Raiden Kan emerged as the chip leader who bagged 156,400 chips in Day 1b of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT)Main Event in Seoul. 138 players hit the tables but only 50 managed to last the eight levels that were played. Many distinguished players will play in Day 2; however, unfortunately the journey ended for Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Raymond Wu who were busted in Level 8.
Former Aussie Millions Main Event finalist Sam Cohen was also present and with her strong start winning her a big pot, she finished the day with 107,700 chips. On the other hand, former ANZPT Sydney winner Michael Kanaan was knocked out in the final level of play.
Others who are moving on to Day 2 were Ryan ‘piggysnipz’ Pignatelli who was seated between with between Juicy Li, who finished sixth in this event last year, and online star Dylan ‘WhiteRabbito’ Honeyman. Pignatelli bagged 59,200, Honeyman 19,000 and Li 52,400.
Also moving on is Any Chan who is the runner-up in the first ever ACOP Macau. He finished with 95,300 after playing against Kanaan and Grospellier for most of the day.
The end of the day chip counts reads as follows:
|
Player |
Chips |
|
RaidenKan |
156,400 |
|
Timothy Place |
155,400 |
|
Tsun Ming Chan |
128,300 |
|
Sang Hyun Park |
110,700 |
|
Sam Cohen |
107,700 |
|
Toshiyuki Onda |
100,200 |
|
Andy Chan |
95,300 |
|
Yoshiyuki Takahashi |
88,900 |
|
Chen Yu Ma |
77,100 |
|
Ming Yu Zou |
76,400 |
|
Takahisa Watanabe |
64,600 |
|
Derek Bethea |
64,300 |
|
Kosaku Akashi |
61,900 |
|
Yaxi Zhu |
61,200 |
|
Jiaxiu Liu |
60,000 |
|
Ryan Piganatelli |
59,200 |
|
Marvin de La Cruz |
58,000 |
|
Keiichiro Sugimoto |
55,400 |
|
Christian Haggart |
55,100 |
|
Masanori Ishihara |
54,600 |
|
Ye Han Chen |
53,000 |
|
Juicy Li |
52,400 |
|
BatnyamZayabaatar |
52,100 |
|
Takao Kazuta |
51,300 |
|
ChaneKampanatsanyakorn |
50,200 |
|
Makoto Yoshimichi |
48,000 |
|
Li Si Wei |
48,000 |
|
Serge Rived |
44,300 |
|
Yong Zhi Jin |
40,000 |
|
Ronald Kluber |
39,100 |
|
Clement Chung Man Lau |
37,100 |
|
Colin Lovelock |
37,000 |
|
Mike Kim |
34,600 |
|
Chunjie Liu |
34,400 |
|
ClaudiuGurau |
34,200 |
|
Eiichi Mizuno |
33,100 |
|
AlexandreChieng |
32,700 |
|
Daniel Belov |
32,600 |
|
AnnicaIvert |
32,000 |
|
Tyrone Kerrigan |
31,600 |
|
ToshimasaKawahira |
31,000 |
|
Raymond Kut Fu Chow |
25,900 |
|
KitsonKho |
20,900 |
|
Jason Kim |
19,600 |
|
Dylan Honeyman |
19,000 |
|
Shinya Umano |
17,800 |
|
Ryan Kim |
16,500 |
With 138 players in Day 1b and 118 players on Day 1a, the total field of players is 256. It’s an improvement on last year’s field of 222 players. This also created a prize pool of USD $650,409 and here’s what the payouts looks like for the final 28.