Kristof Segers

Flight F of the Ultra Stack Championship brought the final starting flight to a close inside Red Space, Taipei, drawing 303 entries for the late-night turbo at the Asian Poker Tour Championship (APTC). The steady flow of players throughout the day helped push the overall total across all six flights to an impressive 1,867 entries, which generated a prize pool of TWD 40,327,200.

As expected with the fastest structure of the event, the chips moved quickly from the opening level. Eliminations came in waves as players looked to secure one of the final spots in the money, and by the time the bubble burst, only 42 players remained. All survivors sealed a guaranteed cash, and will return on Wednesday, Nov 19, to join the qualifiers from the five earlier flights.

Topping the field was Kristof Segers, who surged throughout the closing stretch before finishing with a commanding 3,700,000 chips. His performance not only earned him the Flight F lead but also placed him at the top of the overall leaderboard heading into the Final Day. With the stacks now combined and the full prize pool locked in, Segers will start Day 2 as the player everyone else is chasing.

Ultra Stack Championship Flight F Top Ten Chip Counts

Nguyen Trung Quan claimed the second-biggest stack after sealing up 2,700,000. Nguyen has been in strong form this season and won the APT High Roller in Taipei earlier this year for VND 7,936,600 (USD 247,930), a result that also earned him an APTC Main Event seat. Rounding out the top three was Australia’s Tam Truong, who advanced with 1,895,000 and brings close to USD 1,200,000 in live earnings into the Final Day.

More talent followed inside the top ten as Wing Fai Kwan continued his impressive series by bagging 1,455,000, good for fourth place on the overnight leaderboard. Kwan also finished fourth in the National Cup Championship earlier in the festival for a career-best score of TWD 1,333,500 (~USD 44,010).

Malaysia’s Jeremy Chan closed with 1,390,000 and will again be chasing a deep run on Wednesday. Chan came painfully close to an APT title in the APT Super High Roller in Incheon earlier this year, where he finished second for KRW 223,790,000 (~USD 160,650). With another shot at a lion trophy now in front of him, he enters the Final Day with plenty of motivation.

Lester Edoc

Rounding out the top ten is Lester Edoc, a name that needs no introduction. The Filipino star holds an extensive collection of APT hardware, including two Main Event titles. A stack of 880,000 gives him a solid platform to make a push toward another major final table on Day 2.

Some other notables to make it through include Alan Lau (880,000), John Matsuda (745,000), Ferdinand Lu (610,000), Natural8 Ambassador Sparrow Cheung (230,000), and Florencio Campomanes (180,000, who comes back with one of the shortest stacks.

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Day 2 begins at 11:15 AM on Wednesday, Nov 19, and will play down to a winner with 30-minute levels throughout. There are 13 minutes left on the clock ini Level 21 (20,000/40,000/40,000).

Keep your eyes glued to the APT blog for all the latest updates from Red Space, Taipei, to see who can get their hands on a lion trophy.

With the double elimination on the bubble, the remaining 42 players have now bagged up their chips and will take these through to the final day tomorrow, November 19th.

Stay tuned for a recap of the day and full survivor list with chip counts.

With playing being hand-for-hand, there was just a double elimination on the bubble.

On table 66:

Kristof Segers moved all in in the cutoff, and he had the table covered. Marits Marius made the call in the small blind to put his tournament life at risk.

Marits Marius: Q Q

Kristof Segers: 6 5

Some worry for Marius on the K 5 9 flop. But the T turn was safe for him, however, when the dealer peeled off the 5 on the river to give Segers trips, Marius was sent to the rail as the initial bubble boy in a cruel fashion.

On table 75:

Yuki Shimizu moved all in for 230,000 and action folded to Mean Ratanatabtim in the big blind, who made the call.

Yuki Shimizu: K T

Mean Ratanatabtim: A 5

The board of 8 9 3 Q 6 gave Shimizu no help, and he was sent packing as the joint bubble boy.

With 44 players left the clock has now been paused and play will continue hand for hand.

One minute will be taken off the clock for each hand played until there is one more elimination.

Lester Edoc

After pushing up to over the two million chip mark Quan Trung just keeps on building.

He raised under the gun to 85,000 and found a call from Lester Edoc in the big blind.

The flop came K 7 7 and Edoc checked it to Trung who fired out for 65,000. Edoc tanked for a while and folded his hand to send yet another pot to Trung.

The remaining 55 players are now on a 15-minute break. When they return play will continue until 43 are left standing.

Renniel Galvez Cracks The Milly Chip Mark

Kyosuke Nagami moved all in from early position for 212,000 and action folded to Lin Bo in the hijack who also moved all in for 73,000. Renniel Galvez sat in the small blind, called and had both players covered.

Lin Bo: J 8

Kyosuke Nagami: A J

Renniel Galvez: 8 8

The board ran out 3 4 3 7 9 and Galvez's eights held to give him a double knockout and scoop the monster pot to crack the one million chip mark.

Adrian Dumitru limped from the button, and Tan Hoong checked his option in the big blind.

The flop came 9 3 A and Hoong check-called Dumitru's 20,000 bet. The action went check-check on the K turn as it did on the 9 river.

Hoong tabled 8 3 which was good and he was sent the pot.

Fai Kwan

Alan King raised to 32,000 from the cutoff, and action folded to Fai Kwan in the big blind who made the call.

The dealer fanned out the flop of 7 4 6 and Kwan led out for 20,000. King raised it up to 85,000, and Kwan then came back over the top and moved all in, and he had King covered. King snap-called.

Alan King: A A

Fai Kwan: T 8

No miracles for Kwan on the 3 turn nor the 8 river and King was sent the pot for a massive double up.

Alexandru Papazian

Alexandru Papazian raised to 25,000 from under the gun, only for Anthony Xu in middle position to three-bet all in for 88,000.

Action folded back around to Papazian who snap-called.

Anthony Xu: J J

Alexandru Papazian: A Q

A safe flop for Xu came of K 8 2 and the 7 that peeled off on the turn gave him no additional danger.

However, when the Q dropped on the river Papazian hit his pair to send Xu to the rail.