HomeJam-packed room at APT Vietnam 2019 with players flooding in host venue Pro Poker Club for the last starting day of the MAIN EVENT. By the end of the scheduled nine rounds, 223 registered however only 112 of them powered through to Day 2. Bagging up the largest stack of 141,200 was Malaysia’s Choi Eng Loong. He will enter Day 2 running 4th overall.
In addition to the leader, notable pros and APT regulars also advanced in this heat: Lok Gino (130,900), Kjell Ove Dyb (129,000), Jin Yong (82,400), Raiden Kan (80,200), Hamish Crawshaw (73,600), Sim Jae Kyung (72,100), Pham Bao (65,600), Terry Nguyen (47,300), Yik Yin “Ray” Chiu (39,500), Soo Jo Kim (37,100), Abhinav Iyer (31,900), Linh Tran (30,000), Oliver Helm (18,300), and Yohn Paredes (16,800).
All of the Day 1C survivors merge with the 70 combined Day 1A and Day 1B survivors. They meet on Sunday, November 10. Cards in the air at 1pm. For those who missed the mark today, you still have one hour at the start of Day 2 to jump in.
Combined Day 1 chip counts by rank
Main Event – Day 1C – 112 advanced out of 223 entries
| Choi Eng Loong | Malaysia | 141,200 |
| James Chavanarojrit | Thailand | 132,200 |
| Nguyen Binh Minh | Vietnam | 131,000 |
| Lok Gino | Hong Kong | 130,900 |
| Kjell-Ove Dyb | Norway | 129,000 |
| Park Ik Pyo (KMGM) | Korea | 102,200 |
| Hong Kong Nguyen | Canada | 99,400 |
| Anh Nguyen | Vietnam | 97,000 |
| Maximilien Lim | Singapore | 96,200 |
| Nguyen Van Dang | Vietnam | 94,500 |
| Tuan Pro | Vietnam | 93,600 |
| Tran Nam Trung | Vietnam | 91,400 |
| Ankit Wadhawan | India | 90,300 |
| Gonzva Benjamin | Thailand | 89,700 |
| Kang Yoo Sin | Korea | 88,600 |
| Andrej Nagy | Slovakia | 86,200 |
| Haw Jin Jian | Singapore | 84,500 |
| Songnae Woong (KMGM) | Korea | 83,900 |
| Jin Yong | Malaysia | 82,400 |
| Yyu Dong Yeong | Korea | 81,400 |
| Raiden Kan | Hong Kong | 80,200 |
| Tan Wah Meng | Singapore | 79,800 |
| Thomas Van Leeuwen | Netherlands | 78,600 |
| Cona Joseph | New Caledonia | 77,800 |
| Hamish Crawshaw | New Zealand | 73,600 |
| Hoang Dai Thien | Vietnam | 73,400 |
| Simba | Korea | 72,100 |
| Huy Coshet | Vietnam | 72,000 |
| Vincent Huang | Australia | 69,000 |
| Byuong Nam Kim | Korea | 68,400 |
| Yuwen Pan | China | 66,600 |
| Kenji Kurashina | Japan | 66,300 |
| Nguyen Thi Bao An | Vietnam | 65,600 |
| Pham Bao | Vietnam | 65,600 |
| Wei Hsun Chen | Taiwan | 64,800 |
| Madman Gupta | India | 58,500 |
| Shigeho Yoshioka | Japan | 57,400 |
| The Anh | Vietnam | 57,300 |
| Sera Ota | Japan | 54,200 |
| Vinay Agarwal | India | 53,700 |
| Kim Ju Cheol (KMGM) | Korea | 53,300 |
| Yang Suwei | China | 51,000 |
| Yoshisato Nakagawa | Japan | 50,700 |
| Tyler Tan | Singapore | 48,900 |
| Terry Nguyen | Vietnam | 47,300 |
| Jerome Bradpiece | United Kingdom | 46,700 |
| Ryan Revai | Canada | 46,500 |
| Nam Hyung Suk | Korea | 46,400 |
| Go Mori | Japan | 46,100 |
| Francis Garson | France | 45,700 |
| Hwang Seongil (KMGM) | Korea | 45,300 |
| Huynh Tan Dung | Vietnam | 45,300 |
| Cuong Nguyen | Canda | 45,000 |
| Antoine Ky Phan | Vietnam | 43,800 |
| Choi Young-Seob (KMGM) | Korea | 43,200 |
| Yang Peng | China | 42,900 |
| Jeerasak Ekwansananan | Thailand | 42,700 |
| Jang Se Hyun | Korea | 42,700 |
| Canh Nguyen | Vietnam | 41,900 |
| Oliver Buquiran | Philippines | 41,300 |
| Paul Wee | Singapore | 40,200 |
| Yik “Ray” Chiu | Hong Kong | 39,500 |
| Kim Seung Yeol | Korea | 37,400 |
| Soo Jo Kim | Korea | 37,100 |
| Tobias Napel | Netherlands | 37,100 |
| Yin Wenhua | China | 36,900 |
| Dohyun Kim | Korea | 36,300 |
| Kwok Luen Hei | Hong Kong | 36,100 |
| Nguyen Hien Hoa | Vietnam | 35,800 |
| Johannes Hoeld | Germany | 35,400 |
| Soong Wing Keong | Singapore | 34,500 |
| La Anh Tuan | Vietnam | 34,100 |
| Hwang Hyun Sub | Korea | 33,400 |
| Ruth Graham | United States | 32,400 |
| Gwui Yeon Lee (KMGM) | Korea | 32,100 |
| Abhinav Iyer | India | 31,900 |
| Saul Oliver | Spain | 31,200 |
| Nguyen Vinh Trung | Vietnam | 30,800 |
| ZaBIB Bin Hairi | Singapore | 30,700 |
| Linh Tran | Vietnam | 30,000 |
| Tung Nguyen | Vietnam | 29,900 |
| Kim Hyun Kyu (KMGM) | Korea | 28,400 |
| George Sandford | United Kingdom | 28,000 |
| Michael Wang | China | 26,600 |
| Kim Kyung Hun (KMGM) | Korea | 26,200 |
| Aigars Plivcs | Latuia | 26,000 |
| Sofia Lovgren | Sweden | 26,000 |
| Law | Vietnam | 25,200 |
| Justin Skouholt | United States | 24,500 |
| Tak Yan | Hong Kong | 24,100 |
| Rick Jason Ambata | Philippines | 22,900 |
| Lee Seong Min | Korea | 21,400 |
| Nahid Yayacui | Denmark | 20,500 |
| Wong Fuk On Anson | Hong Kong | 20,200 |
| Tim Frazen | United States | 20,000 |
| Mi Ran Hwang (KMGM) | Korea | 19,900 |
| Bin Zhang | China | 19,800 |
| Ng Chin Tiong | Malaysia | 19,300 |
| David Wai Ho | United Kingdom | 18,900 |
| Oliver Helm | New Zealand | 18,300 |
| Nguyen Dang Phuc | Vietnam | 17,800 |
| Yohn Paredes | Peru | 16,800 |
| Tran Van Thinh | Vietnam | 15,000 |
| Kim Michael Enriquez | Philippines | 14,500 |
| Fubang, Huang | Taiwan | 13,400 |
| Akshay Nasa | India | 13,100 |
| Pham Duy Hung | Vietnam | 11,200 |
| Noibet Sebastian | France | 9,500 |
| Shin Dong Ik (KMGM) | Korea | 8,100 |
| Yip, Kwok Chun | Hong Kong | 8,000 |
| Mike Kim | Korea | 7,100 |
| Kwon Ki Jun (KMGM) | Korea | 4,200 |