HomeEnd of Day 2 chip counts: 56 players
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Takao Shimizu | Japan | 308,500 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Chang Jae Lee | Korea | 286,500 | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | Sam Welbourne | Thailand | 273,000 | 6 | 4 |
| 4 | Lim Yo Hwan | Korea | 270,500 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | Koji Asaka | Japan | 254,000 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Kah Boon Teh | Malaysia | 254,000 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Jiego C. Erquiaga | Philippines | 250,000 | 8 | 8 |
| 8 | Jun Obara | Japan | 245,000 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | Junichi Nakagiri | Japan | 237,500 | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | Mikiya Kudo | Japan | 223,000 | 6 | 1 |
| 11 | Zheng Xi Yong | China | 221,000 | 8 | 2 |
| 12 | Shun Suke Tsujii | Japan | 217,000 | 6 | 5 |
| 13 | Wendell “Kenzio” Garcia | Philippines | 213,500 | 4 | 2 |
| 14 | Kosei Inchinose | Japan | 205,000 | 5 | 1 |
| 15 | Le Ngoc Khanh | Vietnam | 202,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 16 | Tai Hsing Hsiung | Taiwan | 183,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 17 | Wang Yi | China | 183,000 | 7 | 6 |
| 18 | Czardy Rivera | Philippines | 170,500 | 6 | 6 |
| 19 | En Ching Wu | Taiwan | 164,500 | 4 | 7 |
| 20 | Victorry Chong | Malaysia | 152,500 | 4 | 3 |
| 21 | Cheli Lin | Taiwan | 146,000 | 3 | 2 |
| 22 | Koichi Morita | Japan | 144,500 | 4 | 1 |
| 23 | Seo Dong Kyoon | Korea | 142,000 | 3 | 4 |
| 24 | Julius Lagman | Philippines | 140,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 25 | Bobby Zhang | Austalia | 137,500 | 6 | 8 |
| 26 | Marcuss Liow | Malaysia | 136,500 | 7 | 4 |
| 27 | Andianto Wijaya Tan | Indonesia | 135,500 | 2 | 8 |
| 28 | Alfie Poetra | United States | 123,000 | 2 | 6 |
| 29 | Ryuichi Uesunomiya | Japan | 118,000 | 5 | 7 |
| 30 | Benedict Koh | Singapore | 107,000 | 2 | 5 |
| 31 | Stephen Miles | England | 106,000 | 5 | 5 |
| 32 | Stephen Nathan | United Kingdom | 100,500 | 3 | 8 |
| 33 | Kazuki Haruta | Japan | 98,500 | 4 | 6 |
| 34 | Fu Bang huang | Taiwan | 96,000 | 4 | 5 |
| 35 | Joven Huerto | Philippines | 94,000 | 2 | 7 |
| 36 | Kwok Luen Hei | Hong Kong | 90,000 | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | Francois Michel Castillo | Philippines | 86,000 | 5 | 4 |
| 38 | Marius Zalpys | Lithuania | 84,500 | 2 | 2 |
| 39 | Goh Chong Tech | Singapore | 84,500 | 8 | 6 |
| 40 | Katsuhiro Shimpo | Japan | 83,000 | 8 | 5 |
| 41 | Sebastian Wong | Singapore | 82,000 | 4 | 4 |
| 42 | Anton Del Rosario | Philippines | 81,000 | 5 | 2 |
| 43 | Julius Gaduang | United States | 79,000 | 7 | 5 |
| 44 | Linh Tran | Vietnam | 76,000 | 7 | 1 |
| 45 | Sandro Bruni | Italy | 70,500 | 4 | 8 |
| 46 | Pamela Ang Chai Li | Singapore | 68,500 | 5 | 8 |
| 47 | Park Neong Hyo | Korea | 63,000 | 6 | 2 |
| 48 | Lz Rongshan | China | 61,500 | 3 | 5 |
| 49 | Keita Minaguchi | Japan | 61,500 | 2 | 3 |
| 50 | Park Jung Wong | Hong Kong | 56,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 51 | Alexis Lim | Philippines | 54,000 | 7 | 7 |
| 52 | Siyoung Lee | Korea | 53,000 | 7 | 3 |
| 53 | Chul Ho Bae | Korea | 38,000 | 8 | 4 |
| 54 | Anthony Abram | Austalia | 32,500 | 5 | 3 |
| 55 | Kentaro Somekawa | Japan | 32,500 | 8 | 1 |
| 56 | Lu Li | China | 22,500 | 8 | 3 |
Takao Shimizu
Day 2 is a wrap! 56 players bagged up. We will have the official count for you. Looks like our chip leader is Takao Shimizu with 308,500. Stand by for the recap.
On a raised pot preflop Alfie Poetra bet 37k on a flop 7♣ 4♦ Q♣. Takao Shimizu called. On the 2♣ turn, Poetra fired 40.5k, Shimizu jammed, Poetra folded. Shimizu nearing 300k and may be the chip leader at the moment.
Two short stacks were all in, Victor Chong with A-K, Anthony Abram with A-8. No hits for either on the board and Chong shipped a double to around 125k while Abram plummeted to 8500.
Anton Del Rosario raised from cutoff, big blind Stephen Miles shoved well covering Del Rosario. Del Rosario called with A♣ A♠. Miles held 6-6. The board bricked for a double up to around 80k.
Julius Gadaung was a happy camper with his A♥ A♣ getting full pay from Shimpo Katsuhiro with A♠ Q♣. He climbed to 70k.
Wendell Garcia
Button Wendell Garcia raised to 8k then faced a three-bet to 25k from the sb player Cheli Lin. After the big blind folded, action was back to Garcia, he called. At the flop 9♥ Q♦ 2♠, Lin c-bet 19k, Garcia called. On the 10♣ turn, Lin slowed down and checked, Garcia took charge and fired 69k. He won the pot with Lin quickly folding.
Koichi Morita
Action folded to the button Alfie Poetra. He opened with a 6k raise, big blind Koichi Morita jammed his 60k stack, Poetra called.
Morita 9♥ 9♣
Poetra 8♣ 8♠
The board bricked for a double up to Morita.
We have entered the last level of the day. We just lost two players. The field is down to 58 players. Average stack is 132,327.
Current leaders all with around 270k are Kah Boon Teh, Alfie Poetra, and Jiego Erquiaga.
