Championship Warm Up ($600)

With the action folded to the lowjack of Kyosuke Nagami, the player from Japan raises it up to 10,000 while on the button, Korea’s Lee Hon Cheong decides to 3-bet all-in for his remaining 74,000. It gets folded back to Nagami who makes the call. Lee shows A♥ J♠ while Nagami has J♦ J♣ .

The runout goes: K♦ 3♥ 5♠ 3♣ Q♣ as the Korean could not find an ace to keep him in the competition and has been eliminated. Nagami’s stack now goes up to 167,000.