Stoyan Madanzhiev opened for a min-raise on the button and Wenling Gao called. Gao check-called a small bet of 960,000 on the flop. Both players checked the , bringing a . Gao checked and Madanzhiev overbet with 7.2 million into about 5.3 million.

Gao looked him up with but it was no good as Madanzhiev paired up on the turn with .