Daeyoung Park raised to 400,000 with the Q ♦️ 3 ♦️ and Sheng Hung Kao in the hijack three-bet to 1,000,000 with the A ♠️ A ♦️ . It folded back to Park and he pondered about it before folding.
Sheng Hung Kao then got a four-bet shove through and the final six players then went on their first 15-minute break. When they return, the action switches to hand-based format with 30 hands per level to be played.
Below are the updated counts for the next blinds of 125,000-250,000/250,000.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blind |
| 2 | Ravn Teo | Singapore | 15,000,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Daeyoung Park | South Korea | 18,000,000 | 72 |
| 5 | Sheng Hung Kao | Taiwan | 7,400,000 | 30 |
| 6 | Tsu Yun Yang | Taiwan | 4,300,000 | 17 |
| 8 | Hung Te Lee | Taiwan | 8,900,000 | 36 |
| 9 | Yu Jui Chen | Taiwan | 8,700,000 | 35 |