2013 World Poker Tour Korea Day 2: Jae Kyung Sim Leads Final 23 On Money Bubble

December 17, 2013

Donnie Peters

The World Poker Tour Korea Main Event continued at the Ramada Plaza Jeju on Tuesday with the returning 75 players coming back for action. Following the completion of play, under one third of them had survived with 23 players advancing to Day 3. Leading the way was Jae Kyung Sim with 475,000 in chips.

Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Chips
1	Jae Kyung Sim	475,000
2	Chane Kampanatsanyakorn	433,000
3	Jason Park	284,000
4	Chris Park	259,500
5	Asaka Matsunaga	246,500
6	Yoshimichi Makoto	219,000
7	Hyunshik Hun	207,500
8	Gu Guan Qun	176,500
9	Masato Yokosawa	172,000
10	Linh Tran	171,000

As you can see, the only real player close to Sim on the leaderboard was Asia-Pacific Poker Tour regular Chane Kampanatsanyakorn with 433,000 in chips. After that, there is a significant gap in the field.

With 23 players remaining and 21 spots to be paid out, the money bubble looms heading into Day 3. That could spell trouble for some of the shorter stacks still remaining, but the most at-risk player is Takashi Ogura. He only has 15,700 in chips after Day 2 and will have his tournament life on the chopping block with only three big blinds when he returns on Wednesday. Others under 20 big blinds are Kosei Ichineese (97,500), Yuri Ishida (84,000), Suzuki Takuyi (74,000), and Zhao Yahui (73,000).

One of the notable faces eliminated during Day 2 was WPT Royal Flush Girl Brittany Bell. According to the WPT live updates, Bell busted in Level 15 with the blinds at 1,500/3,000/500 to Ishida.

Ishida raised all in from the cutoff seat, and Bell put her own stack in from the small blind. Everyone else had folded, and Bell was at risk with the K♥Q♥ versus Ishida's 9♥9♠. The flop, turn, and river ran out J♦J♥J♠5♦4♣ to send Bell out the door, joining other notables Tony Dunst and Lacey Jones.