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.

The SMP Live Updates will be there for you the whole day.

Pingfeng Wu leads 17,000, Xuesong Wu flats in the hijack and big blind Yuzhu Wang jams 111,000 after consuming a time bank. Both contestants fold and Wang picks up another preflop pot after jamming into a raise.

After a miss deal a few hands ago where he showed aces, Xuesong Wu jams from the big blind and hijack Nevan Chang surrenders his 12,000 open. Wu shows A♠ Q♠ .

Jieming Xu opens 10,000 and small blind Xuesong Wu gets ready to put in a re-raise, but without saying anything lays out a single 5k chip which is ruled a call. The flop A♠ A♥ 6♦ gets checked to the turn K♠ where Wu's 20,000 lead finds a call. The river 8♥ has Wu fire another 30,000, Xu contemplates but finds the call, losing a time bank in the process and surrenders the pot after Wu shows A♦ Q♣ .

Small blind Pingfeng Wu limps and Xuesong Wu opts to check and watches the flop fall T♦ A♣ 9♠ . Pingfeng leads 4,000 and pays up after Xuesong upped the fee to 10,000. The turn 2♦ gets checked to the river T♣ where Pingfeng forks out another 9,000 with T♥ 3♦ which gets called by Xuesong who throws it in the muck.