MAIN EVENT (CS) - 8 HANDED

Flight A will end when the four ITM spots are determined that will bag their chips for Day 2 on Thursday the 15th.

After a preflop all-in between Chenyin Yu with 3♦ 3♥ and Ti Zhou with A♣ A♠ and the former at risk for 5,000 the board runs 6♠ 7♣ 8♥ Q♦ Q♥ and we have the final 75 ITM spots determined with everyone having at least $3,100 in the bank.

Hijack Qun Dang opens 5,400 and takes a family of four to the flop 2♥ 5♦ 7♠ where big blind Kaihua Liu donks 7,000, showing the 7♣ after everyone folded.

With heavy hitters like recent bracelet winner for $6M Yinan Zhou, Christian Harder, Vanessa Zhang, Hongjun Zhao and TLPT Pro Quan Zhou still in the mix, the freeroll inches closer to the $3,100 money bubble.

With the action folded to small blind Martin Sedlak, a limp is declared, Yuan Xu makes it 5,000 and Sedlak pays up to see the flop A♠ J♦ 9♥ . Xu continues for 4,000 and Sedlak fills up again. The turn Q♥ gets checked to the river 6♠ , Sedlak takes over the reins with an 11,000 lead holding 7♦ 8♦ , but Xu snaps with two pair 6♥ 9♦ .

No miracle for Heng on the river A♦ and we lose another player.

Six early birds were at the table when the clock started.

None of Wang's 11 outs show up when the board completes T♣ and 7♣ , granting Lin a double up.

Yang evades the three outer on T♦ 8♠ 3♦ 7♥ J♥ to send Wang packing and moves up in the rankings.

Qiao Heng leads 2,100 from +1 and big blind Kaihua Liu defends to see the flop K♣ 2♣ 5♠ where he check-calls a 2,000 c-bet. The turn 2♣ gets checked to the river 5♣ where Liu takes over the reins with a 4,200 bet holding 5♥ T♥ and Heng calls before throwing his hand in the muck.

With 101 out of 446 players left in the freeroll the final numbers were just announced. The top 75 are being paid and a whopping $100,000 going to the lucky winner.

After Flight A started over and hour late, we just got word that the beginning of Flight B is being pushed back to 19:00 in stead of 18:00.

Under the gun Yunpeng Jiang wants 1,600 and two player oblige to see the flop 4♣ J♦ 5♥ where Jiang continues for 2,600, button Qun Dang flats, but big blind Kai Cui picks up the pot with a check-raise to 9,500, showing 5♠ 3♦ .

The turn 3♥ gives Xiaoyue some outs for a chop, but none show up on the river T♦ , sending him to the rail and Qiheng Liu to the top of the leaderboard.

With a 1,600 raise from the hijack and a call in front, Selim Souissi squeezes to 3,500 and watches both opponents fill up to see the flop 7♦ 8♦ 9♦ . Checked to button Stephen Song - fresh from his biggest cash of $1,4M for shipping the EPT Barcelona Main Event in August - 3,000 wander over the line and only Souissi calls for the turn J♥ where the Tunisian check calls another 5,500 before the board completes J♠ . With a last ditch effort to steal the pot, Song jams 13,000, but Souissi puts his cape on for a hero call with 6♥ 6♣ , beating Song's A♠ 6♠ .

Currently in level 11, the TLPT Opening Freeroll has 140 out of a total 446 entries left trying to make some free money. Play will conclude today when the Final 9 are reached.

Weijue Cai three-bets Yunpeng Jiang's 1,300 open to 3,200 and goes in the tank when Jiang responds with an 8,300 four-bet. Cai finds the call after handing a time bank to the dealer, but has to let it go when faced with a 5,500 c-bet on the flop 7♥ 8♥ 8♦ .

The cutoff slides 1,200 over the line and both blinds defend to see the flop Q♣ 3♠ 7♥ that gets checked to the turn J♠ . Small blind Kai Cui leads 1,300 and only big blind Yunpeng Jiang takes the offer for the board to complete 4♣ . Cui bets another 3,200, Jiang calls, but throws it in the muck after Cui flipped over K♦ J♥ .

Cutoff Yu Liu raises 1,200, the button flats and small blind Jieming Xu squeezes to 4,000. Only Liu sticks around to the flop 2♥ A♠ 5♠ where Xu fires 8,000 and shows 9♠ 7♦ after Liu let it go.

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.