2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Seoul

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2015 PokerStars.net APPT Season 9 Seoul

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
165,590,200 KRW
Event Info
Buy-in
2,760,000 KRW
Prize Pool
645,205,200 KRW
Entries
241
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
5,000

Hold'em With Huang

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante
Bryan Huang
Bryan Huang

Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang just played two massive pots that took place almost back-to-back. We missed the first one, but Huang was kind enough to explain it after we had written up the second one.

"The same guy limped under the gun," Huang started, as he spoke about Lkhagvaa Dugarbaatar.

Huang opted for a raise to 850 and the player in the small blind called before the action was back on Dugarbaatar. The Mongolian player moved all in for 14,000 chips and Huang tanked for quite a long time before making the call with kings. Huang was in great shape against {A-}{Q-}, but unfortunately for him the board brought out {8-}{9-}{10-}{J-}.

Huang lost a big portion of his stack, and then the following hand came up.

Bernard Geoum raised under the gun to 625 and Yves Molin called. Dugarbaatar called from the button and Huang three-bet from the big blind to 1,850. Geoum four-bet to 3,250 and Molin folded quickly. Dugarbaatar called again and Huang quickly moved all in for 9,900.

"Oh man," Geoum sighed, "I just wanted to isolate you."

After a while of going back and forth Geoum folded and Dugarbaatar went into the tank. Finally he called and the showdown went as following.

Huang: {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts}
Dugarbaatar: {J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}

The board ran out {Q-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}{A-Hearts} and Huang won this big flip to chip up to well over the starting stack. Meanwhile Dugarbaatar also has plenty of chips to play with, so we could see another big clash between the two.

Player Chips Progress
Bryan Huang sg
Bryan Huang
25,000
5,000
5,000
Lkhagvaa Dugarbaatar mn
Lkhagvaa Dugarbaatar
19,000
Bernard Geoum us
Bernard Geoum
15,000

Tags: Bryan HuangLkhagvaa DugarbaatarYves MolinBernard Geoum

Zhu Enters, Grospellier Drops

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

We just spotted Yaxi Zhu sitting next to Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, and the latter got involved in a pot right away.

From the button Grospellier raised to 600 and Romain Dours three-bet from the small blind to 1,650. Grospellier made the call after the big blind folded and the flop came down {A-Spades}{4-Hearts}{8-Spades}.

Dours bet 1,600 on the flop and Grospellier made the call. The turn was the {5-Diamonds} and Grospellier gave up when Dours bet 3,800.

Player Chips Progress
Yaxi Zhu cn
Yaxi Zhu
24,000
Romain Dours fr
Romain Dours
23,000
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
12,000

Tags: Bertrand GrospellierYaxi ZhuRomain Dours

Mine's Better Than Yours

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

We arrived at the table to see the board spread out {q-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} and just over 15,000 in the middle.

Toan Nguyen moved all in for his remaining 12,450 from the small blind and was called by Ben Wilinofsky in the hijack moments later.

Nguyen then turned over his {a-Clubs}{a-Spades} for the nut full house. Wilinofsky tabled his {A-Hearts}{q-Diamonds} for the second best hand and watched as the large pot was pushed to his opponent.

Wilinofsky took a hit but still has 20,000 in chips following the hand. Nguyen moves up to 40,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Toan Nguyen nl
Toan Nguyen
40,000
Ben Wilinofsky ca
Ben Wilinofsky
20,000
-4,500
-4,500
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner

Tags: Ben WilinofskyToan Nguyen

Kihara Rising

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

PokerStars Team Pro Naoya Kihara watched as the player seated under the gun opened to 650. Another player in the cut off made the call before he casually bumped it up to 2,500 in chips. The bet was enough to see his two opponents muck their hands as he raked in the small pot.

Kihara now has 28,000 in chips and is moving along quite nicely in the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Naoya Kihara jp
Naoya Kihara
28,000
8,000
8,000

Tags: Naoya Kihara

Lobus Climbing

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

We arrived at the table with the board showing {a-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{5-Clubs}. Both Artem Lobus and his opponent checked their options before doing the same when the {10-Spades} completed the board.

Lobus then turned over his {7-Spades}{7-Diamonds} for two pair which was enough to take down the pot. The Russian moves up to 43,000 in chips which is more then double of what he started with.

Player Chips Progress
Artem Lobus ru
Artem Lobus
43,000

Tags: Artem Lobus

Catastrophy for Cohen

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Last year Sam Cohen had a huge run in this event, finishing third for $81,829, which is her second biggest score to date. This year things are not looking that great for Cohen who already lost most of her chips in the second level of play.

Cohen told us how she raised to 500 from early position before the flop holding pocket aces, and Kelly Liu three-bet to 1,200. Another player decided to call the three-bet and Cohen four-bet to 3,700. Lui made the call and the third player involved moved all in for 10,500.

Cohen moved all in, Liu called off her total stack of 13,000 and a three-way all in was upon us.

Cohen: {A-}{A-}
Liu: {J-}{J-}
Short stack: {8-}{8-}

The board ran out {9-}{5-}{3-}{10-}{J-} and Cohen was left behind with just 5,000 chips. Liu meanwhile sits on around 34,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Kelly Liu tw
Kelly Liu
34,000
Sam Cohen us
Sam Cohen
5,000
-15,000
-15,000

Tags: Sam Cohen

Wilinofsky Applies The Pressure

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Ben Wilinofsky raised to 800 from the hijack and was called by Kitty Kuo in the blinds.

The flop came down {10-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{9-Spades} and both players checked. The {8-Spades} on the turn saw Wilinofsky bet out 1,200 following a check from Kuo which was enough to take down the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Ben Wilinofsky ca
Ben Wilinofsky
24,500
4,500
4,500
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Kitty Kuo tw
Kitty Kuo
15,500
-4,500
-4,500

Tags: Ben WilinofskyKitty Kuo

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

KC Wong Takes Down the Warm-Up Event

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante
KC Wong after winning the Warm-Up
KC Wong after winning the Warm-Up

While the Main Event is in the beginning stages it is good to look back at what already went down here during the APPT Seoul festival. Two days ago the poker action started with the KRW700,000 ($640) Warm-Up that drew a crowd of 106 players, creating a prize pool of KRW 64.7 million.

Former EPT London winner David Vamplew made the final table and finished 8th for KRW 2.9 million and in the end of was KC Wong who beat Arnaudyvon Messager heads up. Wong took home 17.1 million KRW ($15.650) for his first-place finish and he jumped into the Main Event right away today. After his Warm-Up victory Wong now sits fifth on the current standings of the Asia Player of the Year race.

The KRW 1.1 million Pot Limit Omaha tournament took place yesterday and had 37 total entries. Late last night it was Japan's Yukihiro Yasuda who took down the event for 14.3 million KRW ($13,140) and we will keep you posted on the results of all the upcoming side events as well.

Tags: KC WongYukihiro Yasuda