Main Event

Xu Chen raised into the big blind of table short stack Yun Hye Kim and she reluctantly folded, showing an ace.

Shortly after, Chen took on new table chip leader Dongwook Lee. He bet the A♥ T♣ 8♦ flop for 8,000 and Lee raised to 22,000. The three-bet to 56,000 by Chen followed and Lee used one time bank before folding.

In a four-bet pot preflop, Xu Chen made it 104,000 to go. Hyukjin Kwon then moved all-in for 292,000 total and that sent Chen deep into the tank. He used some of his time bank extensions before letting go, forfeiting one third of his stack in the process.

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.