APT Daegu Main Event Final Eight: Zasorin Maintains Top Spot


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The Final Eight of the APT Daegu Main Event has been set here at the Daegu Casino located within the Hotel Inter-Burgo in Daegu, South Korea.

APT Daegu Main Event Final 8

Russia’s Sergey Zasorin has been the consistent chip leader since Day 1A and hopes to bag his first APT Main Event title along with the KRW 25,800,000 top prize. Zasorin will start the Final Eight with 290,500 in chips. Not too far behind him is Kim Nayoung from Japan with a stack of 283,000.

Rank Name Chip Count Country Seat #
1 Sergey Zasorin (DB) 290,500 Russia 5
2 Kim Nayoung (SB) 283,000 Japan 6
3 Lee Jong Yeol (Kimura) 203,000 Philippines 1
4 Takuya Kitamura 162,500 Japan 4
5 Yoichi Uesugi 138,500 Japan 3
6 Yoshito Iwama 97,000 Japan 8
7 Ki Min Woo 75,000 USA 2
8 Itsuki Taniguchi (BB) 29,500 Japan 7

Meanwhile, two more side event trophies were awarded today..

First lady champion at APT Daegu receives the NLH Event trophy

Trophy awarded to WLS Deep Stack Turbo Champion Tago Yoshihiro

In addition, tomorrow’s schedule includes the KRW 440,000 Greed NLH, KRW 3,300,000 High Rollers and KRW 660,000 No Limit Holdem Freezeout events at the Daegu Casino located within the Hotel Inter-Burgo Daegu, South Korea.


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