Baby Dragon (1,500,000 KRW)

The first of three flights for the Red Dragon Poker Tour 2025 Baby Dragon attracted a total of 117 players with 18 left standing that all have a min cash secured when Day 2 begins at 12:00 on Saturday the 3rd of May.

Hui Tang - his biggest live cash to date comes from finishing 2nd at the APT Jeju 2024 Sunday Superstack for $25,103 here at the Landing Casino about a year ago - came out on top, bagging 587,000, almost 17% of all chips in play. He first took the lead in level 15 and ended the day by knocking out Lei Li on the bubble, jamming A♥ 7♥ from the button and Li calling his 27BB stack with K♥ K♦ to get out flopped on A♣ 2♥ 5♣ 2♠ 8♣ .

Yiming Kuang finished the day in 2nd with 405,000. He came out of the gates storming with his name among the top spots on the leaderboard since level 5, even surpassing Hui Tang in the late stages before he got his last minute boost.

Zhongxian Li - another player banking his biggest cash here at the Landing Casino last year by finishing runner-up in the WPT Korea Dragon Quest for $35,629 - had a rocky start to his day, being down to 4BBs during level 11 before running it back up with several double ups and then knocking out Wenhao Ying with 7♠ 7♣ against K♦ K♣ by hitting a seven on the turn. He will start Day 2 with 357,000 in chips.

Tomorrow will have the remaining two flights available at 12:00 local with the same structure as today and at 18:00 as a turbo with 20 minute levels.

The SMP team will be back on site and behind the screens tomorrow to give you updates from start to finish.

Qingtian Qian opens 12,000 from +1, Yuyang Liu ups it to 30,000 from the button, but elects to fold, after Qian jams to put him all-in.

Chen Hao opens 12,000 from the hijack, the button calls, but Qingtian Qian has the last word with a 41,000 squeeze from the small blind to take down the pot uncontested.

With a 4,500 raise and a 15,000 three-bet in front, cutoff Li Ma moves all-in for 49,000 with J♦ J♥ , but cant find any customers.

The hijack kicks off the action with a raise to 1,800, button Qingtian Qian calls, big blind Haojie Zhu squeezes to 9,800 and Qian is the only one paying up to see the flop 5♣ A♠ J♣ where a 35,000 jam from Zhu ends the action.

No help for Qian on J♠ and 8♥ sends him back to the buy-in desk.

Opening action of the Baby Dragon has Qian Qingtian putting his chips to work. First hand, he joins a limper to see the flop with the big blind. They check it to the turn J♣ 6♣ J♦ 2♦ where Qian leads out 300, called only by Que Qingyang, then it's back to checking on the river T♦ . Qian shows 2♠ 4♠ that's out-kicked by Que's A♠ 2♣ .

Two hands after, Qian is on cutoff and raises 500, three players call for a flop A♦ T♣ A♠ . Qian continues for another 500, only Yang Xiaolu calls for a turn Q♥ that's checked by both. On the river 3♠ , Yang jumps out for 1500 and takes down the pot easy.

Now at utg, Qian raises again 500, Que challenges with a three-bet of 1800, Qian flats then folds to Que's follow bet of 1700 on the flop Q♥ 7♠ 7♣ .