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.

With 29 players left - two knockouts away from the money - hand for hand play is in progress.

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.

90 out of 130 players remain with three more levels of late registration still available.

Under the gun Sheng Ye opens 1,000, Quanyu Zeng three-bets to 3,000 from +1 and Ye fills up to see the flop 7♥ K♣ J♠ . Zeng c-bets 2,200 and fills up after Ye puts in a check-raise to 5,800, taking us to the turn 6♣ where another 10,000 bet from Ye gets the job done.

Cutoff Boshi Zhang slides 600 in the middle and calls button Sheng Ye's 1,800 re-raise to lay eyes on the flop A♥ 7♣ 8♦ . Zhang flats a 1,300 c-bet and the turn 6♣ gets checked around to complete the board T♥ where Zhang tries to steal with a 5,500 lead, but let's it go when faced with Ye's 16,000 raise.