NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($500)

Hoseong Ha got pummeled into 7th placing losing back to back hands. The first was the costliest against Adam Lydford who kicked it off with a 50,000 raise. Ha defended his big blind then both checked the flop 5♥ J♠ J♥ .

When the turn came T♥ , Lydford bet a light 50,000 that Ha check-called to complete the board 3♥ . Another check from Ha prompted a bet of 110,000 from Lydford. Ha answered with a jam for 1,060,000 then crashed right into Lydford's A♥ A♣ flush after the call was made. Ha had K♦ 5♦ bluff.

The next hand, Dinh Van Tien shoved 295,000, Ha joined for 70,000 then lost the flip with 7♥ 7♦ against Dinh's A♠ Q♥ on a board A♣ 9♣ A♥ 2♣ 5♥ .

Cheng Zhang claimed the first pot of the final table to join the millionaires. He opened 50,000 from cutoff and the blinds defended. At the flop 2♣ J♥ 6♥ , small blind Cheuk Wing Wong decided to lead out 50,000, big blind Hoseong Ha calls, then Zhang pumped it up to 300,000. No one dared and Zhang dragged in the win.

The Final Table of the NagaWorld Kickoff is set! One of the nine remaining players will be the first big winner of the festival and collect the $18,203 top prize along with the big spadie on display.

Action folds to the button Jongbea Jang who raises 35,000 but is denied the blinds by folding to big blind Hoseong Ha's 215,000 reraise.

Before the chips all went in, Hoseong Ha opened from utg+1 for 32,000 and found two players to toss in the call - button Adam Lydford and big blind Salih Kaya. At the flop 7♥ 5♠ 4♠ it is checked to Lydford who bets 50,000. Kaya tanks then shoves 206,000. This was enough to push out Ha while Lydford gave it a short ponder then called.

Both players have strong draws with Kaya's pair ahead. The turn 3♥ gave Lydford the straight but not Kaya still had outs. The river 5♥ wasn't one of them to send Kaya out and ship in a monster pot.

Just before the table broke, Xinhong Chen paid a costly double up to Van Xuan Nguyen to bring his stack down to just 12,000. Moved to a new table, he went all in with A♠ 8♦ and got called by the blinds who both checked down the board A♥ 7♥ 8♣ Q♥ 2♠ . Chen's had won for a triple up.

Two hands after, Chen was on the big blind and got raised to 26,000 by Jongbea Jang. Chen defended leaving 10,000 behind which he pushed on the flop with 6♠ 7♠ flush draw but missed at the runout to fall to overcards.