The action folded around to Taewook Kwon on the button who moved all in for his last 20,000 in chips. When the decision fell on Jason Mo in the big blind he made the call and both players tabled their cards.
Mo:
Kwon:
Kwon was in high spirits when the dealer produced the giving him top pair. But how quickly things can change as the spiked on the turn giving Mo trip queens. The on the river just added to the pain as Kwon was sent to the rail.
David Evans opened to 18,000 from under the gun as the action folded around to Jason Mo in the cut off. He made the call as the other players in the hand got out of the way.
The flop came down and the option was on Evans. However, he didn't realise that, and there was a pause for several minutes. Finally Mo looked over at his opponent and told him it was on him.
Evans then instantly bet out 25,000 and sat there calmly. Mo then moved all in and was called almost instantly.
Mo:
Evans:
Unfortunately for Evans he had flopped top two pair but had run into the bottomm set held by Mo. The board ran out the and to see the Australian eliminated in 17th place.
Masato Yokosawa raised to 19,000 from the cut off. Daniel Demicki was seated on the big blind and bumped it up to 44,000 . Yokosawa took awhile to make his decision but made the call before both players watched the flop come down .
A pair of checked followed before the dealer produced the on the turn. Demicki then led out for 44,000 and was called as the then completed the board.
Both players then thought for a minute each but both checked before Demicki rolled over his for a pair on the river. Yokosawa then mucked his hand, much to the surprise of everyone on the table.
Jason Mo raised from the hijack to 19,000 and from the hijack it was Genki Nakano who moved all in for 38,000. The action folded back to Mo who made the call.
Mo:
Nakano:
The board ran out and Nakano was knocked out after having been short for a long time.
The final 13 of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Main Event in Seoul is stacked, as two of the world's best heads-up no-limit hold'em cash-game players, Dong Kim and Jason Mo, remain, along with two Team PokerStars Pros, Celina Lin and Bryan Huang. The leader of them all is Mo, who bagged up a hefty 962,000 in chips after 10 hours of play on Day 2.
A few hours into the day, things weren't looking for Lin, but she managed to pull off a great run after the halfway point. After her kings held up against Patrick Weifels' ace-six, Lin turned it up and dominated her table for quite some time. It wasn't until Mo was seated at her table that she had to slow down a little bit. Lin ultimately bagged up 540,000 and sits third in chips.
The penultimate day of South Korea's biggest tournament of the year kicked off with 89 players all vying to make it to at least the final 27 so they would be in the money. Raymond Wu and Day 1a chip leader Alex Ward were among some of the first to hit the rail, together with former APPT Seoul winner Aaron Lim. One the fan favorites, Kitty Kuo, doubled up right at the start of the day, but she was ultimately eliminated short of a cash.
Defending champion and runner-up finisher the year before, Chane Kampanatsanyakorn, suffered his first Day 2 elimination in this event in three years. Kampanatsanyakorn could not win a coin flip with ace-ten versus sevens, and this opened up the road for someone else to take over in Seoul.
Team PokerStars Pro Aditya Agarwal looked good for a while as well, but he ultimately busted to Daniel Kneafsey, who's coming into the final day with 174,000 in chips. The eventual "bubble boy" was Hiroyuki Tanaka, who ran ace-ten into Huang's ace-king, and in one hand we moved passed the hand-for-hand phase.
Mo, the chip leader, had one of the steadiest routes throughout the day, as he never seemed to really drop down. Mo seemed very focussed and composed, and that resulted in great position heading into the final day. In years prior, Mo racked up two runner-up finishes at the World Series of Poker, and he'll have another great shot at taking down a big live event. Mo's good friend, Kim, brings 314,000 in chips into the final day, and he will be looking to make his first big live final table.
One of your live reporters on the scene, Remko Rinkema, did a video update at the end of the night with PokerNews host Sarah Herring, and here's what they had to say:
Here are the chip counts and seat draw of the final 13 players:
Table
Seat
Name
Country
Chips
14
1
Daniel Kneafsey
Ireland
174,000
14
2
Boris Li
Russia
128,000
14
3
Dong Kim
USA
314,000
14
5
Tyler Jennens
Canada
414,000
14
6
Celina Lin
China
540,000
14
7
Bryan Huang
Singapore
309,000
17
1
Takuya Suzuki
Japan
397,000
17
3
Tai Zheng Tan
Singapore
277,000
17
4
Vladimir Demenkov
Russia
259,000
17
5
Daniel Demicki
Poland
792,000
17
7
Shintaro Baba
Japan
170,000
17
8
Junichi Nakagiri
Japan
69,000
17
9
Jason Mo
USA
957,000
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for the epic conclusion of this event. Play will resume Sunday at 12 p.m. local time, and at the end of the night a winner will be crowned. The players are guaranteed at least KRW 9,150,000 (US $8,365), while the eventual winner will walk away 165,590,200 KRW (US $151,384) richer!