KRW 4,350,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Korea

KRW 4,350,000 High Roller

Day 1 Completed

07-20-2017 22:54 UTC+9

Day 1 of PokerStars Festival Korea ₩4,350,000 High Roller Is In The Books

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The ₩4,350,000 High Roller at the inaugural PokerStars Festival Korea attracted 45 entries and generated a prize pool of ₩174,600,000, the approximate equivalent of just over $155,000. Twenty-three players bagged chips at the conclusion of play with China's Boyuan Qu at the head of the pack with 253,400. Team PokerStars Online Pro Randy Lew (203,700) was the only other player to bag a stack of over 200,000. Shinji Kashima (191,400), Elias Gutierrez (190,000), and Wei Hsiang Yeu (188,100) aren't far behind, having also spun up their 50,000-chip starting stacks quite nicely over the course of the 12 levels played today.

Several other familiar faces have advanced to Day 2, including Albert Paik (167,600), Sparrow Cheung (131,300), Alan Lau (51,800). Pete Chen, who has already made two final tables at PokerStars Festival Korea in preliminary events, also bagged chips with a stack of 43,100, and Takashi Ogura bagged the short stack with 26,400.

Unfortunately, not all of the fan favorites survived to the end of Day 1 play. PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin, Phanlert Sukonthachartnant, and Keisuke Hikosaka had all been sent to the rail by the time play concluded.

Day 2 begins at noon local time on Friday and late registration will remain open until the end of level 14, so there's a whole lot of poker left to be played in this event. Check back here for updates from the PokerNews live reporting team on the action in the PokerStars Festival Korea High Roller and Main Event, which is also already underway.

The seat draw for Day 2 is as follows:

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Randy Lew	United States	203,700
1	2	Daniel Demicki	Poland	81,400
1	4	Horzuchi Yutaka	Japan	42,000
1	6	Aki Virtanen	Finland	32,700
1	7	Elias Guitierrez	Spain	190,000
1	8	Park Yu Sparrow Cheung	Hong Kong	131,300

2	1	Damian Zachowicz	Poland	40,200
2	2	Shinji Kashima	Japan	191,400
2	4	Yen Han Pete Chen	Taiwan	43,100
2	6	Takumi Samejima	Japan	124,000
2	7	Geoffrey Mooney	Australia	59,900
2	8	Takayuki Iwamoto	Japan	34,900

3	1	Keisuke Hikosaka	Japan	98,600
3	2	Antti Halme	Finland	37,600
3	4	Albert Paik	United States	147,400
3	6	Yang Zhang	China	63,400
3	7	Seng Yee Leow	Malaysia	49,100
3	8	Linh Tran	Vietnam	84,900

4	1	Takashi Ogura	Japan	24,400
4	2	King Lune Alan Lau	Hong Kong	51,800
4	4	Kazuhiko Yotsushika	Japan	50,000
4	6	Boyouan Qu	China	253,400
4	7	Wei Hsiang Yeu	Malaysia	188,100

Tags: Alan Lau Albert Paik Boyuan Qu Celina Lin Elias Gutierrez Keisuke Hikosaka Pete Chen Phanlert Sukonthachartnant Randy Lew Shinji Kashima Sparrow Cheung Takashi Ogura

07-20-2017 22:53 UTC+9

End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Boyuan Qu	213,400 47,600	47,600
Randy Lew	203,700 117,700	117,700

Shinji Kashima	191,400 6,600	6,600
Elias Gutierrez	190,000 77,800	77,800

Wei Hsiang Yeu	188,100 188,100	188,100
Albert Paik	167,600 35,400	35,400
Sparrow Cheung	131,300 66,800	66,800

Takumi Samejima	124,000 104,000	104,000
Keisuke Hikosaka	98,699 98,699	98,699
Linh Tran	86,900 71,900	71,900
Daniel Demicki	81,400 81,400	81,400
Geoffery Mooney	57,900 57,900	57,900
Alan Lau	51,800 55,200	55,200
Kazuhiko Yotsushika	50,000 23,000	23,000
Seng Yee Leow	49,100 49,100	49,100
Pete Chen	43,100 13,400	13,400

Horzuchi Yutaka	42,000 42,000	42,000
Damian Szachowicz	40,200 33,300	33,300
Antti Halme	37,600 7,900	7,900
Takayuki Iwamoto	34,900 34,900	34,900
Aki Virtanen	32,700 108,300	108,300
Takashi Ogura	26,400 7,100	7,100

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07-20-2017 21:55 UTC+9

Boyuan Qu Stacks Phanlert Sukonthachartnant

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Phanlert Sukonthachartnant got all his chips in the middle before the flop against Boyuan Qu, who had him covered by a wide margin.

Sukonthachartnant:
Qu:

Qu had the preflop advantage with the better ace and Sukonthachartnant needed help in order to double up. The board ran out and Qu's hand was still best, so he took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Boyuan Qu	261,000 97,500	97,500
Phanlert Sukonthachartnant	Busted

Tags: Boyuan Qu Phanlert Sukonthachartnant

07-20-2017 21:48 UTC+9

Five More Hands

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Players will play five more hands before bagging chips for the night.

07-20-2017 21:39 UTC+9

Ko Felted by Paik

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Yuki Ko was in the small blind and got his entire stack of approximately 60,000 in the middle before the flop against Albert Paik in the big blind.

Ko:
Paik:

Paik had a sizeable lead preflop and Ko needed help from the deck in order to double up. The board ran out and Paik's pocket tens held up to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Paik	203,000 19,500	19,500
Yuki Ko	Busted

Tags: Yuki Ko Albert Paik

07-20-2017 21:33 UTC+9

Shinji Kashima Climbing

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Randy Lew raised to 5,500 from under the gun and Shinji Kashima three-bet to 12,000 from the cutoff. Lew called.

The flop fell and Lew checked. Kashima bet 7,000 and Lew called.

The turn brought the and Lew checked. Kashima bet again, 33,000 this time, and Lew quickly folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shinji Kashima	198,000 150,500	150,500
Randy Lew	86,000 29,600	29,600

Tags: Randy Lew Shinji Kashima

07-20-2017 21:25 UTC+9

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Paik	183,500 22,500	22,500
Boyuan Qu	163,500 63,500	63,500
Aki Virtanen	141,000 120,400	120,400
Randy Lew	115,600 19,600	19,600

Elias Gutierrez	112,200 200	200

Alan Lau	107,000 14,500	14,500
Chun Ho Edward Yam	104,700 56,700	56,700
Damian Szachowicz	73,500 39,300	39,300
Yuki Ko	61,800 1,500	1,500
Antti Halme	45,500 5,300	5,300
Takashi Ogura	33,500 18,500	18,500
Pete Chen	29,700 8,300	8,300

Paphawin Laodee	27,800 13,300	13,300
Celina Lin	23,700 24,800	24,800

Linh Tran	15,000 114,000	114,000

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

07-20-2017 21:14 UTC+9

Keisuke Hikosaka Stacked by Sparrow Cheung

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Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Keisuke Hikosaka and Sparrow Cheung were in the blinds and got all the chips in before the flop. Hikosaka had about 20,000 chips to start the hand and Cheung had the larger of the two stacks.

Hikosaka:
Cheung:

Hikosaka had the preflop advantage but that changed when the flop fell to give Cheung trip kings. The turn and river were no help to Hikosaka and Cheung took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sparrow Cheung	64,500 14,300	14,300

Keisuke Hikosaka	Busted

Tags: Keisuke Hikosaka Sparrow Cheung