Down to the last 17,500, Jun Hao Wu was all-in from an early position and Hwany Lee raised to what appeared to be 40,000 in the next seat. All opponents including three from Singapore all folded and the cards were revealed.
Jun Hao Wu: 
Hwany Lee: 
The 
runout spelled the end for Wu despite the shouts for a seven by his fellow countrymen.
Eric Wasylenko raised to 3,000 in the cutoff and Chris Backhouse defended out of the small blind. Both checked the 
flop and the 
followed on the turn. Backhouse checked again and Wasylenko then bet 6,000 to receive a call. On the 
river, Backhouse checked the third street in a row and folded to another Wasylenko bet.
Jan Ove Penderak raised to 3,000 and then called the shove by Vincent Huang for 16,500 from one seat over.
Vincent Huang: 
Jan Ove Penderak: 
The 
flop propelled Penderak into the lead but Huang spiked the on the turn, reducing the outs of Penderak to four. Nothing changed with the 
river as Huang escaped for the time being.
Seong Min Lee and Dhanesh Chainani have been eliminated in the meanwhile as Hoyt Corkins more than doubled after a late re-entry.
The action table has produced yet another all-in showdown as Benjamin Sai was the player at risk with the . He was up against the 
of Lars Madsen and the pocket pair remained ahead throughout a 
board.
Natalie Teh had just received her dinner and then jammed it in preflop with the . She was called by her previous nemesis Marc Joseph, who had the dominating .
The board ran out 
and that spelled the end for Teh.
Moments later, Howard Appledorf was ousted with ace-king as the ace-four of Jan Ove Penderak struck gold on a board containing four hearts. Also no longer in contention is Ngoc Quoc Bao Pham as the field dropped to five tables.
Natalie Teh defended her big blind against an open raise by Marc Joseph and check-called a small bet on the 
flop. She checked again the turn before calling a second barrel worth 7,000.
After the river, Teh checked the third street in a row and then folded when Joseph made it 11,000 to go.
Heads-up to the 
turn, Hoa Thinh Nguyen checked over to Dhanesh Chainani who made it 11,500 to go for about one third of his stack. Nguyen then check-raised to 40,000 and Chainani folded after some 20 seconds.
Following an open raise by Chris Backhouse, Eric Wasylenko defended the big blind and then checked the 
flop. Backhouse made it 3,000 to go into 8,500 and Wasylenko check-raised to 8,500 in order to win the pot.
Further counts in the field can be found below.
Daniel Smiljkovic had entered not long ago and already doubled his stack while Pete Chen was eliminated in third place in the Super High Roller and got there at the very last minute.
There are 113 entries for Day 1a and 49 players remain at the end of the late registration period.
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