Name: $20,000 NLH SuperStar Challenge
Start: 2025-02-23
End: 2025-02-24

Poker Dream 16 Jeju 2025

Korea (Republic of), Jeju Shinhwa WorldEVENT #37

2025.02.23 - 2025.02.24

Poker Dream

Stephen O'dwyer

United States of America

Blind level

Level 26: 300,000 / 600,000 ante: 600,000

Entries

1/81

Total Chips

40,500,000

Average

40,500,000

Final Day

SMPSMP

2/24/2025, 7:46:09 AM

Showers For Steve O'Dwyer

Level 16: 30,000 / 60,000 ante: 60,000

Stephen O'dwyer

Under the gun gets the action started with a raise to 120,000, Daniel Dvoress calls from the hijack and small blind Steve O'Dwyer jams his 1,160,000 stack. The initial raiser gets out of the way and Dvoress snaps for a heads up race between these two legends having more than $80M in combined live earnings.

Player	Hand	Chips
DD Daniel DvoressCanada	Q♣Q♥ HJ	3,500,000(58 BB)
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	9♦9♣ SB	busted

Board:5♣K♠J♥8♥2♦

SMPSMP

2/24/2025, 7:40:50 AM

Xu Qiang Wins Flip

Level 16: 30,000 / 60,000 ante: 60,000

Qiang Xu

Getting to the action with Xu Qiang and Steve O'Dwyer having all there chips in the middle, it is Xu Qiang who is at risk.

Player	Hand	Chips
QX Qiang XuChina	A♦8♠ D	2,450,000(41 BB)
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	6♥6♠ BB	1,160,000(19 BB)

Board:8♥T♥7♦2♦4♣

SMPSMP

2/24/2025, 7:23:06 AM

Tobias Schwecht Hits The Rail

Level 15: 25,000 / 50,000 ante: 50,000

Tobias Schwecht

Getting to the action with Steve O'Dwyer and Tobias Schwecht all-in pre, the latter being at risk for 520,000, the dealer takes center stage once more.

Player	Hand	Chips
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	A♦T♣ HJ	2,500,000(50 BB)
TS Tobias SchwechtGermany	K♥Q♣ SB	busted

Board:5♠A♣9♠T♥Q♥

SMPSMP

2/24/2025, 7:10:43 AM

Chip Counts And Table Draw With 24 Players Left

Level 15: 25,000 / 50,000 ante: 50,000

Player	Chips	Table	Seat
QX Qiang XuChina	1,065,000(21 BB)	1	1
PP Paulius PlausinaitisLithuania	945,000(19 BB)	1	2
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	1,660,000(33 BB)	1	3
ZH Zhao HongjunChina	3,175,000(64 BB)	1	4
TR Tony Ren LinUnited States of America	3,715,000(74 BB)	1	5
TS Tobias SchwechtGermany	640,000(13 BB)	1	6
SO Sean OoiMalaysia	1,365,000(27 BB)	1	7
DD Daniel DvoressCanada	1,820,000(36 BB)	1	8
KI Kosei IchinoseJapan	675,000(14 BB)	2	1
YL Yu LeiChina	2,150,000(43 BB)	2	2
MJ Michael JozoffUnited States of America	2,400,000(48 BB)	2	3
BD Biao DingChina	2,400,000(48 BB)	2	4
CP Christopher Park (2)United States of America	3,300,000(66 BB)	2	5
LX Luo XixiangChina	955,000(19 BB)	2	6
SC Stephen ChidwickUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1,310,000(26 BB)	2	7
MR Mao RenjiChina	2,300,000(46 BB)	2	8
YW Yeu Wei HsiangMalaysia	3,200,000(64 BB)	3	1
LW Lee Wai KiatMalaysia	825,000(17 BB)	3	2
DS Daniel SmiljkovicGermany	1,800,000(36 BB)	3	3
YJ Yan JingyaoChina	1,260,000(25 BB)	3	4
JW Jamil WakilCanada	1,300,000(26 BB)	3	5
CL Calvin LeeUnited States of America	1,500,000(30 BB)	3	6
SC Stanley ChoiHong Kong	420,000(8 BB)	3	7
JC Joseph CheongUnited States of America	250,000(5 BB)	3	8

SMPSMP

2/24/2025, 6:36:34 AM

Chip Counts Going Into Level 15

Level 14: 20,000 / 40,000 ante: 40,000

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.

Player	Chips	Table	Seat
PP Paulius PlausinaitisLithuania	1,450,000(36 BB)	1	1
CL Calvin LeeUnited States of America	1,710,000(43 BB)	1	1
DS Daniel SmiljkovicGermany	1,440,000(36 BB)	1	3
MR Mao RenjiChina	2,100,000(53 BB)	1	4
SC Stanley ChoiHong Kong	570,000(14 BB)	1	5
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	1,200,000(30 BB)	1	6
TR Tony Ren LinUnited States of America	2,700,000(68 BB)	1	7
CB Christopher BrewerUnited States of America	1,600,000(40 BB)	1	8
YJ Yan JingyaoChina	1,290,000(32 BB)	2	1
LW Lee Wai KiatMalaysia	450,000(11 BB)	2	2
KI Kosei IchinoseJapan	415,000(10 BB)	2	2
DD Daniel DvoressCanada	2,425,000(61 BB)	2	4
SO Sean OoiMalaysia	1,460,000(37 BB)	2	6
ZH Zhao HongjunChina	2,600,000(65 BB)	2	7
MZ Martin ZamaniUnited States of America	600,000(15 BB)	2	8
MJ Michael JozoffUnited States of America	1,560,000(39 BB)	3	1
JS Joseph Sanghyon CheongMalaysia	1,935,000(48 BB)	3	2
BD Biao DingChina	1,665,000(42 BB)	3	3
YL Yu LeiChina	1,810,000(45 BB)	3	4
QX Qiang XuChina	1,495,000(37 BB)	3	5
LC Lim Chin WeiMalaysia	350,000(9 BB)	3	6
TS Tobias SchwechtGermany	270,000(7 BB)	3	7
SC Stephen ChidwickUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	600,000(15 BB)	4	2
YW Yeu Wei HsiangMalaysia	2,930,000(73 BB)	4	3
CP Christopher Park (2)United States of America	2,800,000(70 BB)	4	4
JW Jamil WakilCanada	1,760,000(44 BB)	4	5
WY Wang Yang (4)China	30,000(1 BB)	4	7
LX Luo XixiangChina	1,100,000(28 BB)	4	8

Blind level

Level 11: 10,000 / 20,000 ante: 20,000

Entries

30/59

Day 1

SMPSMP

2/23/2025, 9:33:23 AM

Steve O'Dwyer Wins Blind Battle

Level 4: 2,000 / 4,000 ante: 4,000

Stephen O'dwyer

Oliver Bithell open-limps from the small blind, Steve O'Dwyer ups it to 17,000, Bithell pumps it further to 45,000 and O'Dwyer calls to see the flop K♦ 6♥ 7♣ . Bithell continues for 25,000, O'Dwyer pays up and the turn 4♠ gets checked to complete the board K♥ . After using a time bank, Bithell decides to fork out another 35,000 with 9♥ 7♥ , but Steve O'Dwyer calls with A♦ 7♦ to win with a better kicker.

Player	Chips
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	445,000(111 BB)
OB Oliver BithellUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	376,500(94 BB)

SMPSMP

2/23/2025, 8:24:27 AM

Tony Lin Triple Barrels

Level 2: 1,000 / 2,500 ante: 2,500

Tony Ren Lin

Tony Lin kicks off the action with a raise to 7,000 from the button with K♣ 7♦ and big blind Steve O'Dwyer defends to see the flop 9♥ 7♠ 7♣ . Lin fires three barrels of 16,000, 25,000 and 80,000, the board completes A♦ J♦ and O'Dwyer check calls all-of them, before looking at Lin's trips and mucks his hand.

Player	Chips
TR Tony Ren LinUnited States of America	596,000(238 BB)
SO Stephen O'dwyerUnited States of America	405,000(162 BB)