Shintaro Baba raised to 10,000 before the flop and Wenlin Wang moved all in for 62,000 chips. The action folded back to Baba and he made the call after about a minute.
Wang:
Baba:
The board ran out and Wang was knocked out. We are now down to 28 players and that means hand-for-hand is in play.
The action folded around to Hiroyuki Tanaka in the hijack who moved all in for around 60,000 in chips. Bryan Huang was seat to his left and made the call forcing a fold from the player on the button as well as the two in the blinds.
Huang:
Tanaka:
The board ran out to see Huang hold with the higher kicker and send Tanaka home just one place short of the money.
The remaining 27 players are all guaranteed at least KRW 5,050,000 for their efforts.
Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin moved all in from the button to put both short stacks in the blinds all in, and Jason Park called off his remaining 50,000 chips from the small blind.
Lin showed and was behind against Park's , but the river gave Lin a winning pair to send Park to the rail.
Mick Woo started things off with a raise to 11,000 from under the gun plus one. The action folded around to Quan Bin Zhong on the big blind who moved all in for his last 30,000 in chips. The bet was called and both players tabled their cards.
Zhong:
Woo:
Zhong was looking good to take down the pot and double up until the board ran out giving Woo a higher pair on the river.
The action folded around to Takuya Suzuki on the button who raised it up to 11,000. Takahiro Nakai was seated to his left and bumped it up to 32,500 in chips. The big blind folded as the decision fell back on Suzuki. He thought for a minute before putting in a large raise to 143,000 in chips. Nakai turned around to look at the clock before announcing all in for 187,500 in chips. Suzuki made the call and the cards were shown.
Suzuki:
Nakai:
The start of day chip leader would find no help as the board ran out to see him lose to a set of jacks on the flop.