Main Event
Day 1b Completed
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Seoul
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Seoul
Buy-in
2,760,000 KRW
Entries
256
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Raiden Kan Grabs The Day 1 Chip Lead
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The second and last starting day of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Main Event in Seoul concluded with Raiden Kan as the chip leader, and he bagged up 156,400. A total of 138 players entered Day 1b, but just 50 managed to last throughout the eight levels that were played.
Many notables showed up for this event, but for most of them, including Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, things didn't go so well.
At the start of the day, we immediately spotted former Aussie Millions Main Event finalist, Sam Cohen who had quite a profitable day. Right off the bat, Cohen found aces to win her a big pot, and things never slowed down as she bagged up 104,000 in chips. Things didn't go so well for former ANZPT Sydney winner Michael Kanaan, who grinded the entire day only to get knocked out in the final level of play.
Online grinder Jae Kim, a U.S. native living in Seoul due to Black Friday, looked to make an impact in this live tournament. Kim held on for quite a long time, but eventually he hit the rail. Chip-stacking champ Ang Lin left the cash games today to try his best in the Main Event, but unfortunately the ever-smiling gentleman was soon sent back to play some more cash games. That's right where he went, too, and was seen creating more chip stack castles right away.
Another player that we will not see on Day 2 is ANZPT Melbourne winner Paul Hockin. The Kiwi, who's known as "KingPaulie" online, did not see his stack increase by much, and his bad day ultimately ended in a quiet exit. Jimmy Pan, a former APPT Macau runner-up, battled hard all day as well, but ultimately he fell to last year's runner-up Chane Kampanatsanyakorn's when he moved all in with a straight and flush draw against the Thai's flopped full house. In the end, Kampanatsanyakorn ended the day with 50,200, and he kept his hopes alive for back-to-back final tables.
Ryan "piggysnipz" Pignatelli showed up for Day 1b as well and the online grinder had quite a tough seat. Pignatelli was seated in between Juicy Li, who finished sixth in this event last year, and online star Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman. All three players made it through to Day 2 with Pignatelli bagging up 59,200, Honeyman 19,000 and Li 52,400. Andy Chan, runner-up in the first-ever ACOP Macau, had a great day and he finished the day with 95,300 after playing against Kanaan and Grospellier for most of the duration.
As mentioned, Grospellier was also among the players that did not make Day 2, as the Frenchman was short for most of the day before busting in a big pot against Toshiyuki Onda. Grospellier check-raised all in holding a flush draw, but that was not enough versus Onda's second pair. Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu was knocked out on Day 1b as well. He ran his top pair of aces into two pair after being in control for most of the day.
Tomorrow, on Day 2, the money will be reached when the field gets down to the final 28, and here's what the likes of Grospellier, Wu, Kanaan and Hockin will not be winning in Seoul this week.
| Place | Payout (KRW) | Payout (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ₩185,000,000 | $175,565 |
| 2 | ₩116,500,000 | $110,558 |
| 3 | ₩65,110,000 | $61,789 |
| 4 | ₩49,69,0000 | $47,155 |
| 5 | ₩41,120,000 | $39,022 |
| 6 | ₩32,550,000 | $30,889 |
| 7 | ₩25,700,000 | $24,389 |
| 8 | ₩20,560,000 | $19,511 |
| 9 | ₩15,433,200 | $14,646 |
| 10-12 | ₩10,280,000 | $9,755 |
| 13-16 | ₩8,570,000 | $8,132 |
| 17-20 | ₩6,860,000 | $6,510 |
| 21-24 | ₩5,485,000 | $5,205 |
| 25-28 | ₩4,800,000 | $4,555 |
Join us again tomorrow when overall chip leader Kan will face a field of 92 competitors that will try to prevent him from going wire-to-wire in this event. Play will resume at 12 noon local time, and another eight levels of 60 minutes will be played.
Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
156,400 | 156,400 |
|
155,400 | 79,400 |
|
128,300 | 128,300 |
|
|
110,700 | 110,700 |
|
107,700 | 23,700 |
|
100,200 | 5,200 |
|
95,300 | -8,700 |
|
|
88,900 | 88,900 |
|
|
77,100 | 77,100 |
|
|
76,400 | 76,400 |
|
64,600 | 64,600 |
|
|
64,300 | 64,300 |
|
61,900 | -7,100 |
|
61,200 | 61,200 |
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
|
59,200 | 46,600 |
|
|
58,000 | 58,000 |
|
55,400 | 55,400 |
|
55,100 | -10,900 |
|
54,600 | 54,600 |
|
|
53,000 | 53,000 |
|
52,400 | 400 |
|
|
52,100 | 52,100 |
|
|
51,300 | 51,300 |
|
50,200 | 20,200 |
Day 2 Seat Draw
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | Hao Chen | 24100 |
| 4 | 2 | Ken Demlakian | 59800 |
| 4 | 3 | Bian Hong Yang | 65300 |
| 4 | 4 | Toan Ngoc Nguyen | 64000 |
| 4 | 5 | Chih-i Fang | 11000 |
| 4 | 6 | King Lun Alan Lau | 35300 |
| 4 | 7 | Kevin Petersen | 41000 |
| 4 | 8 | Bartlomiej Machon | 93200 |
| 4 | 9 | Minh Hau Nguyen | 44800 |
| 4 | 10 | Ming Yu Zou | 76400 |
| 5 | 1 | Colin Lovelock | 37000 |
| 5 | 2 | Juicy Sixiao Li | 52400 |
| 5 | 3 | Kosaku Akashi | 61900 |
| 5 | 4 | Shinya Umano | 17800 |
| 5 | 5 | Kitson Kho | 20900 |
| 5 | 6 | Jacques Guerrand | 40000 |
| 5 | 7 | Dylan Honeyman | 19000 |
| 5 | 8 | Elie Yamen | 14500 |
| 5 | 9 | Jing Gao | 60000 |
| 6 | 1 | Makoto Yoshimichi | 48000 |
| 6 | 2 | Batnyam Zayabaatar | 52100 |
| 6 | 3 | Ziyang Zhao | 57400 |
| 6 | 4 | Artem Lobus | 116200 |
| 6 | 5 | Timothy Place | 155400 |
| 6 | 6 | Ryan Kim | 16500 |
| 6 | 7 | Takao Kazuta | 51300 |
| 6 | 8 | Patty Pei Yu Lai | 36000 |
| 6 | 9 | Samantha Cohen | 107700 |
| 10 | 1 | Mike Kim | 34600 |
| 10 | 2 | Li Ta Hsu | 25700 |
| 10 | 3 | Ryan Piganatelli | 59200 |
| 10 | 4 | Eric Eng Boon Lee | 68800 |
| 10 | 5 | Eiichi Mizuno | 33100 |
| 10 | 6 | John Marshall | 87400 |
| 10 | 7 | Tyrone Kerrigan | 31600 |
| 10 | 8 | Li Si Wei | 48000 |
| 10 | 9 | Takahisa Watanabe | 64600 |
| 10 | 10 | Serge Rived | 44300 |
| 11 | 1 | Joao Silva | 12600 |
| 11 | 2 | Toshimasa Kawahira | 31000 |
| 11 | 3 | Wayde Rickhuss | 22500 |
| 11 | 4 | Jason Kim | 19600 |
| 11 | 5 | Cheng Cheng | 19600 |
| 11 | 6 | An Tai Young | 114300 |
| 11 | 7 | Quan Zhou | 99400 |
| 11 | 8 | Masanori Ishihara | 54600 |
| 11 | 9 | Matthew Wakeman | 24100 |
| 12 | 1 | Yaxi Zhu | 61200 |
| 12 | 2 | Ronald Kluber | 39100 |
| 12 | 3 | Lin Ping | 49300 |
| 12 | 4 | Aaron Lim | 14700 |
| 12 | 5 | Masato Yokosawa | 146800 |
| 12 | 6 | David Martirosyan | 33100 |
| 12 | 7 | Alvan Yifan Zheng | 38700 |
| 12 | 8 | Yoshiyuki Takahashi | 88900 |
| 12 | 9 | Chunjie Liu | 34400 |
| 13 | 1 | Christian Haggart | 55100 |
| 13 | 2 | Sang Hyun Park | 110700 |
| 13 | 3 | Soong Chong Hwang | 30000 |
| 13 | 4 | Annica Ivert | 32000 |
| 13 | 5 | Yong Zhi Jin | 40000 |
| 13 | 6 | Keiichiro Sugimoto | 55400 |
| 13 | 7 | Raiden Kan | 156400 |
| 13 | 8 | Samad Razavi | 37300 |
| 13 | 9 | Olivier Tessier | 67900 |
| 14 | 1 | Clement Chung Man Lau | 37100 |
| 14 | 2 | Marvin de La Cruz | 58000 |
| 14 | 3 | Daniel Belov | 32600 |
| 14 | 4 | Jaeik Cho Akira Ohyama | 23900 |
| 14 | 5 | Tetsuya Tsuchikawa | 88500 |
| 14 | 6 | Winfred Yu | 36900 |
| 14 | 7 | Naoya Kihara | 39200 |
| 14 | 8 | David Park | 11000 |
| 14 | 9 | Ye Han Chen | 53000 |
| 15 | 1 | Alexandre Chieng | 32700 |
| 15 | 2 | Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen | 35100 |
| 15 | 3 | Shinichiroh Teraoka | 30600 |
| 15 | 4 | Derek Bethea | 64300 |
| 15 | 5 | Jiaxiu Liu | 60000 |
| 15 | 6 | Toshiyuki Onda | 100200 |
| 15 | 7 | Yencheng Huang | 57000 |
| 15 | 8 | Kelvin John Beattie | 107000 |
| 15 | 9 | Chane Kampanatsanyakorn | 50200 |
| 16 | 1 | Chen Yu Ma | 77100 |
| 16 | 2 | Stepan Lavrin | 103500 |
| 16 | 3 | Raymond Kut Fu Chow | 25900 |
| 16 | 4 | Andy Ying Kit Chan | 95300 |
| 16 | 5 | Tsun Ming Chan | 128300 |
| 16 | 6 | Jeffrey Holbrook | 31000 |
| 16 | 7 | Claudiu Gurau | 34200 |
| 16 | 8 | Bjoern Tvedt | 68400 |
| 16 | 9 | Sid Kim | 75100 |
Four More Hands
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The tournament clock has been paused and it has been announced that four more hands will be dealt to conclude the day. We'll be back with any notable hands and some chip counts soon.
Kluber Eliminates Kanaan
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
All of Ron Kluber's and Michael Kanaan's chips were in the middle but it was Kanaan who was at risk. Kanaan tabled 
and Kluber showed 97c7d]. The board ran out 
sending Kanaan to the rail and giving Kluber some much needed chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000 | |
|
Busted |
Onda Ends ElkY
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
"Oh man, I should've played it differently," Chane Kampanatsanyakorn just sighed after he missed out on a massive pot in which Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier.
Kampanatsanyakorn was involved in the hand which he raised to 2,500 and Grospellier called from the small blind and Toshiyuki Onda called from the big blind.
The flop brought out 
and both Grospellier and Onda checked to Kampanatsanyakorn who put out a bet of 5,800. Grospellier gave it some thought before moving all in for 23,200 more and now Onda went deep into the tank. After a few minutes Onda made the call and Kampanatsanyakorn looked back at his cards before, with a pained look in his eyes, folded his cards.
Onda: 
Grospellier: 
The board ran out 
, 
and Onda's pair of sixes held up against Grospellier's flush draw. Kampanatsanyakorn confessed that he folded a queen and if he had pulled the trigger on this big pot he could've been the tournament chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
95,000 | |
|
|
30,000 | -5,000 |
|
Busted |
Chan Wins Big Against Haggart
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We came to the table with a 
flop showing and a raising war between Andy Chan and Christian Haggart that ended with all of Chan's chips in the middle.
Chan: 
Haggart: 
Chan was looking for some help and found it on the turn when a 
came. The river finalized the deal and Chan took a huge pot and is sitting near the top of the chip counts as the end of day 1b looms.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
104,000 | 61,000 |
|
|
66,000 | -39,000 |
Wu Hits The Rail
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu has just been knocked out by the hands of the sole Romanian player in today's field, Claudiu Gurau.
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn was very helpful reconstructing the hand as we just caught the board and cards when Wu walked out of the room.
The action started with Wu who raised to 3,000 and a player in late position moved all in for just 4,500. Gurau called the 4,500 from the big blind and Wu tossed in the extra chips as well.
The flop brought out 
and Gurau check-called 4,000 after which the turn brought the 
. Gurau check-called another 7,000 and on the river the 
popped up. Now Gurau moved all in and Wu called off his remaining 17,000 chips with . The third player involved mucked and Gurau showed his 
for a rivered two pair to take down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000 | 85,000 |
|
Busted |
Down to 61
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
With one hour left in the day we are down to 61 players and the average stack is 45,245 chips or 45 big blinds.