Championship Warm Up ($600)

A player from utg +1 opens the action to 12,000 but is quickly 3-bet by erstwhile chip-leader Seok Jaemoon of Korea from the cutoff to 40,000. Suddenly, from the sb, China’s Zhang Hongru makes a 4-bet shove for 201,000 prompting the initial raiser to fold but getting a snap-call from Seok.

Zhang tables A♣ K♣ while Seok brandishes A♥ A♦ .

The runout goes: 9♠ 7♣ 4♦ 8♦ 9♣ as Zhang gets eliminated and Seok increases his stack to over 700,000 and regains his seat atop the leaderboard.

Vietnamese ace Mai Bien opens the action from the cutoff for 6,000 and gets called on the bb of chip-leader Seok Jaemoon of Korea.

The flop is Q♦ 4♣ 9♠ as both players check. The turn is the 2♠ as Seok checks anew. Mai leads out for 10,000 and almost immediately gets check-raised to 32,000 by the Korean. Mai decides to call. The river is the 6♠ as Seok unloads 45,000. Mai folds.

Seok is close to being the first player in this flight to surpass the half million mark.