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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🎁 Prize Breakdown

📅 May 3 Draw:

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🎖 Power Bank ×4 ($37)

📅 May 7 Draw:

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🥇 Satellite to Closing Event ×2 (₩250,000)

🥈 Exclusive VIP Hoodie ×2 (150)

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🎖 Power Bank ×4 ($37)

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Hijack Yifan Cao opens 11,000 and calls after small blind Yezhou Liang made it 33,000. Liang check-calls 37,000 on the flop 3♠ A♥ Q♠ to reveal the turn K♦ where he check-jams for 143,000. With his 54,000 bet already in the middle, Cao goes deep in the tank, but eventually decides to let it go.

Lights out for Teng on 7♠ 4♥ Q♥ 8♥ T♣ and the man who made six final tables in one week at the Poker Dream 16 here at the Landing Casino in February is out.

The river 8♥ gives Liang a boat and leaves Xu with ace-high.

Hijack Xiangchen Gao's 800 open takes three players to the flop 4♦ 7♣ 3♠ that gets checked to cutoff Chunhao Zhang who makes it 2,000 and only big blind Yezhou Liang and initial raiser Gao pay up to see the turn 4♠ that gets rejected to complete the board 7♥. Liang takes over the reins with a 7,000 lead and finds no takers.

Under the gun makes it 600 and takes two players to the flop 3♣ 8♠ 4♠ that gets checked to the turn 6♥ . Button Yezhou Liang tests the waters with a 700 bet, Lei Li ups it to 2,500 in the big blind and only Liang pays up the see the river K♣ where Li's 5,000 lead goes unanswered.

Man Hin Siu raises to 600 from the cutoff and small blind Yezhou Liang defends to see the flop 5♠ 7♦ A♣ where he check-calls a 600 continuation. The turn J♥ gets checked to the river 4♥ where Siu goes for a small value bet of 700 with A♦ 6♦ and Liang fills up before throwing it in the muck.