APT Finale Philippines 2018 Main Event


Battle of the blinds: Victor Chong vs Wendell Garcia

Level: 23 Blinds: 8K/16K Ante: 16K

Victor Chong

Action folded to the small blind Victor Chong, he raised to 38k. Big blind Wendell Garcia called and the flop came 9 5 Q. Both checked. The turn 10, chong bet 27k, Garcia called. On the 9 river, Chong fired another 44k, and Garcia called. Chong showed A 10 two pair, Garcia mucked. Garcia down to 128k, Chong rises to over 500k.


Mikiya Kudo gains from Welbourne

Level: 23 Blinds: 8K/16K Ante: 16K

Mikiya Kudo

Mikiya Kudo and Sam Welbourne tangled for a pot that saw the latter raise to 42k. Kudo called from the big blind. At the flop 3s} K 8, Kudo check-called 38k. On the 7 turn, no bets landed. Then on the J river, Kudo led for 55k and won it with Welbourne folding. Kudo now at 670k.


Stacks above average

Level: 23 Blinds: 8K/16K Ante: 16K

18 players remaining, average stack 426,388… players above average are:

Sam Welbourne 740k
Takao Shimizu 700k
Jun Obara 695k
Kazuki Hurata 690k
Mikiya Kudo 600k
Kosei Ichinose 550k
Cheli Lin 486k


Kazuki Hurata wins the flip against Nakagiri

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

Kazuki Hurata

Junichi Nakagiri has just been chunked down to 126k after losing a flip against Kazuki Hurata. The hand began with a raise of 30k by Hurata, Nakagiri three-bet to 83k, Hurata shoved, and Nakagiri called after much tanking.

Nakagiri Q Q
Hurata A K

The board ran J 7 2 4 A for a higher pair spiked on the river by Hurata. He doubled up to 690k.


Sandro Bruni

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

Sandro Bruni has been short stacked since the start of Day 3 but is hanging in there. Just before the tables collapsed to the final two, he survived against a player with his dominated K-10 over A-10 ending up on a split with the board running 10-10-2-6-6.

Bruni is still very short stacked. He picked up chips on a hand against Jiego Erquiaga. Erguiaga raised to 25k, Bruni and Kosei Ichinose called. On the 4 4 A flop, Erquiaga c-bet 40k, Bruni raised to 80k, Ichinose folded followed by Erquiaga after tanking for a bit. Bruni showed his 6 5. He is now up to 280k. Erquiaga dropped to 480k and is still above average of 426k.


Koji Asaka’s ladies grant him a boost

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

Koji Asaka shoved his 112k stack and got called by massive stacked Takao Shimizu. Asaka Q Q held against A J for a double up.


Eliminations: 19th – 22nd – PHP 146,500

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

Eliminations: 18th – 22nd – PHP 146,500

19th Alfie Poetra
20th Stephen Miles
21st Koichi Morita
22nd Siyoung Lee


Eliminations: 23rd – 27th – PHP 125,200

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

Eliminations: 23rd – 27th – PHP 125,200

23rd Chang Jae Lee
24th Bobby Zhang
25th Shunsuke Tsujii
26th Linh Tran
27th Wang Yi


Jun Obara rails Alfie Poetra

Level: 22 Blinds: 6K/12K Ante: 12K

After losing a pot to Takao Shimizu, Alfie Poetra attempted to take a stand shoving his stack with Q-10 but Jun Obara had A-10 and sent him out in 19th place. Though not needed, Obara completed a straight. Obara now over 700K. 

We are down to 18 players… final two tables.