HomeWe have entered the next level of the tournament. They will play a total of 8 rounds, bagging up at the end of Level 16.
Remaining: 135
Chips in play: 13,250,000
Average stack: 98,148
Big stacks:
Yongseok Choi 355k
Jeonggyu Cho 351k
Jie Mu 310k
Seongmook Jung 290k
Gyeong Byeong Lee 280k
Michael Kim Falcon 275k
Jiyoung Kim 260k
Hojoon Choi 254k
Go Saito 250k
Jack En-Ching Wu 236k
Graeme Siow 215k
Kjell Ove Dyb 208k
Thomas Bobington 206k
Another guarantee smashed! Here are the official numbers:
Total entries: 265
Buy-in: PHP 82,500
Prize pool: PHP 19,278,700 (~USD 370,000)
ITM: 27 places
1st prize: PHP 4,594,800 (~USD 88,000)
Players on the rise…
Ji Young Kim 210k
Mark Rivera 220k
Yu Lei 250k
Go Saito 240k
On a board 3♥ 10♣ A♣ 4♣ and 45k in the middle, sb Daryl Green shoved his remaining 28.5k, Alexis Lim tank-called. Green A♥ K♥ top pair, Lim K♣ Q♦ flush draw, the river 10♥ was no club to double up Green to 110k while Lim fell to 60k.
Si Young Lee will not be bringing home a back-to-back win. He won this event right here in April and hoped for a repeat, but not the case. He lost two pots that sent him out of the running.
The first hand saw action fold to the blinds, Lee limped and sb Ying Lin Chua checked. At the flop 2♥ 5♣ 9♠, Lee checked, Chua bet 2k, Lee raised to 7k, called by Chua. The turn J♥, Lee bet 10k, Chua all in, called by Lee. Chua 2♠ 5♠ two pair, Lee A♣ A♠ overpair, the river 6♦ was a miss for Lee to drop to 14k and Chua to rise to 75k.
Several hands later was a three-way all in, mid position Lee 9♠ 9♦, Roger Spets all in J♦ J♥, bb Tai Jin Kim A♠ K♥, the board ran 8♠ 3♥ 2♥ K♠ 6♥. Lee busted, Kim claimed both the main and side pot. Spets dropped to 14k and exited shortly after. Kim up to 145k.
Recent Main Event runner-up, Sim Jae Kyung aka Simba, went head to head against Bae Chul Ho with all the chips in on a flop 6♥ J♦ 7♠. Bae 10♣ 8♣, Simba J♣ 8♥, the turn 4♥ and river Q♣ kept Simba up to double up to 55k.
Lester Edoc is now into the 200k range after shipping a double up against Gab Yong Kim. Edoc 3♣ 3♠, Kim J♥ J♣, the board 7♦ 8♥ 5♥ 2♦ 3♥ for a winning set. Edoc climbed to 220k, Kim crippled to 6.5k.
One of the day’s entering chip leaders, Michael Kim Falcon, may have dropped in chips but his stack is still well over average. At the moment he is sitting on 285k. We caught him win a pot against Gary Thompson. On a raised pot preflop to 19.5k the board ran 9♥ Q♣ 6♠. Thompson checked, button Falcon bet 10k, Thompson folded. Falcon showed K♥ K♣.
We’ve got numerous decorated APT champions in the field. Here are their chip counts:
Gyeong Byeong Lee 240k
Soo Jo Kim 200k
Cao Ngoc Anh 163k
Graeme Siow 135k
Lester Edoc 110k
Alexis Lim 109k
Go Saito 107k
John Tech 105k
Kannapong Thanarattrakul 80k
Joven Huerto 70k
Siyoung Lee 50k
Mike Takayama 55k
Czardy Rivera 30k
In Chul Sin 30k
Iori Yogo 26k