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

Everything is looking peachy for for Ling Tien Loon when the dealer flips over 7♥ 4♠ 7♦ 9♠ before going pear shaped on the river J♠ , having Matt Belcher suck-out and double up after being down to 7%.

On a J♣ A♠ A♦ flop with 115,500 in the pot, Matt Belcher leads 38,000 from the button which gets Stephen Chidwick and Rainer Kempe to fold.

Picking up the action on the three-way flop 8♣ K♣ 7♣ and 43,500 up for grabs we see a check-around to the turn T♥ before poker legend Stephen Chidwick leads for 11,000 from UTG and finds two customers for the river 8♥ . Chidwick lays out another 16,000, Matt Belcher raises to 70,000 from the hijack, Isaia Alessio gets out of the way and Chidwick calls, who mucks after seeing Belcher flip over a boat with 7♠ 7♦ .

Under the gun opens 8,000, Matt Belcher ups it to 32,000 from the button, Miao Chenxiang - Jeju Poker Festival Main Event Champ in November - cold calls from the small blind and the initial raiser gets out of the way. The flop T♥ T♦ T♣ has Belcher continue for 26,000, gets called for the turn Q♠ and both players check. The river 5♥ gets checked to Belcher again, who jams 116,000 with Q♥ Q♣ and Miao calls with 6♦ 6♠ , granting Belcher a much needed double up.

Opening 6,000 from +1, Matt Belcher faces a 20,000 three-bet from Rainer Kempe from the cutoff. Belcher calls for the flop K♦ 2♥ J♣ to hit the felt, but lets it go after Kempe continued for 16,000.

Picking up the action on 8♦ 6♥ 3♣ with 50,000 to play for, cutoff Matthew Belcher leads 18,000 and Chinese pro Zhou Quan check-calls from the hijack to see the turn Q♠ . Belcher slides 40,000 over the line and calls Zhou's 115,000 raise to have a quick look at the river 5♦ , before folding after Zhou declared all-in.

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.