Main Event (1,600,000 KRW)

Yang Haibo raises 40,000 from the hijack and takes button Lee Kyung Min to the flop 8♣ 6♦ 8♥ where Yang checks, Lee bets 75,000 and then calls a raise to 200,000 from his opponent to the turn 2♥ . Yang leads 200,000 and Lee calls for the board to complete 7♣ . Yang Haibo jams 895,000 with Q♠ Q♣ , barely covering Lee, who finds a call with an over pair of his own J♠ J♣ , handing an almost 2,500,000 pot to Yang Haibo before gathering his things.

Starting with 151 unique qualifiers today, the 8 levels of 60-minute play got us down to just 28 gladiators still standing with Li Dong putting on a show of great aggressive poker during the closing stages that led him to bag 4,910,000, more than double of the 2,430,000 that 2nd in chips Yang Haibo will take to Day 3. Yang Haibo was close to 4,000,000 at one point, but lost almost 1,000,000 in a bluff against Zhang Jason right at the end, who emerged 3rd in chips because of that hand, banking 2,040,000.

Day 3 will start at 1pm local on February 20 and will continue until the final table is reached.