Yichen Wu Wins Red Dragon Classic for Career-Best Score as Shuai Li Takes Prestige High Roller on JPF Day 9
Yichen Wu won the Red Dragon Classic Championship on Day 9 of Jeju Poker Festival 2026 for a career-best KRW 266,980,000 (~USD 198,940), while Shuai Li took the Red Dragon Prestige High Roller for KRW 200,000,000 (~USD 149,030) at LES A Casino.
The Red Dragon Poker Tour's JPF 3rd Anniversary Event also completed its starting flights with 310 entries, and Xixiang Luo won the Single Day High Roller.
Yichen Wu Wins Red Dragon Classic
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Yichen Wu
Wu, from Beijing, outlasted a 668-entry field that built a KRW 1,442,880,000 (~USD 1,075,170) prize pool, needing just three hands of heads-up to beat Aleksandras Rusinovas.
The Lithuanian, 4th in the KPC Main Event, had dominated the final table before Wu flopped two pair with eight-three on the first hand of heads-up to take the lead.
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Rusinovas collected KRW 176,900,000 (~USD 131,820), and overnight leader Hugues Girard finished 3rd after turning a royal flush earlier in the day.
Read the full final table report and Wu's interview in our Red Dragon Classic winner feature.
Shuai Li Wins Prestige High Roller
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Shuai Li
The KRW 8,000,000 Red Dragon Prestige High Roller grew to 108 entries after late registration on Day 2, building a KRW 762,653,000 (~USD 568,300) prize pool with 17 places paid.
Fabian Gumz sent out Seunghyun Nam when his pocket sixes flopped a set against king-queen, but the German was the bubble in 18th when he called Florian Duta's river shove with top pair and ran into a turned straight.
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Red Dragon Prestige High Roller Final Table
Day 1 leader Jiaxian Pan finished 10th and Joseph Cheong 15th, while Abhijith Cheruku, runner-up in the Dragon's Gate High Roller, made a second high roller final table in a row, finishing 6th. Michel Molenaar, second in chips after Day 1, took 4th and Duta 3rd.
Shuai Li, who finished 4th in the KPC High Roller and 8th in the KPC Main Event earlier in the festival, went one better than those runs to claim the title, beating Weiran Pu heads-up. Pu collected KRW 130,100,000 (~USD 96,940) as runner-up.
Prestige High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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| 1 | Shuai Li | China | KRW 200,000,000 (~USD 149,030) |
| 2 | Weiran Pu | China | KRW 130,100,000 (~USD 96,940) |
| 3 | Florian Duta | Romania | KRW 87,353,000 (~USD 65,090) |
| 4 | Michel Molenaar | Netherlands | KRW 61,550,000 (~USD 45,860) |
| 5 | Calvin Lee | United States | KRW 44,850,000 (~USD 33,420) |
| 6 | Abhijith Cheruku | India | KRW 34,100,000 (~USD 25,410) |
| 7 | Dongwen Liu | China | KRW 27,000,000 (~USD 20,120) |
| 8 | Weiyang Zhou | China | KRW 22,350,000 (~USD 16,650) |
| 9 | Yaojie Li | China | KRW 19,350,000 (~USD 14,420) |
JPF 3rd Anniversary Event Hits 310 Entries
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JPF 3rd Anniversary Trophy
The KRW 2,000,000 JPF 3rd Anniversary Event drew 111 entries in Day 1C and 82 in Day 1D, taking the field to 310 entries and a KRW 535,680,000 (~USD 399,170) prize pool. Shiqi Zhang leads the 49 players returning today after bagging 745,000 in Day 1D, ahead of Day 1C leader Yue Sun, the Lady Dragon champion, on 587,000.
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Thi My Phuong Nguyen
George Tomescu, KPC Main Event runner-up Yifu He, Thi My Phuong Nguyen and Ryoya Enomoto are all through, while Gumz, Girard, Cheong, Andrew Hosok Han and Baby Dragon champion Ranno Sootla were among those who missed out.
JPF 3rd Anniversary Event Top 10 Stacks
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Flight |
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| 1 | Shiqi Zhang | China | 745,000 | 1D |
| 2 | Yue Sun | China | 587,000 | 1C |
| 3 | Sishu Peng | China | 496,000 | 1C |
| 4 | George Tomescu | Romania | 478,000 | 1D |
| 5 | Kaito Miura | Japan | 452,000 | 1C |
| 6 | Anh Tai Do | Vietnam | 416,000 | 1C |
| 7 | Yi Ma | China | 404,000 | 1A |
| 8 | Aleksandar Jakovljevic | Romania | 395,000 | 1C |
| 9 | Shengxu Liu | China | 395,000 | 1C |
| 10 | Xiao Yang Qian | China | 392,000 | 1A |
Side Event Winners
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Red Dragon Team Member Xixiang Luo
Xixiang Luo won the KRW 5,000,000 Single Day High Roller and also leads the PL Big O Fanatic heading into its final day.
Sishu Peng picked up his second title of the festival in the Crazy Pineapple Super Hyper Turbo after bagging the third-biggest stack in the 3rd Anniversary Event, and Baby Dragon 3rd-place finisher Bizhen Li won the NL Super Hold'em Hyper Turbo.
| Event | Buy-in | Entries | Winner | Country | Prize |
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| #69 NL Hold'em Survivor Bounty | KRW 800,000 | 30 | Zixiong Jiang | China | KRW 7,344,000 |
| #70 NL Hold'em | KRW 1,000,000 | 20 | Naohiro Arita | Japan | KRW 7,966,000 |
| #71 NL Hold'em Single Day High Roller | KRW 5,000,000 | 27 | Xixiang Luo | China | KRW 44,240,000 |
| #72 NL Hold'em High Roller Hyper Turbo | KRW 2,000,000 | 6 | Yoshiyuki | Japan | KRW 10,368,000 |
| #73 NL Super Hold'em Hyper Turbo | KRW 400,000 | 42 | Bizhen Li | China | KRW 4,669,000 |
| #74 NL Hold'em Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 500,000 | 39 | Xiaochun Gu | China | KRW 5,692,000 |
| #75 NL Hold'em Crazy Pineapple Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 400,000 | 15 | Sishu Peng | China | KRW 2,306,000 |
Schedule: Friday, 6 November
| Start | Event | Buy-in |
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| 12:00 | #60 JPF 3rd Anniversary Event Day 2 | KRW 2,000,000 |
| 12:00 | #68 PL Big O Fanatic Final Day | KRW 800,000 |
| 12:00 | #76 Red Dragon Plus Championship Day 1A | KRW 4,000,000 |
| 13:00 | #77 NL Hold'em (100 BBs) | KRW 800,000 |
| 14:00 | #78 FL Hi-Lo Mix | KRW 1,000,000 |
| 15:00 | #79 Super U Challenge Day 1 | USD 8,000 |
| 17:00 | #80 NL Hold'em Ultra Stack Turbo | KRW 1,000,000 |
| 20:00 | #81 NL Hold'em Win the Button Hyper | KRW 700,000 |
| 21:00 | MS13 Milestone Satellite to Red Dragon | KRW 500,000 |
| 21:30 | #82 5 Card PLO Bounty Hyper Turbo | KRW 300,000 + 100,000 |
| 22:00 | #83 NL Hold'em Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 500,000 |
| 23:59 | #84 5 Card PLO High Double Board Bomb Pot Super Hyper Turbo | KRW 400,000 |
The KRW 4,000,000 Red Dragon Plus Championship gets underway with a KRW 1,800,000,000 (~USD 1,341,280) guarantee, the JPF 3rd Anniversary Event plays Day 2, and the USD 8,000 Super U Challenge begins at 15:00. Follow the full schedule on the Jeju Poker Festival 2026 page.
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Images and data courtesy of RDPT and KPC.
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