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 |