NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($400)

Down to 6 bb, Li Qi tosses it in with K♣ J♦ to battle with and goes bust against caller Xiaosheng Zheng whose A♠ Q♠ stays ahead on a board 7♥ Q♦ 8♦ T♣ 6♣ .

Li finishes in 5th place.

Facing a three-bet shove, short stacked Itsuki Homma takes the risk, and after initial raiser Sejun Park folds, the cards are flipped.

Li Qi: K♠ Q♠

Itsuki Homma: 4♣ 4♠

The board lands T♠ 2♠ T♦ 3♦ T♣ earning Homma a double up.

On a raised pot preflop, Sejun Park leads out 125,000 on a flop 2♣ 2♠ 5♣ , aggressor Li Qi jams 2,400,000 and covers Park who makes the call with less behind.

Sejun Park: Q♥ Q♦

Li Qi: Q♣ 9♣

With the turn 2♦ and river 5♦ , Li misses the flush to pay up and drop below 11 bb. Park, on the other, soars to the top of the counts

Three players in a limped pot check to the turn Q♠ 8♠ 5♣ 2♦ . Action is checked to button player Li Qi who bets 145,000, only big blind Romain Bailleul calls and does the same on the river 7♠ calling Li's 250,000 bet. Li flips open T♠ 9♠ flush and wins a good pot.

Four players in a limped pot see a board 2♦ 9♠ J♥ . From utg, Li Qi bets 60,000 and only loses one player to the turn 5♦ . Li fires again for 110,000, only Anton Poliakov calls, and the river comes K♥ . Following Li's check, Poliakov jams it, Li calls with less. Poliakov flips open K♠ J♠ two pair , Li has 5♥ 5♣ trips for the double up.

Li Qi finds two customers to join to the flop K♦ 3♥ 4♥ then c-bets 70,000. Only Sejun Park calls then both check the turn 5♣ . The rive 6♥ sees Li bang out 75,000, Park calls then mucks to 2♣ 2♠ .

With the turn Q♦ and river 7♦ , Saito falls flat in 15th place.

Sejun Park bumps it up to 32,000 and big blind Li Qi defends. On the flop 7♥ J♦ 8♠ , Li takes control with a 29,000 bet but folds up when Park drops a 70,000 raise.

Li is completely bluffing and fails as the turn A♦ and river 8♥ complete the board.

With the river 7♣ , Dedinas is eliminated.

Flight A of the NagaWorld Kick Off wrapped up with Li Qi leading the 27 ITM qualifiers with a stack of 599,000 (75 bb). This is a substantial 28 bb advantage over his closest contender Lei Zhang with 376,000 (47 bb). Li amassed his stack during the soft bubble with Q♦ Q♥ standing up against Le Cuong Quoc's A♥ K♥ .

The players return at 11:30am tomorrow, November 16, for the final race to victory and the USD 17,700 top prize.