$20,000 NLH SuperStar Challenge (30,000,000 KRW)

Two-time bracelet winner Brewer is ahead, but Smiljkovic has a lot of outs. Hitting one of them on the 9♥ river for a straight grants him a double up.

With late registration concluded and a total of 81 entries, the $20,000 Superstar Challenge prize pool ballooned to a whopping KRW2,262,330,000 (~$1,585,263) and KRW622,100,000 (~$435,932) for first. We have 28 player still in the hunt with ITM starting at 11th place.

Picking up the action on 4♠ 4♣ J♣ 3♣ with 272,000 up for grabs, Chen Dong leads 85,000 from +1 and gets called by Chris Brewer in the hijack. The river K♦ has Chen bet small for 80,000 with K♠ K♣ , hoping to get raised, but Brewer just calls and mucks.

Looking at the board 6♠ 4♣ 2♦ J♦ with 227,000 already in the middle and Chris Brewer's 190,000 lead in front, Roman Hrabec decides to jam 373,000 with his draws holding 5♦ 7♦ . Brewer goes in the tank, costing him a time bank, but fills up with A♦ 9♦ , being in good shape. The river is a blank T♠ and Hrabec gathers his things. With his recent $2,5M Triton Monte Carlo cashes he can afford another bullet.

Picking up the action on the flop 7♦ 6♦ A♦ with 94,000 in the middle, two time bracelet winner Chris Brewer leads 25,000 from the button and gets called by big blind Henrik Hecklen for the turn Q♣ where another 60,000 bet lets Brewer scoop the pot.

Christopher Brewer opens 8,000 from under the gun +2, button Stanley Choi and big blind Tony Lin fill up the lay eyes on the flop J♦ 5♣ 9♥ . When checked to him, Choi forks out 7,000 and both opponents comply to see the turn T♥ that gets checked around to the river 5♠ . Lin takes over the reins with a 35,000 open that gets the job done.

Matthew Belcher opens 5,000 from the cutoff, small blind Christopher Brewer pays up and the flop falls 5♣ 9♣ 8♦ , checked to the turn J♦ . A delayed c-bet of 10,000 finds a customer for the river 9♥ where Belcher lays out another 27,000 with K♠ J♠ top pair. Brewer calls with 9♦ Q♦ trips and scoops the third pot against Belcher in just a few minutes.

Matthew Belcher, who finished 7th in the $15,000 Superstar Challenge last night kicks us off with a raise to 5,000 from the button and takes big blind Christopher Brewer to another flop 4♥ K♠ 5♠ , slides out a 4,000 c-bet, Brewer calls and we see the turn 2♠ that gets checked to complete the board 7♥ . Another check by Brewer has Belcher fork out 24,000, Brewer increases to 95,000 with a flush 9♠ 4♠ and Belcher calls to muck.

Hijack David Brewer opens 5,000 and takes big blind Matthew Belcher to the flop 8♠ 9♦ 7♠ where a 7,000 c-bet gets check-called by Belcher for the turn 8♣ where another 21,000 barrel gets filled before the river 5♠ shuts down the action with Brewer flipping over his flopped straight T♥ J♦ against Belcher's A♣ 9♠ top pair.