WPT Korea Championship Event Day 4 Recap

April 2, 2024, Jeju island, South Korea, – The WPT Korea Championship Event reached a winner in Mate Hanusi from Hungary. Mate Hanusi started the day with the lowest stack and slowly built it by playing tight and choosing the right time and positions to make his move. 

At heads up, Ma Li dominated Hanusi with the amount of chips that she had, but following his tight aggressive strategy, Hanusi chipped at her tower of chips slowly until the final hand where Hanusi went all-in with pocket 8s pre-flop.  Li called with A9, and although she had numerous outs by the turn, she didn’t get to improve her hand, making Hanusi the WPT Korea 2024 Championship Event winner.  

Hanusi brought home KRW 434,936,000 (~US$321,700), the WPT Main Event Champion Trophy and the WPT Korea 2024 Championship Ring.

Three side events finished today while the Superstack Classic NLH Day 1 and WPT Highroller, the last high roller event of the festival, continues on to Day 2 tomorrow.  Leading the WPT Highrollers Day 2 qualifiers is Chinese poker player Quan Zhou with 1,085,000 chips.  Other known names still in the running for the last WPT Korea 2024 Gold Ring are Stephen O’Dwyer, Espen Jorstad, Thomas Boivin, and Valeriy Pak.

Mystery Bounty Day 2 happened today with a lot of excitement and rowdiness with every player feeling the suspense and thrill of opening their mystery bounties.  

The winner of the Mystery Bounty Event was Momo Yin who took home KRW 30,959,000 (~US$22,900) for 1st place cash prize and KRW3,500,000 (~US$2,500) in bounty.  

Guo Peng, although finishing 3rd has almost the same total cash prize as Yin because of the number of players he busted out and the mystery amount that he was able to randomly pick.  Peng, who received a cash prize of KRW 15,015,000 (~US$11,100) for 3rd, received an additional KRW 17,500,000 (~US$12,900) worth of mystery bounties.

Other winners include Roh Sung Ho who won the Superstack NLH for KRW 15,150,000(~US$11,200) and Feng Yuqi in the Hyper Turbo Bounty NLH who won a cash prize of KRW 6,661,000 (~US$4,900).