Thomas Lind closes Main Event Day 1B at the top; 30 advance to Day 2


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Another Main Event starting day in the books at APT Finale Taiwan 2019! Today’s Day 1B heat drew 70 to action at partner / host venue Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. At the end of 9 rounds, only 30 survived with Sweden’s Thomas Lind bagging 135,000 for the chip lead. One hand that got him there was K♠ K♦ busting a player with A♦ Q♦ on a board 4♥ 7♥ K♥ J♦ 8♣. 

The day also witnessed several pros and a couple of APT decorated champions make the cut: Lim Yo Hwan and Tetsuya Tsuchikawa. Day 1A chip leader Yuan Shyang Ting still holds the overall chip lead of 155,200. 

Day 2 qualifiers 

Day 1A: 49 advanced out of 83 entries
Dayy 1B: 30 advanced out of 70 entries

Current total entries: 153
Current Day 2 qualifiers: 79 players

Current chips in play: 3,825,000
Current average stack: 48,417

Day 1C is up next on Sunday, December 1. Cards in the air at 1pm. This is the last starting day to enter and avail of the Bubble Protection incentive. Buy-in is NT$ 33,000. We are slowly approaching the NT$ 6,000,000 (~US$ 196,700) guarantee. With Day 1C and one hour of late registration available in Day 2, we will easily breach the guarantee.  

Starting stack: 25,000
Opening blinds: 25 – 50 
Level duration: increases every 60 minutes 

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Day 1B chip counts – 30 players

1 Thomas Lind Sweden 135,000
2 Takao Shimizu Japan 122,000
3 Lin Chen An Taiwan 111,700
4 Choi Eng Loong Malaysia 110,800
5 Chen Yu China 110,000
6 Lin Hao China 100,500
7 Lim Yo Hwan Korea 99,700
8 Keon Yong Ma Korea 87,600
9 Shinya Nakai Japan 80,800
10 Tetsuya Tsuchikawa Japan 65,200
11 Frederick Kerckhof Belgium 65,100
12 Chien Yu Wang Taiwan 58,400
13 Wong Fuk On Anson Hong Kong 55,300
14 Johnni Nielsen Sweden 52,700
15 Ng Cheik Tan Hong Kong 49,600
16 Neil Raine United Kingdom 46,200
17 Clarence Ngay Singapore 45,900
18 Sun Shou Peng Taiwan 44,500
19 Hyunseok Oh Korea 38,000
20 Thananat Therdtakoonrat Thailand 35,200
21 Cheong Chi Chung Hong Kong 33,200
22 Po Chia Lhiang China 31,400
23 Peng Hsin Hui Taiwan 30,300
24 Chen Kuan Yu Taiwan 30,200
25 Kim Ji Tae Korea 29,700
26 Ben Andrews   25,200
27 Kim Kwanjung Korea 21,000
28 Lee Shao Hung Taiwan 20,600
29 Maureen Bloechlinger Switzerland 17,400
30 Jun Beum Chun Korea 11,700

 


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