Super High Roller (14,500,000 KRW)

Looking at J♦ 6♦ , Martin Zamani opts for a thin GTO open of 1,000,000 from the button which takes big blind Xue Song along for the ride holding J♠ 9♥ . The flop 8♠ 3♣ 5♦ has enough backdoor potential for Zamani to fork out another 625,000 which gets the job done.

After Xue Song has grown his short stack back to 25BB and the chip leaders all bleeding some, to leave the most active player and chip leader Martin Zamani with 40BB it is everyone's game to win.

Under the gun +1 Xue Song opens 300,000 with A♣ K♣ , cutoff Yu Lei ups it to 1,400,000 holding A♥ 6♥ and Xue forks out a 2,400,000 four-bet that has Yu in the tank for one time bank but finally calls to see the flop 9♦ J♦ J♠ . Xue jams his remaining 1,800,000 which ends the hand.

After a few hands of the shorter stacks picking up some small pots against the leaders we see Martin Zamani open 9♦ 4♣ for 700,000 from the hijack that takes shortest stack Xue Song from the big blind to see the flop 7♠ 4♦ Q♣ . Xue Song jams 1,900,000 with his mystery hand which is enough to get Zamani off bottom pair and scoop a much needed pot.

Wang Yilong limps 9♠ Q♣ from the cutoff and big blind Xue Song opts to check with J♠ 5♥ for the flop 8♣ K♣ J♥ to hit the felt. Wang leads 300,000 which gets check-called by Xue to reveal the 4♣ turn where Wang forks out 850,000 to scoop the pot.

After a total of 123 entries ponied up the KR₩14,500,000 (~USD 9,998) buy-in we got to a total prize pool of KR₩ 1,626,195,300 (~USD1,134,545) with KR₩409,200,000 (~USD285,496) up top and everyone taking a seat later will have KR₩40,700,000 (~USD28,398) guaranteed for 9th place already.

Wang Yilong was the only one breaching the eight-figures bagging 10,075,000 who came back from 2,200,000 just a few minutes before the end last night, starting with a triple up that eliminated Yong Wei Keong in 11th and then bursting the final table bubble, knocking out Xu Qiang in 10th.

Martin Zamani had been chip leader for most of the ITM play, but lost a few in the end, still bringing 9,800,000 to the table in 2nd.

The Final 9 will resume play on level 23 (100k/200k/200k) very even in chips with an average of 34BB at 1pm local on the 22nd of February.

Live updates begin at 1pm local time on February 22, 2025.

Starting the day with 3 levels of late registration still available, we reached a total of 123 entries that ponied up the KR₩14,500,000 (~USD 9,998) buy-in to get us to a total prize pool of KR₩ 1,626,195,300 (~USD1,134,545) with KR₩409,200,000 (~USD285,496) up top and everyone guaranteed KR₩40,700,000 (~USD28,398) for 9th place.

Wang Yilong was the only one breaching the eight-figures bagging 10,075,000 who came back from 2,200,000 just a few minutes before the end, starting with a triple up that eliminated Yong Wei Keong in 11th and then bursting the final table bubble, knocking out Xu Qiang in 10th.

Martin Zamani had been chip leader for most of the ITM play, but lost a few in the end, still bringing 9,800,000 to the table in 2nd.

The Final 9 will resume play on level 23 (100k/200k/200k) at 1pm local on the 22nd of February.