Single Day High Roller (5,000,000 KRW)

USA's Calvin Lee booked a fiery start at this season's Jeju Poker Festival with a smashing victory right on opening day. Lee bested a modest field of 16 entries at the Single Day High Roller games, and earned KRW 38,410,000 (~USD 27,440) in winnings following an eleven hour grind. In addition to his top prize, Lee takes with him the coveted WPT trophy, along with the first WPT Ring of the Season for his unremarkable performance.

Date/s: November 15, 2024

Buy-in: KRW 5,000,000 (~USD 3,570)

Entries: 16 (10 unique)

Prize pool: KRW 69,840,000 (~USD 49,900)

ITM: 3 places

Single Day High Roller Full Payouts

Calvin Lee raised all-in on the button and saw final opponent Kyungmin Lee call off for his last 280,000 (14 BB) with a pocket pair. Calvin Lee flopped a ton of outs on 9♦ 2♦ Q♥ A♦ 8♣ and delivered the bust just as the turn filled up his flush to leave Kyungmin Lee drawing dead.

Lei Yu open shoved his entire 380,000 on the button and was called by chip leader Calvin Lee. A favorite to win, Yu was left instantly crushed as an ace high flop A♦ K♦ 5♦ landed on the felt. No fourth diamond came on either turn Q♥ or river K♠ , sealing his run in 3rd place finish.

Down short right at the big blind, Zhiyuan Zhang went with A♦ 5♦ for his four big blind stack (65,000) and was called by button raiser Calvin Lee. Attempting to crawl in the money, Zhang missed the cut by one after his opponent landed top pair on Q♥ 2♦ 7♣ 6♠ 4♥ to knock him out.

Today's Single Day High Roller highlight is on bubble time with one more bust to go before the money trickles in.

Full Payouts:

Lei Yu defended his big blind against a 26,000 utg open from Calvin Lee. On board 3♥ K♥ 4♣ 8♦ 2♥ , Yu check called all three streets including a final all-in from Lee by the river. Lee reveals two pair K♦ 8♠ , sending Yu's disguised A♥ A♦ unfortunately, towards the muck.

Two spots to the money, Calvin Lee risked his tournament life (159,000) with A♥ Q♣ and was up against Zhiyuan Zhang's 9♠ 9♥ for a crucial flip. Zhang instantly landed the favor on flop 5♦ 9♣ J♣ , yet shot down as runout K♠ T♦ ran a runner runner straight for his opponent.

Bin Leng defended his big blind against Calvin Lee's 16,000 cutoff open, and check called for another 9,000 on flop K♥ 8♥ 4♥ . On turn 5♣ , Leng led for 20,000, followed by a final 28,000 on river 3♦ . Lee opts out and throws in the fold.

With 30,000 in the pot on board 9♣ 5♦ A♥ 6♦ 4♠ , action was seen on Calvin Lee with a final bet of 25,000. Chip leader Dawei Lu check called, yet mucked as Lee turned over A♦ T♣ for top pair.