Event #2: US$500 Circuit Main Event (US$700,000 GTD) Day 2 | 2025 The Lord Poker Tournament Jeju

05-15-2025 17:00 UTC+9

Updated Counts During the Break

Christian Zetzsche

Level 27 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The stream table is being switched and Stephen Song now gets to showcase his talents with the chip lead, while the rest of the table contains a lot of short stacks. A new red T-100,000 chip has been introduced and all updated counts can be found below.

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Nevan Chang	China	335,000	17
1	2	Stephen Song	United States	2,285,000	114
1	3	Bin Wang	China	700,000	35
1	4	William Jia	Australia	460,000	23
1	5	Xuanzhi Zhao	China	300,000	15
1	6	Yang Zhang (CN)	China	265,000	13
1	7	Martin Sedlak	Germany	265,000	13
1	8

2	1	Xuecong Wu	China	815,000	41
2	2	Huan Wen	China	510,000	26
2	3	Yiyu Zhou	China	240,000	12
2	4	Boxin Jin	China	650,000	33
2	5
2	6	Jin Zeng	China	165,000	8
2	7	Jiaming Zhao	China	1,395,000	70
2	8	Jiangpu Jin	China	345,000	17

3	1
3	2	Quan Zhou	China	280,000	14
3	3	Fangzhou Zhu	China	580,000	29
3	4	Weizheng Zhong	China	625,000	31
3	5	Raffaele Sorrentino	Italy	450,000	23
3	6	Yang Liu	China	710,000	36
3	7	Zhanhui Zheng	China	600,000	30
3	8	Pingfeng Wu	China	750,000	38

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Song	2,285,000 1,002,000	1,002,000

Jiaming Zhao	1,395,000 5,000	5,000
Xuecong Wu	815,000 11,000	11,000
Pingfeng Wu	750,000

Yang Liu	710,000
Bin Wang	700,000 170,000	170,000

Boxin Jin	650,000 210,000	210,000
Weizheng Zhong	625,000
Zhanhui Zheng	600,000
Fangzhou Zhu	580,000
Huan Wen	510,000 285,000	285,000
William Jia	460,000 110,000	110,000
Raffaele Sorrentino	450,000
Jiangpu Jin	345,000 115,000	115,000
Nevan Chang	335,000 480,000	480,000

Xuanzhi Zhao	300,000 400,000	400,000

Quan Zhou	280,000
Yang Zhang (CN)	265,000 75,000	75,000
Martin Sedlak	265,000 45,000	45,000
Yiyu Zhou	240,000 220,000	220,000
Jin Zeng	165,000 165,000	165,000

05-15-2025 16:59 UTC+9

Assorted Pictures From Day 2

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Christian Zetzsche

05-15-2025 16:45 UTC+9

Break For the Final 21 players

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Upon completion of the first six levels on Day 2 and within four hours of game play, the initial field of 60 Day 1 survivors has been reduced to only 21 hopefuls and they have been sent on the second scheduled 15-minute break.

05-15-2025 16:44 UTC+9

Zhao Forces Zhou Off the Best Hand

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Adam Lamers

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Jiaming Zhao opened to 40,000 from under the gun with A♦J♦ and Yiyu Zhou flat-called on the button holding 6♥6♣. They went heads-up to a flop of 9♥2♥2♦ where both players checked to the 3♦ on the turn.

Zhao picked up a flush draw and checked it once again. Zhou tossed in a bet of 45,000 with the current best hand and Zhao check-raised to 140,000. Zhou contemplated for a moment but decided to dump her cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jiaming Zhao	1,300,000 100,000	100,000
Yiyu Zhou	280,000 180,000	180,000

Tags: Jiaming Zhao Yiyu Zhou

05-15-2025 16:40 UTC+9

Song Puts Max Pressure on Zhao

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Xuanzhi Zhao raised from under the gun and Stephen Song called on the button for the duo to see a flop of A♣K♠8♣, on which Zhao's continuation bet of 40,000 gets called. Zhao also bets 110,000 on the 3♠ turn and Song came along to the 9♥ on the river.

Zhao fired a third barrel for 200,000 with around 335,000 behind and Song then pulled the trigger to move all-in.

After using one time bank, Zhao elected to fold and Song chatted with Nevan Chang. "If he had called, I'd have two million," Song grimaced.

"Ace queen?" Song asked Zhao, who nodded. "I had eights," Song replied back thereafter before stacking the very healthy boost to his already big stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Song	1,800,000 1,040,000	1,040,000

Nevan Chang	780,000 70,000	70,000

Bin Wang	675,000 195,000	195,000

William Jia	485,000 85,000	85,000
Xuanzhi Zhao	335,000 365,000	365,000

Martin Sedlak	275,000 150,000	150,000
Yang Zhang (CN)	220,000 120,000	120,000

Tags: Nevan Chang Stephen Song Xuanzhi Zhao

05-15-2025 16:36 UTC+9

Zhu Doubles With Aces

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Dan O'Hair

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Fangzhou Zhu opened to 32,000 from the hijack and it was folded to Zhanhui Zheng, who shoved from the big blind. Zhu snap-called all in for approximately 330,000 and a showdown was held.

Fangzhou Zhu: A♦A♠ All in
Zhanhui Zheng: 9♥9♠

The A♣6♠4♣8♦3♣ runout needlessly improved Zhu to a set of aces and he was awarded the double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fangzhou Zhu	690,000 430,000	430,000
Zhanhui Zheng	550,000 40,000	40,000

Tags: Fangzhou Zhu Zhanhui Zheng

05-15-2025 16:35 UTC+9

Wen Tops Wu in Battle of the Blinds

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Adam Lamers

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The action folded to Xuecong Wu in the small blind who limped in with 6♥5♥. Huan Wen was in the big blind with 8♥7♦ and decided to check his option.

The flop of J♥J♣7♥ gave both a players a little piece and Wu check-called a bet of 25,000 from Wen. The turn was the K♣ which slowed the action as both players checked.

The A♦ completed the board and Wu was happy to check down his six-high. Wen checked back his two pair and was awarded the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xuecong Wu	753,000 73,000	73,000
Huan Wen	517,000 292,000	292,000

Tags: Huan Wen Xuecong Wu

05-15-2025 16:27 UTC+9

Zhong Doubles Through Zhu

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Dan O'Hair

Level 27 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Fangzhou Zhu and Weizheng Zhong were heads up on a flop of A♥K♣8♥ in a blind versus blind battle.

Zhu was in the small blind and proceeded to check-called bets from Zhong on every street. First for 16,000 on the flop, then for 40,000 on the turn, and finally for approximately 150,000 all in on the 4♠ river.

Zhong turned over K♦9♥ for two pair and Zhu sent his hand into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Weizheng Zhong	600,000 206,000	206,000
Fangzhou Zhu	260,000 160,000	160,000

05-15-2025 16:21 UTC+9

Sedlak Gets Short and Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 27 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Following a flop of 8♣8♠7♠, Martin Sedlak checked and Stephen Song bet 25,000. Sedlak check-raised to 70,000 and then quickly folded when Song jammed with the covering stack.

"Nut flush draw, easy decision," Song said and Sedlak replied "you were ahead."

"I had ace five of spades and decided to see the flop," Song added.

One hand later, Sedlak open-shoved for the last 135,000 in an early position and Nevan Chang called in the next seat while everyone else folded.

Martin Sedlak: Q♦Q♥ All in
Nevan Chang: K♣Q♣

The 7♥7♠5♠A♠9♦ board delivered no clubs or kings for Sedlak to survive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Song	1,283,000 523,000	523,000

Nevan Chang	815,000 35,000	35,000

Martin Sedlak	310,000 115,000	115,000

Tags: Martin Sedlak Nevan Chang Stephen Song

05-15-2025 16:15 UTC+9

Rui Sun Eliminated in 22nd Place (US$3,500)

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 27 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The action started with an open raise to 32,000 by Stephen Song and Rui Sun then three-bet jammed for around 250,000 out of the blinds only to get snap-called by Song.

Rui Sun: K♣K♥ All in
Stephen Song: A♠A♦

"Again?" some players at the table smirked. The most classic of setups brought no surprise on the 10♥8♣3♠10♦J♦ runout and Sun had to settle for 22nd place worth US$3,500, along with his reward from advancing in the opening heat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Song	1,200,000 440,000	440,000

Rui Sun	Busted

Tags: Rui Sun Stephen Song