Super High Roller

Hijack Ouyang Jiali opened to 250,000 and was met with an all-in for 1,100,000 behind from Li Boyao. Ouyang makes the call with A♠ Q♠ and is ahead of Li’s K♥ J♠ . Running a race, the board 3♣ 3♥ 3♦ 6♣ T♣ paired neither player, leaving Ouyang’s ace-high good for the taking.

Utg+1 Li Boyao open shoved 915,000 in with A♦ K♥ and was called by Phil Ivey with 9♥ 9♣ . In for a flip, the board 6♠ 3♣ A♣ 8♥ J♠ quickly ran in favor of Li, earning him a full double up to 33 BB.

Having defended his big blind against and Li Boyao’s early open, Stephen O’Dwyer headed to flop 9♣ J♥ 6♥ . Both players check it through, revealing turn 7♠ . O’Dwyer led out a 90,000 bet, called by the raiser. River came 3♥ , pushing O’Dwyer to fire another 245,000. Li tank calls and mucks after O’Dwyer reveals 7♥ 4♥ for a flush.

Espen Jorstad bubbled the final table after running into Leon Sturm’s A♠ A♥ with K♠ Q♠ on a queen high board. The final nine is set with Ouyang Jiali in the lead with 3.4 Million in chips.

Chip Count Update

Average stack: 1,611,111 Total chips in play: 14,500,000

11 players remain in contention for the KRW 405,260,000 SHR top prize!

Chip Count Update

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Average stack: 1,450,000 Total chips in play: 14,500,000

Following over seven hours of play, China’s Yu Lei capped the day with the lead, having bagged 1,247,000 (83BB) in chips to top the field. Yu cruised through the games after nearly doubling his stack right before the day’s first break, and consistently chipped up to lock in the lead. Fellow countryman Li Boyao is right on his tail with 1,134,000 (76BB), having bagged a huge double up by the last hour. 15 players continue on through to tomorrow’s Day 2 with registration open until the end of Level 12.

Date: March 25-26, 2024 Buy-in: KR₩ 40,000,000 (~USD 29,750) Entries: 24

Chip Counts 

Utg Sturm Leon opened to 25,000, called by two other players behind. Action on big blind Li Boyao, he bumped it up to 90,000, called by Sturm and Phil Ivey on the button. Small blind Calvin Lee decided to squeeze for 400,000 total, pushing Li to go all-in for 476,000. Both players make the fold and the two run the board.

Li Q♦ Q♠ Lee 9♦ 9♣

A huge favorite, Li locked in the double up after no nines were spotted on 5♠ 3♠ K♦ 6♥ 4♥ .

Calvin Lee opened from mp, called by Li Boyao behind along with the big blind. On flop 6♦ Q♦ 5♣ , Lee continued for 22,000, raised to 58,000 by Li. BB folds and Lee completes to see turn 3♣ . Action was checked down to the river with Lee tabling 9♦ 9♣ for the win.

A raised pot, three players went on to see flop 3♠ T♠ 4♣ . Big blind Kobayashi Hirokszu led out for 18,000, called by button Phil Ivey and small blind Li Boyao. Turn 7♥ was checked to Ivey, who fired for 60,000. Kobayashi opts out and Li puts in the call. River 5♣ completed the board and saw Li put half his stack in the middle (118,000), Ivey with a final call. Li reveals T♣ 6♣ for a rivered straight and secures the pot.

With 40,000 in the middle on board T♦ K♦ T♥ 6♦ 2♥ , action was seen on Thomas Boivin who fired a pot size bet. Opponent Li Boyao made the call and revealed both players tabling trip tens - Li with a higher kicker T♣ Jx against Boivin’s T♠ 4♠ .

Thomas Boivin defended his big blind against button Li Boyao and saw flop 8♣ 8♥ Q♠ . Boivin led for 5,000, called by Li. On turn A♦ , Boivin threw a hefty 38,000, called once more by his opponent. On river J♦ however, Li eventually gave it up after Boivin sent out a final 101,000.