₩10,000,000 Super High Roller
Day 1 Started
₩10,000,000 Super High Roller
Day 1 Started
At 5 p.m. local time, Day 1 of the most-expensive tournament of the 2019 PokerStars LIVE Asia Red Dragon Jeju festival is scheduled to kick off at the Jeju Shinhwa World - Landing Casino. If the tournaments so far are any indication for what is to expect, another decent field may emerge in the ₩10,000,000 Super High Roller ($8,543).
The most popular festival of the Asia Pacific Region went from strength to strength in the initial ₩5,000,000 High Roller and the ₩2,500,000 Main Event, setting records on South Korean soil for both events.
A field of 155 entries in the ₩5,000,000 High Roller created a prize pool of ₩684,093,000 ($590,366) and it was Liuheng Dai who defeated Yang Zhang to claim his biggest payday on the live circuit thus far. Dai walked away with the top prize of ₩159,052,000 ($137,270) and may very well put a portion of his winnings to use in the Super High Roller.
There was also a Single-Day High Roller during Day 1b of the Main Event and Ben Lai topped a field of 32 entries, the top six spots were guaranteed a portion of the ₩141,232,000 ($121,460) prize pool. Lai defeated Ye Wang in heads-up and earned a payday of ₩48,018,000, he then went on to reach the final two tables of the Main Event.
Day 1 of the Super High Roller will play a total of nine levels of 40 minutes each and the late registration remains open until the start of Day 2 at 1 p.m. local time the following day. Similar to the other two High Roller tournaments, unlimited re-entries are available during the registration period.
The event features the popular big blind ante and a 30-second shot clock, which has become the standard for High Roller events all over the world in the last few years.
Day 1 Level Structure
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante |
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1 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
2 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
3 | 1,000 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
4 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
5 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
6 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
7 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
8 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
9 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
Since the Main Event required an additional tournament day due to the record-breaking field size, the PokerNews live updates will focus on the final table and once a champion has been crowned, the Super High Roller action will be picked up for the remainder of Day 1.
There is also a scheduled server maintenance that will take place as of 5 p.m. local time. All updates will be provided retroactively as soon as the site is available again.
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
The action kicked off with a delay of around half an hour and two tables gathered the attention of the paticipants of the previous High Roller events. The field quickly grew to more than 30 entries and the action at the tables was filled with three-bets, four-bets and several all-in showdowns.
Shenming Yin doubled with versus when he got it in after the turn and held on a blank river. Yin then ran a triple barrel bluff with against Yan Rao, who had the in the big blind and check-called bets of 7,500 on the flop, 55,000 on the turn and a jam on the river.
High Roller champion Liuheng Dai doubled through Mike Takayama when a four-bet pot led to a flop and Dai had the for a set, Takayama flopped the nut straight with . Nothing changed on the turn but the river gave Dai the double.
Takayama was left short and busted in a three-way all in as he held , Yin tabled and Zifeng Zhang revealed . The board came and Yin's aces were cracked, he re-entered shortly after.
In total, there were 38 players out of 41 entries remaining when the fourth level kicked off.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yan Rao | 550,000 | 550,000 |
Zifeng Zhang | 475,000 | 475,000 |
Liuheng Dai | 400,000 | 400,000 |
Shenming Yin | 250,000 | 250,000 |
Mike Takayama
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Busted |
Jamie Lee raised to 4,500 and Chunqing Wang three-bet to 10,500, which Joshua Zimmerman on the button and Lee called.
The flop came and Lee check-folded when facing a bet of 9,000 by Wang and a call by Zimmerman. Wang also bet the turn for 32,000 and Zimmerman folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Zhiqiang Qian | 315,000 | 315,000 |
Chunqing Wang | 275,000 | 275,000 |
Joshua Zimmerman | 225,000 | 225,000 |
Ben Lai | 215,000 | 215,000 |
Jamie Lee | 165,000 | 165,000 |
Joining the action on the turn in a battle small blind versus button, Jamie Lee bet and faced a raise to 45,000 by Ye Wang. Lee made the call and the fell on the river. Lee checked and Wang used one time bank extension before making it 90,000 to go. Lee also used one time bank and called, then mucked when Wang tabled .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ye Wang | 420,000 | |
Jamie Lee | 30,000 | -135,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guofeng Wang | 490,000 | |
Chen An Lin | 340,000 | |
Graeme Siow
|
330,000 | |
Shenming Yin | 310,000 | 60,000 |
Bin Sun | 295,000 | |
Derek Ip | 290,000 | |
Dong Chen
|
165,000 | |
Calvin Lee
|
160,000 | |
Huahuan Feng | 140,000 | |
Lei Yu | 115,000 | |
Kazuhiko Yotsushika | 90,000 |
Guofeng Wang raised to 5,000 and was called two ways by Nan Hong and Jiajun Liu. The flop was checked to Wang and his bet of 6,500 won the pot right there.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guofeng Wang | 480,000 | -10,000 |
Jiajun Liu | 320,000 | 320,000 |
Nan Hong | 270,000 | 270,000 |
Ngoc Anh Cao | 240,000 | 240,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Chenxu Zhang raised to 4,500 just before the blinds had gone up and was called by Yake Wu on the button and the big blind. The flop was checked to Zhang and she bet 11,000 to receive two calls once more.
No betting action took place on the turn and river. The big blind showed and Wu had that beat with .
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Yang Zhang
|
370,000 | |
Yake Wu | 330,000 | |
Chenxu Zhang | 285,000 | |
Tian Jin | 220,000 | |
[Removed:112]
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30,000 |