Red Dragon Championship (2,500,000 KRW)

With this being the last hand of the day, Guanxiong Zhang gets out his phone, and feels good about his chances. The dealer agrees by turning over 8♠ 5♣ Q♠ 9♥ 5♥ for the straight with another gasp going through the crowd that gathered around the table and Zhang records the event.

Under the gun raises to 80,000 and takes two customers to the flop 6♠ 5♠ 9♦ where the action checks to cutoff Zijie Lu who puts out a feeler of 75,000. Zhang grabs a bunch of chips to raise, puts them over the line without releasing or saying anything when his clock runs out. The floor gets called and it is ruled a call, which makes the rest of the table gasp in shock. The initial raiser gets out of the way and the turn falls Q♠ where Zhang leads 275,000 to win the pot.

Zijie Lu defends his big blind against a 60,000 open from cutoff Junjie He to see the flop 5♥ Q♥ 9♠ that gets checked to the turn 4♣ where he check-calls a 60,000 delayed c-bet from He. The river T♥ has He bet another 155,000, before calling Lu's 400,000 check-raise. He's Q♠ 8♣ is good against Lu's J♦ 9♥ .

Qing Zhao keeps his lead, picking up small pots left and right using his massive stack to bully. Current payout is at KRW 6,250,000 (~$4,350) with a $455 pay jump from 62nd onwards.

Drawing dead already, Ruan gets up before the river 8♦ makes his exit official.

With 104 players left, the current payout sits at KRW 5,300,000 (~$3,690) with another $105 jump after 98 players will be remaining.

Hijack Wenbin Xu lays out 20,000 and fills up after small blind Zijie Lu pumped it to 80,000 to lay eyes on the flop 3♦ 8♣ 2♦ where he calls a 55,000 c-bet form Lu. The turn Q♥ gets checked to the river K♦ where Lu puts Xu all-in after the use of a time bank. Using a time bank himself, Xu lets it go, waiting for a better opportunity to put his las 21BB to the test.

With 156 players left we are six eliminations away from the KRW 5,150,000 (~$3,585) money bubble.

After delivering a double knock out a few hands ago, Ziwei Chen is at it again with a 16,000 open and small blind Zijie Lu defends to see the flop T♥ K♥ T♠ where he goes on to check call 20,000, 30,000 on the turn 5♦ and 50,000 on the river 2♠ with 9♣ T♣ to scoop the pot against Chen's A♦ K♣ .