Things are heating up in the Asian Poker Circuit with several massive GTD festivals taking place in the region. Following the conclusion of the record-breaking APT Manila where several women shone brightly including Russia’s Natalia Rozova, women continue to make waves at the other stops in Asia. One of the biggest stories coming from the Jeju Poker Festival 2024, which kicked off on November 15 at the Landing Casino with the World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea. The festival has crowned over sixteen winners so far, with Taiwan’s Lin Meng Ling being the biggest female winner at the ongoing WPT series so far.
Event 7: WPT High Roller Recap
Mengling Lin overcame a tough field of 45 entrants in Event 7: WPT High Roller, claiming a massive KRW 80,910,000 ($57,811) following a heads-up deal with China’s Yu Yunchao, who took home the higher payout of KRW 102,000,000 ($72,881). This marked Lin’s second WPT title this year, following her Single Day High Roller win at the WPT Korea in April where she had bagged $ 128,937, her best live score to date.
Featuring KRW 8,000,000 ($5,720) buy-in, this high roller tournament ran over the course of two days from November 16-17 and generated KRW 323,010,000 ($231,015) in prize pool. The top seven players made the money, with the final two securing the lion’s share of the prize pool.
Fresh off her fourth-place finish in Event 1: WPT Opener, Mengling Lin, who was the only lady among the final 7 players in #7 WPT High Roller event, entered the final day among the top stacks. She displayed her determination to take home the championship ring and it eventually paid off as she closed it out with a win after over an eleven hours of intense grind. She eventually struck an ICM deal with runner up Yunchao Yu, who banked a larger cut off the KRW 323,010,000 ($231,015) prize pool.
Event 7: WPT High Roller Payouts (KRW)
| 1 | Lin Meng Ling | 80,910,000* |
| 2 | Yu Yunchao | 102,000,000* |
| 3 | Ruan Jiayu | 48,800,000 |
| 4 | Leng Bin | 33,850,000 |
| 5 | Pu Jiang | 24,450,000 |
| 6 | Liang Tien-Min | 18,450,000 |
| 7 | Hiroi Yukako | 14,550,000 |
A Quick Look At 2024 WPT Korea Champions So Far
Patka Tomas- Won Event 1: WPT Opener (KRW 37,977,000)
Lee Calvin Sungwon – Won Event 2: Single Day High Roller (KRW 38,410,000)
Miao Chen Xiang – Won Event 3: Pot Limit Omaha (KRW 5,107,000)
Su Dong – Won Event 4: Hyper Turbo Bounty (KRW 4,147,000)
Li Dong – Won Event 6: Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8 (KRW 4,544,000)
Lin Meng Ling – Won Event 7: WPT High Roller (KRW 80,910,000)
Xu Guo – Won Event 8: Single Day Mystery Bounty NLH (KRW 9,700,000)
He Jiaqi – Won Event 10: Deepstack NLH (KRW 15,731,000)
Zhang Xiaochuan – won Event 11: 5 Card Pot Limit Omaha (KRW 7,678,000)
Falzei Fabrizio – Won Event 12: Short Deck NLH (KRW 13,444,000)
Huang Weiwei – Won Event 13: Flip and Go (KRW 11,122,000)
Sun Jianfeng – Won Event 14: Win The Button Hyper Turbo (KRW 9,437,000)
Heung Tsz Kin – Won Event 15: Survivor Bounty (KRW 20,123,000)
Li Yong – Won Event 16: Single Day High Roller NLH – Turbo (KRW 40,976,000)
China’s Jiaofang Duan Wins APPT Cambodia Event 8: Super Knockout [$250 Bounty] – Turbo
Another lady who etched her name as the champion was China’s Jiaofang Duan, who won Event 8: Super Knockout [$250 Bounty] – Turbo at the ongoing PokerStars APPT Cambodia 2024, which kicked off on November 15 and will conclude on November 25. She overcame a field of 58 entries and defeated Japan’s Hironori Yamada in heads-up to claim the $ 3,054 top prize. Yamada took home $ 2,100 as the runner-up.
This was Duan’s first major title, not bad for someone who started playing poker only this year. She has already scored three final table finishes, apart from making deep runs across various events in Asia and Las Vegas.
This single-day event ran on November 16 and generated $ 10,254, which was finally shared by the top finishers with a min cash worth $400.
Event 8: Super Knockout [$250 Bounty] – Turbo Complete Payouts
| 1 | Jiaofang Duan | $ 3,054 |
| 2 | Hironori Yamada | $ 2,100 |
| 3 | Iurii Suvorov | $ 1,500 |
| 4 | Yoke Wei Woon | $ 1,100 |
| 5 | Jeremy Jehanne | $ 900 |
| 6 | Aleksei Ignatev | $ 700 |
| 7 | Antonius Franciscus Krijn | $ 500 |
| 8 | Qinglin Li | $ 400 |
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