20K (SHR) - 8 HANDED ($20,000)

After taking down two single raised pots in the three hands before, Yisha Chen cements her second place on the leaderboard.

Calvin Lee lays out 40,000 from +1 with Q♦ J♦ and cutoff Gavin takes three time banks before opting to call A♣ 7♣ to see the 8♦ 6♥ K♠ flop where Lee's 40,000 c-bet gets called and the 6♠ turn drops. Lee checks and Gavin uses the opportunity to scoop the pot with a 60,000 bet.

Cates evades an ace on 8♥ 7♠ 7♥ 2♠ J♣ to survive another all-in.

Cates picked up the blinds and Gavin lost a small pot against Istvan Birizdo that leaves him with crumbs.

The previous three min-raised pots went to some of the short stacks before the action gets folded to small blind Dan Cates in the next one. He makes it 30,000 with K♦ 9♥ and Calvin Lee defends 8♣ 7♣ to see the action flop 9♠ K♣ 5♣ . Cates triple barrels 25,000, 125,000 and 375,000 all-in to the Q♦ turn and 6♥ river. Lee snaps for his last 325,000 on the river for a double up with his straight against Cates' two pair.

Yisha Chen min-raises from under the gun and takes two players to the flop 9♠ 3♦ Q♥ where her 30,000 c-bet only keeps big blind Stephen Song around for the A♠ turn. Another 40,000 gets the job done for her.

With a few minutes of break left for the live stream production, the players are getting ready for their formal walk in.

Stephen Song extended his lead already, but Yisha Chen drew a good seat in position of him to maybe challenge the American bracelet holder.