Baby Dragon (1,500,000 KRW)

Lucky Steve opens 16,000 from +1, hijack Xiaqing Ji increases to 60,000 and Steve laments 'it's the third time he three-bets me and next I'll just go all-in', showing the A♣ before folding and Ji rubs it in, showing T♦ 9♣ for good measure.

Both players improve on 2♣ 3♠ 5♠ A♠ 7♦ with Tai on the losing end, busting two places before the money.

First to act Lucky Steve puts 12,000 in the middle and calls after small blind Zhihan Cui increased to 39,000. Steve calls 35,000 on the 6♥ 6♠ 4♠ flop, 6,000 on the 6♦ turn, but folds to a 14,000 third barrel from Cui on the 2♦ river. Cui shows J♠ J♣ .

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.

The K♣ river makes another exit official and Steve is sitting pretty towards the sharp end of the leaderboard.

With 24,500 in the middle the heads up flop 8♥ Q♥ 9♥ gets checked to the K♦ turn where hijack Shengfa Huang leads 14,000 and Duc Toan Tran fills up for the 5♣ river. Huang mounts another steal for 18,000 with 5♠ 4♣ , but Tran has his number and calls with A♠ K♣ .

Drawing dead already, Chen gets up before the T♠ and 4♦ make his exit official.