Di Jin was the third casualty of the day and Hua Wei Lin then missed the pay jump when she was eliminated in a duel of short stacks with Gao Luo. Her Q♦9♥ flopped a pair on the 9♠8♣7♠5♦8♥ runout but the A♥6♥ of Luo turned a straight.
Jincheng Du raised to 10,000 in the cutoff and Raffaele Sorrentino pushed all-in from the button with the covering stack. Haoyu Huang in the big blind had fewer than 20 big blinds and used a time bank before calling, Du folded.
Haoyu Huang: A♣K♠
Raffaele Sorrentino: 4♠4♣
The pocket pair held on a board of 9♠7♣5♥9♦3♥ and Huang headed to the payout desk.
Xian Xiao raised to 11,000 and then called a three-bet to 28,000 by Raffaele Sorrentino in the big blind. On the 8♦7♣6♥ flop, Sorrentino continued for 30,000 and Xiao folded.
One table over, Christian Harder doubled his severe short stack with [%hTs] versus K♠6♠ before Guangcheng Chen became the first casualty on Day 2 moments later on a nearby table.
The prize pool guarantee of US$700,000 was not surpassed and all 60 players already notched up cash rewards based on their respective Day 1 flights. Beyond that, there is a separate cash reward for Day 2 and that information can be found below.
Day three of the inaugural The Lord Poker Tournament Jeju standalone festival on Jeju Island has arrived and one of the key events will go one stop closer to determining a champion. After four flights in the previous day, a total of 60 players out of 505 entries advanced to the money stages in Event #2 TLPT Jeju Circuit Series Main Event and they will be battling for the lion's share of the US$700,000 guaranteed prize pool as of noon local time.
All those in the money already locked up a reward equalling two times their buy-in in the respective Day 1 heats and bigger cash prizes await today as well on tomorrow's Grand Finale at the luxurious five-star Jeju Shinhwa World Hotel in South Korea. Two players bagged up chips twice and combined their stacks to increase the odds of an even deeper run, both of which came in the final heat 1d.
However, Bin Wang still leads the way with his huge stack of 877,000 and the overall top three remains unchanged with Xuanzhi Zhao (666,000) and Martin Sedlak (625,000) following suit. The two American pros Stephen Song (492,000) and Yunkyu Song (374,000) also return in the overall top ten, as does Australia's William Jia (369,000).
Top 10 Chip Counts for Day 2
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Bin Wang
China
877,000
174
2
Xuanzhi Zhao
China
666,000
133
3
Martin Sedlak
Germany
625,000
125
4
Yang Liu
China
620,000
124
5
Pingfeng Wu
China
592,000
118
6
Jiaming Zhao
China
589,000
118
7
Stephen Song
United States
492,000
98
8
Boxin Jin
China
412,000
82
9
Yunkyu Song
United States
374,000
75
10
William Jia
Australia
369,000
74
Martin Sedlak
Sedlak finished second in chips in the opening heat and had a productive day at the poker tables thereafter. He opted not to enter any of the remaining three flights to try and build an even bigger stack, but instead jumped into the US$7,500 Single-Day High Roller and finished second to Yuzhu Wang while Taiwanese poker pro Nevan Chang bubbled.
Other notables in contention for Day 2 include two-time EPT Main Event finalist Raffaele Sorrentino (217,000), as well as a trio of WSOP bracelet winners in Calvin Lee (193,000), Renji Mao (152,000) and Dong Chen (148,000). TLPT founder Quan Zhou also advanced with a stack of 185,000 as well.
Day 1 Overview
Flight
Buy-In
Level Duration
In the Money
Entries
Qualified
Cash Reward
Day 1a
$500
20 minutes
Top 5%
69
4
US$1,000 each
Day 1b
$1,000
30 minutes
Top 10%
45
5
US$2,000 each
Day 1c
$750
20 minutes
Top 7.5%
210
16
US$1,500 each
Day 1d
$2,000
40 minutes
Top 20%
181
37
US$4,000 each*
*two players bagged up chips in two flights and combine their stacks
The multi-layered structure featured four different buy-in levels and "in the money" thresholds while everyone started with the same 25,000 in chips. All those advancing from their respective flights locked up a cash reward and the 60 hopefuls on Day 2 also benefit from a roll back to blinds of 3,000-5,000 and a big blind ante of 5,000.
Furthermore, the level duration will increase to 40 minutes each with a break every three levels. The penultimate tournament day will play down to the nine-handed final table and it's pretty much certain that today's action will also be streamed on the TLPT social media channels including Facebook and YouTube.
Stay tuned right here on PokerNews to follow all of the action from the first ever TLPT standalone live poker festival with US$8 million in overall guarantees until May 22, 2025.
