₩2,500,000 Main Event Day 1bc | 2019 PokerStars Red Dragon Jeju

₩2,500,000 Main Event

Day 1bc Completed

11-12-2019 02:22 UTC+9

The 2019 PokerStars Red Dragon Jeju ₩2,500,000 Main Event Sets New Record

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

A new record was set at the 2019 PokerStars Red Dragon Jeju festival

It was an extremely busy day at the Jeju Shinhwa World - Landing Casino as the poker room was entirely filled with poker enthusiasts from near and far, all taking their shot at one of the most prestigious live events of the Asia Pacific Region. At times, the flagship event of the festival had to go 10-handed in order to accommodate the growing field.

For the second time, the Red Dragon Main Event is taking place in Jeju and a new attendance record for a major live poker event in South Korea was already secured half-way through Day 1b of the 2019 PokerStars LIVE Asia Red Dragon Jeju ₩2,500,000 Main Event.

Not only were the 613 entries of the previous year surpassed by a decent margin, but the guaranteed prize pool of ₩1,000,000,000 was also almost doubled.

After a promising first starting day with 252 entries of which 80 bagged and tagged, Day 1b attracted a staggering 444 entries including 360 unique players and 84 re-entries. On top of that, the turbo heat 1c followed right after with levels of 20 minutes each. Another 173 entries were added to the equation and boosted the total field size to 869 entries, creating a prize pool of ₩1,896,592,500 (~$1,626,470).

The 2019 Red Dragon Main Event in Jeju at a Glance

Day	Total #	Unique Entries	Re-Entries	Survivors
Day 1a	252	223	29	80
Day 1b	444	360	84	143
Day 1c	173	137	36	77

Huge Field Emerges for Day 1b

Even before the cards went in the air, more than 100 players were registered and it was a sign of things to come with dozens of players pouring into the poker room at the Landing Casino by the minute. It didn't take long to surpass the Day 1a field and dozens of players bowed out before the first break and immediately jumped back in thanks to the single re-entry option for each flight.

Defending Jeju champion Yuechun Shi was one of those early casualties when he ran with queens into aces and failed to catch any help, instead, Bing Zhou rivered a full house in the second level of the day. Shi re-entered in Day 1b without success and tried his luck in the final flight, too, but was unable to advance to Day 2.

Three further former Red Dragon slayers entered the final two flights in order to become the third two-time champion in the 11 years since the inception. Denny Feng was a contender for the Day 1b lead but lost a three-way all-in at the very end, however, he still bagged up a very respectable 160,000. Alvan Yifan Zheng advanced with 105,000 and Kenichi Takarabe made it through with a short stack of 38,500.

It was a very close race for the honors of being the Day 1b chip leader and ultimately Canlin Chen prevailed after claiming 238,000 to is name. Other notables with big stacks in the second flight are Hoa Thinh Nguyen (225,500), Tianyuan Tang (215,000), Paul Newey (203,000), Kilian Loeffler (196,500), Lei Yu (182,000), Nan Hong (174,000) and Daniel Lee (164,000).

Newey won a lot of smaller pots and mentioned one particular hand that boosted his stack significantly when he called a big jam with ace-king of diamonds and sent an opponent to the rail who had ace-king, as three diamonds appeared right away on the flop.

Many other big names came and left without anything to show for, their chances reduced to the last turbo flight such as Xixiang Luo, Graeme Siow, Chen An Lin, Kazuhiko Yotsushika, Joshua Zimmerman, and Victor Chong.

The third and final starting day kicked off with around 50 players in their seats and as soon as the notables fell on Day 1b without any option to re-enter anymore, they headed straight to Day 1c. High Roller finalist Bin Wang, Michael Soyza, Hao Tian, Dingxiang Ong and Lester Edoc all came up short in their bid to run up a stack.

With the reduced level duration of 20 minutes came a very fast-paced playing style and the stacks were sent on a wild roller coaster ride. Soyza saw his hopes fade away when kings were cracked by the pocket jacks of Albert Paik and Wang ran out of chips in a three-way all-in versus Yuan Yilu and Ting Shum Kwok.

For Paik Day 1c ended in rather disappointing fashion as he doubled Szymon Wysocki and Yakai Li in quick succession to bag up 53,000. The race for the chip lead was a tight one as Zhanwei Du edged past all other contenders at the very end with a stack of 161,000. Shenming Yin (150,500), and Hao Chen (146,500) complete the remaining podium spots.

Only 77 players made it through in the end with notables such as Jiayu Ruan (134,500), Szymon Wysocki (131,000), Xixiang Luo (115,000), Jun Obara (99,500), and Daniel Demicki (89,000) all earning above-average stacks for Day 2.

The Main Event continues on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019, as of 1 p.m. local time with blinds of 1,000-2,500 and a big blind ante of 2,500. As of Day 2, the level duration increases to 60 minutes each and the prize pool information will be released before the cards go back in the air.

Final Table of the Single-Day High Roller — The final six of the Single-Day High Roller

Ben Lai Wins Single-Day High Roller

At the same time as Day 1b of the Main Event, another ₩5,000,000 High Roller was scheduled to take place and kicked off with a slight delay. Ultimately, there were a total of 32 entries to create a prize pool of ₩141,232,000 ($121,460) and the top six spots were paid.

Ben Lai was the early frontrunner at the top of the chip counts and would be the one to pose for the winner shots after defending Ye Wang in heads-up. In the final hand, Lai slow-played kings pre-flop and jammed on a queen-high river to get called by top pair. For his efforts, Lai takes home ₩48,018,000 ($41,295). Wang won a Single-Day High Roller in Jeju one year ago and finished 3rd in another High Roller in Jeju earlier this year.

Among those that also took home a portion of the prize pool were Dong Chao, Phachara Wongwichit, Derek Ip and Natalie Teh. Luke Lee ended up as the bubble boy, which ensured back-to-back High Roller cashes for Wongwichit, as well as for Ip in his second-ever live MTT. Reigning APPT Korea Main Event champion Sparrow Cheung, Pete Chen, Jamie Lee, James Won Lee, Alex Lee and Quan Zhou were some of the familiar names that missed out on the money.

Final Result ₩5,000,000 Single-Day High Roller

Place	Winner	Country/Region	Prize (in KRW)	Prize (in USD)
1	Ben Lai	Hong Kong	₩48,018,000	$41,295
2	Ye Wang	China	₩33,190,000	$28,543
3	Dong Zhao	China	₩21,185,000	$18,219
4	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	₩16,242,000	$13,968
5	Derek Ip	Hong Kong	₩12,711,000	$10,931
6	Natalie Teh	Malaysia	₩9,886,000	$8,502

More High Roller action awaits at the end of the festival in Jeju while the main focus in the next few days will be on the prestigious Red Dragon Main Event and the upcoming Baby Dragon tournament. Stay tuned right here on PokerNews to find out who will make it one step closer to possibly claim one of the most-unique trophies on the live poker circuit on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019.

Tags: Albert Paik Alex Lee Alvan Yifan Zheng Ben Lai Canlin Chen Daniel Demicki Daniel Lee Hoa Thinh Nguyen Jiayu Ruan Jun Obara Kenichi Takarabe Kilian Loeffler Lei Yu Lester Edoc Michael Soyza Nan Hong Natalie Teh Paul Newey Pete Chen Phachara Wongwichit Shenming Yin Sparrow Cheung Szymon Wysocki Yuechun Shi

11-12-2019 02:15 UTC+9

Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country/Region	Chips	Big Blinds
1	2	Jun Wu	China	39,500	16
1	3	Dongli Shen	China	79,000	32
1	4	Masatoshi Akasaka	Japan	21,500	9
1	5	Takeo Hanayama	Japan	46,000	18
1	6	Yakai Li	China	64,500	26
1	7	Lixun Zhou	China	56,500	23
1	8	Guang Yang	China	74,000	30
1	9	Zhiqiang Qian	China	140,500	56

2	1	Jing Xu	China	93,500	37
2	3	Feng Lin	China	68,000	27
2	4	Qunze Li	China	22,000	9
2	5	Sora Park	South Korea	102,000	41
2	6	Zhibin Zhang	China	35,000	14
2	7	Zhanwei Du	China	161,000	64
2	8	Rongshan Li	China	120,500	48
2	9	Haidong Lu	China	83,500	33

3	1	Yifan Zheng	China	105,000	42
3	2	Yucheng Liu	China	50,500	20
3	4	Xiaoxiang Li	China	52,000	21
3	5	Donghui Xu	China	47,500	19
3	6	Shijian Tang	China	94,500	38
3	7	Yue Yang	China	33,000	13
3	8	Yang Zhang	China	55,000	22
3	9	Jiayi Jin	China	70,500	28

4	1	Songyu Hu	China	40,000	16
4	2	Tamon Nakamura	Japan	109,000	44
4	3	Kun Han Lee	Taiwan	87,500	35
4	5	Luo Zheng	China	83,000	33
4	6	Hao Chen	China	146,500	59
4	7	Fang Xing	China	60,500	24
4	8	Renjun Gla Yang	China	138,000	55
4	9	Xin He	China	67,000	27

5	1	Hoa Thinh Nguyen	Vietnam	225,500	90
5	2	Ken Okada	Japan	66,000	26
5	3	Daniel Lee	United States	164,000	66
5	4	Xiaosheng Zheng	China	42,000	17
5	6	Jie Xu	China	71,000	28
5	7	Jinhai Zhang	China	30,000	12
5	8	Quan Zhou	China	134,500	54
5	9	Xianchao Shen	China	120,000	48

6	1	Qifeng Chen	China	71,500	29
6	2	Fei Xiong	China	69,500	28
6	3	Ming Dai	China	33,000	13
6	4	Gaolei Chen	China	84,000	34
6	5	Huidong Gu	China	79,000	32
6	7	Danxia Wang	China	35,000	14
6	8	Liang Song	China	34,000	14
6	9	Jun Su	China	232,000	93

7	1	Zhewen Hu	China	121,000	48
7	2	Han Xiao	China	76,500	31
7	3	Xianglai Li	China	49,500	20
7	4	Zifeng Zhang	China	63,500	25
7	5	Sen Mu	China	82,500	33
7	6	Jixue Yin	China	38,900	16
7	7	Longwen Zhu	China	41,000	16
7	8	Yuichi Sumida	Japan	55,500	22
7	9	Graeme Siow	Singapore	38,500	15

8	1	Shijie Wang	China	83,500	33
8	2	Zheng Zhang	China	19,500	8
8	3	He Hu	China	52,000	21
8	4	Junwei Sun	China	102,000	41
8	5	Feng Chen	China	57,000	23
8	6	Tsun Ming Chan	China	62,000	25
8	7	Jacky Wong	China	34,500	14
8	8	Nan Zhao	China	175,500	70
8	9	Jie Wang	China	62,000	25

9	1	Nan Hong	China	174,000	70
9	2	Qin Zhou	China	80,500	32
9	3	Jing Wang	China	55,000	22
9	4	Xudong Jin	China	85,000	34
9	5	Jianbiao Zhong	China	101,000	40
9	6	Pan Gu	China	81,000	32
9	7	Alex Lee	Singapore	133,500	53
9	8	Natalie Teh	Malaysia	38,000	15
9	9	Chien Fa Chou	Taiwan	52,500	21

10	1	Hongbing Li	China	47,000	19
10	2	Bing Zhou	China	77,000	31
10	3	Fei Han	China	90,000	36
10	4	Bin Zhao	China	81,500	33
10	5	Changna Shan	China	20,000	8
10	6	Daniel Demicki	Poland	89,000	36
10	7	Duc Trung Vu	Vietnam	48,000	19
10	8	Jingzhi Wang	China	60,000	24
10	9	Hanze Wang	China	332,000	133

11	1	Mike Takayama	Philippines	46,500	19
11	2	Bin Zhang	China	52,000	21
11	3	Lei Yu	China	182,000	73
11	4	Wai Hang Ij Wong	China	42,500	17
11	5	Jingbin Jin	China	92,500	37
11	6	Chengjian Lu	China	71,500	29
11	7	Koyo Oyama	Japan	110,500	44
11	8	Jin Woo Kim	United States	76,500	31
11	9	Dong Chen	China	41,000	16

12	1	Ning Lu	China	23,000	9
12	2	Yifu Zhai	China	152,500	61
12	3	Yingqi Lu	China	40,500	16
12	4	Hiroshi Matsumoto	Japan	80,500	32
12	5	Junqiang Lyu	China	50,000	20
12	6	Weijie Ren	China	35,000	14
12	7	Haiyang Yang	China	62,500	25
12	8	Ting Yi Tsai	Taiwan	80,000	32
12	9	Jiahao Feng	China	59,500	24

13	1	Hsing Hsiung Tai	Taiwan	115,000	46
13	2	Meiyu Wang	China	94,500	38
13	3	Yiyao Li	China	89,000	36
13	4	Guangcheng Chen	China	103,500	41
13	5	Zejin Shen	China	117,000	47
13	6	Fang Su	China	89,500	36
13	7	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	123,500	49
13	8	Masaya Hayami	Japan	80,000	32
13	9	Lijiang Liu	China	128,000	51

14	1	Lifeng Yang	China	71,500	29
14	2	Yu Tian	China	100,500	40
14	3	Zhiyong Long	China	28,500	11
14	4	Yu Nozaki	Japan	81,000	32
14	5	Yun Teng	China	107,000	43
14	6	Ye Yuan	China	103,500	41
14	7	Mengdian Peng	China	71,000	28
14	8	Fan Wu	China	41,000	16
14	9	Huu Dung Nguyen	Vietnam	136,000	54

15	1	Yu Gong	China	121,500	49
15	2	Takashi Ogura	Japan	38,000	15
15	3	Jian Yang	China	145,500	58
15	4	Hoai Linh Tran	Vietnam	89,000	36
15	5	Tao Chen	China	120,000	48
15	6	Shun Shi	China	60,500	24
15	7	Kilian Loeffler	Germany	196,500	79
15	8	Ci Sun	China	152,000	61
15	9	Yao Bai	China	57,500	23

16	1	Sun Guodong	China	129,000	52
16	2	Liuzheng He	China	167,000	67
16	3	Jingxuan Zhu	China	95,500	38
16	4	Zhenhua Lu	China	131,500	53
16	5	Qingtian Qian	China	114,000	46
16	6	Cheng Chen	China	16,500	7
16	7	Yifan Cao	China	248,000	99
16	8	Jiayu Ruan	China	134,500	54
16	9	Xiao Chen	China	46,500	19

17	1	David Man	United Kingdom	63,000	25
17	2	Jiahuan He	China	114,000	46
17	3	Yueming Liu	China	47,000	19
17	4	Kai Kang	China	50,500	20
17	5	Xin Liu	China	126,000	50
17	6	Jiaxing Wang	China	58,500	23
17	7	Ngoc Anh Cao	Vietnam	39,000	16
17	8	Zhihui Xu	China	83,000	33
17	9	Li Zhan	China	63,000	25

18	1	Kenichi Takarabe	Japan	38,500	15
18	2	Chen Yong	China	62,500	25
18	3	Jung Chou Lee	Taiwan	38,000	15
18	4	Yuanjun Lu	China	171,000	68
18	5	Minh Le	Vietnam	82,500	33
18	6	Chuyun Yu	China	162,000	65
18	7	Yasuyuki Tsuji	Japan	65,000	26
18	8	Dengfeng Yu	China	16,000	6
18	9	Bin Di	China	124,500	50

19	1	Kazuyuki Tanemura	Japan	165,500	66
19	2	Zhengshan Hao	China	132,500	53
19	3	Bin Sun	China	97,000	39
19	4	Woliang Ji	China	32,000	13
19	5	Leiguang Li	China	56,000	22
19	6	Yiwen Zhu	China	100,000	40
19	7	Trong Quang Nguyen	Vietnam	163,500	65
19	8	Dongsheng Peng	China	178,000	71
19	9	Hang Li	China	68,500	27

20	1	Tae Hoon Han	New Zealand	117,000	47
20	2	Zhihao Zhang	China	182,000	73
20	3	Xuan Tung Ta	Vietnam	37,000	15
20	4	Dong Shizhao	China	41,500	17
20	5	Yoshiki Kimura	Japan	49,500	20
20	6	Ming Cai	China	67,500	27
20	7	Sang Gu Kim	South Korea	22,500	9
20	8	Liuheng Dai	China	59,500	24
20	9	Nicholas Zautra	United States	67,500	27

21	1	Kazuma Kambayashi	Japan	138,000	55
21	2	Guoliang Wei	China	50,500	20
21	3	Shenghao Wu	China	150,000	60
21	4	Tian Jin	China	86,500	35
21	5	Bi Haisheng	China	187,500	75
21	6	Bawoo Hyunshik Yun	United States	54,500	22
21	7	Lining Tan	China	50,500	20
21	8	Xinglong Huang	China	100,000	40
21	9	Dong Huo	China	51,500	21

22	1	Jieming Xu	China	197,000	79
22	2	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	69,500	28
22	3	Yun Yang	China	34,000	14
22	4	Dong Zhao	China	20,500	8
22	5	Momo Yin	China	130,000	52
22	6	Chang Tan	China	31,500	13
22	7	Shenming Yin	China	150,500	60
22	8	Xi Yang	China	51,000	20
22	9	Jun Qian	China	60,000	24

23	1	Chin Ho Chen	Taiwan	56,500	23
23	2	Haibin Yan	China	44,000	18
23	3	Ruihong Tao	China	90,000	36
23	4	Kairan Jin	China	48,500	19
23	5	Chi Chung Ho	United Kingdom	46,000	18
23	6	Hui Wang	China	40,000	16
23	7	Dong Jiang	China	240,000	96
23	8	Tsz Fai Tong	China	33,000	13
23	9	Xiaqing Ji	China	355,500	142

24	1	Zhenshan Wu	China	74,000	30
24	2	Kaireddine Ghribi	France	51,000	20
24	3	Jingjing Fei	China	24,000	10
24	4	Victor Chong	Malaysia	25,000	10
24	5	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	32,000	13
24	6	Ben Lai	China	220,000	88
24	7	Joonhee Yea	South Korea	101,000	40
24	8	Kosuke Tajima	Japan	75,000	30
24	9	Dapeng Wang	China	83,500	33

25	1	Guofeng Wang	China	94,500	38
25	2	Jizhong Wang	China	54,000	22
25	3	Xin Wang	China	65,500	26
25	4	Yuquan Zhong	China	64,000	26
25	5	Kang Li	China	20,500	8
25	6	Shaoming Li	China	89,000	36
25	7	Ang Li	China	81,000	32
25	8	Canlin Chen	China	238,000	95
25	9	Zhaoxing Wang	China	61,000	24

26	1	Chung Sui Yung	China	93,500	37
26	2	Wen Kai Chen	Taiwan	235,500	94
26	3	Fengwei Huangfu	China	50,000	20
26	4	Xiaohang Ni	China	65,000	26
26	5	Cangsheng Ni	China	156,500	63
26	6	Tsan Ping Ku	Taiwan	109,500	44
26	7	Yi Ma	China	91,000	36
26	8	Tianliang Guan	China	170,000	68
26	9	Qi Luo	China	29,000	12

27	1	Szymon Wysocki	Poland	131,000	52
27	2	Yong Zhu	China	86,000	34
27	3	Dianlei Zhang	China	90,500	36
27	4	Jiang Wang	China	76,500	31
27	5	Chenxin Yu	China	80,500	32
27	6	Kelvin Beattie	Australia	89,000	36
27	7	Yan Rao	China	59,500	24
27	8	Zedao Ma	China	44,000	18
27	9	Calvin Lee	United States	123,500	49

28	1	Ting Shum Kwok	China	71,500	29
28	2	Jia Miao	China	100,000	40
28	3	Kenji Hata	Japan	17,000	7
28	4	Jun Obara	Japan	99,500	40
28	5	Yunsheng Sun	China	33,500	13
28	6	Wei Fan	China	50,500	20
28	7	Carson Ka Shing Wong	China	45,000	18
28	8	Jamie Lee	United States	119,000	48
28	9	Kengo Sakurai	Japan	94,000	38

29	1	Tetsuya Enoki	Japan	69,000	28
29	2	Huai Hsun Ko	Taiwan	30,000	12
29	3	Mengqiu Zhang	China	12,500	5
29	4	Bi Zhao	China	86,000	34
29	5	Tianyuan Tang	China	215,000	86
29	6	Mingyue Wang	China	38,500	15
29	7	Nan Wu	China	80,000	32
29	8	Hideyoshi Tanaka	Japan	65,000	26
29	9	Jianguo Chen	China	22,500	9

30	1	Meini Gong	China	91,500	37
30	2	Xihai Dai	China	98,000	39
30	3	Hyunil Hong	South Korea	75,500	30
30	4	Koichi Haruta	Japan	134,500	54
30	5	Xinhong Li	China	44,500	18
30	6	Feng Liu	China	57,000	23
30	7	Pete Yen Han Chen	Taiwan	58,500	23
30	8	Zhang Qingqing	China	26,500	11
30	9	Jihao Feng	China	108,000	43

31	1	Yongwei Mo	China	79,000	32
31	2	Mian Wei	China	34,500	14
31	3	Xixiang Luo	China	115,000	46
31	4	Naohito Tamaya	Japan	56,500	23
31	5	James Won Lee	United States	228,000	91
31	6	Bing Wang	China	99,500	40
31	7	Jin Su	China	75,000	30
31	8	Edward Kim	South Korea	85,000	34
31	9	Daoya Pan	China	82,000	33

32	1	Huijie Zhou	China	84,000	34
32	2	Xin Jin	China	35,000	14
32	3	Huashu Ke	China	51,500	21
32	4	Andre Lettau	Germany	53,500	21
32	5	Zigao Yu	China	134,000	54
32	6	Hsuan Chao Chen	Taiwan	129,000	52
32	7	Albert Paik	United States	53,000	21
32	8	Fu Hung Chen	Taiwan	48,000	19
32	9	Kuang Hung Lee	Taiwan	82,000	33

33	1	Yang Wang	China	176,000	70
33	2	Paul Anthony Newey	United Kingdom	203,000	81
33	3	Zhiao He	China	103,500	41
33	4	Yang Xu	China	85,500	34
33	5	Hung Sheng Lin	Taiwan	32,000	13
33	6	Robbie Schiffbauer	United States	115,000	46
33	7	Wei Hu	China	136,500	55
33	8	Wenyan Liu	China	65,000	26
33	9	Yake Wu	China	47,000	19

34	1	Xiaohui Xu	China	21,500	9
34	2	Yang Zhang	China	88,500	35
34	3	Tao Fan	China	67,000	27
34	4	Zhichao An	China	63,000	25
34	5	Qiao Lin	China	64,500	26
34	6	Hui Rao	China	38,500	15
34	7	Quanyu Zeng	China	34,000	14
34	8	Sheng Chen	China	161,500	65
34	9	Sparrow Cheung	China	99,500	40

11-12-2019 00:34 UTC+9

End-of-Day 1c Chip Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhanwei Du	161,000	161,000
Shenming Yin	150,500	150,500
Hao Chen	146,500	146,500
Huu Dung Nguyen	136,000	136,000
Jiayu Ruan	134,500	134,500
Szymon Wysocki	131,000	131,000
Sun Guodong	129,000	129,000
Lijiang Liu	128,000	128,000
Zhewen Hu	121,000	121,000
Xixiang Luo	115,000	115,000
Ye Yuan	103,500	103,500
Joonhee Yea	101,000	101,000
Jun Obara	99,500	99,500
Guofeng Wang	94,500	94,500
Dianlei Zhang	90,500	90,500
Fei Han	90,000	90,000
Ruihong Tao	90,000	90,000
Daniel Demicki	89,000	89,000
Xudong Jin	85,000	85,000
Zhihui Xu	83,000	83,000
Sen Mu	82,500	82,500
Chenxin Yu	80,500	80,500
Ting Yi Tsai	80,000	80,000
Huidong Gu	79,000	79,000
Jin Woo Kim	76,500	76,500

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11-12-2019 00:30 UTC+9

End-of-Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Canlin Chen	238,000	18,000
Hoa Thinh Nguyen	225,500	225,500
Tianyuan Tang	215,000	215,000
Paul Newey	203,000
Jieming Xu	197,000	67,000
Kilian Loeffler	196,500	66,500
Bi Haisheng	187,500
Lei Yu	182,000	27,000
Zhihao Zhang	182,000
Dongsheng Peng	178,000	143,000
Yang Wang	176,000	176,000
Nan Hong	174,000
Yuanjun Lu	171,000	171,000
Liuzheng He	167,000	167,000
Kazuyuki Tanemura	165,500	165,500
Daniel Lee	164,000	-1,000
Trong Quang Nguyen	163,500	163,500
Chuyun Yu	162,000	162,000
Sheng Chen	161,500	161,500
Cangsheng Ni	156,500	156,500
Ci Sun	152,000	152,000
Shenghao Wu	150,000	150,000
Jian Yang	145,500	145,500
Zhiqiang Qian	140,500	20,500
Kazuma Kambayashi	138,000	138,000

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11-12-2019 00:19 UTC+9

Su Drops At the End; Day 1c has Wrapped Up

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Jin Su was one of the contenders for the lead but lost a vital all-in during the final three hands of the night when his failed to hold up against the of Xudong Jin on a board of . Su had to fork over 40,300 and dropped back into the middle of the pack.

Assorted Counts from Day 1c are to follow, the full chip counts, a recap of the day and the Day 2 Seat Draw will be published as soon as possible.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xudong Jin	85,000	85,000
Jin Su	75,000	75,000

Tags: Jin Su Xudong Jin

11-12-2019 00:06 UTC+9

Last Level; Day 1c Field Halved

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

A late rush of all in showdowns every other minute took place when the blinds moved up for the final hallelujah. Zhewen Hu appears to be the current chip leader with a few candidates that may still overtake him.

Jun Obara would have been a candidate also if he had not lost with kings, he then made up for some of the loss when he sent a shorter stack to the rail with versus as the board came .

There are only 83 players out of 173 entries remaining and the clock will be stopped when the last five minutes of the level are reached to draw for the last hands of the night,

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhewen Hu	160,000	15,000
Szymon Wysocki	145,000	35,000
Jun Obara	135,000	-15,000
Albert Paik	40,000	-30,000

Tags: Jun Obara Zhewen Hu

11-11-2019 23:51 UTC+9

Double Ups for Bai, Wysocki and Li

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Yao Bai jammed for the last 13,900 from under the gun and was called by a big stack from one seat over. Bai had the and won the flip against thanks to a board of .

Up next, Szymon Wysocki raised to 3,500 and called all-in for 29,500 when facing the shove of Albert Paik.

Szymon Wysocki:
Albert Paik:

The board came and Wysocki made the cut for now.

Paik was involved in another showdown right after when he had Yakai Li at risk for 29,300.

Yakai Li:
Albert Paik:

On a board of , no jack, king or heart appeared on the river and Li avoided the elimination.

Wysocki then sent an opponent to the rail with versus and suddenly went from short stack to well above the average.

Player	Chips	Progress
Szymon Wysocki	110,000	77,000
Albert Paik	70,000	-75,000
Yakai Li	60,000	20,000
Yao Bai	30,000	19,000

Tags: Albert Paik Szymon Wysocki Yakai Li Yao Bai

11-11-2019 23:35 UTC+9

Bad Days at the Office for Soyza

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Michael Soyza missed out on the money in the initial High Roller and couldn't run up a stack on Day 1b either. The final attempt on Day 1c saw him all in before the flop with pocket kings against the pocket jacks of Albert Paik and the Malaysian was unable to survive and bowed out in unfortunate fashion.

There are fewer than 100 players remaining as the penultimate level of the night kicks off with blinds of 800-1,600 and a big blind ante of 1,600.

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Paik	145,000	65,000
Michael Soyza	Busted

Tags: Albert Paik Michael Soyza

11-11-2019 23:25 UTC+9

Day 1c Registration Closed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The third and final flight is currently midway through level 10 at blinds of 600-1,200 with a big blind ante of 1,200 and the registration has closed. It appears that there were 173 entries in total of which 108 players currently remain. Several bigger stacks have emerged around five times the starting stack but that can all change in the blink of an eye.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jun Obara	150,000	90,000
Zhewen Hu	145,000	35,000
Jin Woo Kim	70,000	40,000
Jiajun Liu	55,000	15,000
Yao Bai	11,000	1,000