₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event
Day 1b Started
2019 PokerStars APPT Korea
₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event
Day: 1b
Last Flight of APPT Korea Main Event Starts Tonight!
The second and last flight of the ₩1,800,000 APPT Main Event is slated to begin tonight at 6 p.m. local time on the poker tables at the Paradise City Casino. The defending champion is Malaysian pro Michael Soyza, who already bagged the second biggest stack of the Day 1A flight.
Last year had 449 total entries total from both flights and should be an easy goal to beat after the Day 1A flight brought in a huge 222 registration slips, destroying last years Day 1A total of 182. Day 1B is expected to be larger than the first flight with many of notable players said to be joining the field including PokerStars Ambassador Celina Lin, Danny Tang, Natalie Teh, Dong Guo, Pete Chen, Yake Wu, Jun Obara, and Randy Lew.
All players will have a starting stack of 30,000 and will play a total of 13, 40-minute levels. There will be a 10-minute break after every three levels except for the last four levels of the night where there will be no break. Any player may re-enter one time after their initial buy-in 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
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The tournament director has now informed all dealers to shuffle up and start pitching the cards.
Sakurai in Action
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Kengo Sakurai finished second to fellow countryman Toshiyuki Onda in yesterday's Single-Day High Roller after both players from Japan survived several all in when at risk with the inferior hand against Germany's Daniel Smiljkovic. Sakurai has already taken a seat along with the further notables below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Back for More Action
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
All five of these players will be taking another shot at advancing after failing to bag on the first flight of the main.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Lubov Scores an Early Knockout
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
"You have a knack for bad beats, eh?" Pavel Lubov said as he came over to confirm he had knocked out an opponent in the first level of the day. Indeed the screens show 98 players out of 100 entries remaining and Lubov sits on a double stack.
According to Lubov, he called a four-bet to 4,000 with kings and they got it in after a 
flop. His opponent held pocket aces and failed to spike the two-outer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | 30,000 |
Two Tournament Areas in Action
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The field is growing by the minute and up to 12 tables will be used in the secondary VIP area, in which the Super High Roller initially took place. Dong Guo and Changyang Liu can be found in action there already as three tables are running.
A new entry in the main tournament area is Kelvin Beattie, who just sat down over on table 11.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Lubov Finds Cowboys Again
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The turned board read 
and there was 4,500 in the pot. Pavel Lubov checked to his opponent who checked behind and the 
came down on the river.
Lubov threw in 1,900, his opponent called and Lubov tabled 
for an overpair of cowboys. His opponent mucked and Lubov took down another early pot with kings.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,100 | 5,100 |
More Additions to the Field
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The field is booming early in the day with 130 registration slips sold already!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |