Red Dragon Championship (2,500,000 KRW)

No diamonds for Matsuda on 6♠ and 5♠ sees Nguyen take the lead less than two orbits after being on the brink of elimination.

Cutoff Jiawei Wan opens 16,000, button Jiapeng Yu flats and small blind Trung Quan Nguyen squeezes to 60,000 with only Yu filling up to see the A♠ 6♣ T♥ flop. Nguyen check calls 31,000 and another 60,000 on the 9♦ turn before the 9♣ river gets checked down where his A♦ Q♣ is good enough to win the hand.

First to act Trung Quan Nguyen lays out 10,000 and finds two takers to share the 5♦ 8♦ T♦ flop where he continues for 14,000, button Chenxu Zhang - Lady Dragon champ two days ago and defending Main Event 3rd place - ups it to 35,000 and only big blind William Teoh pays up to see the A♦ turn. Teoh leads 35,000 and Zhang slow plays the K♦ Q♦ nuts with a call to the A♣ river where Teoh jams and Zhang snaps for her last 31,000, just to find out her flush got outdrawn by Teoh's 5♣ 5♥ boat.

With an 8,000 raise and a flat in front, big blind Trung Quan Nguyen squeezes to 33,000 and only small blind William Teoh sticks around to the K♦ 3♣ K♠ flop where he lets it go against Nguyen's 20,000 c-bet.