Main Event
Day 1d Completed
2017 PokerStars Festival Korea
Main Event
Day: 1d
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1d
2017 PokerStars Festival Korea
Buy-in
1,650,000 KRW
Entries
285
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Celina Lin Among 24 to Make it Through Turbo Flight
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
PokerStars wanted to offer one last chance for players to make it to Day 2 of PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event, so they held a special turbo starting flight that kicked off at 9:30 p.m. Saturday and featured 20-minute levels. When the turbo madness was finished, 47 players had taken advantage of their final cracks at the prize pool, and 24 of them still have a pulse heading to Day 2.
PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin, after bricking on the earlier Day 1c, made good on the opportunity and bagged 73,900, one of the bigger stacks. Lin was down below the starting stack early on, but her luck finally turned when she flopped top pair in the big blind and ran a straight against an opponent who flopped top two.
Lin was on the verge of bagging one of the very best counts, as she said she was around 120,000 late, which would have been good for the Day 1d lead. However, she flopped top pair of aces with ace-ten and lost a chunk to an opponent who made better top pair with ace-queen.
PokerStars Festival Korea High Roller winner Boyuan Qu still has high hopes of winning the two biggest events here as he also found a bag. Qu, who took down $64,195 for the aforementioned win, had a swingy go of it but finished with 66,800.
American Albert Paik, who won the last edition of APPT Seoul right here in Korea just last year, made it to the 12 sped up levels with 86,000.
Dosun Park, meanwhile, finished as the chip leader with 109,700, though that pales in comparison to the stacks of the other Day 1 leaders. The faster structure simply meant there was less time and opportunity for everyone to accumulate chips.
The 47 turbo runners means the total field amounted to 285. The 24 survivors of Day 1d will combine with the players who made it through the other Day 1 flights to form a 98-player field for Day 2. That bunch will take to the felt at noon local time on Sunday, and PokerNews will be bringing live updates throughout the day.
End of Day 1d Counts (full)
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
109,700 | 109,700 |
|
93,900 | 54,100 |
|
89,400 | |
|
88,900 | -1,100 |
|
87,100 | |
|
86,000 | |
|
79,100 | 9,100 |
|
73,900 | -4,100 |
|
|
71,600 | -2,800 |
|
|
70,000 | -15,000 |
|
66,800 | 48,800 |
|
66,400 | -3,600 |
|
|
64,400 | 10,100 |
|
|
46,100 | |
|
|
42,600 | |
|
|
40,400 | 6,000 |
|
36,100 | 36,100 |
|
|
35,000 | |
|
|
33,100 | |
|
|
33,100 | |
|
27,900 | 27,900 |
|
27,700 | 27,700 |
|
25,800 | -700 |
|
|
16,600 |
Park Fades a Pile
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Jason Park raised to 4,600 in the cutoff and got a call from the player in the small blind. Antti Halme shoved in the big blind for about 35,000, and Park immediately jammed over the top. The small blind thought briefly and folded.
Halme: 
Park: 
Halme was quite pleased to be flipping given the speed of Park's shove, but he was less pleased to hear the small blind say he mucked ace-jack. The 
flop brought Halme a straight draw, and the 
added even more outs by making it a double-gutter. The 
river was a brick though.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000 | 62,600 |
|
Busted |
Choi Wins Another Flip
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Young Ki Choi was down to 14,500 and got it in preflop, finding himself in a race with 
against 
. He won on the reverse end of that flip earlier and once again found a friendly board as it ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
34,400 | 19,900 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Yotsushika Outdrawn by Park
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Jason Park shoved under the gun for 12,200, and Kazuhiko Yotsushika reshoved on his left. Everyone else folded.
Park: 
Yotsushika: 
The 
was not the flop Yotsushika wanted to see, and the High Roller runner-up found no help on the 
turn and river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
27,400 | -19,000 |
|
9,200 | -2,500 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Qu Down Under 20,000
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
If Boyuan Qu wants to pull the High Roller/Main Event double, he's got a lot of work to do after he just bet 11,000 on an ace-high board on the turn and got called by an opponent. When both checked the river, Qu was unable to beat , and he's down under 20,000 now and needs to spin up quickly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
85,000 | |
|
|
18,000 | -24,500 |
Kojima Doubles Through Lin
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
In a battle of the blinds, we found Celina Lin and Harunobu Kojima all in with 
and 
, respectively. The board ran out 
, and Lin sent Kojima roughly 12,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
78,000 | -18,000 |
|
|
26,500 |