Florian Duta Takes Down Prestige Super High Roller as Jeju Poker Festival 2026 Comes to an End
Shuanghong Zhu won the Red Dragon Plus Championship on the final day of Jeju Poker Festival 2026, coming from eighth of nine at the start of the final table to take the KRW 352,850,000 (~USD 262,930) top prize at LES A Casino.
Liangqiang Pang won the "We Poker" Dragon Egg Mystery Bounty and collected KRW 119,000,000 in bounties along the way, while Florian Duta took down the USD 12,000 Red Dragon Prestige Super High Roller.
Zhu Wins Red Dragon Plus Championship
The Red Dragon Poker Tour's KRW 4,000,000 headline event drew 407 entries. Zhu, playing his first international event, beat Wenjie Sun heads-up, while Red Dragon Classic champion Yichen Wu fell in 5th after starting the final table as the big chip leader.
Read the full final table report and Zhu's interview in our Red Dragon Plus Championship winner feature.
Liangqiang Pang Wins Dragon Egg Mystery Bounty
The KRW 4,500,000 "We Poker" Dragon Egg Mystery Bounty drew 124 entries for a KRW 234,112,000 (~USD 174,450) prize pool, plus a KRW 398,000,000 (~USD 296,570) bounty pool.
The Big Draws
The biggest moment came early on Day 2, when Pei Jui "Jack" Kao pulled the KRW 150,000,000 (~USD 111,770) top bounty on his very first draw. Kao went out in 9th, but that one bounty was worth more than two and a half times the first-place prize.
Pang won the second-biggest bounty, KRW 75,000,000, for knocking out Zhi Ye in 4th with trip tens. He also drew the KRW 40,000,000 and KRW 4,000,000 bounties.
The Final Table
Pang was in the thick of the action all day. His ace-queen won a three-way all-in on the kicker to send out Xiao Yang Qian in 8th, and a rivered seven gave him the pot that ended Yuhan Liu's run in 7th.
Chengcai Pan went out in 6th in a four-way all-in, and Pang's pocket aces filled up against Xin Cheng in 5th. Manh Cuong Bui fell in 3rd when Takashi Ogura's pocket sixes held, while Pang folded a four that would have made trips.
Heads-Up
Ogura started heads-up with a slight lead, but Pang pulled clear to around four to one. Ogura doubled with queen-six, before Pang flopped a pair of tens with ten-four of diamonds against king-seven on the final hand.
Pang collected KRW 59,462,000 (~USD 44,310), taking his total haul to KRW 178,462,000 (~USD 132,980). Ogura added another strong result to his festival in 2nd, after finishing runner-up in the Super U Challenge.
Pang on His First Title
Pang, from Shenzhen, was playing his third Red Dragon festival. He used WePoker's steamed bun mascot as his card protector all tournament.
"'Baozi' sounds like 'Bao Ying', guaranteed to win! I'm honestly thrilled because this is my very first championship title. I came to play Red Dragon over the past couple of years without great results, but in this final event, I took first place."
He said his approach was to focus on survival rather than chasing bounties.
"The deeper you go, the more opportunities you'll naturally have to collect bounties. If you make a mistake chasing one and bust, you're left with nothing."
Dragon Egg Mystery Bounty Final Table Results
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Liangqiang Pang | KRW 59,462,000 (~USD 44,310) | |
2 | Takashi Ogura | KRW 38,800,000 (~USD 28,910) | |
3 | Manh Cuong Bui | KRW 26,250,000 (~USD 19,560) | |
4 | Zhi Ye | KRW 18,400,000 (~USD 13,710) | |
5 | Xin Cheng | KRW 13,400,000 (~USD 9,990) | |
6 | Chengcai Pan | KRW 10,150,000 (~USD 7,560) | |
7 | Yuhan Liu | KRW 8,000,000 (~USD 5,960) | |
8 | Xiao Yang Qian | KRW 6,600,000 (~USD 4,920) | |
9 | Pei Jui Kao | KRW 5,650,000 (~USD 4,210) |
Duta Wins Prestige Super High Roller
The USD 12,000 Red Dragon Prestige Super High Roller finished with 18 entries for a USD 200,038 prize pool, with three places paid.
Day 1 chip leader Seunghyun Nam went out in 5th when Duta's ace-eight caught an ace on the river against pocket fives. Sebastian Toro was the bubble for the second time in two days, his queen-jack falling to Ranno Sootla's pocket nines.
Duta's pocket tens then sent out Sootla in 3rd, setting up heads-up against Calvin Lee.
Heads-Up
Lee started heads-up with 5,300,000 to Duta's 4,700,000, and doubled three times to stay alive. On the final hand, Duta's ace-ten held against Lee's king-nine with just ace-high.
Duta, 3rd in the Prestige High Roller earlier in the festival, collected USD 94,238.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | USD 94,238 | ||
2 | USD 62,900 | ||
3 | USD 42,900 |
Side Event Winners
Jianyi Ni, 15th in the Red Dragon Plus, won the NL Hold'em Ultra Stack Turbo ahead of Matas Cimbolas. Weiwei Li took the Dragon's Ascent Finale, and Fufu Hu added a second title in the PLO Hyper Turbo after winning the PLO Championship.
Event | Buy-in | Entries | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KRW 1,500,000 | 7 | KRW 5,442,000 (~USD 4,060) | |||
KRW 1,000,000 | 14 | KRW 5,568,000 (~USD 4,150) | |||
KRW 400,000 | 11 | KRW 2,151,000 (~USD 1,600) |
RDPT Taiwan Coming in 2027
The Red Dragon Poker Tour heads to Taiwan next year, with RDPT Taiwan running from 27 February to 7 March 2027.
The headline Red Dragon Championship has a buy-in of TWD 38,000. Keep an eye on SomuchPoker for the full schedule as it's announced.
That's a Wrap
Jeju Poker Festival 2026 ran for 15 days, combining KPC and the Red Dragon Poker Tour. Andrew Hosok Han won the KPC Main Event, Yichen Wu the Red Dragon Classic and Shuanghong Zhu the Red Dragon Plus, with players from across Asia and beyond taking titles throughout the festival.
A full series recap with the festival's biggest highlights will follow soon.
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Images and data courtesy of Jeju Poker Festival.
About the Editor
Callum Jury is Somuchpoker's Live Content and Social Media Specialist, reporting live from WSOP and Asia Pacific poker festivals including the APT and PokerStars LIVE series. Originally from the Lake District in the UK, he has covered the Southeast Asian poker circuit since 2025, combining day-by-day tournament reporting with the social and digital content that brings the action to fans.
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