HomeBig day for Malaysia’s Eng Loong Choi at the Championships Event! Choi entered Day 2 running second rank, jumped to the lead early, then closed the heat way ahead of the pack with 1,055,000 bagged. Choi was the only player to cross into a million.
On the road to amassing his monstrous stack, Choi knocked out several players, a couple of them with crushing sets. We will keep a close watch on his performance coming Day 3. The furthest that Choi has reached at an APT featured event was 3rd at the recent APT Vietnam Main Event.
Punnat Punsri
Closing in second and third rank were APT major title-holders Punnat Punsri and Carlos Chang. At one point, Punsri stormed to the lead on a huge double up through Jun Beum Chun with a winning set of sixes. He bagged up 750,000. As for Chang, his consistent rise throughout Day 2 chipped him up to 631,000. Other decorated APT champions also through were Neil Raine (497,000), and Graeme Siow (416,000). Entering chip leader Chia Yun Wu made it in the top ten with a very healthy 356,000.
WSOP bracelet winners making the cut were Alex Lindop (169,000) and Ji Young Kim (142,000). Dutch pro Tobias Peters will also be returning to hunt for his first-ever major Asian title. Peters has multiple international awards under his belt including a WSOP circuit Main Event title. He bagged up 263,000.
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Day 3 chip counts by rank and by table
| Choi Eng Loong | Malaysia | 1,055,000 | 23 | 8 |
| Punnat Punsri | Thailand | 750,000 | 21 | 4 |
| Carlos Chang | Taiwan | 631,000 | 24 | 5 |
| Shiga Mitsuhiro | Japan | 586,000 | 23 | 5 |
| Yang Kyung Suk | Korea | 500,000 | 21 | 9 |
| Neil Raine | United Kingdom | 497,000 | 24 | 6 |
| Graeme Siow | Singapore | 416,000 | 21 | 1 |
| Chia-Yun-Wu | Taiwan | 356,000 | 24 | 2 |
| Cheng Chao Ting | Taiwan | 346,000 | 24 | 1 |
| Sera Ota | Japan | 345,000 | 21 | 6 |
| Takao Shimizu | Japan | 277,000 | 24 | 9 |
| Chang Yu Chung | Taiwan | 265,000 | 23 | 2 |
| Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 263,000 | 24 | 7 |
| Jaegwang Kim | Korea | 234,000 | 24 | 4 |
| Kelvin Beattie | Japan | 224,000 | 21 | 7 |
| Wang Wei-Han | Taiwan | 218,000 | 23 | 4 |
| Chi-Ying Tsai | Taiwan | 179,000 | 23 | 3 |
| Ta-Chih | Taiwan | 172,000 | 23 | 9 |
| Alex Lindop | United Kingdom | 169,000 | 23 | 6 |
| Ji Young Kim | Korea | 142,000 | 21 | 2 |
| Go Mori | Japan | 124,000 | 21 | 8 |
| Matthew Chan | Singapore | 103,000 | 21 | 5 |
| Keon Yong Ma | Korea | 95,000 | 23 | 1 |
Day 3 info
23 players
Chips in play: 7,950,000
Average stack: 345,652
Opening blinds: 4000 – 8000 ante 8000
Starting time: 1pm
Bagging time: Final 8 players
Live Updates starting at 1pm.
Prize Pool: NT$ 6,940,000 (~US$ 228,000)
ITM: 16 places
The Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association opened its doors today with Day 2 of the APT Finale Taiwan 2019 – CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENT. Registration was open for one final hour. This brought in another 27 entries for a total of 159 entries. At NT$ 33,000 buy-in, the prize pool eclipsed the guarantee for a heftier NT$ 6,940,300. At the end of the scheduled 8 rounds, the money was not reached. 23 remained with cash only certain for the top 16 places.
