Yu Young Jin Goes Wire-to-Wire to Win Super Cup Poker Main Event

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The live poker scene in South Korea has crowned a new winner for a brand new series in the first-ever Super Cup Poker 2024 Main Event in Seoul. Only nine players out of a field of 248 entries returned to battle for the title and a home victory was the final outcome at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center.

Yu Young Jin Wins Inaugural Super Cup Poker Main Event

Yu Young Jin wins Super Cup Poker – Photo by Bluff & Catch

Yu Young Jin entered the live-streamed final table inside of Studio 159 as the dominant chip leader ahead of Su Min Im and Jae Seok Sim. It came as little surprise that the top three in chips heading into the showdown also ended up on the podium spots when all was said and done.

Ultimately, it came down to the duel between Jin and Im, the only two players to hold the chip lead for the entire duration of the final table. With a rather large average, it still only took 15 minutes to determine a winner. Jin topped off a very dominating performance at the tables for KRW 60 Million while Im had to settle for the runner-up spot.

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The Isabelle Group was hosting the event in the heart of Gangnam, one of the richest districts in the entire country and the No-Limit Hold’em competition was held as part of the Super Cup Seoul 2024 mind games festival that also included the board games Baduk, Janggi and Chess. Several main stream sponsors supported the new sports paradigm such as Samsung Medicos.

For the final two days, the thrilling conclusion of the Super Cup Poker Main Event was live-streamed inside of Studio 159 and it will also be shown as TV broadcast later on as well with the Mind Sports Show as partner. Several international stops are planned for next year with further details to be announced soon.

Final Table Recap

Super Cup Poker Final Table – Photo by Bluff & Catch

The first level of the Main Event final table brought no casualty but Kwang Jin Park dropped to the bottom of the leaderboard. He doubled once only to see his pocket kings cracked by Geun Seop Ban, who then knocked out Park soon after.

Young Kyu Kim experienced a quite similar time line. He first doubled, then suffered a setback by doubling Su Min Im and bowed out shortly thereafter to reduce the field to the final seven contenders. That barely lasted five minutes, as the next short stack hit the rail in Man Woo Park.

Su Min Im at Super Cup Poker — Su Min Im – Photo by Bluff & Catch

Yu Young Jin was the runaway chip leader for an extended period but then suffered two set backs as the stack sizes started to get closer atop the leaderboard. Longhao Shen doubled through Su Min Im with kings versus tens and then doubled through Jin as well, only to send all of chips chips right back to Im soon after. That massive pot vaulted Im into the lead and he pulled further ahead.

Joo Hee Oh lost most of her chips in a battle of short stacks against Geun Seop Ban and the last three and a half big blinds vanished when her pocket queens were cracked by the ace-deuce of chip leader Im. The Isabelle Group ambassador bowed out in fourth place as the last woman in the field.

During four-handed play, the smooth sailing of Im hit a major setback when he paid off the flopped nut flush of Jin, who jumped back into the top spot. With two chip leaders and two distinct short stacks, it was Ban who three-bet jammed ace-six into the ace-queen of Jin and bowed out just shy of the podium.

Jin was also responsible for the next elimination as he claimed the short stack of Sim to enter the heads-up stage with an advantage of more than two and a half times to one over Im. The opening stages of the duel saw Im gain some momentum, only for it all come to a crashing end within 15 minutes. Jin pulled further ahead, then jammed two pair and was called by worse to go wire-to-wire in five hours on the final day.

Main Event Review

Date: November 13 to 17, 2024
Entries: 248
Prize pool: KRW 248,000,000 (~US$ 177,284)
ITM: 38 players

Final Table Payouts

Place	Player	Payout In KRW	In USD equivalent
1	Yu Young Jin	60,000,000	43,103
2	Su Min Im	40,000,000	28,736
3	Jae Seok Sim	25,000,000	17,960
4	Geun Seop Ban	18,000,000	12,931
5	Joo Hee Oh	13,000,000	9,339
6	Longhao Shen	9,000,000	6,466
7	Man Woo Park	7,000,000	5,029
8	Young Kyu Kim	5,400,000	3,879
9	Kwang Jin Park	4,200,000	3,017