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

The dealer keeps it interesting until the end on A♠ 6♥ 4♦ 5♠ Q♠ , but eliminates the #3 on the all time money list and allows the rest of the field to catch up by a little bit.

No help for Dvoress on the turn 4♠ and river 5♠ , taking Chidwick to his biggest stack all tournament.

With 4 WSOP Bracelets, 2 WSOP Rings and more than $135M in live earnings between them, this final table will be a treat for every poker fan. All of them will be gunning for the $431,905 top prize. Flop well everyone!

The remaining 10 players have four familiar faces from the $15,000 Superstar Challange final table among them. Still in the hunt for a second appearance are Joseph Cheong, Yeu Wei Hsiang, Yu Lei and chip leader Ding Biao.

Drawing for a gutter and some running outs, Xu gets one of them on the turn T♥ , but his luck runs dry on the river J♠ and one of the remaining bracelet winners is out.

Stephen Chidwick kicks off the action with a raise to 275,000 and Christopher Park defends big to see the flop 4♠ 5♥ 7♥ that gets checked to the turn 7♦ . Chidwick tests the waters with a 175,000 delayed c-bet that gets called, before forking out a large 800,000 bet on the river A♣ . Park check-calls again with A♠ 3♥ top pair winning against Chidwick's queen-high Q♥ J♦ .

Picking up the action on the heads up turn 4♦ 5♦ 3♣ J♦ with 575,000 up for grabs Ding Biao leads 350,000, Stephen Chidwick check-calls and the river 6♣ gets checked around for Ding Biao to scoop the pot with A♣ 3♦ against Chidwick's A♦ 9♥ .

Ding Biao kicks off the action with a raise to 200,000 from the cutoff, Stephen Chidwick jams 1,650,000 with A♣ K♦ from big blind and Ding calls with A♠ T♣ . No help for Ding on 3♥ 2♣ 2♠ 2♥ 4♥ and Stephen Chidwick gets propelled back into contention on the bubble.

Hijack Michael Jozoff raises to 100,000 and Stephen Chidwick - fresh from his 2nd WSOP bracelet win in December for $1.3M - defends his big blind. The flop 6♦ J♠ 7♦ has Jozoff continue for 110,000, Chidwick raises to 260,000 and Jozoff calls to see the turn A♠ that gets checked to the river A♥ . Checked to Jozoff again, 450,000 slide over the line and Chidwick goes in the tank. He finds the call and mucks, after seeing Jozoff flip over Q♥ J♣ , losing two time banks in the process.

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.

Stephen Chidwick opens 75,000 from the hijack, Tony Lin ups it to 175,000 from the cutoff and Chidwick calls to see the flop Q♦ 5♦ 9♦ . Checked to Lin, he announces all-in and Chidwick quickly folds.

Under the gun kicks off the action with a raise to 50,000 and takes two players to the flop 8♥ 3♥ T♦ that gets checked to the turn 7♣ . Cutoff Xu Qiang leads 125,000 in position, small blind Paulius Plausinaitis ups it to 350,000, the initial raiser folds and Xu calls for the board to complete J♠ . Plausinaitis puts out a 250,000 value bet with a straight J♣ 9♣ , Xu calls and throws it in the muck.

The Poker Dream 16 $20,000 Superstar Challenge Day 1 came to a close with 30 out of 59 players remaining after 11 levels of 40min each. The total entries will certainly increase with late registration still open throughout the first 40 minutes of play tomorrow until 13:40, giving the late entries still 20BB to work with in the hunt for a slice of the already over $1,100,000 prize pool.

Canadian 2-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress bagged the biggest stack with 2,550,000, after a massive all-in against Rainer Kempe just a few hands before the end of the day. Dvoress opened 2.5BB with A♠ Q♣ from UTG+1, big blind Rainer Kempe made it 10,7BB with K♣ K♠ and Dvoress called to hit the nuts on J♦ K♦ T♥ where Kempe led 7,5BB and snapped Dvoress' 58BB jam and couldn't improve on 6♣ and 2♥ .

2nd in chips is young Malaysian poker phenom Sean Ooi with 2,280,000 who continuously picked up small to mid-sized pots, growing his stack from start to finish.

Mao Renji from China, also a bracelet winner and runner-up of the Super High Roller last night, had a steady day as well, closing the gap to the chip leader last minute in a three-way pot, knocking out Rainer Kempe and winning a small side pot against Dvoress that left him with 1,880,000.

Poker Legends like Stephen Chidwick and Isaac Haxton - who are 3rd and 9th on the all time money list with live earnings of more than $50M each - are also still in the running, most likely getting company from some more all time greats during the last level of late registration tomorrow.

The Final Day will start at 13:00 on February 24 with 40 minutes of late registration and finishes when a new champion is crowned. Live updates will be there from beginning to the end!

Another raise to 40,000 from under the gun has Shi Xiao Chun take button Stephen Chidwick to the flop 7♠ 8♦ 7♦ . A 60,000 c-bet gets called for the turn 4♦ where a second barrel of 90,000 gets called again to make the board complete with the Q♦ . Two checks have Shi table the winner Q♥ 8♥ and Chidwick mucks.

After just losing a massive pot with top pair against kings, Chen Dong jams his remaining 325,000 from the highjack holding J♥ 9♥ and big blind Stephen Chidwick calls with 6♠ 6♣ . The dealer keeps Chidwick sweating until the end, hitting the felt 3♠ 7♥ A♥ 7♦ 2♠ and eliminating bracelet winner Chen Dong in the process.

The turn 2♥ gives Chidwick four more outs, hitting one of them on the river 3♠ to deal a huge blow to Nielsen.

Another under the gun raise to 24,000 gets called by Stephen Chidwick in the cutoff, Miao Chenxiang wagers his last 49,000 from the button and small blind Chris Park ups the fee to 75,000 with A♦ A♠ . Only Chidwick fills up to see the flop 9♦ A♣ 3♣ where Park continues for 26,000, gets called and the turn falls 4♥ . Another 20,000 barrel gets called again before the board completes K♦ . Park sets a trap by switching to a check, Chidwick puts him all-in for 133,000, thinking his A♥ Q♥ is good, but has to surrender the pot to the top set. Miao's 2♠ 2♣ didn't survive either.

Under the gun Zhao Hongjun opens 22,000, hijack Stephen Chidwick ups it to 65,000, with Zhao four-betting to 172,000 before Chidwick's 513,000 jam ends the hand.

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♦ .