China’s Shuanghong Zhu won the Red Dragon Plus Championship at Jeju Poker Festival 2026 for KRW 352,850,000 (about USD 262,930). He started the final table eighth of nine in chips and beat compatriot Wenjie Sun heads-up at LES A Casino in Jeju Shinhwa World. The KRW 4,000,000 headline event of the Red Dragon Poker Tour (RDPT) drew 407 entries across four starting flights and paid out a KRW 1,800,000,000 prize pool, according to the official RDPT results report.
The win closed the 15-day festival that RDPT and KPC Poker co-host in Jeju. PSR covered the schedule in our Jeju Poker Festival 2026 preview.
Who made the Red Dragon Plus Championship final table?
Seven of the nine finalists in the Red Dragon Plus Championship were from China. Takashi Yagura of Japan and Joseph Cheong of the United States were the other two. Official payouts from RDPT:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (KRW) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shuanghong Zhu | China | 352,850,000 |
| 2 | Wenjie Sun | China | 235,450,000 |
| 3 | Junqing Ge | China | 158,950,000 |
| 4 | Weiyang Zhou | China | 109,600,000 |
| 5 | Yichen Wu | China | 77,400,000 |
| 6 | Takashi Yagura | Japan | 55,800,000 |
| 7 | Xugang Zhang | China | 41,200,000 |
| 8 | Qian Liu | China | 31,150,000 |
| 9 | Joseph Cheong | United States | 24,100,000 |
How did Shuanghong Zhu come back from eighth in chips?
Shuanghong Zhu won the title by taking chips from the chip leader early and then eliminating most of the field himself. Yichen Wu, who had won the Red Dragon Classic Championship earlier in the festival, started the final table with 10,400,000 chips and the lead. Wu’s stack shrank quickly. Zhu’s set beat his king-queen, Qian Liu doubled up through him, and Wenjie Sun’s two pair cut him to 3,200,000.
Zhu knocked out Joseph Cheong when his pocket kings held against ace-eight. He then took the chip lead and eliminated Yagura, Wu, Zhou and Ge in turn. Sun started heads-up with 22,000,000 chips to Zhu’s 10,000,000, and the lead changed hands several times over about two and a half hours. Zhu doubled to 19,000,000 when he called Sun’s jack-high shove holding only a pair of fives. In the last hand, Sun’s pocket queens lost to Zhu’s ace-eight, which paired on the flop.
Zhu is from Gansu and lives in Hangzhou. He told RDPT: “I’m extremely happy and thrilled to capture my very first Main Event title.” Explaining the key call, he said: “I was trailing as the short stack, and my opponent shoved on me while I only held bottom pair.” He called Red Dragon “my lucky charm” and said he plans to play more RDPT stops.
Who else won big at Jeju Poker Festival 2026?
The festival’s other largest prizes went to these players, according to RDPT’s official news page:
- Red Dragon Classic Championship: Yichen Wu (China), KRW 266,980,000
- Red Dragon Prestige High Roller: Shuai Li, KRW 200,000,000
- KPC Main Event: Andrew Han, KRW 150,000,000, beating Yifu He heads-up
- Super U Challenge (USD 8,000): Yuan Li, USD 120,700
- JPF 3rd Anniversary Event: Anh Tai Do, KRW 119,780,000
- KPC Super High Roller: Khoa Anh Ngo, KRW 109,598,000
Somuchpoker’s live reports add that Romania’s Florian Duta won the USD 12,000 Red Dragon Prestige Super High Roller, an 18-entry final-day event, for USD 94,238.
When is the next Red Dragon Poker Tour stop?
The next Red Dragon Poker Tour stop is RDPT Taiwan, running 27 February to 7 March 2027 according to the banner on the official RDPT website (checked November 2026). RDPT has not yet published the venue or guarantees on its own site. Live dates for the region’s other festivals are on the PSR poker events calendar.