Baby Dragon (1,500,000 KRW)

Under the gun Zongxin Liu lays out 20,000 and both blinds defend to see the 9♣ 8♥ T♦ flop that gets checked to the 6♣ turn where big blind Yuki Hirata leads 30,000 and Liu becomes the sole caller to the 5♣ river. Hirata puts another 15,000 in the middle with A♦ J♦ and has to surrender the pot after Liu calls with Q♦ Q♣ .

With only 38 players left, the field is getting close to the 31 player cutoff for Flight C that will join the 30 qualifiers that already bagged their chips in yesterday's two flights.

First to act Zongxin Liu raises to 13,000 and takes two interested parties to the 4♥ 9♣ 7♦ flop that gets checked to the T♦ turn where big blind Yuki Hirata leads 7,000, Liu calls, but Ying Song's 32,000 raise from the button ends the hand.

First to act Zongxin Liu looks at Q♥ 5♣ J♣ 6♣ with 57,500 in the middle and check-calls 20,000 from button Ying Song. The board completes J♥ and Liu calls another 25,000 with J♦ 9♦ against Song's A♠ A♣ .