MAIN EVENT ($1,320)

Only six more eliminations are due before the flight wraps up, leaving just 11 players out of the 89-entry field onto Day 2 by night's end.

Chip Counts

Reigning chip leader Khayal Abbasov extended his lead even more so, having picked up yet another pot to crack the 500K threshold.

Abbasov opened on the cutoff and saw player on the small blind commit 55,000 of his stack, leaving himself with one chip behind. Abbasov effectively put him all-in and easily delivered the bust on board A♠ Q♦ 3♦ K♥ J♣ .

With action folded to the button, Khayal Abbasov lodged a 10,000 open and was met with a 40,000 three bet from Chak Hei Chan on the small blind. The raise opened the action for Abbasov to pad the pot further to 90,000, resulting in an all-in from Chan with his newly acquired chips of over 200,000.

Abbasov snap called with the cowboys and scooped up the chip leader pot with no issues as board 5♠ 3♥ J♦ 3♦ 3♣ ran clean.

Khayal Abbasov opened from early position and was joined by both players on the blinds onto flop 7♥ 8♠ 4♣ . Abbasov continued for 3,000, check called by Nguyen Thanh Long on the small blind.

On turn J♥ , Abbasov fired another 11,500, and was this time, met with a check raise to 25,000 from his opponent. Abbasov gave it a thought yet elected to surrender, conceding the pot to Nguyen.