six players are near the bottom of the counts including high stakes heads up cash game player Dong Kim.
Battulga Mandakh, who had been short for quite some time, just moved all in for 19,000 and both players on his left. Masai Nakano and Tai Zheng Tan made the call.
On a board the hand was checked down and Mandakh showed for king-high. Tan tabled but it was Nakano who took down the pot with .
With 33 players remaining another break has just started. Play will resume in 10 minutes and 27 players will get paid in this event. The money bubble looms.
Tai Tan raised to 6,000 from under the gun pus one. Takuya Suzuki then bumped it up to 19,500 from middle position before the decision fell on Yang Wang. He thought for a moment before moving all in for around 70,000 in chips from the button. The blinds got out of the way, as did Tan. Suzuki quickly made the call and the cards were tabled.
Suzuki:
Wang:
The board ran out to see Suzuki spike a queen on the flop to send Wang to the rail just short of the scheduled break.