Main Event (1,300,000 KRW)

The second of five flights for the KPC Main Event with a KRW 800,000,000 (~$544,077) guaranteed prize pool attracted 174 players and saw 22 advance to Day 2 during level 18 with a new overall chip leader in Chinese pro Lei Yu.

The No. 24 on China's all time money list already banked more than $300,000 this year, all coming from deep runs during the Poker Dream 16 and Triton events here at the luxurious Landing Casino in Jeju. His day kickstarted after flopping a boat in level 10, extracting a lot of value with a big over-bet on the river and a massive push close to the end when he faced Zi Wei Tung - chip leader at the time - in a hand where he rivered a full house with 7♥ 7♠ on 3♦ 3♣ 9♠ J♥ 7♣ to almost double his already large stack. He will start Day 2 with 722,000.

Second in chips Kecheng Long - fresh from his biggest cash of $38,381 for shipping the Super High Roller at the Danang Poker Tour just over a month ago - arrived on the leaderboard late during level 13, doubling up against Kuo Wei Kao with A♣ K♦ against A♠ Q♠ and busting Shengyong Wang with Q♠ Q♦ against 9♥ 9♠ in level 16 that led him to bag 525,000.

Third place finisher Ye Sheng accumulated 503,000 away from our view after being down to 23 big blinds when he lost a preflop all-in with A♦ K♠ against A♥ A♠ in level 12.

Day 2 will start on Saturday the 12th of April at 12:00.

Picking up the action on a complete board 3♦ 3♣ 9♠ J♥ 7♣ and a massive 180,000 up for grabs, big blind Zi Wei Tung leads 70,000, Lei Yu leaves himself one chip after raising to 255,000 which sends Tung in the tank. He eventually calls, but throws it in the muck when Yu flips over a full house with 7♥ 7♠ that catapults him into a massive lead.

34 players remain, trying to make it to the 27 ITM spots or even better, bagging chips for Day 2 as one of the last 22.

With a pot of 42,000 and 4♥ 7♠ 8♦ K♣ in the middle, Lei Yu bets 16,000 from +2, but lets it go when faced with big blind Kecheng Long's 45,000 check-raise.

With 46 out of 174 players remaining we will play down to 22 players that qualify for Day 2 and ITM starting at 27.

Leading the pack is Lei Yu - trying to break through the $2M mark in live earning this series - with 201,000 in chips which puts him among the overall leaders.

The board shows 4♠ 7♠ 4♥ with a massive 45,000 pot already in the middle, small blind Lei Yu leads 19,000 and cutoff Quan Jin calls to see the turn 4♦ that gets checked to the river K♠ where Yu checks again before going in the tank after Jin announced all-in for 70,000. He eventually lets it go.

Yirui Zhang leads 3,000 and takes two players to the flop A♦ 4♠ 4♥ that gets checked to the turn 2♥ where big blind Lei Yu takes over with a 6,500 bet that finds a single customer in Zhang. Yu forks out a massive over-bet of 51,000 on the river K♣ with A♠ 4♦ that gets called by Zhang who throws it in the muck, giving Lei Yu - who racked up over $300k in cashes this year already - a decent stack to work with.

Under the gun Yirui Zhang opens 3,000, gets called by +2 and No.24 on China's all time money list Lei Yu three-bets to 11,500 from the cutoff before Zhang lays out the winning bet of 38,500.