With about 25,000 chips already in the middle and the board reading , Alan Lau checked from the big blind and Wei Hsiang Yeu bet 8,000 from the cutoff. Lau check-raised all in and Yeu called to put Lau at risk.
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Lau had ace high and an open-ended straight draw but found himself trailing Yeu's flopped pair of nines. The on the river was no help to Lau and Yeu took the pot, putting his stack over the 200,000-chip mark.
The ₩4,350,000 High Roller event at the inaugural PokerStars Festival Korea will see 23 players return at noon local time for Day 2 action. The first day of play saw 45 entries made by 32 unique players, creating a prize pool of ₩174,600,000, the approximate equivalent of just over $155,000. Currently leading the way is Boyuan Qu with 253,400 chips, but PokerStars Team Online Pro Randy Lew is hot on his heels with 203,700. Furthermore, with accomplished players like Albert Paik (147,400), Sparrow Cheung (131,300), Alan Lau (51,800), Pete Chen (43,100), and Takashi Ogura (24,400) still in the mix and late registration open for the first two levels of Day 2 play, it's absolutely anybody's game.
Play on Day 2 will begin with Level 13, will consist of 50-minute levels with ten-minute breaks every two levels, and is scheduled to play down to a winner.
A complete seat draw for the remainder of the field is below. Keep it here for coverage of the High Roller and the Main Event, which is already underway, at PokerStars Festival Korea from the PokerNews live reporting team.