Moments after the final two tables recommenced their action, Huu Dung Nguyen raised to 40,000. Kien Tat Heng on the button min-clicked to 80,000 and called the shove by Nguyen with the covering stack.
Huu Dung Nguyen: A♥Q♥
Kien Tat Heng: 8♥8♣
The pocket pair made a set on the 9♣7♠6♣8♠J♣ runout and Nguyen finished in 16th place for $5,984.
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Philip Tan | Singapore | 1,800,000 | 90 |
| 1 | 2 | Jun Lai | China | 405,000 | 20 |
| 1 | 3 | Bien Mai | Vietnam | 1,725,000 | 86 |
| 1 | 4 | Jimmy Torres | Colombia | 2,100,000 | 105 |
| 1 | 5 | Chao-Ting Cheng | Taiwan | 550,000 | 28 |
| 1 | 6 | Lev Kydatov | Russia | 225,000 | 11 |
| 1 | 7 | Junnie Pamplona | Philippines | 1,225,000 | 61 |
| 1 | 8 | Evgenii Nekrasov | Russia | 1,150,000 | 58 |
| 2 | 1 | Kien Tat Heng | Singapore | 500,000 | 25 |
| 2 | 2 | Ting-Yi Tsai | Taiwan | 2,150,000 | 108 |
| 2 | 3 | Ashish Ghosh | India | 375,000 | 19 |
| 2 | 4 | Andy Li | Singapore | 430,000 | 22 |
| 2 | 5 | Lukasz Jankowski | Poland | 425,000 | 21 |
| 2 | 6 | Huu Dung Nguyen | Vietnam | 300,000 | 15 |
| 2 | 7 | Hua-Wei Lin | Taiwan | 675,000 | 34 |
| 2 | 8 | Curtis Lim | Singapore | 360,000 | 18 |
In the first hand after the start of the new level, Jun Young Park was all-in and at risk against the red-hot running Bien Mai.
Jun Young Park: K♠Q♥
Bien Mai: K♠Q♥
The A♠6♣2♥ flop left the South Korean with a mountain to climb and it was all over with the 4♠ turn, which made the 5♠ river a formality.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
In the final hand of the level, Bien Mai defended the big blind against a button raise of Andy Li and they got it in after the Q♦Q♥3♥ flop with Li at risk for 161,000.
Andy Li: J♣J♥
Bien Mai: 10♦3♦
The 2♠ turn and J♠ river changed nothing and Li doubled. "Hit and run, good flop," Mai joked. He had been tearing up the table before and it was a minor setback.
Right after, the T-1,000 chips were raced off on their table as the other two tables had already been taken care of in the next 10-minute break.
Following an under-the-gun raise by Philip Tan, Ashish Munot defended the big blind and then went for the stop and go, as he jammed the 9♥7♠5♠ flop for around 140,000. Tan eyeballed the stack of Munot and called.
Ashish Munot: Q♦5♦
Philip Tan: 10♠10♥
No help came with the 6♥ turn and J♥ river as Munot departed in 18th place for $5,361.
Down to just 205,000, Lukasz Jankowski was all-in and at risk over on table one with the 8♠8♣.
Andy Li looked him up with the inferior 7♦7♥ and the superior pair locked up a full double on the K♦Q♣9♣J♥A♠ runout, as both players traded the role of short stack.
Junnie Pamplona raised it up to 36,000 in the hijack and earned a flat-call by Ashish Munot on the button. Philip Tan three-bet to 151,000 in the small blind and Pamplona called. Munot then jammed all-in and Tan called to send Pamplona into agony.
He was visibly annoyed and then folded the J♥J♦ face-up with the words "how can I call?"
Philip Tan: A♣K♠
Ashish Munot: A♦Q♦
The 7♦6♦3♣ flop was a tease for Munot with the flush draw but neither the 9♥ turn nor the 8♣ river provided any help, as Tan doubled and left Munot with fewer than ten big blinds.
Soon after his double-up, Bo Jin collided with fellow countryman and short stack Jun Lai as both players turned over an ace with decent kicker.
Bo Jin: A♦10♥
Jun Lai: A♣J♦
Jin asked for a ten but then changed his mind until the 9♦5♣4♦K♦ turn to instead request another diamond. Neither wish was granted as the 5♥ river ended his run in 19th place.
Within two hands, the short stack of Hao Tian was reduced to zero and he became the 20th place finisher.
Bo Jin doubled through Tian for 100,000 with 6♣6♠ versus K♦Q♥ when the K♠10♥5♠6♦8♠ board delivered the six on the turn.
Tian was then all-in against table chip leader Ting-Yi Tsai.
Hao Tian: Q♦10♥
Ting-Yi Tsai: K♣J♥
The A♦5♥3♦3♣2♣ board missed both players and Tian earned $5,361 for the efforts.
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