₩2,500,000 APPT Main Event Day 1a | 2019 PokerStars APPT Jeju

06-24-2019 06:21 UTC

APPT National Final Table Set

Ernestok

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

The 177-strong APPT National field has been whittled down to the final nine players. All nine finalists are guaranteed a payday of at least KRW 5,795,000, but it is the KRW 57,365,000 (~$49,500) top prize that all will be gunning for.

The man leading the charge is Day 1A frontrunner Liang Song (China) who has a sizable chip lead with a stack of 1,655,000 - nearly double that of next closest rival Junda Yu, who has a stack of 838,000.

All but two of the finalists hail from China, with Jin-Woo Kim (United States), and Huidong Gu (Macau) the only remaining none-Chinese competitors left in contention, with the final table stacking up as follows:

APPT National Final Table

Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	Junjie Wang	China	656,000
2	Jin-Woo Kim	United States	412,000
3	Zheren Chen	China	309,000
4	Mengdian Peng	China	705,000
5	Yang Zhang	China	227,000
6	Junda Yu	China	838,000
7	Di Lu	China	356,000
8	Liang Song	China	1,655,000
9	Huidong Gu	Macau	174,000

Blinds are at Level 22, coming in at a hefty 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 big blind ante.

Tags: Di Lu Huidong Gu Jin-Woo Kim Junda Yu Junjie Wang Liang Song Mengdian Peng Yang Zhang Zheren Chen

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

06-24-2019 06:08 UTC

Crushing in South Korea

Ernestok

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Tae Hoon Han was just spotted in the field, and he is the guy to look for when searching good results in South Korea. He has a total number of 23 cashes in his poker career and 17 of them happened in South Korea.

He has great history especially in Jeju too, where he came third in Red Dragon Main Event in December 2018. This was his biggest cash so far, as he earned $92,391. Except that, he has a win in a Main Event in South Korea too, defeating all of his opponents in the 2017 PokerStars Festival Incheon, for $73,954, his second largest career cash.

Today he is off to a slow start, having 26,000 in chips, but you should never let your stack feel safe with him on your table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tae Hoon Han	26,000 26,000	26,000

Tags: Tae Hoon Han

06-24-2019 05:50 UTC

Familiar Faces from the High Roller

Ernestok

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Some players that already appeared in the High Roller are here for the first flight of the Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xinglong Huang	37,800 7,800	7,800
Hao Tian	30,000
Changyang Liu	29,000
Vitaliy Kim	24,600 -5,400	-5,400

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/300

Ante: 300

06-24-2019 05:15 UTC

Break

Ernestok

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Time for the first break of Main Event's Day 1a. Players will return in 15 minutes.

06-24-2019 05:09 UTC

More Names from Day 1a

Ernestok

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Liu Bin	30,000 30,000	30,000
Guodi Yu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Wenyan Liu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jiageng Zhang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Kai Tang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Peng Li	30,000 30,000	30,000
Wenlong Ma	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jiang Wang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jinxin Lu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Cliff Chow	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yu Liu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yunlong Jin	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yi Ye	30,000 30,000	30,000

Xiaobo Zhou	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yuchun Yang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Bin Di	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jihao Feng	30,000 30,000	30,000
Mingyue Wang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alexander Braeunig	30,000 30,000	30,000
Xiang Tang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Liuheng Dai	30,000 30,000	30,000
Xiaosheng Zheng	30,000 30,000	30,000
Fang Su	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jianxuan Cao	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jizhong Wang	30,000 30,000	30,000

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06-24-2019 04:49 UTC

Some of the Names for Day 1a

Ernestok

Level 3 : 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Tianhong Su	30,000 30,000	30,000
Liuting Zheng	30,000 30,000	30,000
Weijun Lu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sahil Chuttani	30,000 30,000	30,000
Lining Tan	30,000 30,000	30,000
Peng Jiang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yan Rao	30,000 30,000	30,000
Jianguo Chen	30,000 30,000	30,000
Xinhong Li	30,000 30,000	30,000
Rui Zhang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Shuyi Lou	30,000 30,000	30,000
Xinglong Huang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yiqing Huang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Xin Wang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Qing Zhao	30,000 30,000	30,000
Qingjun He	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sihai Jiang	30,000 30,000	30,000
Wei Jiao	30,000 30,000	30,000
Fei Han	30,000 30,000	30,000
Vitaliy Kim	30,000 30,000	30,000
Fan Cao	30,000 30,000	30,000
Kunhui He	30,000 30,000	30,000

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

06-24-2019 04:25 UTC

Three Players - Three Made Hands

Ernestok

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team just witnessed a huge three-way all in in Table No. 6 where all three players had a made hand in the flop.

The first three community cards were and the three players were holding:

Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:

And as it happens sometimes in those kinds of situations, the worst hand wins! The in the turn almost secured the pot for the player holding king-queen and the gave him the triple up, while the player with the set busted and the flush player was left crippled.