Tom Heung opened to 12,000 in the hijack and Niko Koop three-bet jammed for 130,000 from the next seat. Heung called with a bigger stack.
Niko Koop: A♥J♥ 
Tom Heung: Q♠Q♥
Koop took a big lead on the flop of A♠A♣7♦ with trip aces and the 6♣ turn had Heung drawing to just two outs with one card to come. Two was all he needed as the Q♣ landed on the river to put a tough beat on Koop.
"I am all in," Danny Tang and the Triton Poker ambassador was all-in for a mere 2,000 in chips. There was a larger side pot with 11,000 each developing with all active players checking the Q♥9♦7♣ flop. Xuming Qi bet the 7♦ turn for 25,000 in the big blind to isolate and said "you are good".
There is no way I am good," Tang joked and then added "baccarat" before showing his 5♥4♥. Qi was ahead with J♣10♣ and rivered the straight with the 8♠. Tang re-entered almost immediately to a nearby table.
In the secondary tournament area, a preflop raising war unfolded in which Trung Hieu Nguyen squeezed to 75,000. Zihao Shen then jammed for 270,500 and [Removed:546] called, while Nguyen folded with a big portion of his stack invested already.
Zihao Shen: A♦K♣
[Removed:546]: A♣A♠
The aces had a sweat to endure on the Q♦Q♣4♦5♦7♠ board but held to dispatch Shen.
Joshua McCully opened to 10,000 in the cutoff and Congya Zhang and Shiina Okamoto called in the blinds.
Zhang and Okamoto both checked on the flop of A♠A♦3♦ and McCully continued for 8,000. Both opponents called. All three players then checked on the 3♥ turn.
Zhang checked once more on the 6♣ turn and Okamoto bet 12,000. Only McCully called. Okamoto showed A♣8♣ for aces full of threes and McCully mucked in defeat.
Tom Fuchs made it 8,000 to go and Chih-Yuan Wang on the button three-bet to 20,000. It folded back to Fuchs and he four-bet to 55,000. Wang five-bet to 170,000 and instantly called the six-bet shove for 382,000.
Tom Fuchs: Q♥Q♣
Chih-Yuan Wang: A♠A♣
The 10♦7♣3♣9♣6♥ board failed to keep Fuchs in contention and Wang soared to a seven-figure stack.
The action folded to Nabil Cardoso in the cutoff and he raised it up to 9,000. Jianming Luo on the button three-bet to 25,000 only for Justin Steinbrenner to four-bet shove behind for around 190,000. Cardoso jammed over the top and Luo folded.
Justin Steinbrenner: A♣J♠
Nabil Cardoso: A♥A♠
The K♠Q♥6♦ flop gave Steinbrenner some hope with the broadway draw but the A♦ turn and Q♦ river ended this bullet for the German.
Alisson Piekazewicz opened to 6,000 in the hijack and Alex Foxen three-bet to 18,000 on the button. Piekazewicz called.
Piekazewicz checked on the flop of 5♥3♠9♣ and Foxen continued for 14,000. Piekazewicz check-raised to 34,000, leading Foxen to three-bet to 61,000. Piekazewicz called.
Piekazewicz checked on the 10♠ turn and Foxen sized down to 41,000. Piekazewicz called. Piekazewicz checked once more on the 3♦ river and Foxen put him to the test by betting 95,500 with just 500 behind. Piekazewicz called.
Foxen could only show ace-high with A♥K♠, prompting Piekazewicz to proudly table 4♠4♦ after calling all the way down with just a pair of fours. Foxen was eliminated shortly after.
Table nine was suddenly left four-handed after three players had been knocked out in the last two orbits. Boris Kolev re-entered while Rowan Wong hero-called at the wrong time to be left with no chips.
Ivan Karatayeu raised to 5,000 for Kolev to call and Wong came along in the big blind. The trio checked the Q♠2♣2♦ flop and the 8♠ came on the turn. It was checked to Kolev who bet 14,000 and Wong called, Karatayeu raised to 55,000 and Wong was the only caller.
That led the duo to the 5♦ on the river on which Wong checked with 186,000 behind. Karatayeu bet 300,000 and his opponent tank-called with the 6♥2♥ for trips deuces to get out-kicked by Karatayeu's A♥2♠.
Taiwan's Chih-Yuan Wang had already doubled his stack in the early stages and now added even more chips shortly after Jamil Wakil had entered the tournament and sat down at his table.
The action started with a raise to 5,000 by Tom Fuchs which was called by Wang, Wakil and Spencer Champlin behind them to the J♠10♦2♦ flop. It checked to Wakil on the button and he bet 12,000 for Wang to call. After the Q♠ turn, Wang check-called for 40,000 and check-called the 6♥ river for another 110,000.
Wakil revealed the 2♠2♣ for a flopped set of deuces but Wang had turned the second nut straight with the K♦9♣.
After around 20 minutes of play, table six saw a large clash in multi-way action. Kaiwan Wei raised to 3,000 and Konstantin Voronin then called. Dajie Zhuo three-bet to 15,000 and Wei called, as did Voronin.
On the J♣10♥8♣ flop, it checked to Zhuo and he bet 12,000. Wei raised to 40,000 and Voronin reraised to 150,000. Zhuo folded but Wei pushed all-in for Voronin to call.
Kaiwen Wei: K♣10♣
Konstantin Voronin: K♥Q♣
The open-ended straight draw of Voronin bricked on the 8♥ turn and 6♦ river to see his stack knocked down to fumes.
He was then all-in for only 2,500 with A♥7♦ against the 10♦8♠ of Erdun Xu and survived thanks to the J♠5♣2♣4♠3♠ board.
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