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Another guarantee crusher at the series with the ₩400M guaranteed Mystery Bounty prize pool already over ₩600 Million! We will have the final numbers up once Day 1D closes. Currently 100 entries for that flight.

Date: September 30, 2024

Buy in: ₩1,500,000 (~US$ 1,100)

Guarantee: ₩400,000,000 (~US$ 303,350)

Day 1A: 156 entries / 24 advanced

Day 1B: 63 entries / 10 advanced

Day 1C: 146 entries / 22 to advance

Mystery Big Bounty (KRW 200M GTD) Final

Sponsored by Korean Poker Cup

Date: September 28-29, 2024

Buy-in: KRW 900,000 (~USD 660)/ KRW 600,000 (~USD 440)

Guarantee: KRW 200,000,000 (~USD 150,000)

Entries: 642

Prize Pool: KRW 430,039,800 (~USD 328,200)

ITM: 91

Flight A: 156 entries / 23 qualified

Flight B: 218 entries / 33 qualified

Flight C: 128 entries / 21 qualified

Flight D: 140 entries / 14 qualified

A total of 502 entries from flights A, B, C signed up for KRW 900,000 (~USD 660) plus the 140 flipout entries of flight D who signed up for KRW 600,000 (~USD 440), brought the prize pool up to a whopping KRW 430,039,800 (~USD 328,200), more than doubling the guarantee for the Mystery Big Bounty event here at Poker Dream 12 Jeju 2024.

A combined 91 players from all the flights advanced to play in today's Day 2 Final. All remaining contenders are already guaranteed a minimum payout and will have the chance to climb up the payout ladder depending on how well they progress in today's final. Apart from the guaranteed payouts from the prize pool, players will also have a chance to win big prizes from mystery bounties.

Leading all 91 players in chips is Shi Bei with 504,000. Shi Bei amassed his chips from flight B and will take those chips into today's final in the hopes of winning the championship.

Mystery Big Bounty Final Day Chip Counts:

Deepstack (KRW 100M GTD) Final

Blinds 4,000/8,000 Ante 8,000

Date: September 27 & 28, 20024

Buy-in: KRW 900,000 (~USD 660)

Entries: 319

Prize Pool: KRW 242,781,300 (~USD184,100)

ITM: 48

1A: 16/102 entries

1B: 17/112 entries

1C: 12/I75 entries

1D: 3/30 entries

Chips In Play: 12,355,000

Average Chip Stack: 257,396

Remaining Players: 48

Jeju Open Final

Blinds 10,000/20,000 Ante 20,000

The very very short-stacked Jiang Ming took a gamble with 7♠ 8♠ for his last 170,000 chips from under the gun. Zhu Jingxuan made the call and successfully defended the big blind with J♥ T♥ on a board of J♦ Q♥ 5♦ 6♥ 6♠. Jingxuan's pair of Jacks enough to eliminate Jiang Ming at 12th place for a KRW 2,710,000 (~USD 2,055) payout, which can buy two high quality surfboards.

In the battle of the blinds, William Jia made an all-in play with Q♠ 3♦ which was called by Frederick Sia for his last 200,000 showing A♥ K♣. William Jia may have felt embarrassed to have run into a brick wall at first, and he was beginning to melt with the board running 9♠ 5♥ 2♦ 6♥, but then the Q♥ on the river booked him the win and eliminated a stumped Frederick Sia at 11th place. Sia takes home a KRW 3,100,000 (~USD 2,350) prize, which can be enough for a Caribbean cruise.

Jeju Open Final

Blinds 8,000/16,000 Ante 16,000

Date: September 26 to 27, 2024

Buy in: KRW 810,000 (~US$ 594)

Entries: 257

Prize pool: KRW 177,018,210 (~ USD 134,260)

ITM: 39

Day 1A: 11/ 70 entries

Day 1B: 17/ 109 entries

Day 1C: 9/ 58 entries

Day 1D (Flipout): 2/ 20 entries

Remaining Players: 16

Tianweng Zhang leads the last 16 remaining with 820000 chips. The last 16 are guaranteed a minimum payout of KRW 2,170,000 (~USD 1,650). The other chip counts are:

Jeju Open (KRW 100M GTD) Final

Date: September 26 to 27, 2024

Buy in: KRW 810,000 (~US$ 594)

Entries: 257

Prize pool: KRW 177,018,210 (~ USD 134,260)

ITM: 39

Blinds: 4,000-8,000 ante 8,000

Remaining Players: 39

Day 1A: 11/ 70 entries

Day 1B: 17/ 109 entries

Day 1C: 9/ 58 entries

Day 1D (Flipout): 2/ 20 entries

257 official entries from 4 flights registered for KRW 810,000 (~US$ 594) to push the prize pool to KRW 177,018,210 (~ USD 134,260). The top 39 survivors from all the flights are now combined for one final flight to compete at the Day 2 Final. All the 39 players are already guaranteed the minimum payout, but will be playing to get a higher share of the prize pool. The biggest share for the champion is a whopping payout of KRW 35,560,000 (~USD 27,000).

Biao Ding leads the pack, and hopefully he maintains the big stack to the championship.

Here are the chip counts of the remaining players: