Late surge sends Preston Lee up top Championships Event Day 1A; Pak Valeriy awarded Single Day 3 title

Day 1A of the APT Korea Incheon Championships 2018 –  Championships Event – bagged up with USA’s Preston Lee leading with 286,800 in chips. During the last hands called for the day, Lee engaged in a raise war against New Zealand’s Tae Hoon Han who at the time had the largest stack. 

Preston Lee

With blinds at 2500-5000 ante 5000, Lee raised to 10k, Han three-bet to 25.5k, Lee four-bet to 55k, Han shoved, and Lee called for his tournament life. Han had J♠ J♦ and Lee with K♣ K♥. No help came on the board for Han and Lee doubled up to over 260k. Lee closed the day adding a little bit more to his arsenal after railing a short stack with 10-10 over 6-6.

Bagging up in second rank was Japan’s Masato Shimizu with 180,400. 

Masato Shimizu

And despite doubling Lee, Han was able to recover some chips by eliminating a player with 4♦ 4♣ over A♣ K♠ that missed. He bagged up the third highest stack of 143,500. 

Tae Hoon Han

Other notable players making it through were the two CoinPoker High Roller champions, Eric Tsai and Kevin Clark. 

Day 1A chip counts: 

Day 1A survivors move on to Day 2 on Friday, August 17 at 1pm. Tomorrow is the last starting flight to enter the event. Day 1B starts at 1pm. 

Pak Valeriy awarded Single Day 3 title

Pak Valeriy, NLH Single Day 3 winner

The NLH Single Day 3 event ended with Uzbekistan’s Pak Valeriy and Nakata Kazunori opting to deal than play it out for the trophy. With Valeriy backed by a bigger stack, he was immediately awarded the title and the higher cut of ₩6,480,000.

Pak Valeriy (L) Nakata Kazunori (R)

The event got underway with 64 entries for a prize pool of  ₩24,832,000. As soon as the bubble burst with Moriyama Masataka knocking out Iori Yogo with 5♦ 5♣ staying ahead of A♥ 9♥, the remaining 11 players began to shave down the pot. 

Iori Yogo bubbles

After two fell, Nomura Yozo sent another two out simultaneously to bring the field down to 7 players. At this point, Valeriy took command and racked up a big lead.  

At three-handed, Valeriy dominated, grinding down both of his opponents, Yozo and Kazunori. Yozo took a final stand with Q♣ 3♣ but Valeriy denied him with A♠ 5♦ straight on a board that felted a dramatic 4♦ 2♣ K♣ 3♦ 10♥. 

Payouts
1st Pak Valeriy – Uzbekistan – ₩6,480,000 (deal made)
2nd Nakata Kazunori – Japan – ₩5,300,000 (deal made)
3rd Nomura Yozo – Japan – ₩3,290,000
4th Moriyama Masataka – Japan – ₩2,394,000
5th Ranmi Iwakura – Japan – ₩1,810,000
6th Sungha Kim – Canada – ₩1,414,000
7th Hideyuki Inoue – Japan – ₩1,139,000
8th Ryuta Nagata – Japan – ₩942,000
9th Yasumichi Kakumu – Japan – ₩798,000
10th Jacky Wong – Hong Kong – ₩682,000
11th Takahisa Watanabe – Japan – ₩583,000

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