Main Event (1,300,000 KRW)

All blanks on 5♣ 6♠ 8♠ 2♥ 9♦ let the short stack live once more.

Cutoff Jianguo Shu lays out 12,000 and big blind Po Lam Lun defends to see the flop 2♥ 9♦ 8♣ where he donks 15,000 and gets called. The 4♥ turn and 6♣ river get checked down with Lun's 3♥ 3♣ taking it down for a 2nd pot in a row.

The cutoff makes it 12,000 and both blinds tag along to the 4♠ 7♠ 9♣ flop where big blind Jianguo Shu donk-bets 26,000 and only small blind Hiroshi Miyoshi pays up to see the 4♣ turn. Miyoshi leads 20,000 and calls after Shu made 45,000 and the 4♥ river is fireworks. Shu jams, trying to win the hand somehow with his missed flush draw J♠ 5♠ , but Miyoshi calls with 9♥ 7♥ full house.

With 43 players left we are two places away from the money before playing further down to the last 34 that will advance to Day 2.

With an 8,000 raise and a call in front big blind Jianguo Shu squeezes to 22,000 and both opponents tag along to the 7♣ 2♥ 6♥ flop. Shu continues for 45,000, Rogerio Wong raises to 115,000 from +1 and button Huixiang Xia declares all-in for 266,500. Shu gets out of the way and Wong needs a time bank before coming to the same conclusion, showing T♦ T♠ before throwing it in the muck. Xia flips over 4♠ 5♥ and the whole table is in awe.

The 6♠ and 9♠ is not what Wang was looking for and has to vacate his seat.

Hijack Jianguo Shu leads 1,500 and takes two interested parties to the 6♠ 9♠ 4♠ flop where his 2,600 c-bet finds a single taker in button Xing Wang before check-calling 4,500 on the 9♥ turn and 10,000 on the T♠ river. Wang shows the flopped nut flush A♠ 3♠ and Shu shows K♠ K♥ .