National

12,000 ante

On a flop 7♥ 6♣ J♥ and 77,000 in the pot, Liu Yuhan shoves for 71,000, Paul King calls, small blind Hongru Zhang with a check-raise all in, King calls.

Liu 6♦ 8♦ Zhang A♠ J♥ King K♠ J♣

The turn {10} and river J♠ is good to Zhang to ship a huge pot.

8,000 ante

Defending champion Seongmin Lee is still in the running with 158,000.

6,000 ante

The bubble round saw four players double up starting with Evgenii Kaytmaev 8♠ 8♦ full house over Cheng Zhang K♠ T♠ trips on a board 8♥ T♥ T♦ 5♠ A♠ . Another survivor was short stacked Vinay Boob with A♥ T♠ winning the flip against Hongru Zhang‘s {1h} 8♥ on a board T♦ 9♥ 5♦ 4♦ A♦

In addition to short stacks rising, big stacks Minwoo Kang, Eric Wasylenko, and Hongru Zhang were also putting pressure on their tablemates to stack up further.

After forty minutes, it finally popped on ailing stacked Amit Kaushik who was down to 15,000 and was on the big blind. Two players called his all in, on the flop 6♣ K♣ Q♥ Thomas Carlin bet 22,000 that pushed out a player. Carlin opened A♠ K♦ top pair, Kaushik 9♣ 9♠ , the turn was T♥ and river 4♣ .