Mate Hanusi (pictured) from Hungary won on Tuesday the World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea’s main event, the WPT Korea 2024 Championship Event, held at Landing Casino, the foreigner-only gaming facility at the Jeju Shinhwa World resort on South Korea’s Jeju Island.
The WPT Korea gathering was being staged from March 25 until April 3 (Wednesday). Its Championship Event had a guaranteed prize pool of KRW2 billion (US$1.5 million) via a buy-in amounting to KRW2.8 million.
Mr Hanusi bagged nearly KRW434.94 million in winnings, after ultimately defeating China’s Ma Li.
The organiser said this year’s WPT Korea 2024 “was bigger and better than last year’s event”. It featured a total of 28 events, with 4,146 players registered and a record 1,065 entries into the Championship Event.
The event had a total prize pool of nearly KRW7.63 billion, state the organiser.
Following the Jeju event, the WPT’s upcoming events to be staged in Asia are: the WPT Vietnam Passport to the World Championship, to be held in May at Crown Poker Club in Hanoi; and Wynn Macau Championship, to be held in June at Wynn Macau.
