Main Event
Day 2 Started
2017 PokerStars Festival Korea
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 PokerStars Festival Korea
Buy-in
1,650,000 KRW
Entries
285
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Day 2 Begins at Noon Local Time
After four starting flights in the inaugural PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event, 98 players out of the 285 total entries remain in contention, and they'll take their seats at Noon local time on Sunday to battle it out on Day 2 for the top prize of ₩83,130,000 and trophy.
Leading the way is Japan's Yuki Ko with 226,300, a familiar face on the Asian tournament scene with over $250,000 in live earnings to his name. Close behind him is Scott Janik with 215,800, one of the few American players in the field. Daniel Demicki (209,500), Justin Chan (203,700), Naohito Tamaya (204,800) and Dmitrii Kovalevskii (201,000) were the only other players to bag stacks north of the 200,000-chip mark after the first day of play, but with the likes of Sparrow Cheung (158,100), Takashi Ogura (140,200), PokerStars Team Pro Celina Lin (73,900), PokerStars Festival Korea High Roller winner Boyuan Qu (66,800), PokerStars Team Online Pro Randy Lew (52,700), and 2014 Asia Player of the Year Pete Chen (41,900) still in the hunt, victory won't come easy for anyone.
The field will play 12 one-hour levels on Day 2 or until eight players remain, whichever comes first. There will be a ten-minute break every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after level 18. A total of 39 places will be paid with a mincash good for ₩2,860,000 and the eventual champion taking home ₩83,130,000. Keep it here for coverage of the PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event, presented by the PokerNews live reporting team.
The seat draw for the remaining players is below.
| Table | Seat | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Yang Zhang |
| 1 | 2 | Takuro Otsuka |
| 1 | 3 | Takashi Ogura |
| 1 | 4 | King Lune Alan Lau |
| 1 | 5 | Celina Lin |
| 1 | 6 | Jason Park |
| 1 | 7 | Tetsuro Tomita |
| 1 | 8 | Seng Yee Leow |
| 1 | 9 | Hirai Junko |
| 2 | 1 | Hiroshi Nishiyama |
| 2 | 2 | Yuki Ko |
| 2 | 3 | Joshua Lebowitz |
| 2 | 4 | Xiang Li |
| 2 | 5 | Michihiro Suzuki |
| 2 | 6 | Boyuan Qu |
| 2 | 7 | Geoffrey Mooney |
| 2 | 8 | Taehoon Han |
| 2 | 9 | Kwok Chun Lai |
| 3 | 1 | Jun Funabashi |
| 3 | 2 | Xingbiao Zhu |
| 3 | 3 | Keisei Ichikawa |
| 3 | 4 | Chun Ho Edward Yam |
| 3 | 5 | Hua Tian Zhou |
| 3 | 6 | Linh Tran |
| 3 | 7 | Park Yu Sparrow Cheung |
| 3 | 8 | Taro Kimura |
| 3 | 9 | Daniel Lee |
| 4 | 1 | Curtis Maxwell |
| 4 | 2 | Mitsuru Sano |
| 4 | 3 | Valeriy Fokin |
| 4 | 4 | Roman Tsoyi |
| 4 | 5 | Wei Hsiang Yeu |
| 4 | 6 | Yen Han Pete Chen |
| 4 | 7 | Gen Nose |
| 4 | 8 | Masato Shimizu |
| 4 | 9 | Jesse Rosen |
| 5 | 1 | Wei Hsiang Yeu |
| 5 | 2 | Masatoshi Tanaka |
| 5 | 3 | Daniel Demicki |
| 5 | 4 | Hiroyuki Noda |
| 5 | 5 | Kazuto Sato |
| 5 | 6 | Akira Ise |
| 5 | 7 | Steven Hong Chang |
| 5 | 8 | Michael Bloch |
| 5 | 9 | Tsuyoshi Ishibashi |
| 6 | 1 | Shigeho Yoshioka |
| 6 | 2 | Chengbei Li |
| 6 | 3 | Enching Wu |
| 6 | 4 | Hao Chen |
| 6 | 5 | Young Ki Choi |
| 6 | 6 | Tsuyoshi Ishibashi |
| 6 | 7 | Takumi Samejima |
| 6 | 8 | Ryuichi Utsunomiya |
| 6 | 9 | Kwok Chun Yip |
| 7 | 1 | Kenichi Shirai |
| 7 | 2 | Dosun Park |
| 7 | 3 | Justin Jin Jung |
| 7 | 4 | Duming Tsai |
| 7 | 5 | Aleksey Kim |
| 7 | 6 | Aki Virtanen |
| 7 | 7 | Ryuichi Saitoh |
| 7 | 8 | Jason Park |
| 7 | 9 | Vincent Li |
| 8 | 1 | Sheng Li |
| 8 | 2 | Nobuyuki Okuda |
| 8 | 3 | Randy Lew |
| 8 | 4 | Hyeonwoo An |
| 8 | 5 | Jwahyoung Kim |
| 8 | 6 | Keisuke Hikosaka |
| 8 | 7 | Keisuke Taenaka |
| 8 | 8 | Dmitrii Kovalevskii |
| 8 | 9 | Elias Guitierrez |
| 9 | 1 | Yuichi Sumida |
| 9 | 2 | Masanori Ishihara |
| 9 | 3 | Igor Kan |
| 9 | 4 | Goken Okawa |
| 9 | 5 | Yuto Watanabe |
| 9 | 6 | Scott Janik |
| 9 | 7 | Yutaro Sukegawa |
| 9 | 8 | Naohito Tamaya |
| 9 | 9 | Hayato Kitajima |
| 10 | 1 | Hyun Joon Yoon |
| 10 | 2 | Harunobu Kojima |
| 10 | 3 | Tzu Chieh Lo |
| 10 | 4 | Weihsun Lu |
| 10 | 5 | Je Hoon Lee |
| 10 | 6 | Damian Zachowicz |
| 10 | 7 | Weikuo Hsiao |
| 10 | 8 | Takumi Samejima |
| 10 | 9 | Bryan Huang |
| 11 | 1 | Pak Kwan Justin Chan |
| 11 | 2 | Oleg Shalaumov |
| 11 | 3 | Albert Paik |
| 11 | 4 | Igor Kim |
| 11 | 5 | Roman Balyasin |
| 11 | 6 | Youhei Ishizaka |
| 11 | 7 | Martin Rundulf Gonzales |
| 11 | 8 | Ming Ken Thoo |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Prize Pool Released
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
With 197 unique entries and 88 reentries for 285 total, PokerStars has released prize pool information. The total pool is ₩427,500,000, or roughly $382,000. The winner of the event will bank ₩83,130,000, equivalent to a bit more than $74,000. A min-cash in 39th will be worth ₩2,860,000, or about $2,500. Check the "Payouts" tab above for a full breakdown of the prize money.
An Early Setback for Sparrow Cheung
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Hua Tian Zhou opened to 5,300 from the cutoff and Sparrow Cheung three-bet to 20,000 out of the small blind. Zhou took a few moments to consider his decision before he four-bet to 55,300, sending Cheung into the tank for over a minute. When Cheung saw that the PokerNews live reporting team was on the scene, he said "you're writing this hand?!"
Cheung ultimately mucked, but the highly-accomplished player still has quite a few chips to work with early on Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
133,500 | 34,500 |
|
117,000 | -41,100 |
Lai Doubles Through Suzuki
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Kwok Chun Lai shoved for his last 12,600 in middle position, and big blind Michihiro Suzuki called.
Suzuki: 
Lai: 
Lai was in a dominating spot, and ace-high stayed best on the 
runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
29,200 | -68,300 |
Randy Lew Eliminated by Dmitrii Kovalevskii
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Dmitrii Kovalevskii raised from middle position and Randy Lew three-bet to 12,000 from the button. Kovalevskii four-bet shoved to put Lew to a decision for his stack and he quickly called.
Lew: 
Kovalevskii: 
Lew was way behind with the smaller of the two Broadway pairs and needed help from the deck in order to preserve his tournament life. The board ran out 
which changed nothing and Kovalevskii took the pot to eliminate Lew.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
238,000 | 37,000 |
|
Busted |
Geoffery Mooney Eliminated by Taehoon Han
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Taehoon Han and Geoffery Mooney got all the chips in the middle before the flop with Mooney at risk.
Han: 
Mooney: 
Mooney was flipping for his tournament life and needed his small pocket pair to hold in order to double up. The board ran out 
, pairing Han's ten, and he took the pot to send Mooney to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
171,000 | 41,300 |
|
Busted |
Brutal Chop for Lin
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
We found Celina Lin in middle position with a four-bet to 28,800 in front of her. Seng Yee Leow put in a five-bet from the cutoff to 50,000. Lin moved all in for 40,500 more, and Leow tanked a couple of minutes and called.
Lin: 
Leow:
The flop came , giving Leow a pair and outs to a chop. He got there right away on the 
turn, but Lin could still hit a club for the whole pot. The river was a 
though.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
116,000 | 4,800 |
|
92,300 | 18,400 |
Tomita Eliminated After Shoving Rags on the Button
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Tetsuro Tomita shoved all in for 47,400 on the button, and Ivan Leow called in the small blind. The big blind tanked a bit and got the count but folded.
Tomita: 
Leow: 
The board ran out 
, enabling Leow to fade some outs that Tomita flopped and eliminate him.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
134,000 | 18,000 |
|
Busted |