Cards are in the air in Jeju!
The WPT National Korea is held at Jeju Maison Glad for the second consecutive time and is featuring nine different events. The festival started on sunday with the Poker King Cup event.
Poker King Cup
The KRW550,000 buy in Poker King Cup event which concluded yesterday saw 118 entries, which generated a prize pool of KRW59,000,000 ($50,251). There were a number of recognisable names in the field, including of course, Poker King Club‘s own team of pros. Winfred Yu and Juicy Li came from Europe (EPT) to join the other Team PKC members Gaoxing, Jason Lo and Ian Brion to support the PKC namesake event.
Juicy LI (Photo PKC)
Final table
As the tournament neared its conclusion, and the final table loomed, many of the bigger names had fallen. Poker King Club will have been pleased to see that Sixiao Juicy Li, who is a member of their team of pros, outlasted most of the field to reach the final table. Neither she, nor any of the final tablists could stand in the way of Fan Fan from Tianjing though, as he put his opponents to the sword and walked away with the trophy, merchandise, Main Event ticket for the next event in June, and the all important KRW17,136,000 ($14,598) in prize money.
Heads-Up play (Photo PKC)
China’s Fan Fan
Poker King Cup Payout Table:
|
Place |
Name |
Prize |
Region |
|
1st |
Fan Fan |
₩ 17,136,000.00 |
China |
|
2nd |
Yin Liu |
₩ 10,819,000.00 |
China |
|
3rd |
Yeufeng Tang |
₩ 6,750,000.00 |
China |
|
4th |
Sixiao Li |
₩ 4,865,000.00 |
China |
|
5th |
Darren Phua |
₩ 3,755,000.00 |
Malaysia |
|
6th |
Wong Hoi |
₩ 2,968,000.00 |
HK |
|
7th |
Xue Gao |
₩ 2,372,000.00 |
China |
|
8th |
Chonghua Wen |
₩ 1,845,000.00 |
China |
|
9th |
Zhong Yang |
₩ 1,713,000.00 |
China |
|
10th |
Huafeng Gu |
₩ 954,000.00 |
China |
|
11th |
Xiangnan Meng |
₩ 954,000.00 |
China |
|
12th |
Chunguang Zhang |
₩ 954,000.00 |
China |
|
13th |
Jiexin Liu |
₩ 715,000.00 |
China |
|
14th |
Ian Brion |
₩ 715,000.00 |
Philippines |
|
15th |
Guofu Chen |
₩ 715,000.00 |
China |
About the Poker King Cup
The Poker King Cup was initially created as a side event with a first edition during the WPT National Philippines, but it has grown to be an important event on the Asian poker calendar. The next installment of this event will take place at the Solaire Resort & Casino on June 9th.
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Louis Hartwell
Graduated in Media Communication at the University of Lausanne, Louis Hartman is a co-founder of somuchpoker.com. He began his career in Cambodia as freelance journalist. In same time he was making his living by playing poker every night at that time. Intense learner, he read dozens of poker strategy books to improve his skills during many years. With a strong interest about poker "behind the scene" in Asia and his communication skills, Louis launched Somuchpoker in 2014.
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