HomeA smashing opening day at the inaugural APT Online Series hosted on Natural8 with the first five events obliterating its guarantee. Setting the tone was the two day Monster Stack event that easily surpassed the $ 30K guarantee on its first flight and nearly tripled up at the end of Flight B. With one flight remaining, we expect that pot to exceed $ 100K. The High Rollers followed, and that too saw its $ 30K guarantee double up to $ 66,500. The largest jump was the No Limit Hold’em Freeze Out event with the $ 5K guarantee fattening up to a much healthier $ 23K. This led to handsome payouts across the board. Congratulations to all the winners! We have those stories for you below.
Plenty more games lined up throughout the twelve day series. Make sure to check the schedule for what’s on next. Series runs until May 10.
For everyone that cashed, points were earned towards the APT Player of the Series race. You can view your standings via the link below. Event 2: High Roller champion Michael Soyza leads with 515.75 points.
APT Player of the Series leader board
For now, let’s have a look the opening day results.
Event #1: Monster Stack
Kicking off the action was the two day Monster Stack event. This event is an APT crowd favorite and was proven so once again by the incredible turnout of the two opening flights. With Flight A seeing 159 entries, the $ 30K guarantee was crushed to bits, and with Flight B adding another 146 to the mix, it nearly tripled the guarantee.
Flight A – 61 advanced out of 159 entries
Flight B – 46 advanced out 146
Total entries – 305
Chips in play – 9,150,000
Average stack – 85,251
Cumulative prize pool – $ 85,552.50
Up next is Flight C taking place on April 30 at 16:00 (HKT). This is the last chance to get in on this escalating pot. Currently, 40 players have pre-registered which means we will see that prize pool spill well over $ 100K. All final day qualifiers will then merge in the evening at 19:00.
Top 10 qualifiers
Jacob Tang – China – 304,677 (Flight B chip leader)
Icemmeth – Hong Kong – 276,976
CheckEtoFold – Ukraine – 274,867
twoplus2 – Malaysia – 182,980
LEN1234980 – Japan – 173,003 (Flight A chip leader)
Fortunata.Son – Hong Kong – 172,560
Jayb0y_11 – UK – 169,926
Rlsz – China – 164,276
AAsian – Switzerland – 158,312
Maverick88 – Vietnam – 154,466
Event #2: High Rollers – Michael Soyza – $ 18,288.30
It took five and a half hours for Natural8 Team Hot Ambassador Michael Soyza to ship the first High Rollers event and claim the single largest payout of the day worth $ 18,288.30. Soyza faced fellow Malaysian player TT928 at heads up while on a deficit, was dragged further down to a dismal 6:1 chip disadvantage, then the tides shifted sending a couple of breaks his way to take the lead and close it out.
Michael Soyza
Buy in – $ 1,000
Guarantee: $ 30,000
Entries: 70
Prize pool: $ 66,500
ITM: 9 places
Final table
Final table results
1st Michael Soyza – Malaysia – $ 18,288.30
2nd TT928 – Malaysia – $ 12,223.19
3rd MeGustaMucho – Ukraine – $ 9,557.08
4th C.Darwin900 – UK – $ 7,472.50
5th BIG CHI – Canada – $ 5,842.61
6th Chainsaw – UK – $ 4,568.22
7th readytoship – Macau – $ 3,571,80
8th PrinzOfDTO – Austria – $ 2,792.72
9th Igutu – India – $ 2,183.58
Recap
The final table was formed at the fall of AAsian (A-K) top pair to PrinzOfDTO (K-Q) two pair.
Bubble hand
Entering the final table, Soyza was running third in chips while TT928 was at the bottom. Along the way, TT928 doubled up twice and railed MeGustaMucho (3rd) to earn a heads up spot in the lead. TT928 proceeded to pressure Soyza, making it very difficult for the pro to climb. TT928 nearly shipped it however Soyza caught a lucky flush on the river.
Lucky flush
Soyza took control when jacks held up on a flip against A-K.
And after one hour battling like bulls, Soyza nailed it shut to claim the first place purse and the first APT Online Series High Rollers title.
Soyza’s winning hand
Event #3: No Limit Hold’em Freeze Out – TheJourney – $ 4,041.91
Buy in: $ 100
Guarantee: $ 5,000
Entries: 247
Prize pool: $ 23,094.50
ITM: 39 places
Final table payouts
1st TheJourney – UK – $ 4,401.91 (deal)
2nd LAMJON – Hong Kong – $ 3,167,79 (deal)
3rd NoDealBro – Israel – $ 2,973.71 (deal)
4th Stickyrb1 – Vietnam – $ 1,799.14
5th AAsian – Switzerland – $ 1,329.78
6th girl-u-drugs – China – $ 982.87
7th anh961 – Vietnam – $ 726.46
8th F4696 China – $ 536.94
9th DdeviL – Malaysia – $ 396.86
After the fall of DdeviL in 9th place, a three way shove led to the fall of Quang Ngoc “anh961” and F4696 with girl-u-drugs on the winning end with A♣ 10♣.
However girl-u-drugs rise went crashing down in two unlucky hands against TheJourney. The first saw girl-u-drugs aces cracked by TheJourney‘s 6♠ 9♥ two pair followed by J♥ 9♦ two pair rivered by A♣ A♦ two pair.
TheJourney’s fortune continued with a full house earning maximum pay through AAsian (5th). This sent TheJourney zooming to second in chips. When the field trimmed down to three players, several hands were first played before a deal was struck. TheJourney went on to rail NoDealBro in 3rd place with Q-J over Q-10 and soon closed it out with a very lucky nut flush against LAMJON.
Event #4: Progressive Bounty – Dicky Tsang “Floatingworld” – $ 6,231.51
APT Korea Incheon 2019 Main Event winner Dicky Tsang “Floatingworld” held his head high at the Progressive Bounty tournament while delivering the axe to a numerous players. Not only did Tsang ship it, he also collected the largest in bounty rewards.
Buy in: $ 200
Guarantee: $ 12,500
Entries: 170
Prize pool: $ 31,790
ITM: 27 places
Final table payouts
1st Floatingworld – Hong Kong – $ 3,158.41 + $ 3,046.10 bounties = $ 6,231.51
2nd ghostriderxu – China – $ 2,409.44 + $ 1,167.30 bounties = $ 3,576.74
3rd propofol-san – Japan – $ 1,822.57 + $ 1,037.27 bounties = $ 2,859.84
4th Simpy_The_Best – Poland – $ 1,378.65 + $ 1,446.33 bounties = $ 2,824.98
5th ChrisFinch – UK – $ 1,042.85 + 543.37 bounties = $ 1,586.32
6th Jcm_1995 – Albania – $ 788.84 + 572.70 bounties = $ 1,361.54
7th PodPvkovich – Russia – $ 596.70 + $ 362.32 bounties = $ 959.01
8th Goldig – Malaysia – $ 451.36 + $ 455.81 bounties = $ 907.17
9th hupimaopoker – Hong Kong – $ 341.42 + 116.87 bounties = $ 458.29
Event #5: High Roller Turbo – PidrPan – $ 11,369.67
The second largest first prize was claimed by PidrPan at the High Roller Turbo. PidrPan and runner up TallMan engaged in a tug of war at heads up with both holding the chip lead at various moments.
PidrPan nearly closed it out in the hand below instead a lucky river awarded TallMan the pot and the chip lead.
When PidrPan recovered, another big pot widened the gap for PidrPan to eventually claim the $ 11,369.67 first prize.
Buy in: $ 500
Guarantee: $ 15,000
Entries: 101
Prize pool: $ 47,975
ITM: 13 places
Payouts
1st PidrPan – Estonia – $ 11,369.67
2nd TallMan – Malaysia – $ 8,610.50
3rd neymar90 – Andorra – $ 6,520.95
4th ImBackBaby – Israel – $ 4,938.49
5th Nasheyy – India – $ 3,740.04
6th alltimehigh – Hong Kong – $ 2,832.43
7th OMGItsMe – Indonesia – $ 2,145.07
8th Moist – New Zealand – $ 1,624.52
9th TheAlchemist$ – India – $ 1,395.85
10th inonhmeansfu – India – $ 1,199.37
11th TurboPete – Macau – $ 1,199.37
12th IfYouWantNo!8 – Andorra – $ 1,199.37
13th ghostedatFT – Brazil – $ 1,199.37
Event #6: NLH Turbo – Quang Ngoc “anh961” – $ 4,135.77
In just three hours, Vietnam’s Quang Ngoc username anh961 closed out the final event of the day for a $ 4,135.77 payout. This added to his 7th place cash at the earlier Freeze Out tournament.
At three handed, Ngoc seized the lead after railing CanSeeYourCards (3rd) to face MaoZeDonk for the title and ship it.
Buy in: $ 50
Guarantee: $ 10,000
Entries: 497
Prize pool: $ 23,234.75
ITM: 80 places
Final table payouts
1st anh – Vietnam – $ 4,135.77
2nd MaoZeDonk – Austria – $ 3,031.30
3rd CanSeeYourCards – Austria – $ 2,221.93
4th liverlover$ – Singapore – $ 1,628.67
5th Dosobyc – Lithuania – $ 1,193.81
6th Dostoevsky – Japan – $ 875.06
7th Damian1991 – Poland – $ 641.14
8th Poker3thu – Japan – $ 470.15
9th | uc |< – Malaysia – $ 344.62