HomeThe APT Asian Poker Series Cebu 2015 continued play on Sunday in Day 2 of the Main Event held at the All In Poker Club at the Waterfront Hotel & Casino Lahug in Cebu, Philippines.
From the original 160 runners, 70 players qualified for Day 2 and after another eight levels of play, only 25 remain in the running for the APT title and the champion’s purse of PHP 1.824M from the total prize pool of PHP 7.139M.
Main Event Day 3 Chip Leader, Henrik Tollefsen
The player with best shot at that prestigious title is Norway’s Henrik Tollefsen as he climbed the leaderboard late in the day and stayed at the top entering Day 3 with nearly half a million in chips.
“I got like a decent stack all day but two hours before the end of the day, I went from 120 to 400 in two big hands,” the Norwegian pro shared after the day ended. “First I had King-Queen and I don’t remember what he had. He opens, I 3-bet and he calls. Flop was 8-5-2, he check-calls. King on the turn, he check-raises all-in and I called.”
Ten minutes later, Tollefsen was at it again and added more to his already huge stack and reached the 400K-mark.
Joining Tollefsen (414,000) as chip leaders are Japan’s Azusa Maeda (266,000) and Iori Yogo (224,000); Korea’s SJ Kim (205,000); and Canada’s Thomas Lee (183,500).
With only 18 players paid in this main event, seven more eliminations are needed to burst the ITM bubble; three players have roughly 10 big blinds entering Day 3 with the blinds set at 2000/4000/500 to start the day.
Here’s the complete list of players still in the running for the APT Cebu main event title:
1. Henrik Tollefsen (Norway) – 414,000
2. Azusa Maeda (Japan) – 266,000
3. Iori Yogo (Japan) – 224,000
4. SJ Kim (Korea) – 205,000
5. Thomas Lee (Canada) – 183,500
6. Takuya Yamashita (Japan) – 153,500
7. Douglas Olsson (Philippines) – 135,000
8. Jason Powers (USA) – 132,000
9. Jose Drilon (Philippines) – 131,000
10. Roger Spets (Sweden) – 129,000
11. Chen Hao (China) – 112,500
12. Kim Dongkyu (Korea) – 103,000
13. Thomas Ward (Ireland) – 100,000
14. Linh Tran (Canada) – 92,500
15. Ian Brion (Philippines) – 92,500
16. Inge Forsmo (Norway) – 89,500
17. Min Soo Kim (Korea) – 83,500
18. John Graham (USA) – 81,500
19. Ian Failma (Philippines) – 79,500
20. Mike Kim (Korea) -79,000
21. Mark Ortiz (Philippines) – 78,000
22. Hideki Takafuji (Japan) – 75,500
23. Joshua Lebowitz (Japan) – 43,000
24. Angelo Reyes (Philippines) – 34,000
25. Edwin Marzan (Philippines) – 33,500
Day 3 of the main event starts at 1:00 PM and two more side events are also on tap on Monday; the Monster Stack NLHE (PHP 22,000 buy-in) and WeLoveSport.com Deep Stack Turbo (PHP 5,500) events at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM, respectively. Check the Event Schedule page for complete details.