Red Dragon Championship (2,500,000 KRW)

The second of four entry flights for the Red Dragon Championship ended with 62 out of 278 total entries bagging their chips for Day 2 at the end of level 14.

Similar to yesterday's flight, we had a very eventful last two levels that saw the two top stacks emerge out of nowhere with some wild closing stage action.

Overall chip leader Kwok Wai Wong sat on a 137,500 stack just two levels before the end but accumulated the biggest stack so far with 674,000 (135 BB) aided by getting max value for a nut flush during hand for hand play.

Second in chips Kozo Yamada - he finished 3rd in last year's Red Dragon Championship for $135,307 here in Jeju - also had a late charge that took him from 277,000 to 614,000 (123 BB) in the last few minutes by playing extremely aggressive and winning a lot of hands uncontested.

Other notable qualifiers from this star studded flight include bracelet winners Weiran Pu - 440,000, Joseph Cheong - 375,000, Lei Yu - 339,000 and Yang Zhang - 230,000. Those four and the rest of today's 62 qualifiers will have to wait until 12:00 on Wednesday the 7th of May before they can make use of their chips again.

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

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📅 May 3 Draw:

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Under the gun Shaoji Shen opens 12,000 and takes three customers to the flop 3♣ 7♠ 6♦ where small blind Joseph Cheong opts for another donk-bet of 12,000. Only Shen calls to see the turn T♠ before Cheong's 25,000 second barrel gets the job done.

Hijack Xiaqing Ji lays out 8,000 and takes cutoff Joseph Cheong to the flop 7♣ Q♥ Q♦ where Cheong's 8,000 bet gets check-called before the turn 4♠ and river J♦ get checked down with Ji flipping over the winner 8♦ 8♠ .

Today's flight attracted 278 players, bringing the total close to 500 with two more flights to go tomorrow at 12:00 and 18:00 local.

Poker legend Joseph Cheong is close to the chip leader, Linghui Dai after delivering a double knockout just a few minutes ago and fellow bracelet winner Pu Weiran less than one big blind ahead of him.

Under the gun Joseph Cheong opens 4,500 and takes hijack Weiran Pu to the flop 9♥ 6♦ 5♥ that gets checked to the turn J♠ where Cheong's 11,000 delayed c-bet gets called. The river 7♥ is checked down with Weiran Pu tabling the winner K♣ Q♦ against Cheong's K♠ T♠ .