With level 3 underway, there are two hours remaining to sign up for the event as the late registration closes after four hours of play. So far, the 264 entries of Day 1b and the 207 from Day 1a make for an overall field of 471 and that is just shy of the 494 from last year.
Fresh off his victory in the $50,000 Freezeout event last night, Sheng Sun is back to his winning ways, taking down a recent pot.
After the player in middle position raised to 700, Sun opted to bump it up to 2,150 and was called. The flop came down 
and both players checked.
The 
on the turn was met with an instant 2,000 bet from Sun. It was enough to take down the pot as his opponent mucked his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Yoshiro Nagata had a wide grin all over his face when the final community card fell and gave him the best hand. What had happened? The Japanese was involved in a clicking war with raises to 1,000, 3,000, 6,000 and 12,000 by Nagata before he had to call off a shove for 19,000 by his opponent.
Nagata flipped over 
and was up against 
. The 
flop and 
flop were not necessarily useful, but the 
on the river brought a miracle full house for the Japanese and he is up to more than three times the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
61,000 |
The action started with the player in middle position raising to 700 and getting called by five players including Yubin Zheng in the cut off and Steve O’Dwyer on the button.
The flop came down 
and the big blind checked. The original raiser then threw out a 2,200 continuation which was called a short time later by the player to his left. The hijack folded leaving Zheng to reach for his chips and slide out a raise to 7,700. O’Dwyer paused for a moment before announcing all in for just over 24,000 in chips. A string of folds found it’s way back to Zheng who made the call.
O’Dwyer: 
Zheng: 
Zheng had flopped a set and was up against O’Dwyer’s flush draw. The board ran out the 
and 
to see O’Dwyer miss his spade, leaving him with just 3,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
52,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
3,000
-17,500
|
-17,500 |
|
||
Jack Hu just check-raised all in after a ten-high board with the monster 
and received a hero call by a short stack with the 
to see his stack get reduced to half. He did smile though and could not help but laugh. "Back to life".
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
43,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
31,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
||
|
14,500
14,500
|
14,500 |
|
14,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
13,000
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
|
Busted | |
Gab Yong Kim raised to 650 from under the gun and watched as Eddy Liang then came over the top for 1,800 from the cut off. With the decision falling back on Kim, he reached for his chips, and splashed another raise to 5,650. The bet was enough to take down the pot as Liang opted to muck his hand moments later.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
56,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
13,000
-4,500
|
-4,500 |
Bryan Huang three-bet an open raise in late position and was called to see a flop of 
. After betting action, the PokerStars Team Pro got his remaining 14,000 in with pocket kings and was called by the sole opponent with 
for bottom pair and the flush draw. Two bricks later Huang had the crucial double and continued with lots of three-bets and four-bets, any major showdown didn't happen anymore since.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
43,000
30,800
|
30,800 |
|
|
||
Xing Zhou had lost some chips and was down to approximately 27,000 chips but things were about to become even more ugly. In a heads-up pot on the 
flop, Zhou check-raised from 1,400 to 3,400 and was called before the on the turn was checked through.
After the 
river, Zhou made a bet worth 3,000 and called off a raise to 9,500 to see his opponent flip over 
. An "oh ####" followed and Zhou mucked his now inferior 
for the worse full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
13,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
At one of the outer tables outside of the main tournament area, Winfred Yu was spotted check-calling a bet of 1,050 on the 
flop. On the turn both players in the hand checked and the opponent of Yu also checked behind the 
on the river. Yu turned over 
and that won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
