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

11-11-2019 14:57 UTC+9

Player	Chips	Progress
Jiajun Liu	50,000 20,000	20,000
Liuheng Dai	40,000 10,000	10,000
Calvin Lee	30,000 30,000	30,000

Ken Okada	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alvan Yifan Zheng	30,000 30,000	30,000
Lester Edoc	30,000 30,000	30,000
Daniel Lee	30,000 30,000	30,000
Victor Chong	30,000 30,000	30,000

Lu Loses Some

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Xiaojie Lu was involved in a bigger pot with some 12,500 to the river of a board and he opted to check. His table neighbor made it 7,200 to go for nearly half the pot and Lu gave it just brief consideration before sending his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xiaojie Lu	22,000 22,000	22,000

Tags: Xiaojie Lu

11-11-2019 15:10 UTC+9

Noda and Kim Up for the Day

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Hiroyuki Noda and Jin Woo Kim have both chipped up nicely with the former on almost two times the starting stack.

Noda just flat-called a raise to 600 while in the cutoff and called a continuation bet on the heads-up flop of . His opponent bet the turn and Noda instantly folded.

The same table also features Lei Yu as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hiroyuki Noda	58,000 58,000	58,000
Jin Woo Kim	45,000 15,000	15,000
Lei Yu	29,000 -1,000	-1,000

Tags: Hiroyuki Noda Jin Woo Kim Lei Yu

11-11-2019 15:14 UTC+9

Wu and Chen Up; Wang Jams

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

The first feature table after the break will include early big stacks Yake Wu and Feng Chen, the latter already sits on two times the starting stack. On their table, the final hand before the break showcased a pot between Ling Qin in the small blind and Weikang Wang from under the gun, which resulted in a pot of 8,500 to the turn.

Qin checked and Wang jammed for the last 7,500 and Qin folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Feng Chen	63,000 8,000	8,000
Yake Wu	42,000 8,000	8,000
Weikang Wang	16,000 16,000	16,000

Tags: Feng Chen Ling Qin Weikang Wang Yake Wu

11-11-2019 15:15 UTC+9

First Break on Day 1b

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

The first three levels are completed and the screens show 300 entries for Day 1b of which 280 players remain, who all headed into a 15-minute break. Along with the 252 entries of the first flight, that already brings up the total entries to 552 and it seems very plausible that the record of the last year will be surpassed.

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300

11-11-2019 15:26 UTC+9

Peng Cracks Aces

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Dongsheng Peng tangled in a preflop raising war as a shorter stack for his 23,800 in preflop and Peng made the call to see the best two starting hands clash.

While Peng was trailing preflop with versus , he gained the lead on the flop. The turn and river brought no change and Peng cracked aces to get a head start for Day 1b.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dongsheng Peng	65,000 65,000	65,000

Tags: Dongsheng Peng

11-11-2019 15:42 UTC+9

Assorted Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Peng Wu	85,000 30,000	30,000
Bing Zhou	80,000 16,000	16,000
Kengo Sakurai	75,000 35,000	35,000
Xinglong Huang	70,000 70,000	70,000
Jiajun Liu	70,000 20,000	20,000
Enno Koester	60,000 25,000	25,000
Bi Haisheng	60,000 60,000	60,000
Victor Chong	32,000 2,000	2,000
Yang Zhang	31,000 31,000	31,000

Mike Takayama	30,000 30,000	30,000

Chunqing Wang	29,000 29,000	29,000
Wen Su	27,000 27,000	27,000
Ken Okada	21,000 -9,000	-9,000
Jun Obara	18,000 -22,000	-22,000
Hao Tian	Busted

11-11-2019 15:53 UTC+9

Sun Loses Small Pot

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

High Roller champion Liuheng Dai and fifth-place finisher Bin Sun are both in action and up for the day with Dai out in front. Sun follows not far behind with a solid profit in the first few levels of the day and just lost a minor pot when he check-called a bet of 600 on gthe flop, then check-folded the turn to a second barrel.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liuheng Dai	42,000 2,000	2,000
Bin Sun	36,000 4,000	4,000

Tags: Bin Sun Liuheng Dai

11-11-2019 16:00 UTC+9

Deng Elimminated by Hong

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

As excellent as the start of Jun Deng into Day 1b was, that all but vanished and he was sent to the rail in the fourth level. On a three-way flop of , Deng checked out of the small blind and Nan Hong did so in the hijack. The cuoff bet 3,300 and Deng called, Hong raised to 13,200 and that forced out the cutoff.