Xian Xiao found a pair to get his chips in with the 3♣3♥ but Raffaele Sorrentino had him pipped holding the 7♣7♠.
Neither player connected with the 9♦5♠4♠6♥A♥ runout and that sent Xiao to the payout desk as well, further adding to the impressive resume of knockouts for the Italian in only the second level of the day.
Jingjie Zhang shoved for his last 40,000 from the hijack and just behind him, Jiangpu Jin raised for more. Everyone else quickly got out of the way and a showdown was held.
Jingjie Zhang: K♠J♠
Jiangpu Jin: A♥J♣
Zhang found himself dominated, and the 10♥7♠5♠Q♣ runout changed nothing to send Zhang to the rail.
Raffaele Sorrentino raised to 14,000 and then called the shove by Zehao Li for around 90,000 while the rest of the table had folded.
Zehao Li: A♣8♥
Raffaele Sorrentino: A♥Q♠
The kicker played on the J♥3♥3♣K♠2♠ board and Sorrentino notched up the next knockout.
Level: 23
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Jun Liu opened to 10,000 from early position and was called by Dong Chen from directly behind. It was then folded to Raffaele Sorrentino, who announced a raise to 45,000. Liu responded by shoving for his last 100,000 total and Chen got out of the way.
Jun Liu: A♦K♥
Raffaele Sorrentino: Q♠Q♣
The 4♣5♥8♠2♣6♦ runout held up for Sorrentino's ladies and Liu offered a, "Nice hand," as he exited the tournament area.
Yu Chen got it in with the A♥5♥ but had a kicker problem against the A♠K♦ of Changdong Ren. That issue was never solved on the Q♦J♥8♣4♥4♣ runout and Chen departed.
Moments later, Hongjia Zhang also headed to the payout desk after sending his stack over to Quan Zhou.
Chen Shen opened to 10,000 from the hijack and was called by Boxin Jin in the small blind for a heads-up pot.
Jin led out for 12,000 on K♦8♣5♠ flop and Shen called.
The A♥ fell on the turn and Jin slowed down and checked, prompting a 25,000 bet from Shen. Jin called.
Both players checked on the 6♣ river and Shen turned over A♠10♦ for a turned pair of aces. Jin then revealed A♣J♥ for aces with a better kicker and was awarded the pot.
In a preflop contest, Hongjia Zhang flipped against Jincheng Du with the latter at risk for 70,000 with the 9♠9♦. Zhang had two overs with K♥Q♥ but none of them came on the A♠8♦6♦6♣3♦ board.
Chenxin Yu shoved for approximately 100,000 from the hijack and it was folded to Yiyu Zhou, who called from the small blind to put Yu at risk.
Chenxin Yu: 10♥10♦
Yiyu Zhou: Q♠Q♣
Yu needed some help, but the 7♦4♣7♥9♦J♣ runout left Zhou best with queens to eliminate Yu in the early going.
Over on the live stream table, the first big clash took place when Rui Sun and Wenwen Chen got their chips in the middle in one of the most classic of clashes in tournament poker.
Wenwen Chen: A♣A♠
Rui Sun: K♦K♠
The K♣9♥3♠7♣9♦ board was a sucker punch for Chen, who stormed off the feature table setup.
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