Who Will Make it Through Day 2 of the PokerStars APPT Korea ₩1,800,000 Main Event?

Day 2 of the PokerStars APPT Korea ₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event is set to kick off at 1 p.m. local time today! The much anticipated main event drew a total of 581 which generated a prizepool of ₩912,983,400, more than tripling the guarantee. Only 153 of the slips sold will be returning for Day 2 and everyone will be chasing chipleader Konstantin Pogodin who bagged an impressive 359,500 in Day 1b.

Defending champion Michael Soyza is still in contention with a healthy stack of 275,000 which is good for fourth on the leaderboard and will be a top threat to every with the way he has been running. Soyza took down the Super High Roller just days ago and is most certainly looking like he will be achieving another deep run in the main event.

The remaining 153 players will be battling it out today to reach the 72 for a min-cash of ₩3,290,000 ($2,895). The eventual champion of the tournament will be pulling in a cool ₩198,100,000 ($174,32) and the trophy for the 2019 APPT Korea Main Event.

Other notable stacks to start the day include Taiwan's Ching Wei Chen (295,000), Day 1a chipleader Takao Shimizu (281,000), well-known German pro Kilian Loeffler (269,500), China's Weiran Pu (243,000), and Xinglong Huang (234,500).

PokerStars Ambassador Celina Lin also found a bag at the end of the night and will be starting the day with an above average stack of 186,500. Other well-known's that are still in contention are Jack Wu (158,500), Sparrow Cheung (128,500), Phachara Wongwichit (119,000), Yake Wu (115,000), Randy Lew (113,000), and Linh Tran (100,000),

The second day of the tournament will begin at level 14 with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a 3,000 big blind ante. Levels will now be a 60-minute duration with a break after every two levels and dinner break may be scheduled if deemed necessary by the tournament director. The tournament will redraw at the last three, two, and final table. Play will commence once the final table is set and those remaining nine players will move onto Day 3 where a champion will be crowned.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you full coverage of this tournament as it unfolds, so stay tuned to keep up with all of the action.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Wayne Zhang	China	76,000	25
1	2	Bawooh Hyunshik Yun	USA	14,500	5
1	3	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	275,000	92
1	4	Yongxun Jin	China	164,000	55
1	5	Yoshikatsu Gakusho	Japan	21,500	7
1	6	Celina Lin	China	186,500	62
1	7	Valeriy Pak	Uzbekistan	121,000	40
1	8	Huahuan Feng	China	117,000	39
1	9	Chengbei Li	China	55,500	19

2	1	Yunlong Jin	China	32,500	11
2	2	Linh Tran	Canada	100,000	33
2	3	Yue Liu	China	168,000	56
2	4	Yusuke Akiba	Japan	54,000	18
2	5	Kongzhi Hou	China	27,000	9
2	6	Masaki Fujitani	Japan	50,000	17
2	7	Wilson Lim	Singapore	64,000	21
2	8	Eiji Nomura	Japan	59,000	20
2	9	Jinwoo Kim	USA	134,000	45

3	1	Harunobu Kojima	Japan	64,000	21
3	2	Leo Pang	Hong Kong	47,000	16
3	3	Tsun Ming Chan	Hong Kong	174,000	58
3	4	Naohito Tamaya	Japan	102,500	34
3	5	Jiang Chen	China	123,500	41
3	6	Xiaosheng Zheng	China	101,000	34
3	7	Ming Huang	China	67,500	23
3	8	Tomomitsu Ono	Japan	70,500	24
3	9	Cheng How Pan	Taiwan	99,000	33

4	1	Ryo Daicho	Japan	74,500	25
4	2	Leon Li Ta Hsu	Taiwan	38,000	13
4	3	Tian Liang Guan	China	110,000	37
4	4	Shoh Ichinoseki	Japan	97,000	32
4	5	Zizheng Huang	China	103,000	34
4	6	Victor Chong	Malaysia	85,500	29
4	7	Yilu Yuan	China	169,000	56
4	8	Marino Kayo	Japan	93,000	31
4	9	Nobuhiro Ouchi	Japan	74,000	25

5	1	Yakai Li	China	105,000	35
5	2	Mengdian Peng	China	207,000	69
5	3	Liang Song	China	81,000	27
5	4	Vincent Li	Hong Kong	93,000	31
5	5	Patrick Liang	Brazil	108,500	36
5	6	Ko Isayama	Japan	93,500	31
5	7	Tao Fan	China	76,000	25
5	8	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	108,500	36
5	9	Yifan Zhang	China	175,500	59

6	1	Minghao Cao	China	56,000	19
6	2	Tetsuro Tomita	Japan	198,000	66
6	3	Takuya Suzuki	Japan	62,500	21
6	4	Sera Ota	Japan	86,500	29
6	5	Yuri Ishida	Japan	132,500	44
6	6	Kilian Loeffler	Germany	269,500	90
6	7	Takao Shimizu	Japan	281,000	94
6	8	Jutaro Hatiori	Japan	66,000	22
6	9	Chi Chung Ho	Hong Kong	107,000	36

7	1	Yongzhi Jin	China	21,500	7
7	2	Konstantin Pogodin	Russia	359,500	120
7	3	Christopher Park	USA	50,000	17
7	4	Hirotaka Kondo	Japan	130,500	44
7	5	Kenji Hata	Japan	180,500	60
7	6	Masanori Watanabe	Japan	40,000	13
7	7	Qi Wang	China	61,500	21
7	8	Xiaqing Ji	China	55,000	18
7	9	Kanghua Dong	China	60,500	20

8	1	Xuyang Zhang	China	86,500	29
8	2	Yoshiya Agata	Japan	141,000	47
8	3	Chi Hung Ho	Taiwan	155,000	52
8	4	Dongsheng Peng	China	46,000	15
8	5	Evgeniy Khvan	Uzbekistan	137,500	46
8	6	Yosuke Takagi	Japan	138,500	46
8	7	Adrian Ng	Canada	61,000	20
8	8	Shosuke Ikeda	Japan	51,000	17
8	9	Kentaro Somekawa	Japan	140,500	47

9	1	Ching Wei Chen	Taiwan	295,000	98
9	2	Yuto Watanabe	Japan	74,000	25
9	3	Masaharu Tomita	Japan	170,000	57
9	4	Hideki Izutsu	Japan	72,000	24
9	5	Lok Kin Yeung	Hong Kong	179,000	60
9	6	Pengyu Lin	China	74,500	25
9	7	Randy Lew	USA	113,000	38
9	8	Takehiro Kato	Japan	41,000	14
9	9	Tamon Nakamura	Japan	137,000	46

10	1	Kunimaro Kojo	Japan	67,000	22
10	2	Yanfeng Wang	China	131,500	44
10	3	Yinsheng Yang	China	119,500	40
10	4	Tianhang Zhang	China	115,500	39
10	5	Dajia Chen	China	104,500	35
10	6	Masaharu Tomita	Japan	73,000	24
10	7	Yuichi Sumida	Japan	164,000	55
10	8	Yang Zhang	China	74,500	25
10	9	Emi Hibuse	Japan	83,500	28

11	1	Chin Wei Lim	Malaysia	101,500	34
11	2	Taehoon Han	New Zealand	108,000	36
11	3	Kaixiang Ye	China	93,500	31
11	4	Yuanchao Li	China	62,000	21
11	5	Tetsuya Enoki	Japan	169,500	57
11	6	Ta Wei Tou	Taiwan	224,500	75
11	7	Jungeon Lee	USA	114,900	38
11	8	Jiabin Wang	China	178,500	60
11	9	Chen Li	China	57,500	19

12	1	Wayne Heung	Hong Kong	163,500	55
12	2	Jack Wu	Taiwan	158,500	53
12	3	Pavel Lubov	Russia	87,000	29
12	4	Yueyang Zhou	China	62,500	21
12	5	Masatoshi Tanaka	Japan	56,000	19
12	6	Yuji Kamata	Japan	119,500	40
12	7	Wai Wa Chan	Hong Kong	106,000	35
12	8	Daisuke Ogita	Japan	231,000	77
12	9	Haoqi Xie	China	121,500	41

13	1	Yilong Wang	China	148,500	50
13	2	Yizho Liu	China	146,000	49
13	3	Hayato Kitajima	Japan	54,000	18
13	4	Shota Shimozaki	Japan	119,500	40
13	5	Chunhui Ji	China	62,000	21
13	6	Luenhei Kwok	Hong Kong	150,000	50
13	7	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	119,000	40
13	8	Ken Okada	Japan	189,000	63
13	9	Pete Chen	Taiwan	59,000	20

14	1	David Lim	Australia	61,000	20
14	2	Duy Ho	USA	96,500	32
14	3	Koichi Haruta	Japan	164,500	55
14	4	Hung Sheng Lin	Taiwan	166,500	56
14	5	Huidong Gu	Macau	59,000	20
14	6	David Kwong Man	UK	107,500	36
14	7	Gang Wang	China	186,000	62
14	8	Zhujun Huang	China	17,500	6
14	9	Yunye Lu	China	129,500	43

15	1	James Won Lee	USA	103,000	34
15	2	Danny Tang	Hong Kong	85,000	28
15	3	Yahui Xu	China	106,500	36
15	4	Kun Jiang	China	234,000	78
15	5	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	145,000	48
15	6	Han Song	China	51,500	17
15	7	Georges Georgiou	UK	92,500	31
15	8	Weiran Pu	China	243,000	81
15	9	Kelvin Beattie	Australia	85,000	28

16	1	Yasutake Oka	Japan	79,000	26
16	2	Shota Shimizu	Japan	108,500	36
16	3	George Kato	Japan	32,500	11
16	4	Xinglong Huang	China	234,500	78
16	5	Sparrow Cheung	Hong Kong	128,500	43
16	6	Jinghan Yan	China	140,000	47
16	7	Chia Chang	China	186,000	62
16	8	Alex Lee	Singapore	97,000	32
16	9	Dong Chen	China	89,000	30

17	1	Viet Hoang Tran	Vietnam	88,000	29
17	2	Hiroshi Matsumoto	Japan	156,000	52
17	3	Yake Wu	China	115,000	38
17	4	Wenwei Chen	China	123,000	41
17	5	Hiroyuki Yoshimura	Japan	61,500	21
17	6	Yuichi Akanuma	Japan	44,000	15
17	7	Eric Ahn	USA	155,000	52
17	8	Hao Chen	China	21,500	7
17	9	Shogo Kimura	Japan	192,500	64