Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Korea

07-23-2017 14:35 UTC+9

Player	Chips	Progress
Roman Tsoyi	262,000 129,000	129,000
Goken Okawa	Busted

Photos: PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event Day 2

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Mohammed Nuwwarah

Photos by Long Guan.

07-23-2017 14:27 UTC+9

Zhang vs. Ogura

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Action folded around to Yang Zhang on the button and he raised to 9,000. Takashi Ogura was in the big blind and after a bit of thought, he three-bet to 28,000. Zhang called.

The flop came and Ogura tossed out a bet of 30,000. Zhang folded and Ogura took the chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Takashi Ogura	205,000 64,800	64,800
Yang Zhang	195,000 42,500	42,500

Tags: Takashi Ogura Yang Zhang

07-23-2017 14:23 UTC+9

Updated Chip Counts

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Mohammed Nuwwarah

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Hiroyuki Noda	390,000 90,000	90,000
Justin Chan	268,000 64,300	64,300
Wei Hsiang Yeu	230,000 115,700	115,700
Scott Janik	181,000 34,800	34,800
Aleksey Kim	68,000 23,900	23,900
Hyeonwoo An	59,000 34,900	34,900
Young Ki Choi	20,000 20,400	20,400

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

07-23-2017 14:05 UTC+9

Break Time

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Players are now on their first 10-minute break of the day.

07-23-2017 13:58 UTC+9

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitrii Kovalevskii	500,000 90,000	90,000
Ivan Leow	260,000 126,000	126,000
Taehoon Han	230,000 59,000	59,000
Oleg Shalaumov	179,200 35,800	35,800
Sparrow Cheung	179,000 62,000	62,000

Mitsuru Sano	162,300 11,600	11,600
Yuki Ko	151,000 17,500	17,500
Alan Lau	147,000 61,400	61,400
Yutaro Sukegawa	82,000 66,000	66,000
Joshua Lebowitz	77,500 48,200	48,200
Xingbiao Zhu	76,000 25,000	25,000
Pete Chen	74,200 32,300	32,300

Huang Loses a Chunk to Noda Before Busting

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Mohammed Nuwwarah

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Hiroyuki Noda opened for 6,500 in middle position and called a three-bet to 18,100 from Bryan Huang, who was on the button. The flop came and Noda led right out with 18,500. Huang called. They both checked the and , and Noda showed down for a set.

Huang was left with about 60,000 and busted moments later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hiroyuki Noda	300,000 56,000	56,000
Bryan Huang	Busted

Tags: Bryan Huang Hiroyuki Noda

07-23-2017 13:45 UTC+9

Yuki Ko Jams and Wins

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

With about 40,000 chips already in the middle on a flop of , Oleg Shalaumov had already committed 14,000 chips and was facing a shove from Yuki Ko in early position for what looked like about 80,000. After a few moments of consideration, Shalaumov folded and Ko took the chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Oleg Shalaumov	215,000 85,400	85,400
Yuki Ko	133,500 92,800	92,800

Tags: Oleg Shalaumov Yuki Ko

07-23-2017 13:35 UTC+9

Celina Lin Felted

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Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin had recently lost the majority of her stack and was left with just 3,600 chips, which she moved into the pot from middle position. Hirai Junko three-bet to 9,000 from the button, the blinds got out of the way, and the two players tabled their hands.

Lin:
Junko:

Lin had the preflop advantage with the better ace, but Junko took the lead when the flop fell to pair Junko's four, although Lin also picked up an open-ended straight draw. The on the turn was no help to Lin and neither was the river, so Junko took the pot to eliminate Lin.