Early in the morning Asia Red Dragon Jeju came to an exciting conclusion. Bin Sun won first place in the Super Highroller Tournament and won $189,454. A total of 91 entries were made in the event and the prize pool was $713,575. In 6-max the game was very tense, none of the participants did not want to give up and the middle stack fell to 20BB. In the heads-up, Bin Sun outplayed Yake Wu, who won $131,655 for his efforts. A few days ago Sun was close to winning the Highrollers Tournament. But then Bin Sun, having the biggest stack lost 2 hands in a row and left the tournament, taking the 5th place.
In the seven-day series with 13 events, 1735 players competed for a prize pool of $ 4.26 million. More than a third (38%) of the prize money of the series was drawn in the Main Event, during which 869 players from 20 different countries competed for a significant prize pool of $ 1.26 million, of which 108 went to the prize zone. The second Red Dragon Festival in South Korea set many records. Next year, the popular series of the Asia-Pacific region will be held in the Philippines in January 2020.
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in KRW) | Prize (~ in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bin Sun | China | ₩220,295,000 | $189,454 |
| 2 | Yake Wu | China | ₩153,087,000 | $131,655 |
| 3 | Zhiqiang Qian | China | ₩101,228,000 | $87,056 |
| 4 | Fei Xiong | China | ₩79,240,000 | $68,146 |
| 5 | Sun Guodong | China | ₩63,890,000 | $54,945 |
| 6 | Nan Hong | China | ₩49,784,000 | $42,814 |
| 7 | Szymon Wysocki | Poland | ₩39,413,000 | $33,895 |
| 8 | Jamie Lee | United States | ₩30,700,000 | $26,402 |
| 9 | Lei Yu | China | ₩23,233,000 | $19,980 |
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