₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event
Day 1a Started
₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event
Day 1a Started
The tournament with the most anticipation of the 2019 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Korea is slated to begin at 6 p.m. local time and that tournament is the ₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event ($1,580). The defending champion is well-known pro Michael Soyza who took down a field of 449 entries for a first place prize of ₩158,700,000 ($148,629).
Last years total of 449 is looked to be easily surpassed with the sudden boom of poker over the Asia Pacific as of late. Many pros will be here to take a stab at the main event including PokerStars Ambassador Celina Lin, Randy Lew, Danny Tang, Dong Chen, and Soyza has said that he will be joining the mix as soon as he finishes in the ₩10,000,000 APPT Super High Roller.
The main event has ₩300,000,000 guarantee that should be met without ease as each player can re-enter once per day. All players will have a starting stack of 30,000 and will play a total of 13, 40-minute levels on both Day 1's. There will be a 10-minute break after every three levels and players will have until the start of level 10 to late register or re-enter. Anyone who makes it until the end of level 13 will bag up and move onto Day 2, where the blinds will switch to 60-minutes. The tournament will be played with the new and popular Big Blind Ante format, in an all-in situation the Big Blind will be posted prior to the Ante.
Day 1 Level Structure
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Big Blind Ante |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 100 | 100 | - |
2 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
3 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
4 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
5 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
6 | 200 | 500 | 500 |
7 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
8 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
9 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
10 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
11 | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
12 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
13 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all the coverage of the main in the days to come, so stay tuned for all the action.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
The tournament director has now informed all dealers to shuffle up and start pitching the cards in the Main Event!
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Natalie Teh | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Yoshiya Agata | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Meherzad Munsaf | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Tao Fan | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Norihiro Otani | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chuanshu Chen | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Xiaqing Ji | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Changyang Liu | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Samuel Dessaix-Porter | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Kelvin Beattie | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Jun Obara just busted eighth in the ₩10,000,000 APPT Super High Roller and has instantly jumped right into the main to take a shot at grabbing some of the ₩300,000,000 guaranteed prizepool.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jun Obara | 30,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
The first level of play has just ended and there is a total of 60 players already in the field, with a backed up line at the registration desk as well!
A player opened to 450 from the cutoff, Norihiro Otani three-bet to 2,100 in the small blind and his opponent called. The dealer spread out on the flop, Otani pushed in a bet of 1,300.
His opponent called and the dealer flipped over an on the turn. Otani reached for chips and threw in a hefty bet of 7,500, his opponent instantly folded, sending the pot to Otani.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Norihiro Otani | 32,400 | 2,400 |