A busy day is expected in the grand ballroom of the five-star NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh as the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) gets ready for the business end of the festival. After a successful first starting day for the 2023 APPT Cambodia $1,500 Main Event with 176 entries, the flagship tournament is destined to easily surpass the $400,000 guarantee.
Another two starting days are available for poker enthusiasts from near and far in one of the up and coming live poker hotbeds of the Asia-Pacific region, as NagaWorld has hosted several international stops throughout the last few years with prize pools reaching seven figures.
Day 1b is slated to get underway at 1 p.m. local time and features the same 40-minute level duration as the first flight, while the turbo heat 1c will follow at 8 p.m. local time. The goal of all participants for both flights is the same: Surviving 13 levels and bagging up chips to advance to Day 2, when the race to the money and nine-handed final table continues.
The late registration is open for the first ten levels and following break and during that period, a single re-entry option is available. All participants receive 30,000 in chips, which is good enough for 300 big blinds in the first level of play at blinds of 100-100 with a big blind ante of 100.
Chip leaders so far from the first flight are Cheng Zhang (399,000) and Bien Mai (394,000), who increased their initial stack more than 13-fold. Whether or not anyone will surpass them on the overall leaderboard in the last two Day 1s today remains to be seen. Defending champion Alexander Puchalski is expected to give his title defence another shot after he failed to make it through Day 1a.
The PokerNews live updates will focus on Day 1b while full chip counts of the turbo heat 1c are published once they are provided.
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