Seat 6: Jaehyung Park, 40, Seoul, South Korea – 2,100,000
Jaehyung Park calls himself a semi-pro. “We don’t have professional poker in Korea,” he explains after mentioning that he really only focuses on the game and has no other source of income.
Park is guaranteed to pass $700,000 in career live cashes when he hands in his final table payout slip. Until this month, he’d played exclusively in Asia, mostly in his hometown Seoul but also in Manila and Hanoi.
He picked Prague for his EPT debut, stating: “I feel very lucky, it was a very good decision.”
He says his appetite for the EPT is quickly growing and he is already contemplating visiting more European stops next year.
Before then, the 40-year-old will have a chance to secure the all-time best EPT result for South Korea. He’s just become the second Korean finalist in the tour’s 20-year history and hopes to top Gab Yong Kim’s 4th place from March 2022 – also at Hilton Prague.
Outside poker, Park said he enjoys building Lego and watching animated movies and cartoons.