Main Event (1,300,000 KRW)

The first of five flights for the KPC Main Event with a KRW 800,000,000 (~$544,077) guaranteed prize pool attracted 213 players and saw 27 bag their chips for Day 2 during level 17, almost 14 hours after the first hand was dealt.

Yao Du emerged on top with 455,000 and has been among the leaders since level 9, gaining a significant boost in level 14 when he knocked out Taiwanese pro Meng Ling Lin with A♦ A♣ against her K♥ K♣ and burst the bubble in level 16 by eliminating Xiaolu Yang with Q♦ Q♠ versus J♥ J♣ .

Lili Tang also first appeared on the ladder during level 9, won a blind battle against Chen Yu with A♦ K♥ and kept chipping up, moving from 5th on the board during level 15 to second at the end, bagging 403,000. Yao Fang worked his magic away from our eyes, also being on the lower end of the Top 20 since the end of late registration and a late boost catapulting him into third with 373,000 to his name.

The remaining 27 players will have time to score some other trophies in the coming days until they can use their chips again on Saturday the 12th of April at 12:00 when Day 2 begins.

Yang needs an excavator to dig himself out of this hole, but doesn't get more than his bare hands on 2♦ 2♠ 9♥ K♠ K♦ and becomes the bubble after more than 12 hours of play.

Raising to 3,000, hijack Houkuan Cheng leads two players to the flop A♦ 5♥ 7♣ where his 3,000 c-bet only keeps button Yao Du in the hunt. The turn 5♣ gets checked to Du who takes it down with a 5,500 bet.

Under the gun Yong Li raises to 2,500, two players call and small blind Yao Du squeezes to 15,600, taking only Li to the flop J♥ 2♣ 5♦ . Du triple barrels 11,500, 19,500 and a jam on the river 2♦ and A♣ that is enough to make Li snap fold.