HomeThe prize pool is now up on the screens. We had a total of 192 entries for the Main Event which was higher than last year’s turnout. That brought the prize pool to ₩186,240,000. 32 players stand to earn a piece with the eventual champion pocketing a cool ₩40,463,000.
Prize pool
It is difficult to say if we will hit the money today. Whether we do or not, they will play a total of 8 rounds.
Sitting next to each other at table 2 are Saiko Sho (L) and Mao Shiota (R). Both players went at it twice preflop with Shiota winning both bouts.
Saiko Sho and Mao Shiota
The first round, utg Shiota raised to 2200, bb Sho three-bet to 5800, Shiota shoved, Sho folded. Two hands later, button Sho raised to 2100, Shiota three-bet to 5300, Sho folded.
More all in ups and downs happening around the room.
Yoichi Uesugi doubled up through Ruiko Mamiya with Q-Q over 5-5.
Fokin Valeriy eliminated Kenchi Shirai with K♦ 9♦ over 9♠ 8♠ on a board of 5♦ 4♥ 2♠ 5♠ 3♦. Shirai shoved preflop from mid position and Valeriy called from the button.
Rui Kojima takes from Iori Yogo . On a raised pot preflop, and a flop 7♣ K♥ K♣, big blind Kojima bet 7k and Yogo called. On the 5♦ turn, Kojima bet 45k, and won the pot with Yogo folding up.
On a board of 10♥ 4♥ 2♠ 7♥, Andy Yeo was all in with 9♦ 9♣ behind Shiga Mitsuhiro‘s 4♦ 7♣. The river 3♠ completed the board to boot out Yeo.
Manami Hayamizu
Manami Hayamizu – second largest stack into Day 2 – continues her ascent. She just railed Pannawaj Teerawatpattana with 9♥ 9♣ full house over A♠ 10♠ on a board running 9♦ A♣ 5♠ 5♥ Q♦.
Sachiko Harima
Sachiko Harima picked up a good pot preflop. From the big blind, she three-bet all in Simon Cho’s 2200 raise and claimed the pot.
That’s it! Late registration is closed. We will have the official prize pool up for you shortly.
Level 9 saw a minimum of 12 bust outs. One of them was WSOP bracelet winner Kevin Song. We didn’t see him re-enter.
Kyung Min Lee
Today’s entering chip leader is Kyung Min Lee. Seems Lee has chipped up further, he now has over 160K.
Day 2 Main Event
Shuffle up and deal! Day 2 has begun!
Day 2 action begins at Level 9 with blinds at 300-600 ante 600. Registration closes at the start of Level 10. Buy-in is ₩1,100,000; starting stack at 25,000 which is roughly 40bbs. Blinds increase every 60 minutes. Another 8 rounds will be played before bagging up for the night.
We will be posting updates right here so stick with us to follow all the thrilling action.
Good luck to all!
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Lee, Kyung Min | United States | 143,700 | 5 | 4 |
| 2 | Manami Hayamizu | Japan | 125,100 | 7 | 8 |
| 3 | Soichiro Kojiya | Japan | 109,400 | 11 | 2 |
| 4 | Toshimasa Sakato | Japan | 109,300 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | Anthony Mak | Hong Kong | 96,900 | 9 | 8 |
| 6 | Yukiko Ogasawara | Japan | 88,800 | 10 | 7 |
| 7 | Junichi Nakagiri | Japan | 87,200 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | Tsuyoshi Muranaka | Japan | 84,200 | 7 | 7 |
| 9 | Shohei Aoyama | Japan | 80,200 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | Ziegler Oliver | France | 78,600 | 10 | 2 |
| 11 | Shota Shimozaki | Japan | 77,700 | 6 | 4 |
| 12 | Shitoh Ryuichi | Japan | 72,800 | 7 | 6 |
| 13 | Rintaro Kahgawa | Japan | 70,900 | 5 | 8 |
| 14 | Natsumi Takaura | Japan | 69,200 | 9 | 7 |
| 15 | Kan Igor | Russia | 68,300 | 12 | 2 |
| 16 | Rui Kojima | Japan | 68,000 | 7 | 5 |
| 17 | Naoki Morita | Japan | 67,900 | 8 | 5 |
| 18 | Pak Valeriy | Uzbekistan | 66,200 | 9 | 3 |
| 19 | Masato Shimizu | Japan | 65,200 | 2 | 5 |
| 20 | Keith Ong | Singapore | 63,300 | 8 | 4 |
| 21 | Hilary Hin Cheung | Hong Kong | 61,600 | 12 | 8 |
| 22 | Aleksandr Cherepov | Russia | 61,600 | 9 | 4 |
| 23 | Mark Wong Tze Yi | Singapore | 61,000 | 4 | 2 |
| 24 | Marc Raymond | Canada | 60,000 | 4 | 3 |
| 25 | Akihro Shimizu | Japan | 58,400 | 1 | 4 |
| 26 | Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | Japan | 56,500 | 3 | 4 |
| 27 | Takashi Miyamoto | Japan | 56,500 | 2 | 6 |
| 28 | Iori Yogo | Japan | 55,000 | 7 | 3 |
| 29 | Akihiro Ueda | Japan | 53,600 | 9 | 2 |
| 30 | Norihiko Ogawa | Japan | 53,100 | 6 | 2 |
| 31 | Shigeho Yoshioka | Japan | 51,900 | 6 | 8 |
| 32 | Takahiro Abe | Japan | 50,600 | 13 | 6 |
| 33 | Saika Sho | Japan | 50,100 | 2 | 1 |
| 34 | Jacky Wong | Hong Kong | 48,100 | 8 | 1 |
| 35 | Ryoji Takaki | Japan | 47,000 | 6 | 5 |
| 36 | Tsubasa Kamei | Japan | 46,600 | 2 | 7 |
| 37 | Woo Shin | United States | 46,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 38 | Takeuchi Kotaro | Japan | 45,700 | 3 | 7 |
| 39 | Chen Song | China | 45,700 | 13 | 7 |
| 40 | Hiroshi Irimajiri | Japan | 44,800 | 1 | 3 |
| 41 | Tomomitsu Ono | Japan | 44,700 | 1 | 7 |
| 42 | Tomoharu Furuya | Japan | 44,500 | 3 | 2 |
| 43 | Saitoh Ryuichi | Japan | 44,300 | 10 | 4 |
| 44 | Yuki Yokoyama | Japan | 42,800 | 10 | 5 |
| 45 | Yosuke Otsubo | Japan | 42,600 | 11 | 7 |
| 46 | Matsuda Tomoki | Japan | 42,300 | 6 | 1 |
| 47 | Yosuke Murata | Japan | 41,800 | 5 | 3 |
| 48 | Takeshi Kishi | Japan | 41,700 | 4 | 5 |
| 49 | Grigorev Aleksandr | Russia | 40,000 | 9 | 1 |
| 50 | Aya Kagawa | Japan | 39,900 | 10 | 6 |
| 51 | John Marshall | United States | 39,600 | 10 | 8 |
| 52 | Yam Chun Ho Edward | Hong Kong | 39,500 | 12 | 7 |
| 53 | Koichi Nozaki | Japan | 39,100 | 1 | 9 |
| 54 | Wei Fan | China | 38,800 | 4 | 1 |
| 55 | Tatsuya Hirose | Japan | 38,200 | 7 | 4 |
| 56 | Fokin Valeriy | Russia | 37,600 | 12 | 1 |
| 57 | Naoki Matsumoto | Japan | 37,300 | 6 | 7 |
| 58 | Satoshi Okuda | Japan | 34,300 | 7 | 2 |
| 59 | Masaki Hirayama | Japan | 33,400 | 13 | 5 |
| 60 | Yosuke Kijima | Japan | 32,900 | 5 | 6 |
| 61 | Takahiro Nagai | Japan | 32,700 | 5 | 5 |
| 62 | Shinji Sugeta | Japan | 32,600 | 7 | 1 |
| 63 | Pakwarin | Thailand | 32,100 | 5 | 2 |
| 64 | Shiga Mitsuhiro | Japan | 31,900 | 12 | 4 |
| 65 | Tyeo Yu Xianh Andy | Singapore | 31,600 | 8 | 6 |
| 66 | Shcherbakov Roman | Russia | 31,500 | 4 | 6 |
| 67 | Nakani Eiichi | Japan | 31,500 | 2 | 9 |
| 68 | Huang Zhu Jun | China | 31,200 | 11 | 3 |
| 69 | Ruiko Mamiya | Japan | 30,300 | 11 | 5 |
| 70 | Nishikawa Toshiaki | Japan | 30,100 | 13 | 4 |
| 71 | Chikara Nishimura | Japan | 30,000 | 8 | 8 |
| 72 | Kevin Tate | United States | 29,700 | 3 | 1 |
| 73 | Ryuto Iwaso | Japan | 28,700 | 2 | 8 |
| 74 | Kevin Song | United States | 27,400 | 11 | 4 |
| 75 | Miyamoto Hikeaki | Japan | 27,200 | 10 | 1 |
| 76 | Masaki Fujitani | Japan | 25,000 | 13 | 3 |
| 77 | Tsuyosh Nitta | Japan | 25,000 | 2 | 4 |
| 78 | Simon Joon Choo | United States | 24,000 | 1 | 8 |
| 79 | Yuri Ishida | Japan | 24,000 | 13 | 2 |
| 80 | Kashima Shinji | Japan | 23,700 | 9 | 6 |
| 81 | Kenchi Shirai | Japan | 23,600 | 12 | 6 |
| 82 | Yuji Mikubo | Japan | 23,000 | 5 | 1 |
| 83 | Michiru | Japan | 22,900 | 12 | 3 |
| 84 | Aya Ryoke | Japan | 21,500 | 11 | 1 |
| 85 | Yep Hing Leung | Hong Kong | 20,100 | 3 | 3 |
| 86 | Horikawa Mitsuyoshi | Japan | 19,500 | 9 | 5 |
| 87 | Fang Shuaipeng | China | 18,800 | 8 | 2 |
| 88 | Jordan Thomas Brocato | Canada | 18,400 | 8 | 7 |
| 89 | Mao Shiota | Japan | 18,200 | 2 | 2 |
| 90 | Guen Woo Lee | United States | 18,200 | 1 | 2 |
| 91 | Aleksei Sei | Russia | 17,800 | 10 | 3 |
| 92 | Yuji Masaki | Japan | 16,600 | 12 | 5 |
| 93 | Suzuki Takuya | Japan | 16,200 | 4 | 8 |
| 94 | Ryo Tomita | Japan | 14,900 | 3 | 5 |
| 95 | Takuya Yonezawa | Japan | 14,700 | 6 | 3 |
| 96 | Kazuma Ihotsume | Japan | 13,600 | 11 | 8 |
| 97 | Pannawaj Teerawatpattana | Thailand | 13,400 | 11 | 6 |
| 98 | Chzhen Evgenn | Russia | 11,400 | 8 | 3 |
| 99 | Daisuke Ogita | Japan | 10,700 | 13 | 8 |
| 100 | Sachiko Harima | Japan | 9,700 | 1 | 5 |
| 101 | Hideyuki Inowe | Japan | 9,100 | 2 | 3 |
| 102 | Lam Cheuk Nam | Hong Kong | 9,000 | 13 | 1 |
| 103 | Yucichiro Shimooka | Japan | 8,200 | 6 | 6 |
| 104 | Fumihito Uenish | Japan | 6,400 | 1 | 1 |
| 105 | Stu Terakawa | United States | 6,400 | 4 | 4 |
| 106 | Seishiro Tanaka | Japan | 5,500 | 1 | 6 |