MAIN EVENT (CS) - 8 HANDED

Hijack Qiheng Liu opens 1,200 and fills up after cutoff Changdong Ren upped it to 3,500. Ren's 2,500 c-bet gets called on the flop A♠ 8♠ 5♥ before he separates another 8,100 from his stack on the turn 5♣ . Qiheng Liu check-raises to 40,000 and shows A♦ K♦ after Ren threw it in the muck.

Jeju Regular Jieming Xu leads the way with a 1,100 raise from +1 and finds two callers before the flop 2♣ A♥ 5♠ hits the felt. Xu's 1,700 continuation gets called by both before big blind Yu Liu switches to a 2,100 lead on the turn 4♥ and scoops the pot.

An 800 raise and a flat in front has button Jieming Xu squeeze to 2,700 and both opponents fill up to see the flop 4♣ 6♥ J♣ . Checked around to the turn A♠ , Xu forks out a 3,500 delayed c-bet that gets the job done.

Jianghao Chu lays out 800 from the hijack and finds to takers to share the flop 8♦ Q♥ 7♣ with. His 1,200 c-bet gets called by both before the turn T♦ gets rejected for a free river 9♠ . Big blind Kaihua Liu takes over the reins with a 1,100 lead, Chu folds and Yunlong Jin picks up the pot after raising to 3,200.

Under the gun Song Yang raises 800 and takes three interested parties to the flop K♥ A♥ 3♣ where his medium sized 1,800 c-bet ends the hand.

Hijack Boxin Jin opens 500 and both blinds defend to see the flop J♥ J♦ 3♦ that gets rejected for a free turn Q♥ . Small blind Kai Cui leads 1,600 and goes to the river 2♥ heads-up with Jin. Cui fires another 3,500, Jin pumps it to 11,500 with A♥ 9♥ flush which sends Cui in the tank. After the aid of two time banks, Cui finds the call, but throws it in the muck.

The player in the cutoff takes three players to the flop A♠ 8♠ 7♦ for 500, the action gets checked to Qun Dang on the button who makes it 1,800, but small blind Qun Liang's 5,000 raise is enough to get rid of any opposition.

Right after busting Hao Li, Song Yang defends his big blind against a 600 open from under the gun Qun Dang to see the flop 6♦ A♦ 2♣ . Yang donks 1,200 and pays Dang's 3,600 raise to see the turn fall 3♥ . Yang check-calls another 7,000 and the board completes 5♠ . Checked to him again, Dang jams 18,100 with a straight 4♠ 4♦ and Yang snaps with 6♥ 3♦ before surrendering the pot, handing over his lead to Qun Dang in the process.

Hitting a straight on the river when the board completes 7♥ 9♣ , Zhou triples up.

Under the gun Qun Liang opens 400, Song Yang flats the cutoff and big blind Yunlong Jin squeezes 900. Both opponents call to the flop T♣ 7♥ J♥ where Jin's 1,200 gets called by only Song Yang. The turn A♣ has Jin scoop the pot after laying out another 3,500.

The J♣ river keeps Liu ahead and jumps into the overall lead.

With a 300 open in front, Jingwen Zhou re-raises her button to 1,000 and Changdong Ren fills up before folding to a 3,000 continuation on the flop K♠ T♦ 3♥ .

After gathering some more chips, Xiutong Li opens 300 from under the gun and small blind Jingwen Zhou defends to the flop Q♦ 2♠ 3♠ where he check-calls a 300 c-bet. The turn T♠ gets checked for a free river A♦ before Zhou's 1,000 bet ends the hand.

Under the gun Qiheng Liu gets us going with a 300 raise and takes button Xiutong Li to the flop 5♣ 9♠ T♣ where Li starts a triple barrel sequence of 500, 700 and 1,500, all check-called by Liu to the river 9♦ and 7♥ . Li flips over the winner A♣ 9♣ against Liu's Q♣ T♠ to scoop the first pot of the day.

After six players were finally able to take their seat, they talked to the organizer to reset the blinds to level 1 and officially start playing.

We have three players on the Flight A tables so far, waiting for more to start dealing, but the clock is running.

Flop well everyone!

With the registration lines for the $600,000 TLPT Opening Freeroll still stretching throughout the casino, the organizers just announces that the start of Flight A will be moved to 3pm.

The line for the Freeroll registration was probably 100 players deep since before the official start at 11am this morning. The lucky 224 remaining out of 270 players that already got a seat are currently on break.

With tournaments in Australia and China under their belt, The Lord Poker Tournament commences their standalone journey with the inaugural TLPT 2025 Jeju from May 13 to May 22, offering a mix of affordable buy-in tournaments - Circuit Series - ranging from a massive $600,000 guaranteed FREEROLL at 11:00 on the 13th to kick things off, up to a $2,000 CS Main Event Flight D at 18:00 on the 14th.

The second part of the series are High Roller events starting at $5,000 up to the nose bleed buy-ins of the $25,000 NLH Super High Roller and the $50,000 Short Deck Super High Roller that will close out the series from the 20th to the 22nd of May for a total of $8,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools.

Today's focus will be the first two of four opening flights to the $700,000 guaranteed CS Main Event 8-Handed starting with Flight A at 14:00 that has the most affordable buy-in of $500, 25,000 starting stacks worth 250 times the opening blinds, 20 minute intervals and late registration open until the end of level 9. The game will run until 5% of the field reach the money.

Tonight at 18:00 we have Flight B on the menu for a $1,000 buy-in, 25,000 starting stacks worth 250 times the opening blinds, a more relaxed 30 minute intervals and late registration open until the end of level 9.

We will sprinkle in some updates about the TLPT Opening with no entry fee and a $600,000 guaranteed prize pool - making it one of the biggest poker freerolls to ever take place - a few times while players try to reach the Final 9 tomorrow at 13:00.

Flight C and D are happening tomorrow on the 14th with the $750 buy-in Flight C at 14:00 and the final $2,000 buy-in Flight D - offering the longest intervals of the event with 40 minutes compared to Flight C's 20 minutes.

You can follow the action right here starting at 14:00 up until the end via the SMP Live Updates.