On the third round of hand-for-hand play, Noa Aoki raised to 80,000 from the cutoff and was three-bet to 275,000 by Kiyoung Kim in the small blind.

Kai Yang committed his last 283,000 into the middle from the big blind and both Aoki and Kim called.

Kim began to put out a bet on the 5 J 5 flop, which got a snap-fold from Aoki to set up a showdown between Kim and Yang.

Kai Yang: K K

Kiyoung Kim: A A

It was bad news for Yang, as he had run into a classic hold'em cooler.

The remaining players sweated the runout, which came T 8 — eliminating Yang just shy of a Day-2 berth to end play for the day.