Pao Hsuan Hsu with the A ♦️ K ♥️ and Charles Tsai holding the A ♥️ K ♠️ got their chips into the middle preflop. The board ran out K ♦️ 4 ♠️ 4 ♥️ 8 ♥️ 5 ♦️ and they chopped it up.
Kotaro Nakayama had been the last casualty prior to that to leave 21 players in contention with the top six set to advance to the money stages.
| Player | Chip Count |
| Pao Hsuan Hsu | 515,000 |
| Charles Tsai | 75,000 |
| Kotaro Nakayama | 0 |