Jong Hoon Lee, Sumin Lim Top Super Cup Poker Main Event Day 1A

The COEX Convention & Exhibition Center inside of the Starfield Coex Mall in Gangnam, Seoul was the place to be for poker enthusiasts from near and far as the Super Cup Seoul 2024 kicked into high gear. Three different tournaments commenced and that included the highly anticipated Super Cup Poker Main Event with it’s KR₩ 1 Billion (~US$ 715K) in prizes.

Super Cup Poker Main Event

It was the Super Cup Poker Main Event’s first of four starting days which unfolded and most of the participants were hailing from South Korea with some additions from Hong Kong, the United States and Japan. That ultimately led to 77 participants, all in the hopes of turning their 30,000 chips into a lot more than that to lock up a portion of the cash prize.

Main Event Day 1A

Only 12 players were set to advance to the money stages and a duo from South Korea topped the leaderboard when all was done and dusted. Jong Hoon Lee earned the title of Day 1a leader with a stack of 465,000 while Sumin Lim ended not far behind on 441,000.

Both chip leaders were pivotal in concluding the action in level 15 with Lee scoring two big knockouts. He first took a bunch out of French chess enthusiasts and poker cash game pro Yohan “YoYo” Trens, then cracked pocket queens with seven-six suited. Soon after, Lee flopped a set of nines against the top two pair of Yoonseok Choi and soared further up the leaderboard. However, the final elimination came from Lim in the utmost cruel fashion when he hit a two-outer with K♦K♥ versus A♠A♥.

The dozen survivors now have two days off from the Main Event action while another three starting days remain for everyone else. Some notables who came and left without anything to show for were Jaejoon Yang, YouTuber Soyoung Ham, well-known comedian Wonhyo Kim, as well as Isabelle Group ambassador Yejin Kim. More fortunate was the only female survivor on Day 1a, Yun Hye Kim, who survived the bubble on a nub and made it through with just 22,000 (four big blinds).

Read up on Day 1A via the SMP Live Updates.

Day 1b will get underway on November 14, 2024 at 11 a.m. local time on the second floor of the Convention Centre inside of “The Platz”, with all those joining the action will hope to follow into the footsteps of Lee and Lim.

The 2024 Super Cup Seoul is a new concept that combines four different mind games across seven days and the inaugural edition features more than KR₩ 2.7 Billion Won (~US$ 1.9 Million) in guaranteed prize money. This is shared between Chess, Janggi, Baduk and Poker with the latter having the lion’s share at their disposal.

*Thank you to Korean poker media Bluff & Catch for providing all the photos.

Links

Super Cup Poker – Player Guide
Super Cup Seoul – News
Super Cup Poker – Day 1 Highlights
Super Cup Poker – Main Event / Day 2 Highlights