TLPT AAPOKER (SHR) FINAL ($25,000)

Being involved in almost every hand since doubling up Ami Barer, Quan Zhou is at it again with a flat from the button against Dominik Nitsche's 24,000 open. The flop 6♦ 8♦ Q♠ gets checked to Zhou, he fires 21,000 and Nitsche calls. No more action until the river 9♦ and 8♠ he surrenders the pot with A♥ T♥ against A♦ K♦ flush from Nitsche whose trap didn't go off.

Still stacking the chips from the hand before, small blind Dominik Nitsche makes it 35,000 and Renji Mao defends to see the 5♠ Q♣ K♦ flop. Mao calls a 36,000 c-bet and the 8♣ turn gets checked to him. 60,000 go into the middle, Nitsche calls and the board completes 6♠ . Checking again, Dominik Nitsche is faced with another 225,000 bet from Mao, considers his options with the aid of two time banks before letting it go.

After some chips exchanged hands with not much changing on the leaderboard, Ami Barer leads 23,000 from the button with T♣ 9♦ and big blind Dominik Nitsche defends Q♠ 8♦ for the 8♥ J♥ 5♣ flop to drop. Both players check and the K♥ turn is revealed where Nitsche's 25,000 bet gets the job done and shows Q♠ 8♦ .

The Lord Poker Tournament $25,000 Super High Roller has currently 6 out of 14 entries remaining with the prize pool sitting at $350,000, but late registration will still be open until the start of Day 2 at 13:00 local, giving late entries twenty big blinds to work with.

Ivan Zhang - back to back high roller runner-up at the KPC Jeju last November - leads the field into Day 2 with 1,066,000 (133 BB). He started level 9 with 271,000 in chips and spun it up to over 1M in the last 90 minutes with his usual aggressive play, adding 21BBs last minute by pressuring two opponents out of a multi raised pot on the turn.

Quan Zhou - fresh from a $1,193,000 cash for 2nd place at the $25,000 Triton Super High Roller Event #3 here in Jeju just over two months ago - will start the day in second with 743,000 (93 BB). He already had a big stack when we started live coverage last night and chipped up some more in the last level.

Dominik Nitsche - four-time bracelet winner with over $20M in live earnings to his name - sits in third with 526,000 (66 BB) after a roller coaster finish yesterday.

SMP Live Updates will cover the action until a champion is crowned.