Florent Remi raised and subsequently jammed his shorter stack in to get called by Victor Chong, which led to the following showdown.
Florent Remi: 10♥10♠
Victor Chong: A♦Q♦
Chong's run good continued on a board of A♥9♠7♦A♣2♣ as he improved to trips aces. One table over, Renniel Galvez doubled as did John Perry albeit both for very short stacks.
A short-stacked Zinan Xu got his chips in with the A♦5♦ and he was up against the 9♣9♠ of Duy Tung Nguyen.
The board ran out 10♠7♣4♥8♦2♥ and the pocket pair remained ahead all the way.
Qiyuan Huang jammed for the last 37,500 and Jiazhi Zhong called from one seat over. Haisheng Qiu then reraised to 70,000 and was forced to min-raise to 75,000. Zhong went deep in the tank and called to leave himself just 30,000 behind.
On a flop of A♥10♦4♠, Zhong checked and Qiu jammed with the covering stack to force a reluctant fold from Zhong.
Qiyuan Huang: A♦10♣
Haisheng Qiu: 9♠9♦
The K♥ turn and A♣ river gave Huang a triple up while Qiu earned the side pot.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Only 70 players remain at the end of level 12 and they have been sent on a brief unscheduled 10-minute break. Day 1c is also sent on a break as well with 56 players out of 59 entries still in contention.
Hun Tae Choi clashed with Jin Woo Kim and bet-jammed for 49,000 on the 9♠8♦5♥ flop for Kim to call with the covering stack.
Hun Tae Choi: J♥7♥
Jin Woo Kim: 9♥8♣
"Flush draw, straight draw," an excited Choi yelled but the flush draw only came on the 3♥ turn. No heart but the 6♣ river came to the rescue as Choi celebrated a double.
He was then all-in soon after with the superior stack, looking up Jennifer Cassell for 61,000.
Cassell had her A♣K♦ already exposed and Choi glanced at her, seemingly asking for permission to start his show again. He then grabbed his cards, smashed them in the middle of the table and yelled "pocket tens", revealing 10♠10♥.
The 8♦4♦2♦ flop gave Cassell the flush draw on top and she improved with the K♣ turn and A♦ river. Choi took it well when Cassell now leaped out of her seat to do a little happy dance as players from nearby tables clapped.
To top it off, Choi won the next all-in showdown to win back some chips.
Just before their table broke, David Erquiaga was all-in for 30,500 with the A♠4♣. Feng Ji Chua looked hom up with the Q♦10♣ and had a lot of outs with the open-ender on the J♠9♦6♥ flop.
Yet, the 7♥ turn and 5♣ river were bricks as Erquiaga held onto his narrow lead.
Three ways to the 9♦5♦5♣8♣ turn, Evgenii Nekrasov bet 8,000 out of the small blind. Daoxing Chen then raised it up to 21,000 in the big blind and the button reluctantly folded. Nekrasov mulled it over for a while and folded as Chen exposed the 7♠6♣ for a turned straight.
Heads-up to the 9♣5♣3♥4♦ turn, Lishan Kui bet half of his remaining stack and he then called all-in when Qiyuan Huang pushed all-in.
Kui tabled the 3♦3♣ for a set of treys but had a ton of outs to dodge, facing the A♣6♣ of Huang. The 3♠ river gave Kui quads for the double in style.
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