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

Right the next hand Calvin Lee limps J♠ 7♦ , Stephen Song opts to check T♥ 4♣ and the flop T♠ 4♥ J♣ drops. Song check-calls 50,000 before check-raising 800,000 on the 6♠ turn. Lee fills up his 175,000 second barrel and snap-calls his last 1,700,000 on the river 5♣ after Song put him all-in. Top pair versus two pair is the end for him, adding another six-figure cash that takes his 2025 live earnings to over $2,000,000 already.

Stephen Song opens 125,000 with A♣ 5♥ and Calvin Lee defends T♥ 7♥ to the flop 6♥ 2♥ Q♣ . Song continues for 75,000 and pays up after Lee check-raised to 250,000. On the turn J♠ Lee fires another 275,000, Song consumes a time banks and ups it to 750,000 with Lee calling. The river 4♠ gets checked down for Song to scoop the pot with ace-high.

While the table is being prepared for the heads-up, Stephen Song and Calvin Lee agree to an ICM deal that gives $200,000 to Lee and $194,000 to Song With $10,000 and the trophy left to play for.

A limped blind battle has Calvin Lee triple barrel 50,000, 200,000 and 1,000,000 on the board K♣ 6♣ 7♠ A♣ T♥ and small blind Taylor Black check-calls all the way with A♦ 7♣ before he has to surrender the pot to Lee's T♣ 3♣ flush.

Still stacking some of Stephen Song's chips he won the hand before, Taylor Black defends his big blind against a min-raise from button Calvin Lee to lay eyes on the 8♠ 6♣ T♦ flop. He check-calls a 125,000 c-bet before the turn 3♣ and river J♦ get checked down with Black tabling the winner K♦ 7♥ against Lee's Q♦ 4♦ .

Digging for three outs, Mendoza can't find any of them on the board 8♦ 5♣ Q♦ 7♦ 6♠ that sends him home in 4th and adds another $75,000 to his $450,000 biggest cash ever that he banked for finishing the SHR Main Event as runner-up two days ago.

The remaining three have a six-figure payout guaranteed.

Scooping a small pot on the river against James Mendoza two hands ago, Calvin Lee open-limps his small blind and fills up after chip leader Stephen Song increased to 105,000. Lee check-calls a 60,000 c-bet on 7♦ 6♦ 7♥ and does so again for 180,000 on the J♦ turn. Both players check down the river 2♠ that has Song come out on top with ace-high A♦ 9♥ against Lee's K♦ T♣ king-high.

After chopping a preflop all-in against Cates two hands ago, Lei Yu is back with A♥ A♣ on the button and only calls Calvin Lee's 60,000 raise from +1 who has A♠ K♦ . Lee continues for 55,000 on the flop K♣ 5♥ 7♠ and Yu fills up to see the 6♥ turn hit the felt. Both players are trapping with a check and the board completes 8♦ for a scary four-liner. Lee pulls the trigger with a jam that puts Yu in the tank. He puts all his time banks in front, but lets go of the aces after using only three of them.

An ace in the window on 2♠ 9♦ A♠ puts Chen behind, who can't recover when the board completes J♠ 4♥ making her trade places on the leaderboard with Lee.

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.