Red Dragon Championship (2,500,000 KRW)

The first of four entry flights for the Red Dragon Championship ended with 49 out of 209 total entries bagging their chips for Day 2 at the end of level 14.

The leaderboard had a complete overhaul in the last level mostly due to the action table 17 with Qing Zhao, Luyao Wu, Qingbo Gao and Wei Hsiang Wang - who all occupied the top spot at some point during the closing stage - trading blows with multiple pots exceeding 500,000.

Qing Zhao ran it up the most with two double ups against Wei Hsiang Wang and Luyao Wu on the buzzer that got him from 133,000 to 632,000 within a few minutes, topping the leaderboard in the end. Qingbo Gao also dipped into Wang's stack for a double up last minute finishing the day in 2nd with 528,000.

Today's 49 qualifiers will have to wait until 12:00 on Wednesday the 7th of May before they can start caressing their chips again.

The next chance to qualify is Day 1B tomorrow at 12:00 with the same structure as today.

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The river K♠ gives Tan a straight, eliminating Xu on the cutoff buzzer for Day 1A.

Fresh from a double up with kings, cutoff Qing Zhao is at it again, opening 10,000 and filling up after small blind Luyao Wu increased the fee to 30,000. Zhao calls 25,000 on the flop 9♣ 5♠ T♠ taking us to the turn K♣ where Wu slows down to a check, but calls after Zhao separated 75,000 from his stack. The board completes 7♦ , Zhao jams 177,000 and Wu goes deep in the tank. He finds the hero call with A♥ 9♠ , but has to surrender this huge pot to Zhao's K♠ T♦ .

Wang can't improve on 2♣ and 7♥ making his downfall nearly complete.

Gao improves right away on Q♦ T♣ 3♥ T♠ 8♦ , granting him a massive double up against the former chip leader who just lost an equally big all-in against Luyao Wu.

Under the gun Jiaming Zhao leads 10,000 and takes hijack Ren Jun Yang to the flop T♣ 9♦ K♠ where Yang calls a 29,000 c-bet and does so again on the turn 9♠ for 58,000. The river K♣ has Zhao slow down to a check and folds after Yang forked out 78,000.

No miracles for Zhao on 9♠ 7♠ 4♦ K♦ 6♣ and Yang gets a much needed push two levels before today's cutoff.

Nobody hits on 2♠ T♣ 8♦ 7♠ J♥ , keeping everyone alive with Yixi Tang tripling up and Jiaqi He - fresh from his biggest cash of $39,334 for shipping the High Roller at the APT Manila last November - scooping the side pot.

Digging for two outs, Yang immediately strikes gold on the turn J♥ and seals Dai's fate on the river 5♥ .

Tian evades the chop on the river 7♥ and leaves Yang crippled.

With a 6,000 raise from +2 and a call in front, big blind Ruoyu Yang squeezes 25,500 and only takes hijack Yuchuan Yang to the flop T♠ 5♠ 4♣ . Ruoyu goes on a triple barrel bluff for 15,500, 42,000 and a final 95,500 jam with K♦ Q♥ to the turn 7♣ and river J♦ where Yuchuan goes in the tank, puts his cape on and goes for the hero call with A♦ 4♦ .

Picking up the action on the turn 3♠ Q♣ A♥ 6♥ and 53,500 up for grabs, Renjun Yang leads 35,000 in the small blind and Xiao Liu tanks for a while before he makes the call. The board completes 2♥ and Yang jams his big stack to send Liu back in the tank. Liu emerges with a call holding A♣ 7♣ , but has to pack up his things after Yang showed Q♦ 3♦ two-pair.

The turn 4♥ keeps Huang at nine outs before the river T♠ gets him there to crack Xie's rockets and climb the leaderboard some more.

Long Yang limps in +2 and calls after lojack Gezhun Kuang pumped it to 8,000. He check-calls Kuang's 9,000 c-bet on the flop 3♥ 3♣ 6♣ , but folds to another 12,000 from Kuang after the turn fell J♥ .

Cutoff Yong Huang leads 5,000 and Luyao Wu defends his big blind to see the flop 3♣ 7♠ 4♥ that gets checked to the turn 6♣ . Wu check-calls a 15,000 delayed c-bet and the board completes 3♦ . Another 10,000 bet from Huang ends the hand.

The player in +2 opens 4,500 and takes three customers to the flop J♥ Q♥ 2♦ that gets checked to the turn T♦ . The small blind leads 9,000, Yizheng Li ups it to 29,000 from the big blind and only lojack Hongjun Zhao pays up to see the river 9♠ where he calls Li's last 5,000 all-in with two-pair J♣ T♥ against Li's straight K♦ 9♥ .

The turn J♣ and river 7♣ keep Xie in the lead, banking a nice pot and eliminating Ran Zhao in the process.

No help for the big stack digging for two queens on T♣ 3♥ A♠ 4♦ 5♣ , granting Sun a sizable pot.

No help for her on 9♦ and 8♠ sends her to the rail for now.

Yuhang Chen - fresh of his biggest live cash for $83,881, finishing 2nd at the KPC High Roller here at the Landing Casino less than a month ago - leads 3,000 and takes cutoff Sergey Tsoy to the flop 7♦ 2♥ 4♣ that gets checked to the turn 4♦ . Chen's delayed c-bet of 3,000 gets raised to 10,000 and he fills up to see the board complete 6♣ . Chen checks, Tsoy wants 18,000 and snaps for a total of 23,300 after Chen put him all-in. Tsoy's T♥ T♣ over pair is not enough against Chen's K♠ K♥ .

Wei Xu opens 3,000 out of the cutoff and calls after Kai Zheng pumped it to 8,000 from the big blind. Xu calls a 6,000 c-bet on the flop 3♠ 4♠ T♦ to reveal the turn 8♠ where he slides out a 21,200 bet after his opponent checked. Zheng calls, the board completes 3♦ and Xu jams more than 100,000. Zheng goes deep in the tank, but finds the check-call for his last 66,000 with J♠ T♠ and is ahead of Xu's A♠ T♦ .

Under the gun Jianhui Zhang limps, hijack Xianglai Li raises to 5,000 and button Yiming Kuang flats before Zhang lays out the winning three-bet of 15,000 to scoop her 2nd pot in a row.

Hijack Ying Li lays out 3,500 and fills up after button Fangwei Zuo upped it to 8,400. Li's 12,000 donk-bet gets called on the flop 2♥ 5♥ 5♣ before she forks out another 21,000 on the turn K♦ that gets the job done.

Small blind Long Chen (1) opens 4,500 and Jindong Chen defends to see the flop A♠ 3♣ 7♣ where Jindong calls a 3,500 c-bet to reveal the turn 9♠ . Long slows down to a check and folds after Jindong forked out 7,000. He shows the A♦ and starts scooping his third consecutive pot.

Under the gun Zhenlong Fang raises to 2,500 and takes button Quan Jin to the flop 8♦ 6♣ 2♥ where his 3,000 c-bet gets countered by a raise to 11,000. Fang fills up to see the turn 9♥ where he check-calls another 22,000, before taking back the lead on the river 7♠ with a 30,000 bet holding a straight 9♦ T♦ . Jin calls and mucks.

He's sevens hold on 6♦ 6♣ 9♣ 5♦ 4♥ , adding some more chips to his already respectable stack.

After just winning a pot, Xianglai Li is at it again with another 2,500 raise from +1 and calls when faced with button Yiming Kuang's 8,000 three-bet. Li check-calls a 6,500 c-bet on the flop 5♥ J♣ Q♠ and the turn J♠ gets checked to the river K♣ where Li takes over the reins with a 22,000 lead to scoop the pot.

Junxiang Tan kicks off the action with a raise to 2,500 from +1, hijack Qingbo Gao makes it 7,500 and calls after Tan four-bet to 22,500. The flop 7♥ A♠ 9♥ has Tan check-call 12,000 before check-folding on the turn A♥ after Gao declared all-in for 60,000.

With a 3,000 raise and a call in front, big blind Yuchuan Yang ups it to 8,000, the initial raiser gets out of the way and button Shuqu Chen four-bets 24,000 before letting it go after Yang pumped it to 48,000.

Under the gun Ye Li opens 2,100 and fills up after cutoff Wei Xu three-bet to 5,600. The flop 9♠ 5♣ 8♣ gets checked to the turn 7♦ where a 5,000 lead from Li gets the job done.