Eng Loong Choi sets the bar at Championship Event Day 1A


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The second featured tournament of the Asian Poker Tour was the main course today with the APT Finale Taiwan 2019 –  CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENT  – hosting Day 1A at partner Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. By the close of day, 54 entered, 31 had chips to bag with Eng Loong Choi aka Wilson Choi as chip leader at 218,300. 

Choi is a very familiar face in the APT circuit. At the previous series, APT Vietnam, he finished 3rd at the Main Event by avoiding the rail on a whopping 8 successful shoves. Choi is the player to catch up to coming Day 1B. 

Among the players joining the leader to the next round were five APT decorated champions: Neil Raine, Punnat Punsri, Guo Dong, Graeme Siow, and the newly crowned Main Event winner Zhou Yueyang. 

Day 1B is up next taking place on Friday, December 6 at 1pm. This is the last starting day. Buy-in is NT$ 49,500 (~US$ 1,600). The event guarantees NT$ 6,000,000 (~US$ 196,700). 

Current chips in play: 2,700,000
Current average stack: 87,096

Everything on the Championships Event 

Day 1A – 31 advanced out of 54 entries

Rank Name Country / Region Chips
1 Eng Loong Choi Malaysia 218,300
2 Wang Tau Wei Taiwan 186,800
3 Neil Raine United Kingdom 171,300
4 Punnat Punsri Thailand 168,000
5 Guo Dong China 152,000
6 Kelvin Beattie Japan 142,900
7 Peter Chien Canada 117,500
8 Kong Seung So Korea 112,400
9 Chan Ying Kit Hong Kong 110,000
10 Im Sangguk Korea 102,700
11 Li Kwun NgaI Vincent Hong Kong 91,600
12 Hwang Sang Yeon Hong Kong 89,100
13 Yung Bing Chu Taiwan 83,300
14 Lai Ben Hong Kong 79,300
15 Sera Ota Japan 72,100
16 Ben Andrews United Kingdom 71,000
17 Jie Zhang Hong Kong 66,400
18 Preston Lee USA 66,300
19 Michal Polchlopek Poland 66,200
20 Graeme Siow Singapore 56,900
21 Yik Yin Chiu Ray Hong Kong 54,400
22 Yoichi Uesugi Japan 54,100
23 Chih Chang Chao Taiwan 53,200
24 Dong Woo Lee Korea 52,100
25 Zhou Yueyang China 48,600
26 Kenji Hata Japan 47,100
27 Kwok Chun Yip Hong Kong 46,300
28 Kuang Hung Lee Taiwan 45,500
29 Lau King Sing Hong Kong 40,000
30 Siyang Phua Singapore 25,000
31 Kenny Shih Taiwan 15,100

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