Career-Best Win for Andrew Han in KPC Main Event as Khoa Anh Ngo Claims KPC Super High Roller
Day 5 saw Andrew Han win the KPC Main Event at Jeju Poker Festival 2026 for KRW 150,000,000 (~USD 111,770), and Khoa Anh Ngo took the KPC Super High Roller for KRW 109,598,000 (~USD 81,670) on a big Sunday at LES A Casino.
The Red Dragon Poker Tour's Baby Dragon also closed out its starting flights, with Day 2 starting at 12:00 today.
Han Wins KPC Main Event
Han beat Yifu He heads-up after close to two hours to win the 747-entry KPC Poker Main Event, the biggest score of his career.
He finished runner-up for KRW 102,500,000 (~USD 76,380), while overnight leader Fabian Gumz took 3rd after building a big lead three-handed.
Read the full final table report and Han's interview in our KPC Main Event winner feature.
Ngo Wins KPC Super High Roller
The KRW 7,000,000 KPC Super High Roller finished with 57 entries and a KRW 352,198,000 (~USD 262,440) prize pool, with nine places paid. Ngo, fourth in chips after Day 1, took the lead for the first time when his pocket kings held against Ziyu Gao's ace-eight on the flop.
KPC High Roller champion Qinxue Jiang fired three bullets without cashing, the last ending when Seunghyun Nam's ace-jack beat his pocket nines.
Alexandru Papazian eliminated Michel Molenaar and Jaemoon Seok, and Bowen Yi sent out Manh Cuong Bui. Gerardo Rodriguez, second after Day 1, was the bubble when his ace-jack lost to Jianfeng Sun's pocket kings.
Yi went out in 9th and Tony Ren Lin in 8th, when Gao turned a set of nines against his ace-four. Papazian sent out Sun in 7th, then fell in 6th when Jakob Karlsson's pocket kings held against both Papazian and Gao in the same hand.
Ngo did most of the damage from there. He eliminated Junjie Xu in 5th with a set of tens, Gao in 4th with king-jack against pocket fives, and Pratik Mehta in 3rd, turning a straight with ten-seven against pocket aces.
Ngo took 14,600,000 into heads-up against Karlsson's 2,500,000. Karlsson doubled once with pocket nines, but Ngo's pocket eights held against king-queen on the final hand. Karlsson collected KRW 69,800,000 (~USD 52,010) as runner-up.
KPC Super High Roller Results
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | KRW 109,598,000 (~USD 81,670) | ||
2 | Jakob Karlsson | KRW 69,800,000 (~USD 52,010) | |
3 | Pratik Mehta | KRW 46,850,000 (~USD 34,910) | |
4 | Ziyu Gao | KRW 33,200,000 (~USD 24,740) | |
5 | Junjie Xu | KRW 24,950,000 (~USD 18,590) | |
6 | KRW 19,900,000 (~USD 14,830) | ||
7 | KRW 17,000,000 (~USD 12,670) | ||
8 | KRW 15,550,000 (~USD 11,590) | ||
9 | Bowen Yi | KRW 15,350,000 (~USD 11,440) |
Baby Dragon Day 1C and Day 1D
Day 1C drew 200 entries, and 30 players bagged after Guguo Liu burst the bubble in 31st when his ace-king failed to beat Jishui Hao's pocket nines.
Hanyu Shao finished well clear with 714,000. Slaven Popov, Hugues Girard, Joseph Cheong and Jianting Cai are all through, while Dakota Anderson, Ranno Sootla and Shiina Okamoto were among those who fell.
The Day 1D Turbo flight drew 124 entries, taking the Baby Dragon to 564 entries and a KRW 730,944,000 (~USD 544,670) prize pool. Siyuan Lu led the 18 survivors with 454,000, ahead of two-time APPT Main Event winner Aaron Lim on 375,000.
Thi My Phuong Nguyen, Tony Ren Lin and Youfan Zhang also bagged, as did Ranno Sootla and Shiina Okamoto after both busted Day 1C. KPC Main Event finalists Fabian Gumz and Aleksandras Rusinovas both fell short.
Baby Dragon Top 10 Stacks
Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Suiyuan Chen | 795,000 | 1A | |
2 | Hanyu Shao | 714,000 | 1C | |
3 | Yilong Wang | 468,000 | 1A | |
4 | Siyuan Lu | 454,000 | 1D | |
5 | Bo Fong Chen | 433,000 | 1C | |
6 | 387,000 | 1C | ||
7 | Yuhan Liu | 381,000 | 1C | |
8 | 375,000 | 1D | ||
9 | Dajie Zhuo | 372,000 | 1C | |
10 | Junfeng Zou | 370,000 | 1A |
Side Event Winners
Enze Shi and Li Ta Hsu both picked up their second titles of the festival, Shi in the NL Hold'em Progressive Bounty and Hsu in the NL 2-7 Single Draw Hyper Turbo.
Jin Ling Yong, a final tablist in the Appreciation Event, won the 10 Game Championship, while Kaiwen Wei followed his Baby Dragon Day 1B bag by taking the NL Super Hold'em.
Ryan Park finished 3rd in the Progressive Bounty, and Qiang Xu won the High Roller Hyper Turbo after a heads-up deal with Shiqi Zhang.
Event | Buy-in | Entries | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#33 10 Game Championship | KRW 1,500,000 | 13 | Jin Ling Yong | KRW 10,108,000 (~USD 7,530) | |
#34 NL Hold'em Progressive Bounty | KRW 800,000 + 200,000 | 63 | Enze Shi | KRW 12,303,000 (~USD 9,170) | |
#35 NL Super Hold'em | KRW 800,000 | 24 | Kaiwen Wei | KRW 6,442,000 (~USD 4,800) | |
#36 PL Courchevel Hi-Lo | KRW 500,000 | 20 | Yin Liu | KRW 3,850,000 (~USD 2,870) | |
#37 NL Hold'em High Roller Hyper Turbo | KRW 2,000,000 | 21 | Qiang Xu | KRW 6,598,000 (~USD 4,920) | |
#38 NL 2-7 Single Draw Hyper Turbo | KRW 400,000 | 12 | Li Ta Hsu | KRW 2,347,000 (~USD 1,750) |
Schedule: Monday, 2 November
Start | Event | Buy-in |
|---|---|---|
12:00 | #25 Baby Dragon Day 2 | KRW 1,500,000 |
12:00 | #41 Red Dragon Classic Championship Day 1A | KRW 2,500,000 |
13:00 | #42 Dealer's Choice (18 Games) | KRW 1,000,000 |
14:00 | #43 KPC Jeju Cup | KRW 1,000,000 |
15:00 | #44 Dragon's Gate High Roller Day 1 | KRW 5,000,000 |
17:00 | #45 NL Hold'em Bounty | KRW 800,000 + 200,000 |
18:30 | #46 NL 2-7 Single Draw Mix (2-7, A-5) | KRW 600,000 |
19:00 | #41 Red Dragon Classic Championship Day 1B | KRW 2,500,000 |
20:00 | #47 NL Super Hold'em Hyper Turbo | KRW 700,000 |
21:00 | MS9 Milestone Satellite to Red Dragon Classic | KRW 400,000 |
21:30 | #48 5 Card PLO Bounty Hyper Turbo | KRW 300,000 + 100,000 |
22:00 | #49 NL Hold'em Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 400,000 |
23:59 | #50 5 Card PLO High Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 300,000 |
The Red Dragon Classic Championship gets underway with a KRW 1,200,000,000 (~USD 894,190) guarantee, while the Baby Dragon plays Day 2 and the KRW 5,000,000 Dragon's Gate High Roller begins at 15:00. Follow the full schedule on the Jeju Poker Festival 2026 page.
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Images and data courtesy of RDPT and KPC.
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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