Action-packed penultimate day of World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea with multiple games running and a few finding its champion. The festival has been ongoing since July 15 at the Jeju Shinhwa World Landing Casino and will conclude on July 24, 2023.
Among the newly minted were Steve O’Dwyer, Song Li, and Liu Yin who became the first player to win two festival events. Over at the final key event, Xiaosheng Zheng topped the survivors list with reg still open for one level in Day 2. Here are the results and highlights.
WPT Korea – Festival Results
WPT Korea – Livestream
WPT Korea Main Event – Live Updates
Steve O’Dwyer wins the WPT Alpha8 for One Drop
The WPT Alpha8 for One Drop was held behind closed doors and emerging from the dark as champion was Irish pro Steve O’Dwyer for a huge payout of KR₩ 1,294,256 (~USD 1,006,300). O’Dwyer was one of 18 runners who coughed up the KR₩ 170,000,000 (~USD 133,400) buy in. This raised KR₩ 144,000,0000 (~USD 111,960) for the One Drop Foundation whose mission it is to provide sustainable solutions to communities in need of clean water.
Buy in: KR₩ 170,000,000 (~USD 133,400)
Entries: 18
Prize pool: KR₩ 2,846,016,000 (~USD 2,212,850)
Charity fund: KR₩ 144,000,000 (~USD 111,960)
ITM: 4 places
| Place | Player | Flag | Payout in KR₩ |
| 1 | O’Dwyer Stephen | Ireland | 1,294,256,000 |
| 2 | Quan Zhou | China | 717,960,000 |
| 3 | Zhang Chenxu | China | 500,280,000 |
| 4 | Li Chao | China | 333,520,000 |
Song Li banks biggest bounty and top prize at the Mystery Bounty
Song Li came out the mightiest and luckiest at the Mystery Bounty by winning the event and collecting 7 bounties that included the largest worth KR₩ 10,000,000 (~USD . In total, he earned KR₩ 15,500,000 in bounties and the top prize of KR₩ 20,365,000 for a combined KR₩ 35,865,000 (~USD 27,900).
Leading up to Song’s win, 22 out of 173 returned for a shot at the mystery prizes and the Yuzhou Yin 
delivered a double knockout, Liu Yin 
(10th), Kataoka Toshio 
(11th) on a board 
. At three handed, Yuzhou plunged to crumbs on a cooler with 
dominated by Song’s 
. Heads up shortly followed with Song ahead 98 bb to 32 bb. Twenty-five hands in, Yunfeng Sun was grinded down to push with an open-ended draw 
, Song also on the same draw 
. The turn 
and river 
wrapped it up with King-high victorious.
Date: July 22 to 23, 2023
Buy in: KR₩ 850,000 (~USD 660)
Entries: 173
Prize pool: KR₩ 85,125,000 (~USD
Bounty pool: KR₩ 43,250,000 (~USD
ITM: 22 places
| Place | Player | Flag | Payout in KR₩ |
| 1 | Song Li | China | 20,365,000 |
| 2 | Yunfeng Sun | China | 13,530,000 |
| 3 | Yuzhou Yin | China | 9,830,000 |
| 4 | Tamalayan Karen | USA | 7,230,000 |
| 5 | Lei Xiang | China | 5,400,000 |
| 6 | Shih King Lun | China | 4,090,000 |
| 7 | Lin Hao | China | 3,140,000 |
| 8 | Ding Yu Jia | China | 2,440,000 |
| 9 | Zhang Lei | China | 1,930,000 |
Second trophy for Liu Yin at the Super Stack NLH Turbo
Several players have been running hot all series. One of them was China’s Liu Yin who scored his second title after winning the Super Stack Turbo. Liu was the only player to achieve this feat. He outlasted 43 others to earn the KR₩ 9,281,000 (~USD 7,215) top prize. Liu initially won the Survivor Bounty NLH for a larger KR₩ 14,984,000 (~USD 11,650).
Buy in: KR₩ 680,000 (~USD 530)
Entries: 44
Prize pool: KR₩ 26,121,000 (~USD 20,310)
ITM: 6 places
| Place | Player | Flag | Payout in KR₩ |
| 1 | Liu Yin | China | 9,281,000 |
| 2 | Chen David S F | USA | 6,190,000 |
| 3 | Kawata Yuji | Japan | 4,130,000 |
| 4 | Shimizu Masafumi | Japan | 2,870,000 |
| 5 | Wang Xiaohui | China | 2,080,000 |
| 6 | Xu Wenbin | China | 1,570,000 |
Event 14: WPT High Roller Day 1
| Player | Flag | Stack | BB |
| Xiaosheng Zheng | China | 619,000 | 155 |
| Pak Valeriy | Uzbekistan | 606,000 | 152 |
| Wang Michael | United States | 539,000 | 135 |
| Bi Ran | China | 462,000 | 116 |
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Merrilees Daniel David
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United Kingdom | 442,000 | 111 |
| Hong Paul | New Zealand | 426,000 | 107 |
| Sun Guo Dong | China | 310,000 | 78 |
| Odwyer Stephen | Ireland | 236,000 | 59 |
| Li Chao | China | 101,000 | 25 |
| Yan David | New Zealand | 95,000 | 24 |
| Zhendong Li | China | 87,000 | 22 |
| Ogura Takashi | Japan | 78,000 | 20 |
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Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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