HomeAPT Finale Taiwan 2019 continues to award trophies at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. Today saw another three crowned. We’ve got those results below along with a brief recap. Everyone that cashed in these events earned points towards the APT Player of the Series race. You can view the standings via the link below.
APT Player of the Series standings
APT Finale Taiwan 2019 Event Results
Guo Dong awarded the High Rollers Single Day win
In a heads up deal, Chinese pro Guo Dong was awarded the victory at the High Rollers Single Day and pocketed a cool NT$ 600,000. Taiwan’s Lee Kun Han took second for a payout of NT$ 716,000.
The event brought 55 to action at NT$ 55,000 each for a prize pool of NT$ 2,667,500 (~US$ 87,500). During the bubble round, runner-up Lee Kun Han doubled up through Ben Lai with pocket queens dominating pocket jacks. Immediately after, the bubble burst at the fall of Kong Seongsu with J♣ J♠ losing the flip to Chu Chi Jen‘s A♦ K♥ on a board running 7♥ 3♥ A♠ A♣ K♠.
From there, dropouts were fast to form the final table.
When the field trimmed to just four players, Park Ju Yuk pushed with Q-J only to get bumped out by Philemon Ip‘s A-10. However, Ip couldn’t hold the chips. His A♥ 5♥ missed the board to fall in 3rd place to Lee’s A♣ Q♥. This brought about heads up. After an ICM deal, Guo Dong was awarded the win and Lee the higher take.
Payouts
1st Guo Dong – China – NT$ 600,000
2nd Lee Kun Han – Taiwan – NT$ 716,00
3rd Philemon Ip – Hong Kong – NT$ 366,000
4th Park Ju Yuk – Korea – NT$ 264,400
5th Wen Chang – Taiwan – NT$ 197,700
6th Cheng How Pan – Taiwan – NT$ 152,600
7th Kenji Hata – Japan – NT$ 121,200
8th Chu Chi Jen – Taiwan – NT$ 98,700
9th Ben Lai – Hong Kong – NT$ 82,300
10th Ta-Chih Cheng – Taiwan – NT$ 68,600
Massive stacked Chien Yu Wang awarded the title at the PLO Hi 2
The two-day NT$ 11,000 buy-n Pot Limit Omaha Hi had 46 runners for NT$ 446,200 (~US$ 14,600). Day 1 closed when the money was reached. The final 8 players returned today led by Canada’s Richard Alleson in seat 1 below.
Among the finalists was Kristof Segers who won this event at the previous APT Taiwan series. Segers also cashed in 6th place at the PLO Hi 1 event several days ago. He fared better today finishing in 4th place.
Kristof Segers
Taking 3rd was Tsai Ming Ching who seemed invincible during four-handed. Tsai tripled up three times plus a double up. One of those pots was a lucky runner runner full house with A♥ 3♦ against Alleson’s 3♥ 3♠ set on a board 4♣ 3♣ K♦ A♠ A♣. He was finally stopped by Chien Yu Wang with Q♥ Q♠ set to dust A♠ K♠ top pair on a board 4♥ 9♥ A♦ Q♣ 6♥.
Two remaining, Wang and Alleson agreed on a deal that split the top two payouts and the win awarded to Wang for his larger stack.
Payouts
1st Chien Yu Wang – Taiwan – NT$ 116,600 (deal made)
2nd Richard Alleson – Canada – NT$ 116,600 (deal made)
3rd Tsai Ming Ching – Taiwan – NT$ 64,900
4th Kristof Segers – Belgium – NT$ 46,900
5th Kwok Ting Shum – Hong Kong SAR – NT$ 35,100
6th Che Li Lin – Taiwan – NT$ 27,100
7th Gary Cheng – Taiwan – NT$ 21,500
8th Chinnarut Tamprateep – Thailand – NT$ 17,500
Keon Yong Ma wins the No Limit Hold’em Single Day
84 jumped at the chance to join the No Limit Hold’em Single Day with each contributing the NT$ 7,700 buy-in. This created a pot worth NT$ 570,400 (~US$ 18,700) to be divvied by the top 14 places. Korea’s Keon Yong Ma lifted his first-ever APT title along with NT$ 132,600 (~US$ 4,300).
At the fall of Low Zi Cheng to Yo Hwan Lim with A♦ 4♣ unable to crack 4♦ 4♥, pieces of the money pie were immediately claimed and the final table of 9 players was soon formed.
Low Zi Cheng
Once it reached three-handed, Lim joined Yves Lin moving all his chips out front. Lim A♣ K♠, Lin A♦ 10♠, when the board ran 4♦ 7♥ 4♠ 3♦ 10♦, Yves spiked a pair on the river to eliminate Lim. The final two players, Yves and Keon Yong Ma immediately reached an ICM deal and played on for the trophy plus NT$ 10,000.
Yves Lin
After a ping pong match with the lead switching multiple times, the first showdown went to Ma with K♠ Q♣ outdrawing 7♥ 7♦. A queen showed up on the flop and river.
Keon Yong Ma
From there, Ma continued to grind down Lin. Lin shoved his short stack with 6♠ 7♥ to battle with but Ma had K♦ K♠. The final board ran A♠ 4♠ 7♠ 9♣ J♥.
Payouts
1st Keon Yong Ma – Korea NT$ 132,600
2nd Yves Lin – France – NT$ 125,700
3rd Yo Hwan Lim – Korea – NT$ 71,800
4th Udom Suos – France – NT$ 51,900
5th James Andrew Grills – USA – NT$ 38,800
6th Jen-Yen Chien – Taiwan – NT$ 29,900
7th Edward Yam Chun Ho – Hong Kong SAR – NT$ 23,800
8th Masaki Fujitani – Japan – NT$ 19,400
9th Tai Yu Wang – Taiwan – NT$ 16,100
10th Wong Siu Ki – Hong Kong SAR – NT$ 13,400
11th Tou Ta Wei – Taiwan – NT$ 13,400
12th Kai Kwong Chu – Hong Kong SAR – NT$ 11,200
13th Jun Beum Chun – Korea – NT$ 11,200
14th Chih Ying Liang – Taiwan – NT$ 11,200