
Day 2
Day 2 Of The Lord Poker Tournament SHR Main Event Concludes With Marius Gierse In A Commanding Lead

The Lord Poker Tournament SHR Main Event with a prize pool of a whopping $3,000,000 has attracted a total of 191 players that all ponied up the $15,000 buy-in and now has 15 hopefuls left standing that will compete for the $750,000 top prize, the trophy and bragging rights for making history as the inaugural champion.
All of the remaining players had to go through a star studded field with bracelet winners Daniel "Jungleman" Cates, Dominik Nitsche, Yinan Zhou, Mao Renji, Lei Yu, Calvin Lee, Ami Barer, Dong Chen and a flurry of high stakes players from all around the globe.
Topping the leaderboard with a huge gap to the rest of the field is German Marius Gierse who is famous for his online accomplishments, but racked up several million dollars in live earnings over the past decade as well. He was one of the people that took a starting stack from Ivan Zhang when he tried to spin up a stack during the closing levels of late registration that got him to a 62BB stack at the end of level 14. From then on he consistently chipped up, becoming chip leader of his table and then took the overall lead during level 20 and never looked back. Busting Raffaele Sorrentino in 17th on the buzzer to put a 20BB cherry on top of his 7,545,000 (94BB) stack.
Second in chips is Martin Sedlak - another German who has several final tables to his name in 2025 already - who came back from the brink in level 20 and finished the day with the elimination of Calvin Lee for 20BB and shortly after Yunkyu Song in 16th for another 7BB that concluded Day 2. He will unbag 4,755,000 (59BB) tomorrow.
AAPoker Ambassadors Ivan Zhang - 3,550,000 (44BB) and Quan Zhou - 2,140,000 (27BB) are also still in the stacked Top 15.
Day 3 will start at 13:00 local on Sunday the 18th with 16 minutes left in level 22 and finish when a champion is determined.
The SMP Live Updates will cover the action from start to finish.
Chip Count
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MG Marius Gierse | 7,545,000(94 BB) |
MM Martin Michael Sedlak | 4,755,000(59 BB) |
JZ Jiaming Zhao | 4,685,000(59 BB) |
HW Hua Wei Lin | 4,265,000(53 BB) |
JM James Mendoza | 4,085,000(51 BB) |
IZ Ivan Zhang | 3,550,000(44 BB) |
MN Martin Nielsen | 3,505,000(44 BB) |
SS Stephen Song | 3,330,000(42 BB) |
PD Patrik Demus | 2,250,000(28 BB) |
QZ Quan Zhou | 2,140,000(27 BB) |
MS Mauricio Sanches | 1,920,000(24 BB) |
BL Bin Leng | 1,915,000(24 BB) |
GT Gary Thompson | 1,460,000(18 BB) |
JQ Junbo Qu | 1,370,000(17 BB) |
HL Haitao Lei | 985,000(12 BB) |
Table 3 With No Short Stacks And Istvan Birizdo In The Lead
Player | Chips | Table | Seat |
---|---|---|---|
BL Bin Leng | 2,500,000(42 BB) | 3 | 1 |
HL Haitao Lei | 1,600,000(27 BB) | 3 | 2 |
CS Calvin Sungwon Lee | 2,130,000(36 BB) | 3 | 3 |
HW Hua Wei Lin | 2,300,000(38 BB) | 3 | 4 |
SS Stephen Song | 1,670,000(28 BB) | 3 | 5 |
BI Birizdó István | 3,000,000(50 BB) | 3 | 6 |
IZ Ivan Zhang | 1,700,000(28 BB) | 3 | 7 |
PW Pan Wang | 1,500,000(25 BB) | 3 | 8 |
Pan Wang Wins Flip For Much Needed Double Up

Under the gun Haitao Lei wants 100,000, but adds some more after small blind Pan Wang declared all-in for 405,000.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
HL Haitao Lei | T♦T♣ UTG | 1,300,000(26 BB) |
PW Pan Wang | A♦K♣ SB | 910,000(18 BB) |
Table 3 Update With Some Big Stacks Trying To Find An Edge
Player | Chips | Table | Seat |
---|---|---|---|
BL Bin Leng | 2,830,000(71 BB) | 3 | 1 |
HL Haitao Lei | 1,600,000(40 BB) | 3 | 2 |
CS Calvin Sungwon Lee | 2,340,000(59 BB) | 3 | 3 |
HH Haojie Huang | 555,000(14 BB) | 3 | 4 |
SS Stephen Song | 2,500,000(63 BB) | 3 | 5 |
BI Birizdó István | 2,250,000(56 BB) | 3 | 6 |
PW Pan Wang | 580,000(15 BB) | 3 | 8 |
Leaderboard Going Into Level 19
Player | Chips |
---|---|
JM James Mendoza | 3,900,000(130 BB) |
BL Bin Leng | 3,200,000(107 BB) |
PD Patrik Demus | 2,700,000(90 BB) |
BJ Boxin Jin | 2,280,000(76 BB) |
MG Marius Gierse | 2,260,000(75 BB) |
JZ Jiaming Zhao | 2,200,000(73 BB) |
CS Calvin Sungwon Lee | 2,200,000(73 BB) |
SS Stephen Song | 2,140,000(71 BB) |
HL Haitao Lei | 2,050,000(68 BB) |
JQ Junbo Qu | 1,820,000(61 BB) |
BI Birizdó István | 1,770,000(59 BB) |
NQ Nguyen Quang Minh | 1,700,000(57 BB) |
IZ Ivan Zhang | 1,700,000(57 BB) |
QZ Quan Zhou | 1,430,000(48 BB) |
YS Yunkyu Song | 1,405,000(47 BB) |
MN Martin Nielsen | 1,400,000(47 BB) |
MS Mauricio Sanches | 1,300,000(43 BB) |
1,130,000(38 BB) | |
MM Martin Michael Sedlak | 895,000(30 BB) |
830,000(28 BB) | |
YZ Yinan Zhou | 445,000(15 BB) |
Chip Counts Going Into Level 17
With 49 out of 191 total entries remaining that all want to get to the 29 money places we see Gary Thompson closing in on chip leader Bin Leng in the hunt for the top prize of $750,000.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
BL Bin Leng | 3,615,000(181 BB) |
GT Gary Thompson | 3,050,000(153 BB) |
QZ Quan Zhou | 2,260,000(113 BB) |
NQ Nguyen Quang Minh | 1,950,000(98 BB) |
HL Haitao Lei | 1,900,000(95 BB) |
BJ Boxin Jin | 1,670,000(84 BB) |
MG Marius Gierse | 1,550,000(78 BB) |
YS Yunkyu Song | 1,500,000(75 BB) |
LY Lei Yu | 1,465,000(73 BB) |
KL Kaihua Liu | 1,430,000(72 BB) |
BI Birizdó István | 1,415,000(71 BB) |
YW Yuzhu Wang | 1,350,000(68 BB) |
JM James Mendoza | 1,240,000(62 BB) |
PD Patrik Demus | 1,125,000(56 BB) |
JQ | 1,035,000(52 BB) |
IZ Ivan Zhang | 1,025,000(51 BB) |
XG Xiangqian Gong | 1,000,000(50 BB) |
ZL Zhengpeng Liu | 920,000(46 BB) |
MS Mauricio Sanches | 910,000(46 BB) |
Haitao Lei Doubles Up With Quads

Cutoff Haitao Lei leads 40,000 and fills up after button Supeng Pang pumped it to 125,000. The flop K♥ Q♠ K♣ gets checked to the 3♠ turn where Lei's 200,000 bet gets called and the board completes K♠ . Lei declares all-in for 600,000 with A♠ K♦ and huge credit to Pang for using three time banks to consider folding, but he ends up calling with his A♣ Q♥ full house.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
HL Haitao Lei | 1,900,000(95 BB) |
SP Supeng Pang | 325,000(16 BB) |
Table 5 Update With Chip Leader Supeng Pang
Player | Chips | Table | Seat |
---|---|---|---|
JW Jinlong Wu | 280,000(19 BB) | 5 | 1 |
YW Yang Wang | 975,000(65 BB) | 5 | 2 |
HL Haitao Lei | 195,000(13 BB) | 5 | 3 |
SP Supeng Pang | 1,945,000(130 BB) | 5 | 4 |
HW Haobin Wang | 245,000(16 BB) | 5 | 5 |
JM James Mendoza | 1,260,000(84 BB) | 5 | 7 |
GL Genhan Li | 110,000(7 BB) | 5 | 8 |