HomeCrushing guarantees is the ongoing trend at the inaugural APT Online Series hosted at GG Network Natural8. Day 3 was another smasher with the featured Mini Main Event headed for over 1000 entries and a prize pool in the $ 200K range. Another huge draw was the Micro Monster Stack which was not so micro as it was macro with a towering 505 entries. We’ve got recaps of all the Day 3 action. Congratulations to the latest winners!
The APT Online Series got underway on April 29 and is set to run until May 10. The festival boasted of a $ 1.5 million guarantee and after three action packed days, it has already paid out over $ 650K. No reason to miss out!
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APT Player of the Series
The APT Player of the Series race is on! In pole position for two consecutive days is Event 1 Monster Stack champion “putipupu”. Big movers were BUIKIA and Floatingworld. BUIKI jumped from 13th to 2nd rank while Floatingworld went from 10th to 3rd rank.
For the top 100 list, click the link —> APT Player of the Series
Win a Main Event seat!
We’d like to remind everyone that the $ 200K guaranteed Main Event opens tomorrow and we are giving away one seat! Buy in is $ 500. Event runs from May 3 to May 5 with five flights to enter. To be eligible for the promo, just follow the steps below.
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3. Once shared, the user automatically earns 1 entry for a chance to win a Main Event Seat.
4. The drawing will be electronically generated and winner will be announced on APT’s official social media accounts tonight at 10PM HKT May 2 ,2020.
*Prize is non transferable, can’t be converted to cash, and is exclusive to Natural8 players only. Like and share now!
Featured: Mini Main Event
A stellar turnout at the featured Mini Main Event fielding in 454 entries across three flights. Combine this with the previous day’s 513 turnout, that’s 968 entries so far with two flights remaining. No doubt the 1000 mark will be breached.
As for the prize pool, the $ 75K guarantee is history. It is currently at $ 181K with every potential to reach $ 200K. The eventual champion stands to ship a minimum $ 29.9K.
Current top 9 payouts
More info can be found in the tournament lobby under “Asian Poker Tour Mini Main Event Final Day”. For those looking to enter, details are provided below along with the updated results.
May 2
16:00 Flight G
18:00 Flight H (Turbo)
20:00 Final Day
*Final Day Live Updates starting at 20:00 until a winner is declared.
Buy in: $ 200
Guarantee: $ 75,000
Cumulative entries : 968
Day 2 qualifiers: 282
Cumulative prize pool: $ 181,016
Chips in play: 24,200,000
Average stack: 87,050
Results
Flight A: 61 advanced out of 207 entries
Flight B: 48 advanced out of 145 entries
Flight C: 48 advanced out 161 entries
Flight D: 50 advanced out of 175 entries
Flight E: 31 advanced out of 102 entries
Flight F: 44 advanced out of 177 entries
Flight F
Top 12 players
Flephanty – China – 251,903 – Flight A chip leader
Theglory – Andorra – 232,027 – Flight F chip leader
itrguy – Singapore – 231,351 – Flight D chip leader
LEN1234980 – Japan – 230,861 – Flight E chip leader
BigFishVN – Vietnam – 226,071
Yummers – Singapore – 225,086
bago123 – China – 210,824
tikkipokka – Finland – 209,916
Brtz – Russia – 204,327
blackrx – Malaysia – 195,712
Fireburns – UK – 193,714 – Flight B chip leader
aaaanasty – Russia – 188,605 – Flight C chip leader
Event #11: Monster Stack
Another Monster Stack was offered and just like its predecessor, the event attracted a large crowd across two flights. With 268 ponying up the $ 300 buy in, the guarantee was once again obliterated. One flight remains. It takes place on May 2 at 16:00 (HKT) followed by the Final Day in the evening at 19:00 (HKT).
For those just hearing of the series, there is every reason to jump in this event. That is of course the money. Something to think about, the largest first prize payout was awarded at the Monster Stack 1 event with putipupu shipping $ 28.3K. Take a look at the latest results.
Flight A: 53 advanced out of 150 entries
Flight B: 43 advanced out of 117 entries
Buy in: $ 300
Guarantee: $ 30,000
Total entries: 268
Day 2 qualifiers: 96
Cumulative prize pool: $ 75,174
Chips in play: 8,040,000
Average stack: 83,484
Top 10 players
LongBTC – Hong Kong – 238,289 – Flight A chip leader
bnet01 – Germany – 234,458 – Flight B chip leader
cmore13 – Hong Kong – 212,854
Yummers – Singapore – 196,795
Madzoopa – India – 191,280
heyway – China – 181,993
hijuepucha – New Zealand – 172,392
DirtyDuck – Thailand – 165,385
AAFuxX – Germany – 162,484
C.Darwin900 – UK – 159,506
Event #12: High Rollers – fish3098 – $ 19,812.41
Three players banked five figures at the High Rollers event with player fish3098 pocketing the largest. fish3098 topped a field of 88 runners for a $ 19,812.41 payday. fish3098 entered the APT POS leader board top 100 in 4th rank.
Buy in: $ 1,000
Guarantee: $ 30,000
Total entries: 88
Prize pool: $ 83,600
ITM: 13 places
Recapping the action from the bubble round, robdag83 was denied a profit by MLGNoScope(420) with a higher five card spread.
Bubble hand
MLGNoScope(420) went on to cash in 12th place. Three busts later, the final table was formed. Player beibei12 earned the chip lead by railing OMGItsMe in 10th place.
Opening the final action, UyenHuynh came out swinging, successfully dusting two players to claim leadership.
Player fish3098 booted one as well to rise to second in chips.
Then beibei12 dominated the table, sending three players to their doom to amass an intimidating lead at three handed.
To reach heads up, fish3098 first doubled up through UyenHuynh. UyenHuynh went aggro to reclaim the chips and managed to earn off beibei12, but it all came crashing down. Fish3098 shipped it with a full house over a flush.
In just a few hands, fish3098 went on to victory defeating beibei12 with another full house.
Final table payouts
1st fish3098 – China – $ 19,812.41
2nd beibei12 – China – $ 15,004.43
3rd UyenHuynh – Vietnam – $ 11,363.25
4th Polocherik – Ireland – $ 8,605.69
5th MaoZeDonk – Austria – $ 6,517.31
6th Mahalnahari – Hong Kong – $ 4,935.73
7th SkupyZid – Austria – $ 2,830.85
8th ObellaCiao – Canada – $ 2,830.85
9th minhle77n – Vietnam – $ 2,432.38
Event #13: Progressive Bounty – BUIKIA – Malaysia – $ 8,339.54
The second installment of the Progressive Bounty event had a slightly higher turnout with 190 hunters in pursuit. Player BUIKIA went on a knockout spree to become the last man standing. Impressively, BUIKIA received more in bounty rewards as compared to the first place purse. With this win, BUIKIA catapulted from 13th rank in the APT POS leader board to 2nd rank.
Buy in: $ 200
Guarantee: $ 12,500
Total entries: 190
Prize pool: $ 35,530
ITM: 31 places
DhaneshChainani had a huge chip lead entering the final elliptic. Charging upwards was #FICKLEFOXX delivering two heads in one go. See hand below.
Double knock out
Plenty of action followed leading to the fall of Podipivkovich. At six handed, player pwandwan was very active. First a double up through DhaneshChainani, then railed MaoZeDonk (6th); lost a shove against Floatingworld, then survived against BUIKIA.
BUIKIA recovered the lost chips by finishing off Floatingworld (5th). Aggressive plays resumed until BUIKIA put the brakes on both DhaneshChainani and #FICKLEFOXX to claim the victory.
Final table payouts
1st BUIKIA – Malaysia – $ 3,531.48 + $ 4,808.06 bounties = $ 8,339.54
2nd #FICKLEFOXX – Singapore – $ 2,615.61 + $ 1,540.79 = $ 4,120.39
3rd DhaneshChainani – Singapore – $ 1,937 + $ 1,504.79 bounties = $ 3,265.33
4th pwandwan – China – $ 1,434.93 + $ 549.30 bounties = $ 1,984.23
5th Floatingworld – $ 1,062.83 + 315.56 bounties = $ 1,378.83
6th MaoZeDonk – Austria – $ 787.21 + $ 350.62 bounties = $ 1,137.83
7th PodPivkovich – Russia – $ 583.07 + $ 490.87 bounties = $ 1,073.94
8th ChokDeeKrap – Thailand – $ 431.87 + $ 555.16 bounties = $ 987.03
9th KairoSClock – Germany – $ 319.87 + 467.49 bounties = $ 787.36
Event #14: Micro Monster Stack – edger – $ 4,202.38
The first offering of the Micro Monster Stack event did not disappoint as a thunderous 505 powered in. This was the largest event turnout of the day, and suffice it to say, the guarantee was easily surpassed. Player edger took it down turning a lowly $ 50 buy in to a cool $ 4,202.38.
Buy in: $ 50
Guarantee: $ 10,000
Total entries: 505
Prize pool: $ 23,608.75
ITM: 80 places
Eventual winner edger led at the start of the final table however early action was dominated by the other players. This balanced out the stacks until five handed when edger knocked out the next three players.
Edger faced Stickyrb1 at heads up where a deal was discussed but failed. Stickyrb1 was behind 5:1 and hoped to even up before agreeing on a deal. However, that moment didn’t materialize. Edger grinded down Stickyrb1 who resulted in shoving at every hand. Stickyrb1 did land a double up but still met the rail in 2nd place.
Final table payouts
1st edger – Japan – $ 4,202.38
2nd Stickyrb1 – Vietnam – $ 3,080.09
3rd noclue_just – Hong Kong – $ 2,257.70
4th mommyfinger – Hong Kong – $ 1,654.88
5th hauta001 – Japan – $ 1,213.02
6th masalaTeh – Aruba – $ 889.14
7th BanhKem85 – Canada – $ 651.74
8th (qitiandasheng) – China – $ 477.72
9th dzy138 – China – $ 350.17
Event #15: No Limit Hold’em Freeze Out – BoJackHorseman – $ 4,113.22
The No Limit Hold’em Freeze Out brought in a crowd of 228 players to quadruple up the $ 5K guarantee to $ 21.3K. At heads up, player BoJackHorseman overcame a deficit to deny Floatingworld aka Dicky Tsang his second series title. For the achievement, BoJackHorseman earned $ 4,113.22 and an APT trophy in the mail.
Buy in: $ 100
Guarantee: $ 5,000
Total players: 228
Prize pool: $ 21,318
ITM: 39 places
Catching the action at the start of the final table, Floatingworld led in the pack however player Icemmeth immediately overtook by sending the boot to two players. The first to fall was fcsion86 with K♦ Q♥ losing the flip to Icemmeth’s 4♦ 4♠.
Player keijji followed with Q♦ 10♦ unable to improve against Icemmeth’s A♦ 7♠. BoJackHorseman and Floatingworld helped trim the table by knocking out one each leaving five in the round. Not one to miss out on chips, Terryboom crippled Sexyama to eventual doom.
Busting next was Icemmeth (4th) who was unable to recover after a crushing defeat against BoJackHorseman with trips falling to a boat.
Heads up arrived at the when Floatingworld’s A♠ Q♦ rivered a straight against Terryboom’s K♥ Q♥ two pair. Floatingworld faced BoJackHorseman with a 2:1 chip advantage.
The deficit was quickly erased when BoJackHorseman won two sizable pots, then took the lead with K♥ 3♦ besting A♣ 10♣ on a king high board. A minute later, BoJackHorseman secured the win with top pair over bottom pair.
Final table payouts
1st BoJackHorseman – Poland – $ 4,113.22
2nd Floatingworld – Hong Kong – $ 3,039.98
3rd Terryboom – Vietnam – $ 2,246.91
4th Icemmeth – Hong Kong – $ 1,660.74
5th Sexyama – New Zealand – $ 1,227.49
6th pokergod117 – UK – $ 907.27
7th ciaobella – Singapore – $ 670.58
8th keiji – Japan – $ 495.64
9th fcsion86 – Argentina – $ 366.34
Event #16: NLH Turbo – AfternoonAA – $ 3,543.67
Just like the first edition of the No Limit Hold’em Turbo, the second edition was equally popular with over 400 runners. After a quick three hours, player AfternoonAA seized the title and the $ 3,543.67 first prize.
AfternoonAA – winning hand
Buy in: $ 50
Guarantee: $ 10,000
Total entries: 421
Prize pool: $ 19,681.75
ITM: 71 places
Leading up to AfternoonAA’s triumph, the final table was formed at the fall of three players simultaneously leaving only 7 players on the hunt. AfternoonAA was second in chips but immediately jumped out front by railing hikyubeast in 7th place. This also earned AfternoonAA the chip lead.
After fold200881 fell in 6th place, the next four met their end at the hands of AfternoonAA. In most cases, AfternoonAA dominated at the shove except at four-handed, getting lucky on BenLeiii with A♥ 6♥ pairing the six to deny A♣ K♠.
The final hand was A♣ 7♣ over J♥ 10♦ on a board 3♥ 6♣ 9♥ 7♠ 2♠.
Final table payouts
1st AfternoonAA – Singapore – $ 3,543.67
2nd funassy1 – Japan – $ 2,597.19
3rd jimyycc – Hong Kong – $ 1,903.73
4th BenLeiii – Macau – $ 1,395.43
5th cornerBo – Japan – $ 1,022.85
6th fold200881 – Germany – $ 749.74
7th hikyubeast – Singapore – $ 549.56
8th MoneyCome1 – Malaysia – $ 402.82
9th ZhangWei107 – UK – $ 295.27