Chaoui Mehdi of Morocco just jumped in the tournament, giving friends high fives and hugs before finally taking his seat.

Mehdi made a scan of chips from the other players and noticed the huge chip stack of Nevan Chang.

Mehdi said, "Nevan, why do you have so many chips? Did you flop a set and crack aces?"

The table answered, "That's exactly what happened!"

Chang added, "That's where he was sitting."

Mehdi retorted, "I won't call 250,000 with aces." with reference to the starting stack.

Players take a short 15-minute break. The remaining 14 players will return to Level 4 (1,000/2,000) at 13:30 p.m. local time (KST).

APT Incheon 2025 Superstar Challenge champion, Calvin Lee, and recent Triton Poker Super High Roller Series winner, Isaac Haxton, had a pot of 65,000 in front of them.

Beside that was a complete board of: J 7 9 7 6 .

UTG+1 Lee tapped his option over to button Haxton, who also checked.

Lee showed: A J which was enough to take down the pot as Haxton folded.

UTG+1 Thomas Bolvin, and button Manuel Fritz, were both competing for a 38,000 pot with a full board that showed: 5 8 9 4 5 .

Bolvin led for 27,500 and Fritz mucked. Bolvin showed the 8 .

Joshua McCully - on the same table - was chatting with Martin Finger and mentioned "You didn't call the river, it paired."

So apparently, there are a bunch of prop bets going on and some players - Bolvin, Fritz, McCully and Finger - have bunch of KRW 50,000 bills and are making side bets on flushes and other things.

"I wasn't paying attention," Finger answered back and missed his chance to cash.

Ricky Huang was in the small blind and already heads-up against N8 ambassador, Nevan Chang, in the big blind.

The players were looking at the: 6 Q 9 5 board, with a pot of around 8,000.

Huang check-called the turn, after Chang bet 26,000.

The river came the 5 and Huang opted to check. Chang bet 45,000, which saw Huang use three 30-second time cards, before making the call.

Huang scooped the pot after showing: Q 7 for two pair, after Chang flashed his: K J bluff.

Gytis Lazauninkas opened to 2,500 from middle position and action folded to Martin Finger on the button. Finger three-bet to 10,000 and Lazauninkas called.

The: A J 2 flop was check-called by Lazauninkas after Finger bet 5,500.

A Q saw Lazauninkas check. Finger bet 20,000 which sent Lazauninkas into the tank. After around a minute, Lazauninkas raised to 60,000 and Finger moved his remaining ~230,000 stack into the middle. Lazauninkas snap-called, putting himself at risk for his remaining 185,000 and both players flipped their hands.

Lazauninkas was sitting with: K T , looking strong against Finger's: Q Q .

The 5 river secured Lazauninkas the double, leaving Finger short early in the day.

There was a huge 75,000 bundle of chips in the middle sitting next to a board that showed: 3 Q 8 J .

Big blind Michael Wang fired off 55,000 and Nevan Chang made the call from the hi-jack to open the 6 on the river.

Wang fired 155,000 and Chang called off his remaining 158,500 - Wang didn't hesitate to match all-in.

Wang opened: A A , while Chang showed: Q Q for a set of ladies, leaving Wang with a paltry 5,000.

In the next hand, Wang put his last 5,000 in the middle from the small blind with Martin Sedlak and Calvin Lee going along.

Both players checked until the board completed: 5 9 8 J J .

On the river, Sedlak checked and Lee put out 5,000. Sedlak mucked. Wang turned over: A 8 for a pair of eights, but it wasn't enough against the: K J of Lee who made trips, completing the elimination of Wang.

Isaac Haxton opened to 2,000 from UTG +2 and cut-off, Nevan Chang, three-bet to 7,000. Haxton matched and both players were shown a flop of: 2 T 3 .

Haxton checked and allowed Chang to fire off 12,000 before he raised it up to 27,000.

Chang surrendered to the check-raise.

There was a pot of around 21,000 chips sitting next to a board that showed: 2 K T J .

Action was on big blind Martin Sedlak, who check-called the 17,500 bet of Calvin Lee from under the gun.

Both players were shown a 9 on the river. Sedlak tapped his option over to Lee, who tapped back.

Sedlak peeled open: 5 3 for a flush while Lee mucked his hand.

Action folded around to Martin Sedlak who limped in on the small blind and Calvin Lee raised to 2,000 from the big blind.

Sedlak called, taking the players heads-up to the: 4 8 K flop. Sedlak check-called a 1,500 bet from Lee.

The 5 was turned and both checked to a showdown after seeing the Q river.

Lee took the pot after showing: A 4 which was enough to beat Sedlak's : A 9

A few hands later, Yu Chang opened to 2,500 from the hijack. Sedlak responded with a 8,000 three-bet from the cutoff, and Fabian Gumz called from the small blind. Chang re-raised to 34,000 and saw both opponents fold, giving him an early chip up.