The dealers were already instructed to stop after the current hand was over as the screen showed 110 players remaining. But suddenly a lot of players headed to the corner of the tournament room where a massive pot had taken place and Hanze Wang scored a full double through former Red Dragon champion Dengfeng Yu.
It was a pot worth more than a million and Wang had doubled with for a straight on the while Yu only had for top pair.
The completed board showed and Shijie Wang checked with 50,000 behind. Kosuke Tajima moved all in and the clock was called on Wang, who ended up calling with two seconds to spare.
Tajima rolled over the for a bluff and Wang doubled with the .
Renjun Gla Yang was all in with versus and the flop gave his opponent middle set. Half of the table was on their feet already as Yang started shouting for a king. Nothing changed on the blank turn but the came to the rescue on the river.
Hideyoshi Tanaka and Hanze Wang invested 50,000 each on the and they checked the turn. After the river, Tanaka made it 65,000 to go and Wang quickly folded.
Ting Yi Tsai filled in the details of the preflop action as Yifu Zhai three-bet and then five-bet shoved into an opponent who called it off for 230,000. The two premium pocket pairs in No-Limit Hold'em clashed as Zhai had the and his opponent was trailing with .
Nothing changed on the [6c5h3cd4h5s] board and Zhai boosted his stack to nearly 110 big blinds not far off the money bubble.
Just one hand later, Yongwei Mo was all in with a short stack and flipped with versus . Thanks to a board of she held up.