Trung Quan Nguyen opened the action with a raise to 40,000 and then called the shove by Ricky Li Qi Huang for 280,000 total.
Ricky Li Qi Huang: A♥4♣ 
Trung Quan Nguyen: A♦Q♦
The kicker played on the 8♥5♣3♦K♥K♠ board to send Huang to the rail near the end of level 13.
Shaoshuai Li raised to 40,000 in middle position and then called a three-bet to 110,000 by Benedikt Wenzel in the next seat. On the J♦6♣2♥ flop, Li check-called for 85,000 and jammed the 8♣ on the turn for Wenzel to call all-in for 430,000.
Benedikt Wenzel: A♠J♥
Shaoshuai Li: J♠8♠
The river was the Q♠ and that spelled the end for Wenzel.
Murly Manokharan min-raised for 40,000 and was called only by Joshua McCully out of the big blind. Following the K♦9♦3♦ flop, McCully check-called for 30,000 and checked the 2♥ on the turn. Manokharan bet 100,000 with 245,000 behind and called all-in against a shove.
Murly Manokharan: K♠Q♥
Joshua McCully: A♦5♦
The flopped ace-high flush had Manokharan drawing dead prior to the meaningless 8h] on the river. Manokharan had previously lost a chunk of his stack against Shiina Okamoto as well.
Chen Hui opened to 40,000 from under the gun and Axel Hallay called from the hijack as Li Fu Huang defended in the big blind.
Huang checked on the flop of A♥6♠3♣ and Hui bet 55,000. Both opponents called. The 5♦ turn then checked through. Huang checked again on the 10♠ river and Hui bet 160,000. Hallay raised to 470,000 to bring folds from both opponents.
Xiangyu Yu got the last of his short stack in with only 50,000 from then small blind and was looked up by Xue Song and Aren Bezhanyan in the cutoff and button respectively, Kuan Han Lee also called in the big blind as well.
The Q♦7♣4♠ flop was checked by all active players before Song's bet of 80,000 on the 4♦ turn isolated.
Xiangyu Yu: J♣10♣
Xue Song: A♠3♠
The 3♥ river only improved Song and Yu bowed out.
Adrien Favre-Felix pushed all-in with a short stack and Chuanshu Chen moved all-in over the top.
Favre-Felix: A♥6♣
Chuanshu Chen: 7♠7♥
The pocket pair remained ahead on the J♥10♦3♣6♥3♦ runout to send the French player out for an early finish.
Level: 13
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
The remaining 167 players have been sent on their final 15-minute break of Day 1A. They will play three more levels when they return and then will bag for the evening.
Only five tables remain in the secondary tournament area and Kristof Mato has lost a chunk of his stack, while 2023 WSOP bracelet Yuan Li has taken over the top spot in the section. Li check-raised a single-raised pot against fellow big stack [Removed:546] on the K♥6♦5♦ flop from 25,000 to 53,000 and [Removed:547] folded.
[Removed:547] then asked if Li was the one to buy up the T-1,000 chips for the upcoming chip race in the break and the latter agreed but had trouble sorting out his chip towers much to the bemusement of Ren Lin.
It was then Lin who raised to 30,000 and Edmond Chim defended the big blind before check-folding the Q♠10♠4♦ flop to a bet of 20,000.
"You won a bracelet but still don't know how to stack the chips," Lin translated with a smirk on the face when [Removed:547] asked about the Chinese table chatter.
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