2023 APPT Cambodia

APPT Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2023 APPT Cambodia

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
95
Prize
$94,448
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$623,322
Entries
476
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Info - Day 3
Players Left
1

Who Will Become the 2023 APPT Cambodia $1,500 Main Event Champion?

Ting-Yi Tsai
Ting-Yi Tsai

Out of a field of 476 entries, only nine players remain for the grand finale of the 2023 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Cambodia $1,500 Main Event and return to their seats on the feature stage of the grand ballroom at the five-star NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh at 1 p.m. local time. They are competing for the biggest portion of the $623,322 prize pool with $10,908 locked up so far, but the winner will walk away with $120,300 for the efforts and the golden shard trophy.

Junnie Pamplona leads the way with 3,015,000, closely followed by Ting-Yi "Eric" Tsai (2,960,000) and Jimmy Torres (2,725,000) as the trio atop the leaderboard is separated by a mere ten big blinds.

Pamplona will aim to go all the way and surpass his previous best score from the 2022 WPT Prime $1,100 Main Event right here at NagaWorld when he was part of a three-way deal and collected $106,482.

Final Table Seat Draw

SeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Eric TsaiTaiwan2,960,00099
2Evgenii NekrasovRussia1,080,00036
3Curtis LimSingapore850,00028
4Bien MaiVietnam410,00014
5Chao-Ting ChengTaiwan1,825,00061
6Kien Tat HengSingapore795,00027
7Junnie PamplonaPhilippines3,015,000101
8Hua-Wei LinTaiwan600,00020
9Jimmy TorresColombia2,725,00091

Chao-Ting Cheng is the only player with a middling stack and the other five finalists have between 14 and 36 big blinds at their disposal. However, there are only 07:38 minutes left in level 24 at blinds of 15,000-30,000 and a big blind ante of 30,000.

This puts a lot of pressure on the short stacks Bien Mai (410,000) and Hua-Wei Lin (600,000). Mai has had two runner-up finishes in the last two months, one of which came right here in Phnom Penh in the 2023 WPT Prime Cambodia Main Event for $117,842.

Lin will be railed by her husband and fellow Taiwanese poker pro Yu-Chung "Nevan" Chang, both are known under their moniker "winpokercouple" on social media. Chang himself cashed in 38th place and had previously reached the final table of this very event in 2022, claiming $35,590 for his fourth place finish.

The levels on the final table continue with a duration of 60 minutes each with a break every two levels. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor from start to finish in the Kingdom of Cambodia until a winner has been crowned.

Remaining Payouts

PlacePlayerCountryPrize (in USD)
1  $120,300
2  $75,795
3  $54,290
4  $42,760
5  $33,597
6  $26,242
7  $19,759
8  $13,775
9  $10,908

Tags: Bien MaiChao-Ting ChengCurtis LimEric TsaiEvgenii NekrasovHua-Wei LinJimmy TorresJunnie PamplonaKien Tat HengNevan Chang