Baby Dragon (1,500,000 KRW)

Attracting 503 total entries across four opening flights the RDPT Jeju II 2025 Baby Dragon became the biggest of its kind on record with a colossal KR₩ 651,888,000 (~$478,509) prize pool.

A total of 75 players started the Final Day and China's Jinguo Tao emerged as the new winner, taking home a career high KR₩ 129,688,000 (~$95,195) his first trophy and the coveted Red Dragon Champion's Jacket.

He came to the final table as 4th in chips, played carefully when the ICM pressure was high, but unleashed his potential during the heads-up even in the eyes of adversity when he had runner-up Haozhao Wang on the ropes with a preflop all-in holding A♥ Q♠ against Wang's K♦ Q♥ but the board ran 7♥ K♠ 8♦ J♦ 8♥ , knocking him back down to a 2:1 underdog. He was in a commanding lead again about an hour later when he jammed Q♠ 7♠ and Wang called with K♦ 6♣ hitting a flush on T♠ 2♠ J♣ 3♠ 5♠ while standing and cheering.

The final table draw is complete and the players go on a short break before resuming the hunt for the KRW 129,688,000 (~$95,165) top prize, the trophy and one of the coveted Red Dragon Champion's Jackets.

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Haobo Zhu's cooler ends in the freezer on J♦ 4♣ 5♣ 4♠ 4♥ sending him to the payout desk and the rest of the field to the final table.

The A♠ in the window is bad news for Ni who watches his odds go to zero on T♣ 5♦ J♥ K♥ before he starts gathering his things.

Everything is looking peachy for Ni on 3♥ T♥ J♣ 5♠ before turning pear shaped on the 4♠ river, giving Tao one of three outs who yells 'let's gooooo' and starts slapping the table.

Picking the wrong time to bully Wang, Xu watches his chips change ownership when the 6♦ and T♠ make his loss official.

Button Tommy Maguire makes it 100,000 and both blinds defend to see the Q♣ 7♠ 2♠ flop where Maguire's 90,000 c-bet gets called by big blind Yuhan Liu only. Another 175,000 on the K♥ turn and 400,000 on the 4♥ river get check-called by Liu who receives the bad news when Maguire flips over the K♦ K♠ nuts. The two of them are the only players left in the field who already have a win under their belt in this series.

Hijack Jinguo Tao opens 100,000, but throws it in the muck after cutoff Cang Sheng Ni upped it to 225,000 to win his second preflop pot in just a few hands.

Hijack Cang Sheng Ni wants 100,000, but lets it go when faced with a 665,000 jam from cutoff Tommy Maguire.

No help for the defending RDPT Prestige Super High Roller champ on 2♦ Q♣ 9♣ K♣ J♥ handing Zhemin Xu another pot to extend his lead even further.

Being ahead already, Liu completes a boat on 9♦ and 9♣ , getting him back close to 1M in chips.

Tommy Maguire moves all-in for 565,000 from +1 and finds no takers, granting him the second preflop pot in just a few hands.

The dealer keeps it interesting until the end on A♠ K♠ 3♣ 8♣ A♥ and sends the former chip leader to the rail.

Ahead right now, Yi Ma's luck runs out when the dealer completes the board J♣ and K♥ , sending him home and Jing Xu to the top of the leaderboard.

Cutoff Haozhao Wang wants 60,000 and big blind Luyao Wu defends before check-calling 56,000, 120,000 and his last 250,000 on T♣ 6♣ 3♦ A♦ 6♥ , seeing that his 8♥ 8♦ is no good against A♣ 7♦ from Wang.

Things are looking great for Xu on A♥ 3♣ 7♥ before the T♥ turn gives the lead to Liu who watches the 6♥ river roll onto the field, sitting back down in his chair before realizing Xu made a flush.

After cracking aces and kings with his tens a while back, this time Cui only needs to hold. The dealer doesn't play ball, tabling 5♥ K♦ A♥ 4♣ 2♦ to hand the biggest pot of the tournament so far to Xu who slots into second place.

With 24 players left in the field the organizers had a redraw with the new positions as follows:

Getting to the table last minute with 8♦ Q♠ 5♣ K♣ A♦ on the board and 235,000 up for grabs, big blind Lingke Kong leads 150,000, Liangcai Chen raises to 400,000 from under the gun with A♠ J♠ , but gets called after Kong spent some time in the tank with A♣ Q♣ .

Hijack Xin Chen opens 50,000 and pays up after cutoff Haobo Zhu increased to 150,000. A 170,000 c-bet on 8♥ 6♥ 6♦ and a call is all she wrote before the 6♠ and 3♥ get checked down with Zhu's K♦ 8♦ coming out on top of A♣ T♠ for Chen.

The KRW 6,000,000 (~$4,388) buy-in two-day event has six early birds already sitting at the table with late registration open until the end of level 14 tomorrow.

A board of low cards 3♦ 8♣ 3♣ 4♣ 6♦ lets Jiang stay ahead for a much needed double up.

Catching the blind battle action late on 6♣ 5♦ Q♣ 7♠ 5♠ with 195,000 in the pot, big blind Yunchao Yu value-bets 175,000 with 5♣ 7♥ and Yiming Jiang opts for a call after contemplating for a while before throwing it in the muck.

Far behind already, Wei Zheng has to surrender the pot when the dealer flips over 2♠ and T♠ .

Both players improve immediately on the Q♠ A♠ 8♥ flop, but Luo stays ahead when the 3♠ and 5♠ complete the board.

Hoping for big cards, Chen watches the dealer flip over the opposite on 4♣ 4♦ 2♥ 7♠ 3♠ and has to wait for his second title this series.

No miracle for Zhu on 8♦ 2♣ 7♥ 3♣ 5♣ and Zhang jumps back up the rankings.

Catching the action last minute on 2♠ 3♠ J♠ 5♥ 8♥ and 290,000 in the middle we see button Jinguo Tao jam 220,000 with A♠ 8♠ and small blind Daiki Shingae snaps holding 6♥ 6♣ .

Just back from cleaning out the feature table, Liangqiang Pang opens 30,000 and big blind Daiki Shingae defends to see the K♥ 2♠ 7♣ flop where Pang's 20,000 c-bet gets called, the T♣ turn is checked to the 6♦ river and Shingae's 55,000 lead takes down the pot, winning a second time against the leader in just a few hands.

Cutoff Hao Tian makes it 30,000 and fills up after big blind Cang Sheng Ni countered with a 100,000 three-bet. The T♥ 3♠ 4♠ flop saw Tian put 55,000 into the middle, check-raised to 125,000 by Ni before Tian went all-in for 375,000 total. Ni lets it go after tanking for quite a while.

This time the jacks don't hold against two overs on 6♣ 8♠ K♥ 8♣ 7♠ and Yang Chen is back down to crumbs.

Another blind battle is already at the 9♣ 4♥ 5♣ T♥ turn with a whopping 447,000 up for grabs when we get to the action and see small blind Luyao Wu fork out 155,000 which is enough to make Chao Zhang tank-fold.