₩5,000,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2019 PokerStars Red Dragon Jeju

11-09-2019 23:06 UTC+9

He Eliminated by Soyza

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Michael Soyza was eliminated not long ago and re-entered to quickly double his stack. Things went even better after that as he send Chang He to the rail.

He had defended the and got it in after a flop only for Soyza to snap-call with . The turn and river mattered little as He headed to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Soyza	130,000	109,000
Chang He	Busted

Tags: Chang He Michael Soyza

11-09-2019 23:02 UTC+9

Li Busts In Three-Way All-In

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Derek Ip tripled up when his flopped top pair on as Xinglaiu Li with and a third player in the hand with both failed to connect on a blank turn and river.

For Li it spelled the end as he was covered and hit the rail, Ip jumped back to the starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Derek Ip	53,000	26,000
Xianglai Li	Busted

Tags: Derek Ip Xianglai Li

11-09-2019 22:59 UTC+9

Chong Loses Some

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Victor Chong looked up the shove of a short-stacked Kosumosu Yamanaka with and his opponent tabled . The board came and Yamanaka survived with his king-queen high to double.

Shortly after just before the blinds went up, Yan Rao three-bet shoved and this time Chong sent his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Chong	55,000	-5,000
Yan Rao	25,000	5,000
Kosumosu Yamanaka	23,000

Tags: Victor Chong Yan Rao Kosumosu Yamanaka

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

11-09-2019 22:49 UTC+9

Luo Takes Over the Lead

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Ben Lai grinned and his cards were all but mucked as he said "nice slowroll" to Xixiang Luo when his for flopped two pair ended up second-best against .

Luo was busy stacking even more chips onto his tower and appears to be the current chip leader.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xixiang Luo	195,000	50,000
Ben Lai	Busted

Tags: Ben Lai Xixiang Luo

11-09-2019 22:45 UTC+9

Wu; Newey and Cheung Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Yake Wu sent his chips over to Joshua Zimmerman and Paul Newey busted with aces according to Natalie Teh. Also on the rail is Sparrow Cheung but all those that vanished can still re-enter tonight or in the first level of Day 2.

A late Day 1 entry is Andre Lettau. The former EPT Barcelona Main Event champion entered with 50 big blinds in the penultimate level o the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joshua Zimmerman	145,000	50,000
Andre Lettau	50,000	50,000
Yake Wu	Busted
Paul Newey	Busted
Sparrow Cheung	Busted

Tags: Andre Lettau Joshua Zimmerman Natalie Teh Paul Newey Sparrow Cheung Yake Wu

11-09-2019 22:32 UTC+9

Gu Jams Into Chen

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

A reraise to 7,500 was in front of Huidong Gu on the button and Dong Chen made it 20,000 to go from the small blind to force out the initial raiser. Gu opted to call and they headed to the flop on which Chen carefully checked the stack of Gu before tossing in a bet of 10,000.

Gu moved all in for 34,400 and Chen asked for a count but ended up sigh-folding.

Player	Chips	Progress
Huidong Gu	86,000	46,000
Dong Chen	57,500	-17,500

Tags: Dong Chen Huidong Gu

11-09-2019 22:28 UTC+9

Assorted Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Guofeng Wang	140,000	25,000
Lei Yu	100,000	56,000
Nan Hong	80,000	80,000
Calvin Lee	62,000
Victor Chong	60,000	10,000
Bin Sun	32,000	-28,000
Michael Soyza	21,000	3,000
Sparrow Cheung	17,000	-13,000
Pete Chen	17,000	-16,000
Jamie Lee	15,400	-2,600
Paul Newey	15,400	-18,100
Jun Obara	15,200	-7,800

11-09-2019 22:20 UTC+9

Lin Eliminated by Zhou

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Chen An Lin defended his big blind against a button raise by Huijie Zhou and check-raised the flop to 6,500, which Zhou called. Lin then jammed the turn and Zhou quickly came along.

Chen An Lin:
Huijie Zhou: