Mykyta Savva raise-folded when Yu-Zu Chuang pushed all-in and was looked up by Nan Zhang, asking if he can show his cards but electing against it.
Yu-Zu Chuang: A♥Q♦ 
Nan Zhang: A♦A♣
There was no miracle on the Q♠7♥5♣6♦2♥ runout and that spelled the end for Chuang.
The action has somewhat slowed down the last couple of minutes and some of the eliminations before can be found below, as the field has actually been stuck at 80 players remaining for a while. Only 75 players will go through at most, and the next level is about to start in a few minutes.
Mohit Gupta pushed all-in for 152,000 from under the Shuang Luo did so from one seat over for 185,000. It folded to Gezhun Kuang in the big blind and he reluctantly called all-in for 173,000.
Mohit Gupta: A♥K♠
Gezhun Kuang: 10♦10♥
Shuang Luo: A♦A♣
The 7♣6♥5♣J♠3♥ board kept the aces ahead all the way to score Luo a double knockout.
Thomas Simsen had previously lost a big portion of his stack with flush under flush and then jammed for 129,000. Thiyam Singh rejammed in the next seat to force out everyone else.
Thomas Simsen: A♠A♥
Thiyam Singh: 8♥8♠
"Woah, nice hand," Singh said and couldn't get there on the K♦10♥7♦K♥5♥ board to take a dent to his stack.
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Only some 85 players remain and the top 75 finishers will advance to Day 2 if they bag up chips for tonight. That means the money bubble is certainly looming and the average stack below 20 big blinds will have little mercy on the shorter stacks in the upcoming orbits.
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The levels pass by quickly and so do the eliminations with fewer than 90 hopefuls still left in contention. No longer among them is Taiwanese poker pro Chen-An Lin after bowing out in a setup hand versus Chuan Yu. He three-bet to 125,000 preflop and then called all-in against a shove.
Chen-An Lin: Q♣Q♥
Chuan Yu: A♦A♥
Lin already jokingly said his gee gee, and found no help on the K♥10♦4♦6♠J♠ board.
Level: 19
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Abhijith Cheruku ran into the pocket jacks of Zhiqiang Meng, who made quads to score the knockout in style.
In the next hand, another player from India was involved in the action when Kiril Agapov jammed and was called by Thiyam Singh for his last 164,000.
Kiril Agapov: J♦J♣
Thiyam Singh: A♠K♥
This time, pocket jacks were no good on the Q♣8♣3♥7♥K♣ runout.
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