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.

Kyungmin Lee this time, shoved his remaining 115,000, and was called by Lei Yu. In for a race, board 5♣ 4♥ T♥ Q♥ 5♠ missed to pair either, leaving Lee's ace high good for the take down.

Action folded to Lei Yu on the button, who shoved for 250,000, challenged by Kyungmin Lee. A huge underdog, Yu remained in contention, having spiked top pair on board Q♠ T♠ 5♦ 2♠ 3♦ .

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

Full Payouts:

Bin Leng stuffed his 166,000 stack in from utg and saw Kyungmin Lee push likewise. Dominated, Leng found no help on board J♠ 8♣ 6♥ J♣ T♠ , sealing his elimination two spots short of the money.

Kyungmin Lee went with A♠ K♠ for his last 91,000 and was up against Dawei Lu's Q♣ J♥ . Board 5♠ 6♣ 3♦ 9♦ 7♦ ran dry for both, earning Lee the pot with ace-high.

Utg limped, followed with a raise to 9,000 from Hui Chen on the hijack. Kyungmin Lee right behind fired a three bet to 21,500 and saw the latter make the call, peeling flop 4♦ 2♦ 8♠ .

Chen led 16,000, and gunned for another 32,000 on turn 4♣ after Lee made the call. Lee this time, demanded for the rest of Chen's chips, to which he risked with A♦ J♦ . Lee is ahead with A♠ Q♦ , but chopped the pot as river 2♠ completed the board.

Kyungmin Lee opened to 3,000 from the cutoff and saw Pete Chen come along a seat behind on flop 3♦ K♦ 6♣ . Both checked it through to turn Q♦ where Lee fired 4,500. Chen put in the chips and went on to send out a final 10,000 on river 8♦ , to which Lee was unable to call.

Actively in play Dawei Lu defended his big blind against a button open from Kyungmin Lee, and led 5,000 on flop J♣ 4♣ 2♦ . On turn 8♦ , Lu check called for a similar bet from Lee and arrived at showdown after river 9♥ was checked through. Lu shows 7♣ 5♠ , no good against Lee's A♣ K♠ .