Jicheng Su opened with a raise to 52,000, before Dermot Blain re-raised to 200,000 from the button. Mike Kim folded his small blind, before Daoxing Chen decided no one had been looking at him for a while, so he soaked up a few minutes of air time before folding. Su also folded and Blain collects a nice preflop pot to get himself off the short stack.