APT Main Event: Michael Fan bags overall chip lead at Day 1B; Tam Hoi Wai wins NLH Single Day 1


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APT Korea Incheon 2019 wrapped up its last starting day of the featured KRW 200M guaranteed Main Event. 135 made their way to Paradise City Casino to bring the combined total entries to 206. This more than eclipsed the advertised guarantee. Players are now looking at roughly around KRW 240M which will likely grow with registration still open for one hour in Day 2. 

Recapping the action at Day 1B, the influx of players brought in the likes of pros Xixiang Luo, Pete Yen Han Chen, and Chen Hao to the scene. All three bagged chips. Also part of the 76 survivors were a lineup of APT decorated champions: Iori Yogo, Sim Jae Kyung, Jinwoo Kim, Guo Dong, Na Young Kim, and Hung Sheng Lin.

All of these star players however took a backseat to USA’s Michael Fan who closed the day with a stack of 125,700. He enters Day 2 as the overall chip leader. 

Fan is a new face in the APT circuit and is already making his presence felt. He packed up nearly one starting stack more than second position player Singapore’s Graeme Siow with 105,000. Next down the rung was Japan’s Shogo Otani with 104,800, and to round out the players that packed up over 100k was another Japanese contender Shuichi Ominami with 102,600.

Day 1B Chip Count

Rank Name Country Chips
1 Michael Fan United States 125,700
2 Graeme Siow Singapore 105,000
3 Shogo Otani Japan 104,800
4 Shuichi Ominami Japan 102,600
5 Iori Yogo Japan 91,400
6 Xu Ya Hui China 91,000
7 Xia Tian Yang China 83,000
8 Takahiro Abe Japan 80,000
9 Daiki Horikawa Japan 77,600
10 Zhu, Jingxuan China 73,000
11 Masaki Fujitani Japan 72,400
12 Koichi Haruta Japan 72,200
13 Jwabiyoung Kim Korea 68,000
14 Roman Shcherbakov  Russia 64,500
15 Yue Tsun Wai “Weather” Hong Kong 64,100
16 Andrew An United States 63,600
17 Jun Yoshida Japan 63,200
18 Zhai Hong Fei China 61,200
19 Kosuke Tajima Japan 60,600
20 Bai Renhao China 60,600
21 Fu Bang Huang Taiwan 59,900
22 Onda Toshiyuki Japan 57,700
23 Dom Choi Australia 57,200
24 Kevin Song Korea 56,900
25 Ryoji Takahashi Japan 56,600
26 Samil Agarwal India 55,300
27 Ko Ngai Ka Hong Kong 55,200
28 Chiseong Noh United States 54,000
29 Akihisa T Japan 53,200
30 Yuya Nakatani Japan 51,700
31 Suzuki Takuya Japan 51,300
32 Mitsuyoshi Ogasawara Japan 50,700
33 Edward Pak Russia 50,500
34 Nozomu Shimizo Japan 48,900
35 Ng Rai Cheung Hong Kong 48,500
36 Asahisa Hiroyuki Japan 42,900
37 Sim Jae Kyung “Simba” Korea 39,100
38 Hirotaka Nishimura Japan 38,700
39 Xixiang Luo China 38,600
40 Kenichi Takarabe Japan 38,400
41 Pete Yen Han Chen Taiwan 37,300
42 Jinwoo Kim United States 35,900
43 Hiroshi Suzuki Japan 34,100
44 Masayuki Shibata Japan 33,100
45 Seung Chul Jennens Canada 32,800
46 Ryusuke Kasawaki Japan 31,600
47 Koszugi Diana Hungary 30,900
48 Yoichiro Deguchi Japan 29,900
49 Tou Ta Wei Taiwan 29,700
50 Liu Xiang China 28,700
51 Raiden Kan Hong Kong 28,100
52 Tin Tsz Wang Chevan Hong Kong 27,900
53 Vincent Li Kwan Ngai Hong Kong 27,600
54 Chung Ming Sang Hong Kong 27,400
55 Wang Jie China 27,000
56 Kim Na Young Japan 24,500
57 Rousset Cyrille France 22,200
58 Chen Hao China 21,300
59 Kwok Chun Lai Hong Kong 18,900
60 Yuri Ishida Japan 18,800
61 Guo Dong China 18,200
62 Qingtian Qian China 18,100
63 Tszhim Pun Hong Kong 17,700
64 Li Cheng Bei China 17,700
65 Ruiko Mamiya Japan 17,600
66 Hung-Sheng Lin Taiwan 15,800
67 Shaw Vaclav Sansevere United States 14,600
68 Hashimoto Akira Japan 14,300
69 Elden Troy McGladdery Singapore 13,800
70 Zhou Quan China 13,400
71 Mirko Gattong Switzerland 13,400
72 Kengo Sakurai Japan 11,500
73 Choy Waitak Hong Kong 10,500
74 Okumura Tomahiro Japan 10,100
75 Liu Feng China 8,000
76 Kohei Kawanishi Japan 5,100

The 76 Day 1B survivors will merge with the 40 Day 1A survivors for a combined 116 players into Day 2. For those unable to qualify or fence-sitters or are just arriving, there is still one hour of registration left. Day 2 begins at Level 9, registration closes at the start of Level 10. 

Day 1A results

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Side event results

Another trophy has left the awards table with Event #6 taken down by Hong Kong player Tam Hoi Wan. We’ve got a brief recap below. This earned Wan, and all the players that cashed, points toward the APT Player of the Series race. Make sure to check your standing. Currently leading are New Caledonia’s Joseph Cona (361.07 pts), Russia’s Roman Ro (337.77 pts), and Taiwan’s Hung Sheng Lin (328.14 pts). 

Only four days of games have concluded which means there are plenty more side events to enjoy to pick up one of those rockin’ APT Golden Lion trophies.

Full APT Korea Incheon 2019 schedule. 

Tam Hoi Wai wins No Limit Hold’em Singe Day 1

The sixth side event of the series was the No Limit Hold’em Single Day 1 with a buy-in of KRW 440,000. 54 players took a stab to bring about a prize pool of KRW 20,952,000. Reaching the money once again was Hong Kong pro Edward Yam Chun Ho who currently leads the world in the most number of cashes for the year. Yam went on to finish in 9th place. On the opposite end of the pole was another Hong Kong player, Tam Hoi Wan, defeating Daicho Ryo for the title. Wan captured his first-ever APT win and KRW 6,366,000. 

Payouts
1st Tam Hoi Wan – Hong Kong – KRW 6,366,000
2nd Daicho Ryo – Japan – KRW 4,244,000
3rd Fai Wu Yu – Hong Kong – KRW 2,951,000
4th Mukase Koki – Japan – KRW 2,131,000
5th Wakamatsu Masakatzu – Japan – KRW 1,594,000 
6th Hino Yuta – Japan – KRW 1,230,000
7th Chi Chung Ho – Hong Kong – KRW 977,000
8th Cheuk Nam Lam – Hong Kong – KRW 796,000
9th Edward Yam Chun Ho – Hong Kong – KRW 663,000


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