Single Day High Roller (5,000,000 KRW)

Pete Chen opened with half his stack and flicked in the remaining 22,000 against big blind Dawei Lu's all-in. In search of a double up, Chen instead headed towards the door as a jack high board J♠ 4♣ 8♣ 7♣ 9♠ rolled on the felt.

Pete Chen opened from utg+1 and called a 40,000 three bet from Zhiyuan Zhang behind. On flop Q♦ J♦ 8♦ , Zhang got his remaining 76,000 in and was tank called by his Taiwanese opponent with A♥ J♥ . Zhang is ahead with K♣ K♥ , and continued that way through turn T♣ and river A♣ for a full double up.

Pete Chen opened to 10,000 on the hijack and was joined by Zhiyuan Zhang behind, along with the big blind on flop 9♦ 7♣ 4♣ . Checked to Zhang, he bet 13,000, check called only by Chen onto turn J♣ . Both checked it through to river 7♦ where Chen led for 30,000.

Zhang made the call, only to muck as Chen tabled Q♥ 7♥ for rivered trip sevens.

A preflop back and forth between button Pete Chen and big blind Zhiyuan Zhang led to both stacks in the middle, with Chen left at risk for his tournament life (87,000). Board K♥ 3♥ 7♣ 5♠ 4♦ quickly landed in favor of Zhang's overcards, earning him a significant boost to his already healthy stack.

Kyungmin Lee opened to 3,000 from the cutoff and saw Pete Chen come along a seat behind on flop 3♦ K♦ 6♣ . Both checked it through to turn Q♦ where Lee fired 4,500. Chen put in the chips and went on to send out a final 10,000 on river 8♦ , to which Lee was unable to call.