Main Event (1,300,000 KRW)

The third of five flights for the KPC Main Event with a KRW 800,000,000 (~$544,077) guaranteed prize pool attracted 248 players and saw 30 advance to Day 2 during level 16 with Hon Leung Ip in the lead, bagging 578,000.

The Hong Kong native - who just banked his biggest live cash of $10,602 for finishing 4th at the PSCT Last Chance High Roller about a month ago - first appeared on the leaderboard in level 11 after busting Linghui Dai and then muscled his way to the top with aggressive play, adding a last chunk to his stack by eliminating Chen Hao with a preflop flip in level 16.

Second in chips Xingyu Liu had one of the biggest stacks since level 9 and continuously chipped up, eliminating Chuan Shu Chen along the way during level 13 that left him with 545,000 at the end.

Shen Syu Ho finished the day in third with 527,000 - trying to add to his two 5-digit cashes this year already, one of which came from winning the TMT 17 High Roller. The biggest gain to his stack came from busting Kuan-Hsueh Lu with A♣ A♥ against 5♥ 5♣ in a pot that went to the river A♦ Q♥ Q♣ 5♠ 8♣ before the chips went in.

Only one day left until the 30 qualifiers can start fondling their chips again on Saturday the 12th of April at 12:00n local.

Wang is left with one out after the dealer flips over A♠ , but cant get there on 7♥ K♣ 7♣ A♦ and vacates his seat.

Yansong Wu min-opens from the hijack and big blind Na Ye defends to see the flop 9♣ 4♦ 7♦ where Wu's 6,000 c-bet gets called to reveal the turn 6♦ . Wu's second barrel of 16,000 gets check-raised to 44,500 and a call completes the board 7♣ . Ye leads 20,000 and fills up to a total of 49,000 after Wu put her all-in. Ye's T♦ 9♦ flush falls short of Wu's A♦ J♦ flush, sending her to the rail.

Picking up the action on 3♥ 5♥ 9♠ K♥ and 38,000 in the middle, button Yansong Wu bets 21,000 and small blind Takashi Miyamoto pays up to see the board complete 6♦ . Checked to him again, Wu makes it 41,000 that has Miyamoto contemplating for a while before he lets it go.

On a board A♦ A♥ A♣ Q♥ with 6,800 in the pot, small blind Yansong Wu leads 2,800 and takes big blind Takashi Miyamoto to the river 2♦ where a check from Wu leads to a 5,400 steal by Miyamoto with 6♦ 3♠ who has to surrender the pot after Wu calls with K♦ 6♣ .