Valeriy Pak Wins WPT Korea for KRW 63,620,000  (~US $57,058)!

Photo:  WPT Korea Champion Valeriy Pak celebrates his victory with his friends.

Valeriy Pak raises to 350,000, Tsugunari Toma moves all in for 2,535,000, and Pak quickly calls with . Toma turns over , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes — Toma turns an open-ended straight draw to Pak’s turned flush draw, but the river card is a blank.

Pak wins the pot — and the WPT Korea main event — with two pair on the board, tens and fives, and his ace kicker. Tsugunari Toma finishes as the runner-up, earning KRW 44,700,000.

Congratulations to Valeriy Pak for winning the WPT Korea main event!

1st:  Valeriy Pak  –  KRW 63,620,000  (~US $57,058)
2nd:  Tsugunari Toma  –  KRW 44,700,000  (~US $40,090)
3rd:  Hiroyuki Noda  –  KRW 28,135,000  (~US $25,233)
4th:  Markus Garberg  –  KRW 17,180,000  (~US $15,408)
5th:  Kevin Ayow  –  KRW 13,215,000  (~US $11,852)
6th:  Paul Hong  –  KRW 10,950,000  (~US $9,821)
7th:  Tatsuki Nakamura  –  KRW 9,405,000  (~US $8,435)
8th:  Yisha Chen  –  KRW 7,830,000  (~US $7,022)
9th:  Yuichiro Harada  –  KRW 6,365,000  (~US $5,709)

Photo:  Two photos, seconds apart, with only a river card between them.