Main Event (1,600,000 KRW)

Chua Chen Shen jams 58,000 from the button with A♣ 4♥ and small blind Jia Yuequan wakes up with A♦ K♦ for a call putting Chua at risk. No help for the underdog on 6♣ 2♣ 9♠ 5♠ 5♥ and we are inching one position closer to the 36 player cutoff for Day 1E.

Under the gun +1 Chua Chen Shen opens 1,600 and takes the blinds to the flop 3♦ 5♦ A♦ which gets checked to Chua who slides out a 3,000 c-bet. Only small blind Moon Gary Hyemyong pays up to see the turn 6♣ that has Chua fork out another 8,000 with yet another check-call by Moon. The 4♦ river is an action killer with both players checking and Chua finding his 5♣ 5♠ set outdrawn by Moon's A♣ J♦ flush.

A four-way pot of 8,500 with the board showing 9♣ 9♠ 7♥ has under the gun +1 Chua Chen Shen jam for 6,800 holding A♣ 6♠ and finds a single customer in small blind Isaia Alessio with K♦ 9♥ . Chua needs runner runner, the turn 8♦ is just what he was looking for, but an A♦ on the river seals the deal with Isaia Alessio extending his lead even further.

Another hand picked up on the flop 7♣ 9♦ 4♠ with 8,800 in the middle has small blind Huang Weiwei lead for 3,500 that gets called by cutoff Chua Chen Shen to reveal the turn 9♣ . Huang slows down to a check, Chua tests the waters with a bet of 11,000, but is the next victim of a check-raise, this time by Huang who makes it 35,000 to bully his way to another scoop.