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:

🏅 Ultimate Grand Prize: Main Event Ticket ×1 (₩2,500,000)

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🥈 Exclusive VIP Hoodie ×2 (150)

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🎖 Power Bank ×4 ($37)

📅 May 7 Draw:

🏅 Ultimate Grand Prize: July Main Event Ticket ×1 (≥₩2,500,000)

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

🥈 Exclusive VIP Hoodie ×2 (150)

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🎖 Power Bank ×4 ($37)

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• T&Cs apply

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Short stack Chunhao Zhang opens 10,000 from the cutoff, but lets it go after Kozo Yamada jammed his monster stack from the small blind to win a 3rd consecutive pot.

Zhang evades the two outer on 7♠ and Q♣ , eliminates Lin and takes the top spot on the leaderboard with just the dinner break left to late register.

Chunhao Zhang opens 2,500 out of the hijack and small blind Jin Qian defends to see the flop J♠ 2♦ 9♥ . Zhang triple barrels 3,500, 7,400 and 18,400 all-in with Qian check-calling all the way to the turn 8♠ and river 5♣ holding top pair A♣ J♥ , but has to surrender the pot to Zhang's Q♦ Q♥ .

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 Xiangchen Gao starts off with a raise to 600, hijack Chunhao Zhang ups it to 2,000 before big blind Tao Li and initial raiser Gao fill up to see the flop 9♣ 4♠ T♦ . A 2,500 c-bet keeps both opponents around to see the turn 5♥ where Zhang's 6,000 second barrel takes him heads up with Li. A final barrel of 10,000 from Zhang with J♣ J♦ gets paid by Li who mucks.