The final day of the inaugural standalone 2025 The Lord Poker Tournament (TLPT) Jeju festival has arrived and one more trophy will be awarded in Event #12: $25,000 8-Handed as part of the TLPT Super High Roller Series. After ten levels of play yesterday evening, a total of 14 entries generated a prize pool of $350,000 so far but both figures are still subject to change, as the late registration remains open until the restart at 1 p.m. local time at the Landing Casino at Jeju Shinhwa World Resort in Jeju, South Korea.
Leading the way is one of the TLPT founders in Ivan Zhang and he soared ahead of the pack during the final stages to boost his stack all the way to 1,066,000 in chips. That's more than one starting stack ahead of fellow TLPT co-founder Quan Zhou, who sits on 743,000.
Day 2 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | Ivan Zhang | China | 1,066,000 | 133 |
| 2 | Quan Zhou | China | 743,000 | 93 |
| 3 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 526,000 | 66 |
| 4 | Gary Thompson | Ireland | 227,000 | 28 |
| 5 | Lei Yu | China | 159,000 | 20 |
| 6 | Ami Barer | Canada | 79,000 | 10 |
Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche has had a rough series so far and bubbled the final table in the previous $20,000 High Roller yesterday, but he has one last shot at redemption and carries over the third-biggest stack of 526,000. The trio atop is already way out in front with the bottom three contenders Gary Thompson (227,000), Lei Yu (159,000) and Ami Barer (79,000) all looking for a spin-up today.
As previously mentioned, the action will get back underway at 1 p.m. local time and that's when the late registration and re-entry period closes. All new entrants will start their journey with 200,000 in chips, which is good enough for 20 big blinds at 5,000-10,000 with a big blind ante of 10,000.
All levels will last 45 minutes each and the action of the final day is also set to be live-streamed until a winner has been crowned. The PokerNews team will be right there until the last river wraps up the festival with the live updates set to be published according to the stream delay.
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