There are no European players left in the field with the departure of Diego Sarmiento, with the Spanish player falling at the hands of tablemate Cang Sheng Ni.
Down to his last 14 big blinds, Sarmiento got the last of his chips in pre-flop with and was unlucky to run into the of Ni, who was sitting one seat over. Ni's hand held to send Sarmiento out and stack the Chinese player up to 1.1 million.
Mauro Francolini was unable to recover from losing that flip against Hong Kong's Lai Heng Tse and has hit the rail.
A player whose stack is moving in the right direction is Hong Kong's Chi Fu Sze, who has just give Jun Fang a nasty beat to win a sizable pot. According to Sze, all the chips went in on the turn with the board reading .
Fang held top, top with , but Sze was drawing extremely live with , hitting his straight on the river to stack up to 900,000, while Fang dropped to 390,000 after the hand.
The action is ratcheting up with Hong Kong's Steven Siu hitting the rail and fellow countryman Lai Heng Tse winning a big flip against Italy's Mauro Francolini to switch up the pair's position in the pecking order.
We'll cover Siu's exit first, with the Hong Kong player moving all-in from the small blind pre-flop over the top of a Du button raise. Du made a speedy call and the cards were turned over.
Steven Siu:
Qi Cheng Du:
Siu was racing against Du's pocket jacks, but the [5js8h] flop was not a kind one, and it was all over for him when the hit the turn to give Du quads. Siu tapped the table and headed for the payout desk, while Du stacked up to 1.4 million.
The Tse versus Francolini hand played out immediately afterward, with Tse moving all-in from late position and the Italian looking him up from the big blind.
Lai Heng Tse:
Mauro Francolini:
Tse was racing against Francolini's pocket pair, with the flop falling . The turn gave the Hong Kong player some additional flush outs to go with his overcards and gutshot, and Tse hit the latter on the river, much to Francolini's displeasure. The Italian dropped to 290,000, while Tse climbed to 450,000.
It's easy to tell when Lin Zhe Chen is playing a big pot, as there is lots of excited squeaking. Volume reached supersonic levels after two big hands that Chen played, winning both to double through Shi Qiang Lin before sending Liang Tong to the rail.
In the first hand Chen and Lin got all the chips in pre-flop, the former holding against the of Lin with the board running out to give Chen the pot and stack her up to close to 300,000, while Lin dropped to around 500,000.
Less than an orbit later, Chen and Tong clashed, with all the chips going in pre-flop. While Tong held a pair with , Chen had him outpipped with , which held on the runout to send Tong to the rail and shoot Chen up to 650,000.
There have been two quick eliminations, with Shan Huang one of the players departing in a flurry of cards and chips to bring the field down to 25.
A man whose stack is moving in the right direction is Singapore's Richard Lim, who just hit a huge hand at the right time to double through Wei Ran Pu.
It was Pu who was the initial raiser, making it 40,000 to go from the hijack, with Jun Fang re-raising to 133,000 from the cutoff, before Lim jammed in the rest of his chips from the button for a shove of 390,000 exactly.
Pu took his time thinking things over, but chose to make the call whilst Fang pitched his cards into the muck.
Wei Ran Pu:
Richard Lim:
Lim was in great shape, binking a set on the turn and improving to quads on the river when the runout came down to gasps from the watching rail. That timely catch shoots Lim up to 933,000, while Pu took a hit to drop to 610,000.
The departure of Hong Kong's Chi Chung Ho has seen the clock paused as the last 27 players are given a table redraw.
Ho went out swinging, moving the last of his chips in pre-flop with from middle position, and was looked up by tablemate Chi Hi Fang with the dominating .
The runout brought Ho's Main Event to an end and stacked Fang up to 800,000.
Ke Wang is keeping Liang Song in check and we caught the two involved in a hand together. With close to 60,000 in the pot on a flop of , Wang had checked, and Song had bet 30,000.
Wang check-raised all-in for 359,000 and Song shook his head and flashed his opponent a rueful grin before hitting the think tank. Eventually, Song elected to get it go, dropping to 590,000 while Wang climbed to 570,000.
We missed how it happened, but Xiao Jun Yu's seat is now empty, bringing the field down to 28. One more bust out and there will be a table redraw for the last 27.