Several players have dropped into the danger zone with the new blinds of 100,000-200,000/200,000 and the updated counts of the final eight players can be found below.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Dakota Anderson | United States | 4,500,000 | 23 |
| 2 | Marc Rivera | Philippines | 10,000,000 | 50 |
| 3 | Joris Michl | Netherlands | 2,400,000 | 12 |
| 5 | Aleksei Zhukov | Russia | 6,800,000 | 34 |
| 6 | Thanh Cao Nguyen | Vietnam | 2,000,000 | 10 |
| 7 | Dmitrii Belikov | Russia | 1,300,000 | 7 |
| 8 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 13,000,000 | 65 |
| 9 | John Matsuda | Japan | 6,500,000 | 33 |