Main Event

Geunseop Ban was able to add some chips on the outer table with the latest pick-up featuring a river bet worth 125,000 from under the gun against big stack Yoo Young Jin on the K♦ 7♦ 5♣ Q♠ 9♦ board. No call followed but Jin was very intrigued.

Hyukjin Kwon paid off a bet worth 125,000 by Jong Hoon Lee on the river of a T♣ 9♣ A♦ 3♥ A♣ board and mucked when Lee showed K♣ Q♣ for the ace-high flush. Kwon then tangled with Sungwon Seo and lost even more chips to drop to a severe short stack.

He got the last of it in with 9♣ 7♦ against Seo's A♦ 2♥ and turned a straight on the 8♥ 6♣ 4♣ T♠ 3♠ runout to stay alive.

Subin Lim was eliminated when her Q♥ J♥ could not beat the K♥ Q♠ of Sungwon Seo, as both players missed the board and king-high played.

Moments later, Minho Yoo jammed A♣ 5♣ into the A♦ Q♦ of Dongwook Lee. The J♦ 9♥ 4♠ Q♠ T♣ board left Yoo drawing dead on the turn.

The final two starting days of the inaugural Super Cup Seoul 2024 Main Event at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center have been completed and the overall field was boosted to 248 entries. This has generated a prize pool of KRW 248 Million (~USD 177,284), which is set to be shared among the top 38 finishers.

Day 1c turned out to be the largest by a small margin inside of "The Platz" with 79 entries and it also finished the quickest, concluding with around ten minutes left in level 14 after several rapid-fire eliminations during the late stages. Only 12 players advanced and Sungwon Seo topped the leaderboard with 337,000 in chips. He was responsible for two of the late casualties while second-placed Tsukasa Endo (295,000) burst the bubble after dashing out a bad beat with ace-four against the ace-queen of fellow countryman "EZ".

Jaeseok Sim finished just one big blind behind Endo on 290,000 and Longhao Shen also bagged up a big stack with 259,000 as well. Notables to make it through from Day 1c include Min Hyeong Lee (191,000), Jin Wook Lee (191,000), Won Beom Seo (176,000) and Tetsuya Fujiwara (121,000).

While the penultimate starting flight was not as kind to Xu Chen from China, he bagged up the biggest stack in the turbo heat 1d as one of four survivors. Chen's 332,000 put him in fifth place overall, Takeshi Odawara also sneaked into the top ten with 295,000 as well. Hyunwoo Bang (79,000) and Junhyeong Ha (74,000) were the other two to make it through, while Woongbin Kim lost a flip to Chen on the bubble.

It wouldn't be an end of day report without a victory for Nana Nakamura either. She opted to skip the Main Event and entered the Isabelle Ladies Event, which attracted a total of 33 entries. However, Nakamura bowed out before the final table only to then come out on top of 22 entries in Event #14 Win the Button (Hyper Turbo) for her third trophy and top prize of KRW 4.3 Million!

The 38 Day 1 survivors in the Main Event will return to their seats at 11 a.m. local time with the remainder of level 14 to be played at blinds of 2,000-4,000 with a big blind ante of 4,000. For the rest of Day 2, the levels will last 50 minutes each and the penultimate tournament day will conclude once the final nine players have been determined. The action will also be streamed with cards-up coverage on a 30-minute delay on the Super Cup YouTube channel as well.

Stay tuned right here on SoMuchPoker for the conclusion of this brand new live poker event in the heart of Seoul throughout the next two days.

Longhao Shen has been taking over control of table seven by gaining a lot of smaller pots, the latest of which came against Won Beom Seo. On the Q♥ J♣ 2♣ 9♠ 4♦ river, Seo checked and reluctantly folded when Shen bet 20,000.

Shen raised it up the next hand and Cheolwon Park forfeited his big blind and big blind ante off a severe short stack. Most big stacks can be found on table seven.

Sungwon Seo three-bet against the table chip leader Tsukasa Endo and then bet the T♠ 9♥ 7♠ flop for 20,000, Endo folded.

Shortly after that, EZ defended against Endo and check-called for 6,000 on the A♥ T♥ 6♣ flop. They checked the 4♣ turn and T♠ river for EZ to win the pot with A♦ 5♥ for aces and tens.

Left short after a double for Sungwon Seo, Yoonkyu Choi was all-in for the last 6,000. He earned calls from Shingo Ito and Qingjun Wu, who checked down the entire board of T♥ 7♠ 6♦ 8♣ Q♦ .

Choi tabled 9♦ 2♦ for a straight, which beat the K♥ Q♣ and K♠ Q♠ of his opponents.

Wonhyo Kim departed soon after the dinner break and Japan's "EZ" then took on Yoonkyu Choi, who check-called for 12,000 on the A♥ K♠ 4♦ 2♠ turn. On the T♣ river, Choi led for 17,000 and EZ folded.

One hand later, Sungwon Seo raised to 3,500 from under the gun and earned two calls. The flop came A♠ 4♦ 3♠ and Choi check-folded when Seo bet 10,000.

Sungwon Seo was the early chip leader and has lost some of his initial profit, but he still has nearly two times the average at his disposal. In a larger three-bet pot to the A♦ J♠ T♠ flop right now, it checked to him and Seo bet 10,500 to take down the pot uncontested.

On the tail end of a heads-up pot to the 8♣ 7♠ 7♦ Q♠ 3♣ river, Soobin Chun bet 11,000. He only had to get through one of the early chip leaders and Sungwon Seo indeed folded. For Chun, it is the second bullet for Day 1c after the first attempt was of rather torrid nature.

In a preflop duel, EZ from Japan and Youngsuk Kim got their chips in with the former at risk for 25,400. Their Q♦ Q♠ were up against Kim's A♠ A♣ and scored the sucker punch on the 5♦ 3♠ 2♣ K♥ Q♥ runout to leave Kim short and with a bad beat story to tell.

Chip leader at the table is Sungwon Seo with more than three times the starting stack.

In a heavily loaded pot of more than 26,000 to the 8♣ 7♦ 4♠ 6♥ turn, the only female player in the field thus far jammed all-in. Sungwon Seo in the next seat gave it some thought and called.

His Q♠ Q♦ was up against T♦ T♠ and the gutshot never came as the 7♥ river completed the board.