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

Picking up the action on a complete board J♦ 5♠ 3♥ 8♦ 7♠ and a whopping 915,000 in the middle we see Shi Xiao Chun jam bottom pair 2♦ 3♦ that sends Yu Wei Hsiang - 3rd in the $15,000 Superstar Challenge two days ago - in the tank. Yeu emerges with a call for his last 600,000 and scoops this massive pot with K♣ J♥ .

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.

Chen Dong gets us going with a 35,000 raise from the cutoff, Shi Xiao Chun pumps it to 90,000 from the button and Chen fills up to see the flop T♥ 9♦ 6♠ that gets checked to the turn K♦ . Shi leads with a delayed c-bet of 100,000 that gets check-called to the river 5♣ where Shi declares all-in for 270,000 with A♦ K♥ that sends Chen into the tank, who emerges with a call, losing a time bank and the pot with K♠ Q♠ .