Victor Chong was a spectator while three players had put their stacks in already and the cutoff opted to forfeit his raise to 5,500.
Bin Wang: 
Yuan Yilu: 
Ting Shum Kwok: 
The board came 
and Kwok scored the double knockout.
Albert Paik had a flip with 
against 
and nailed the 
flop, the 
turn and 
river provided no help for the player at risk who grabbed his various card protectors and coins before heading to the rail.
Yakai Li was all in for the last 16,800 and in dire shape as his 
were dominated by 
. However, that all but changed on the 
board as he flopped quads to survive.
Ye Yuan further boosted his stack and Fei Xiong jumped above the average stack when he called a shove with 
for bottom set on the 
flop. His opponent put the hopes on 
and saw the 
turn and river brick.
Level nine started soon after with blinds of 500-1,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000. It is the last level for the single re-entry and late registration and thanks to 165 entries, the total field size has already surpassed 850 entries.
Two shorter stacks were all in with 
and respectively and Zhewen Hu looked them up with the .
On a board of 
, pocket nines flopped best to reduce the field by two.
Shortly after the blinds went up to 400-800 with a big blind ante of 800 as level eight was reached. With 163 entries showing, there are 117 players still seated at the time of writing.
Huahuan Feng was all in for just 9,400 with the and had a flip against the 
of Ye Yuan. The board came 
and Yuan flopped a set, then rivered a full house for good measure.
Shortly after on another table, the usual Chinese shouting started when they get the stacks in. Yao Bai had Jiajun Liu at risk with versus and the board came 
to let Liu double.
The blinds are at 300-600 with a big blind ante of 600 and the screens show 131 players out of 157 entries remaining.
The full counts for Day 1b will be published when PokerNews receives them. All ongoing updates for Day 1c will continue until the final flight is bagging and tagging for the night, a recap of both flights is to follow after that.
Around 150 players bagged for Day 1b out of the 444 entries and they are mixed in with the Day 1c players that are currently on their only break for the day and will play another six levels for tonight.
Daniel Lee had already been thriving late on and Calvin Lee did so just now when he knocked out an opponent with the flopped nut flush against top two pair. Lee held 
versus and the 
board failed to improve his opponent to a full house.
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