Xia Feng jammed for 845,000 on the button with the A?9? and Ken Lin obliged from the small blind with the 10?9?, having just lost the previous hand. Feng made the nut flush on the J?5?3?7?2? board to double.
Soon after, "Travis" pushed for just 495,000 with the A?J? and Yao Xiao looked him up with 8?8?. The overcard came right away on the A?6?3? flop before the K? turn and 4? river even improved "Travis" to a flush.
"You can't kill Sammy," he declared with a smile on the face.
In the last hand before the break, chip leader Yao Xiao bet the 10?9?5?K? turn for 375,000 and folded to a shove by Jhon Tanaka.
When they returned to the action, Tanaka limped and then folded when Xiao raised to 350,000 on the button and Ken Lin defended the big blind. Lin check-called for 300,000 on the A?9?2? flop before they checked the 4? turn. On the 6? river, Lin check-called another 400,000 and mucked when Xiao tabled Q?Q? for a flush.
Tom Dwan raised to 175,000 first to act and earned calls from both players in the blinds in Ge Zhong and Yao Xiao. The flop came K?4?3? and it checked to Dwan, who bet 325,000. Zhong then jammed for 1,210,000 and Xiao asked for a count before he called by tossing in a single chip.
Dwan sighed but also got his 1,425,000 into the middle as well.
Ge Zhong: K?Q?
Tom Dwan: A?A?
Yao Xiao: 4?3?
The bottom two pair held on the 2? turn and 6? river runout to reduce the field to seven. Zhong and Dwan both receive $12,000 for their efforts.
The first few hands on the final table are played in rapid speed and the biggest pot went to Tom Dwan. On the 10?7?4?A?2? river, Ken Lin in the big blind bet 355,000 and Dwan on the button reluctantly called for most of his short stack behind.
Lin showed K?5? for a bluff and Dwan won the pot with the 7?5? for a pair of sevens.
Only two minutes remain in the level and the counts of the nine finalists are as follows. Tom Dwan is the shortest stack with ten big blinds but can spin it up.
"Wei" raised the button to 120,000 and then called all-in for 665,000 when Yao Xiao pushed from the big blind, committing his last eleven blinds.
"Wei": A?9?
Yao Xiao: A?J?
The kicker played on the A?2?2?K?K? runout and the bubble burst. Moments later, "A Zheng" was then eliminated after he had survived the bubble with a severe short stack and that brought the field to the final nine players.
The action after the dinner break barely lasted for one hour and the field was reduced from 23 contenders to just eleven, bringing the field to the stone money bubble.
Jhon Hendri saw his hopes crushed when he three-bet jammed a short stack with the K?Q? and was called by Jhon Tanaka with the A?Q?. The board ran out 5?4?3?2?9? and that spelled the end for the Indonesian against his fellow countryman.
Jacson Feng lost a portion of his pot and jammed the button for 18 blinds next with the A?6?. "Mic" called in the big blind with the superior ace in A?Q? and held on a K?4?2?3?3? runout.
That brought the field to the final two tables on which Lirui "Ivan" Zhang defended the big blind with 5?5? and then jammed a flop of 9?9?3? right into the A?9? of Xia Feng from under the gun. There was no help on the K? turn and K? river.
Moments later, Ken Lin soared near the top of the leaderboard when he knocked out two shorter stacks. His A?9? flipped against Quan Zhou with the 7?7? and an even shorter stack, who revealed the 4?4?. The ace came on the A?6?3?2?2? board and that made it 13 players remaining.
Yoke Wei Yoon was caught bluffing when shoving the K?7?2?A?2? river with 10?6? for a missed flush draw. Ge Zhong called with the A?7? for aces and sevens to earn the knockout.
Last but not least, Xuming Qi got it in preflop with the A?5? and Yao Xiao looked him up with the superior A?Q?. The kicker played on the 10?6?4?8?A? runout and the field was left with 11 contenders at the start of level 16 with blinds of 25,000-50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000.
