Main Event (16,500 NTD)

After it folds to the blinds, Zhang Pu Shao puts it all on the line with Q♣ T♣ and Armon Van Wijk calls holding A♠ 8♠ . With the board running 5♦ 5♥ 5♠ K♠ J♥ Van Wijk wins the pot and boots Zhang out of the field.

With a 1100 raise by Zhang Pu Shao that's called, small blind Jackson Chan makes it 4000 to continue. Only Zhang calls to the flop Q♥ 2♥ J♦ . Chan c-bets 5500, Zhang snap-tosses to the muck.

Ray Chu is on a tear with two hefty scores driving his stack well past the rest. On his first hand, a pot of 7800 had already been built by the turn 4♠ 8♦ 6♦ J♣ . Zhang Pu Shao bet 5000, Chu check-raised to 17,000, Zhang called. On the river A♦ , Chu jumped out with a shove of 10,300, Zhang looked down at his A♠ 8♣ two pair and could not resist calling. Chu flipped over J♠ J♥ set for the double up.

Next hand. Chu three-bet from the button 2200, early limper Murly Manokharan called while cutoff raiser opted to fold. At the flop A♦ J♦ 9♣ , Manokharan check-called 3000. When the Q♥ landed on the turn, Manokharan shoved his last 12,000 and was given the bad news when caller Chu flipped over A♠ A♣ set well ahead of his Q♦ 6♦ . The river 8♣ failed to produce the flush to dust Manokharan early in the day.

After a limp by cutoff, button Zhang Pu Shao raises 800, small blind Zong Yu Liu re-raises 2000, cutoff folds, Zhang four-bets 8500, Liu surrenders. Zhang kindly shows K♦ K♣ .