APPT Main Event Day 1a | 2023 APPT Manila

08-03-2023 19:23 UTC+8

Yun Wins Large Three-Way All-In

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Jungsup Yun raised to 2,600 and Jeremy Catalig pushed all-in for 31,100 from one seat over. Table big stack Li Lok Ching inquired to see the stack size of Yun before moving all-in and was snap-called, as Catalig gasped a brief "puta madre".

Jeremy Catalig: A♥K♥
Jungsup Yun: A♦A♠
Li Lok Ching: Q♣Q♠

"Flush on the flop!" Catalig predicted but his wish was never granted on a 10♦5♣3♠7♠2♠ runout. Catalig was eliminated and Yun doubled for 76,800 through Ching.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jungsup Yun	185,000 185,000	185,000
Lok Ching Li	100,000 100,000	100,000
Jeremy Catalig	Busted

Tags: Jeremy Catalig Jungsup Yun Li Lok Ching

08-03-2023 19:14 UTC+8

Day 1a Eliminations

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joris Michl	Busted
Jayvon Carreon	Busted
Evgeny Belinskiy	Busted
Nam Le	Busted

Thomas Pound	Busted
Ronald Gorgonia	Busted
Hyungwoon Kim	Busted
Mathias Schell	Busted
Junnie Pamplona	Busted
Alan Wong	Busted
Jeffrey Pamplona	Busted
Duy Thung Nguyen	Busted
Lester Edoc	Busted
Marius Zalpys	Busted
Sangyong Park	Busted
Sergei Kochergin	Busted
Hiroaki Manabe	Busted
Mori Tadamasa	Busted
Ryan Kim	Busted

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

08-03-2023 19:07 UTC+8

Takayama Doubles Through Cho

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

On a double-paired river of K♠K♦4♥4♦3♦, Mike Takayama bet 17,000 out of the big blind. Miyoung Cho went into the tank from under the gun before moving all-in with the covering stack.

Takayama snap-called for 32,400 with the K♣J♠ for kings full, while Cho could all but show an bluff with 9x7x.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Takayama	87,000 52,000	52,000

Miyoung Cho	44,000 -26,000	-26,000

Tags: Mike Takayama Miyoung Cho

08-03-2023 19:00 UTC+8

Zak Gets a Nice Stack With Quads

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Elan Zak was the shortest stack all-in and at risk for 25,500, facing Tse Ron and Robin Gorres in the following showdown.

Elan Zak: J♠J♦
Robin Gorres: K♥K♠
Tse Ron: A♥K♣

The board ran out J♠4♠2♦Q♦J♥ and Zak made quads to triple up in style.

"Sorry guys, I didn't want to hit quads, one jack was already enough," Zak apologised.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elan Zak	80,000 80,000	80,000
Oleg Kaminski	50,000 50,000	50,000

Tse Ron	20,000 20,000	20,000
Robin Gorres	12,000 12,000	12,000

Tags: Elan Zak Robin Gorres Tse Ron

08-03-2023 18:52 UTC+8

Updated Counts in the Field

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sze Ngai Kao	225,000 50,000	50,000
Florian Schropp	145,000 80,000	80,000
Hazel Timonera	130,000 55,000	55,000
David Boyd	125,000 100,000	100,000
Florencio Campomanes	120,000 47,000	47,000

Kevin Clemot	115,000 45,000	45,000
Nicolas Cardyn	90,000 5,000	5,000
Archie Mariano	80,000 5,000	5,000
Lijun Zhang	80,000 35,000	35,000
Karl Edoria	75,000 43,000	43,000
Ori Elul	65,000 18,000	18,000
Takumi Takeda	65,000 65,000	65,000
Henrik Tollefsen	40,000
Dingxiang Ong	40,000 40,000	40,000
Hon Cheong Lee	15,000 15,000	15,000

08-03-2023 18:43 UTC+8

Lim Sent to the Rail

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Jae Geun Lim was all-in with a short stack and revealed the A♦9♥. He was up against Thomas Ward with the K♦6♦ and the Q♦9♣6♥K♣Q♣ runout improved Ward to superior two pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yuanning Wu	85,000 10,000	10,000
Feridoun Farboud	80,000
Nick Hozjan	58,000 33,000	33,000
Thomas Ward	29,000 10,400	10,400
Jae Geun Lim	Busted

Tags: Jae Geun Lim Thomas Ward

08-03-2023 18:36 UTC+8

Regencia Loses Some to Hyeon

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

On the heads-up river of Q♦Q♠J♣8♦8♠, South Korea's Junho Hyeon bet 6,600. Noel Regencia called after a few seconds and then sighed when he was shown the 8♥6♥ for eights full of queens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Noel Regencia	90,000 65,000	65,000
Andrei Budykin	80,000
Junho Hyeon	70,000
Louis Bilodeau	49,000 14,000	14,000
Kei Kiyohara	35,000

Tags: Noel Regencia Junho Hyeon

Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

08-03-2023 18:26 UTC+8

Tan Takes From Shah

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Heads-up to the 9♠7♦6♠9♥ turn, Chirag Shah checked and called a bet worth 5,000 by Kwang Chung Tan in the cutoff. Both players checked the K♥ river and Shah announced ace-high before flashing his A♠5♣. Tan had that beat with the J♠J♦ to pull ahead of his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kwang Chung Tan	90,000 90,000	90,000
Chirag Shah	75,000 75,000	75,000
Mike Takayama	35,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Chirag Shah Kwang Chung Tan