HomeDay 2 ends with 50 players. Total chips in play – 15,732,800. Average stack 314,656.
Chip counts below:
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat | Bubble Protected |
| 19 | Yoo Gyeong Tae | Korea | 350,000 | 8 | 1 | No |
| 34 | Ysiharu Kawamoto | Japan | 180,000 | 8 | 2 | No |
| 27 | Tao Gang | China | 256,000 | 8 | 3 | No |
| 44 | Linh Tran | Vietnam | 111,000 | 8 | 4 | No |
| 8 | Chaesung Lim (DB) | Korea | 551,000 | 8 | 5 | No |
| 31 | Paul Hockin (SB) | New Zealand | 207,000 | 8 | 6 | No |
| 4 | Ken Foo Hsien Loong (BB) | Malaysia | 699,000 | 8 | 7 | No |
| 39 | Eugene Co | Philippines | 136,000 | 8 | 8 | No |
| 12 | Christopher Mateo | Philippines | 454,000 | 9 | 1 | No |
| 10 | Marvin Rettenmaier | Germany | 527,000 | 9 | 2 | No |
| 33 | Louis Bilodeau | Japan | 183,000 | 9 | 3 | Yes |
| 40 | Dave Erguiaga | Philippines | 134,000 | 9 | 4 | No |
| 28 | Xu Qiang | China | 242,000 | 9 | 5 | No |
| 37 | Takahiro Abe | Japan | 156,000 | 9 | 6 | Yes |
| 6 | Chen Yazhou (DB) | China | 622,000 | 9 | 7 | No |
| 43 | Soo Jo Kim (SB) | Korea | 116,000 | 9 | 8 | No |
| 2 | Kar Ooi Low (BB) | Malaysia | 775,000 | 9 | 9 | No |
| 18 | Shyh Chyn Lim (BB) | Malaysia | 353,000 | 10 | 1 | No |
| 41 | Iori Yogo | Japan | 122,000 | 10 | 3 | Yes |
| 17 | Li Rongshan | China | 379,000 | 10 | 4 | No |
| 45 | Mark Vanderburg | United States | 110,000 | 10 | 5 | Yes |
| 48 | Suditu Madalin | Romania | 90,000 | 10 | 6 | No |
| 23 | Seungduk Yang | Korea | 286,000 | 10 | 7 | Yes |
| 20 | Victor Lam (DB) | Vietnam | 325,000 | 10 | 8 | No |
| 9 | Lin-Wen-Hong (SB) | Taiwan | 544,000 | 10 | 9 | No |
| 7 | Ivan Chev Tabucal (SB) | Philippines | 552,000 | 11 | 1 | No |
| 26 | Ori Mendi (BB) | Israel | 268,000 | 11 | 2 | No |
| 35 | Chauve Vincent | Thailand | 173,000 | 11 | 3 | No |
| 47 | Joshua Chargualaf | Guam | 99,000 | 11 | 4 | No |
| 32 | Tang Tian | China | 190,000 | 11 | 5 | No |
| 11 | Yuta Murakami | Japan | 464,000 | 11 | 7 | No |
| 22 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 288,000 | 11 | 8 | No |
| 16 | Byungwook Ahn (DB) | Korea | 385,000 | 11 | 9 | Yes |
| 42 | Mark Gruendemann | Ireland | 119,000 | 12 | 1 | No |
| 38 | Inaki Santos (DB) | Spain | 138,000 | 12 | 2 | No |
| 14 | Wang Jiabin (SB) | China | 410,000 | 12 | 3 | No |
| 50 | Xu Shuang (BB) | China | 16,000 | 12 | 4 | Yes |
| 30 | Gyeong Byeong Lee | Korea | 207,000 | 12 | 5 | No |
| 3 | Kong Seong Su | Korea | 706,000 | 12 | 6 | No |
| 36 | Christos Vlahos | Australia | 165,000 | 12 | 7 | No |
| 24 | Hiroshi Matsumoto | Japan | 279,000 | 12 | 8 | Yes |
| 25 | John Tech | Philippines | 270,000 | 12 | 9 | No |
| 46 | Alexis Lim | Philippines | 106,000 | 13 | 2 | Yes |
| 29 | Thomas Lee (DB) | Canada | 229,000 | 13 | 3 | Yes |
| 13 | Ji Xiao Fian (SB) | China | 442,000 | 13 | 4 | No |
| 15 | Tobias Peters (BB) | Netherlands | 401,000 | 13 | 5 | No |
| 21 | Masatoshi Arai | Japan | 307,000 | 13 | 6 | No |
| 1 | Li Yuan Chao | China | 874,000 | 13 | 7 | No |
| 49 | Andrew Nguyen | United States | 73,000 | 13 | 8 | No |
| 5 | Siyoung Lee | Korea | 661,000 | 13 | 9 | No |
Day 2 is in the books! The screens say 50 remaining but we will confirm that once the bags have been collected. Closing as chip leader was Yuanchao Li with 874k. We will have a recap for you. In the meantime, you can read up on some of the action we caught right here in the updates. Congratulations to the survivors!
Day 3 takes place tomorrow, Saturday May 4 starting at 1pm. The money of 32 places wasn’t reached.
Chip leader Chen Yazhou, Ken Foo Hsien Loong, and Christopher Mateo stared down a board J♣ Q♥ Q♣ 9♦ and a 70k pot. Loong bet 25k, Yazhou called, Mateo raised to 73k, Loong folded, Yazhou called. On the river 2♣ both checked it. Mateo showed K♠ Q♦ trips, Yazhou mucked and said he had A-K. Mateo up to 430k, Yazhou droped to 570k.
Two quick pots for Yuanchao Li. First one Masatoshi Arai raised to 14k, Li three-bet to 44k, Arai folded. Next winner saw Tobias Peters raise to 14k, Li three-bet to 54k, Peters folded.
Siyoung Lee raised to 14k preflop and found one caller in Ji Xiaoqian to the flop A♠ K♠ 6♣. Lee c-bet 12k, Ji called. On the turn 9♠, both checked. On the river 9♥, Lee fired 27k, Ji called. Lee showed 7♣ 8♣ bluff, Ji won it with 4♣ 4♠. Ji up to 475k.
One of the chip leaders, Siyoung Lee raised to 14k, sb Masatoshi Arai and bb Yuanchao Li called. The flop ran A♣ J♥ A♠, blinds checked to Lee who bet 14k, only Arai called. On the turn 10♦, Arai led for 20k, Lee called. On the river K♥, Arai bet 20k, this time Lee folded. Arai up to 290k.
A new player has jut zoomed to the upper rungs of the count. Kar Ooi Low is now at 780k after sending Tianhong Su out. The hand began with Tianhong raising to 13k, Kim called, Low three-bet to 35k, Tianhong and Kim called. On the flop 6♥ K♥ 10♦, Low c-bet 50k, both challengers called. On the turn J♥, Low jammed, Tianhong called for his tournament life, Kim folded.
Low J♣ J♦ set
Tianhong A♥ 7♥ draw
The river K♦ improved Low further to a boat to scoop it all up. Tianhong railed. Kim down to 90k.
61 remaining. Here are the leaders:
Chae Sung Lim 530k
Chen Yazhou 840k (chip leader)
Tobias Peters 450k
Siyoung Lee 690k
Ivan Tabucal 440k
John Tech 470k
Total chips in play: 15,732,800
Average stack: 258,000
Xu Qiang raised to11k, SJ Kim three-bet to 32.5k, Qiang called. At the flop 4♣ 9♠ 7♠, Qiang checked, Kim get 33k, Qiang folded. Kim up to 220k, Qiang down to 355k.