Super High Roller (14,500,000 KRW)

Yu Lei and Wang Yilong picked up some blinds to bolster their short stacks and Mao Renji took some from Aram Oganyan leaving us with this table dynamic:

Mao Renji opens another hand from under the gun, making it 1,200,000 with T♦ 6♦ this time. Yu Lei flicks in his last 500,000 from the button and big blind Wang Yilong tags along to the flop 3♥ 2♥ 9♥ that gets checked to the turn K♣ . Checked to Mao again, he puts out a delayed 1,200,000 c-bet, Wang calls with Q♠ 9♣ and the board completes 3♠ . Mao Renji jams, Wang goes in the tank, but decides to preserve his last 2,900,000, losing a time bank in the process. Mao picks up the side pot with ten-high, but has to surrender the main pot to Yu Lei's K♠ 5♥ .

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.

Checked to the small blind Yu Lei we see a limp with A♦ 3♣ and a check from Martin Zamani holding Q♣ 9♥ . The flop K♣ K♦ 3♦ has Yu lead 300,000 which gets called for the turn 5♦ , where Yu elects to check, but calls Zamani's 300,000 bet for the board to complete 8♠ . No action there reveals Yu Lei's bottom pair as the winner.

Fresh from delivering a knock-out two hands earlier, Chris Park is at it again, opening 600,000 with K♦ Q♠ from hijack and big blind Yu Lei tags along for the river K♣ 3♥ 3♣ . A single 800,000 c-bet takes it down for Park

After winning three of the last five hands preflop, Martin Zamani fills up his button to match Yu Lei's 600,000 min open from the cutoff. The flop 8♥ 6♦ 9♥ has Zamani lead 450,000 against a missed c-bet from Yu, which gets called for the turn 9♠ . A check around completes the board A♣ , Yu Lei leads 650,000 with A♥ 8♠ , but Martin Zamani calls with A♠ J♥ to scoop the pot with the better kicker.

Yu Lei starts off with a min-raise to 500,000 and big blind Gao Sheng finally picks up a hand with 9♥ 9♦ to jam his 2,600,000 short stack. Yu calls for a flip with K♣ Q♣ and we have our first player at risk. The dealer has Gao's hopes go up by flipping over 5♦ 6♠ 4♥ 2♠ before delivering the final blow K♥ .

With the three previous hands going to Martin Zamani preflop the last of which was a three-bet against Oganyan Aram, Aram mounts another attack with a 500,000 raise under the gun. Yu Lei fills up from +3 to go to the flop 6♦ 4♣ A♥ heads-up. Checked around to the turn J♣ Aram lays out a delayed c-bet of 1,800,000 with K♦ Q♣ which gets called by Yu's A♠ J♠ for the board to complete 2♠ . Checked to him, Yu takes down the pot with a 1,800,000 bet of his own.

Christopher Park kicks off todays action with a raise to 400,000 from +2 and takes big blind Yu Lei to the flop 9♠ 3♦ 2♥ where a 275,000 c-bet gets called by Yu before checking to the river 9♦ and A♥ having Yu Lei table the winner 5♠ 2♠ against Park's Q♠ J♣ .

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.