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

No three for Black on the river K♦ sees the 2021 WPT Main Event winner exit in 3rd for a $101,000 payday.

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♦ .

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

After chopping a preflop all-in against Calvin Lee with ace-king for both of them, Yisha Chen raises 50,000 from under the gun with A♥ K♦ and takes hijack Taylor Black with A♠ Q♦ to the flop T♣ 2♥ 6♥ where her 40,000 c-bet gets called. The 5♥ turn gets checked to the river T♦ and Chen's 340,000 lead goes unanswered.

Taylor Black min-raises A♦ K♠ from +1 and button Stephen Song comes along for the ride with 3♠ 3♣ . The flop J♣ T♥ 9♦ gets checked to the turn K♥ where Black check-calls 70,000 to watch the river A♥ hit the felt. Checking again, Black uses a time bank before he folds to another 135,000 bet from Song.

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

A min raised three-way pot gets checked to the river T♣ 7♣ 3♠ 2♣ 4♥ with preflop raiser Taylor Black's A♣ K♠ coming out on top against Dan Cates and Stephen Song.

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.

Taylor Black opens 30,000 from the cutoff, but lets it go after Dominik Nitsche jammed his small stack to win his second pot of the day.