Super High Roller (14,500,000 KRW)

Opening 2,900,000 from the small blind with Q♠ 9♦ , Aram Oganyan takes big blind Martin Zamani to the flop T♠ 9♠ 9♥ that gets checked to the turn 3♥ where Oganyan's last 600,000 go in the middle and Zamani calls with T♠ 4♠ . No flush for the underdog and Aram Oganyan banks a much needed double up.

After Martin Zamani picked up the blinds four times, including a walk, with Aram Oganyan defending and winning a hand on the turn in between, Zamani limps his button with T♦ 5♦, Mao Renji fills up his small blind holding 5♥ 4♦ and Aram Oganyan puts down the hammer with a 3,600,000 squeeze to pick up another pot with K♦ 4♠ .

Back with a big stack, Martin Zamani opens 2,000,000 from under the gun and takes Wang Yilong from the button and Aram Oganyan in the big blind to the flop K♦ 3♥ 2♠ . Checked to short stack Wang, 600,000 all-in is announced and both opponents pay up to see the turn A♦ that gets checked to the river 4♣ with two more checks revealing Wang as the winner with K♠ T♣ scooping up a much needed pot.

Yu Lei and Wang Yilong picked up some blinds to bolster their short stacks and Mao Renji took some from Aram Oganyan leaving us with this table dynamic:

After a few hands of Yu Lei, Martin Zamani and Mao Renji picking up the blinds, Mao min-opens 1,000,000 once more, but faces opposition from button Aram Oganyan pumping it to 2,000,000 with A♦ J♣ . Mao decides to fold T♣ 8♦ against Aram's first play in almost two orbits.

After Xue Song has grown his short stack back to 25BB and the chip leaders all bleeding some, to leave the most active player and chip leader Martin Zamani with 40BB it is everyone's game to win.

With the three previous hands going to Martin Zamani preflop the last of which was a three-bet against Oganyan Aram, Aram mounts another attack with a 500,000 raise under the gun. Yu Lei fills up from +3 to go to the flop 6♦ 4♣ A♥ heads-up. Checked around to the turn J♣ Aram lays out a delayed c-bet of 1,800,000 with K♦ Q♣ which gets called by Yu's A♠ J♠ for the board to complete 2♠ . Checked to him, Yu takes down the pot with a 1,800,000 bet of his own.

After a total of 123 entries ponied up the KR₩14,500,000 (~USD 9,998) buy-in we got to a total prize pool of KR₩ 1,626,195,300 (~USD1,134,545) with KR₩409,200,000 (~USD285,496) up top and everyone taking a seat later will have KR₩40,700,000 (~USD28,398) guaranteed for 9th place already.

Wang Yilong was the only one breaching the eight-figures bagging 10,075,000 who came back from 2,200,000 just a few minutes before the end last night, starting with a triple up that eliminated Yong Wei Keong in 11th and then bursting the final table bubble, knocking out Xu Qiang in 10th.

Martin Zamani had been chip leader for most of the ITM play, but lost a few in the end, still bringing 9,800,000 to the table in 2nd.

The Final 9 will resume play on level 23 (100k/200k/200k) very even in chips with an average of 34BB at 1pm local on the 22nd of February.

Live updates begin at 1pm local time on February 22, 2025.

Starting the day with 3 levels of late registration still available, we reached a total of 123 entries that ponied up the KR₩14,500,000 (~USD 9,998) buy-in to get us to a total prize pool of KR₩ 1,626,195,300 (~USD1,134,545) with KR₩409,200,000 (~USD285,496) up top and everyone guaranteed KR₩40,700,000 (~USD28,398) for 9th place.

Wang Yilong was the only one breaching the eight-figures bagging 10,075,000 who came back from 2,200,000 just a few minutes before the end, starting with a triple up that eliminated Yong Wei Keong in 11th and then bursting the final table bubble, knocking out Xu Qiang in 10th.

Martin Zamani had been chip leader for most of the ITM play, but lost a few in the end, still bringing 9,800,000 to the table in 2nd.

The Final 9 will resume play on level 23 (100k/200k/200k) at 1pm local on the 22nd of February.