Gao Folds Out Chen, Cheng Takes From Zhao, Huang In

Canlin Chen is getting short and has recently had to fold out a hand to the ever-active Wenling Gao, just to get a bit shorter. It was Chen who was the initial raiser from under-the-gun, with Gao re-popping to 6,000 from one seat over. The rest of the table bowed out and the flop fell .

Chen checked the action over to Gao, who needed no further encouragement and she slapped down a bet of 7,000. While he took his time about it, Chen eventually folded to drop down to 24,500, while Gao is on the rise with a stack of 108,000.

Singapore's Bryan Huang arrived in the aftermath of the previous hand to take his seat between Gao and the UK's Matt Moss, bringing the total number of entries up to 35, of whom 26 are still in the running.

Hongjun Zhao's seat move is not working out all that well, though it has been Tony Cheng who has been the beneficiary as opposed to chip leader Hao Su. We caught the tail end of a pot that played out between Cheng and Zhao that saw the former pad out his stack, at the latter's expense.

Cheng had bet the river for 12,000 on a board of [x] and had been called by Zhao. Cheng showed his opponent for the rivered full house, with Zhao flashing the , just to show how unlucky he got. Cheng now has around 46,000 to Zhao's 42,000.