TMT Main Event

Tzu Ming Liu raises and limper Chi Yu Bin calls for a flop 4♠ K♥ 9♥ . Chi shoves 128,000 and doesn't push out Tzu who calls and flips over K♣ K♠. Chi is drawing dead with A♦ K♦ . The turn is 2♥ and river 6♣ .

Day 1B is a wrap!

Facing a raise, cutoff Chung Ching Yang calls then calls the button Min Hao Liao's 56,000 three-bet as initial raiser folds. On the flop 4♠ K♠ Q♠ , Liao continues for 35,000, Chung check-calls then both wave off the turn 6♥ . The river 6♣ pairs the board. Chung bets 60,000, Liao snap-calls and shows A♦ Q♦ , Chung's 8♥ 8♠ are behind.

Chih Han Lin's A♦ Q♦ dominates a short stack's A♣ T♣ to ship it.

Three way all in with Chia Tse Yang showing A♦ A♥ that holds on a board A♠ 8♠ 3♣ 4♦ 9♦ to double through Chou Yayu's J♥ J♠ and eliminate a player's K♦ Q♠ .

Down to 3 bb, Liu Yen Ting puts it all in with J♠ J♣ with an advantage against Min Hao Liao's A♣ 3♠ . However, the board favors Liao as it runs A♥ Q♣ T♥ 6♣ A♠ for Ting to fall on the stone cold bubble.

The heat continues and bags up once it reaches 51 players.

Two players all-in pre-flop.

Huan Guan Yi: A♥ A♦

Button: K♠ K♣

Board 2♥ T♦ Q♠ 6♥ 8♠

Aces hold and player at button is sent to the rail.

Despite looking good before the flop, the board turns everything around. Chiangming Liu triples up through the main pot with a straight done the hard way. Benny Chung doubles up on a side pot with a set of queens and UTG+2 player is left with 38,000 in crumbs as the kings crumble.

Chung Ching Yang goes all-in pre-flop wit A♥ A♠ and is joined by a shorter stacked player with A♣ K♣ . Aces get a scare but eventually holds on a K♦ 5♣ 3♣ Q♦ A♦ board. Chung Ching Yang becomes the new chip leader.

Chung Ching Yang: 470,000

Preflop raise war leads to three players all in with Chu Chi Hao dominating both in hand and in chips.

UTG+2 player: K♦ K♠

Hijack player: K♥ 7♦

Chu Chi Hao: A♥ A♣

Board runs T♦ 2♣ 5♥ 4♥ Q♠

Hao's pocket rockets blasts both players to the other side of the rail.

Chen Kuei-Yang min-raises to 8,000 and big blind makes the call. Flop comes Q♥ T♠ 4♥ , big blind check-calls Kuei-Yang's continuation bet of 8,000 , turn comes 8♣. Big blind switches up and leads for 15,000 , Yang calls. On the river 8♠ , big blind shoves, Yang calls and is at risk.

Yang shows Q♣ J♦ for two pair, big blind shows the unsuccessful bluff with A♥ 2♥ . Big blind player drops to two bb and busts on the next hand

Chen Kuei-Yang: 133,000

Chou Yayu min-raises from cutoff and the button pushes for his last 51,000. Yayu makes the call for a showdown.

Button player: A♦ T♥

Chou Yayu: A♣ J♠

Yayu dominates and the board of K♠ 4♣ 7♦ 5♦ 2♣ offers no help to empty out another seat.

Under the gun player got the ball rolling with a 6,000 min-raise then Yun Ping Li four-bets to 20,000, Chu Che Wei pops it up to 50,000, no one else wanted to play, and Chu Che Wei takes down the pot without a flop.

Wen Yung Ching puts his last 35,000 at risk as the player from the lojack makes the call for a showdown.

Lojack player: T♥ T♣

Wen Yung Ching: 8♣ 8♥

Board K♦ 7♦ 3♠ 9♥ 8♦

Dominated and not looking good, somehow Ching gets a magic two-outer to make a set and stay alive.

Hijack raises to 5,000 and Hsin Chiech Wang reraises to 12,000, big blind calls, hi-jack shoves for his last 35,200 only Wang calls. Wang wins the flip and sends a player to the rail.

In a battle of the blinds, sb Tian Fu Jiang raises 4,000 then calls the 11,000 three-bet of bb Zong Chi He. Both enter a flop K♠ 6♥ 6♣ . Jiang check-raises the 16,000 bet of Zong Chi He to 94,000 and Zong Chi He gives up, flashing a K♣ before throwing his cards to the muck.

Tian Fu Jiang: 230,000

Zong Chih He: 64,000

Tak Yan raises to 3,500 and cutoff three-bets to 10,000, Yan calls and a flop lands A♥ J♠ 9♣ . Yan check-raises the 6,000 bet to make it 20,000, cutoff folds.

Unknown: 41,000

Tak Yan: 185,000

Zong Chi He makes a min-raise of 3,200, button Fan Chih Wei calls, small blind re-raise to 6,000. Both players complete and three players see a flop of 6♠ 3♠ 4♠ . Wei checks and draws an 8,000 bet from Zong Chi He. The button shoves all-in for 26,700 and Wei makes the call. Zong Chi He re-raises all-in and Wei pushes his remaining 34,500.

An 18,000 pot was formed up to the turn on a board of 7♥ Q♠ T♠ 9♥ . Small blind Liu Yen Ting check-raises the lojack player's 13,000 bet to make it 43,000. Lojack calls. On the river K♦ , Ting fires his remaining 29,000 all-in and gets called.

Lojack player shows T♥ T♣ for a set while Ting shows K♠ J♣ for a nine-to-king straight.

Level 11 is under way with blinds at 800/1,600 with antes of 1,600. 190 of 504 players remain. Players will play until the bubble of the top 76 players, then will continue to play until 51 survivors remain to advance to Day 2.

Day 1B registration is about to close. 487 entries so far.