MAIN EVENT (CS) - 8 HANDED

After 16 levels, Flight B of the $700,000 guaranteed TLPT Main Event CS concludes with 5 out of 45 total entries still standing.

Pingfeng Wu bags a massive lead after knocking out the last two players, taking 521,000 to Day 2 on Thursday the 15th. Far behind in 2nd place is Nevan Chang - No. 7 on Taiwan's all time money list - with 240,000 who chipped up late getting aces twice in one orbit.

The five qualifiers will be able to unpack their chips at 12:00 on Thursday the 15th of May.

For all the players still looking to qualify tomorrow, the $750 buy-in Flight C will start at 14:00 and the last chance to qualify will be Flight D at 18:00 with a $2,000 buy-in.

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Under the gun kicks off the action with a raise to 12,000, finds a flat from +1, hijack Yi Ye ups it to 42,000 and cutoff Gary Thompson jams 121,000. No takers for the Irishman to pick up another pot after going all-in within a few hands.

Lojack Gary Thompson leads 8,000, Yuzhu Wang ups it to 22,000 from the button and Thompson counters with an 80,000 four-bet-jam. Yuzhu goes in the tank for one time bank before folding and shows K♣ Q♣ . Thompson shows the 9♦ and both are laughing.

Small blind Yi Ye leads 7,500 and Gary Thompson defends to see the flop 4♣ K♣ 7♠ where Ye's 4,000 continuation gets called to the turn K♦ and another 11,000 gets met by Thompson for the board to complete 3♦ . Ye slows down to a check, Thompson puts 65,000 in the middle and Ye goes in the tank. Emerging with a cape on, Yi Ye hero calls 3♥ 6♥ for 53,500 and receives good news when Thompson flips over queen-high Q♥ J♠ .

All blanks on T♠ Q♠ 8♣ 4♠ K♣ spell the end for Liu, taking us one step closer to the final table.