8 Max Survivor 2K Bounty to ITM ($1,000)

The second of three 8 Max Survivor $2K Bounty heats has come to a close with its 192-entry field whittled down to 24 players. Ten hours of play ran through before ITM was reached, with China's Xin Tang capping the day with the lead.

Tang added a third onto his stack after delivering Marc Joseph's bubble elimination, and closed the flight with a bag of 576,000. Ukraine's Yakiv Syzghanov trails closely behind with 573,000, joined by three more runners above the 500K mark. Day 1A chip leader Ankit Wadhawan continues to reign, with his towering 970,000 stack a far stretch from everyone else.

Other notables advancing through include Xiaosheng Zheng (528,000), Renji Mao (474,000), Dhaval Mudgal (314,000), and Tom Verbruggen (126,000).

Final Day action kicks off tomorrow 11:30, local time, with all Day 1 survivors returning to the felt already guaranteed a share of the $227,513 prize pool.

8 Max Survivor 2K Bounty

Date/s: February 11-13, 2025

Buy-in: $1,000

Guarantee: $200,000

Entries: 482

Prize pool: $227,513

Day 1A: 136 entries, 17 qualified

Day 1B: 192 entries, 24 qualified

Day 1C: Wednesday, February 12

Day 2 /Final: Thursday, February 13

Xin Tang opened utg+1, called by David Copeland on the button. Marc Joseph on the big blind, stuffed his last 94,000 (9 BB) and was called by both opponents right on bubble time.

Action on board 4♣ Q♣ K♠ K♦ J♦ was checked all the way to showdown, earning Tang the pot with a straight while Joseph bowed out as the stone cold bubble.

Le Ngoc Minh shoved his last 34,500 (6 BB) utg and saw Xin Tang push likewise. No one else joined the action, leaving the two to run board 9♦ 3♠ J♠ Q♥ 3♣ .

Tang secured the win with two pair, eliminating Le from the Day 1B games.

Mario Arrocha stuffed his last 20,800 (8 BB) on the hijack and was looked up by Xin Tang on the button.

Arrocha dominated, headed out shortly after board 2♣ 2♠ 6♦ 9♥ 5♠ offered no chops.

Minh Tien Ngo opened 2,500 utg and saw Xin Tang complete on the big blind.

Ngo continued for 3,000 on flop 2♣ 4♣ 6♥ , yet quickly let it go after Tang pulled a check raise to 7,500.

David Copeland fired a three bet against a late position open and saw Xin Tang cold four bet to 5,500 on the big blind. Copeland responded with an all-in, leaving Tang in quick surrender.