Chao Ting Cheng

Flight D of the APT Jeju 2025 Main Event has just drawn its curtain after 10 levels of play. There was a total of 157 entries (126 unique) that bought-in or KRW 2,600,000 (~USD 1,860) for a seat, a stack of 40,000 chips and the opportunity to grab a chunk from the KRW 2.2 billion (~USD 1.5 million) guaranteed prize pool.

Only 63 survivors were able to end the day with a stack of chips ready to be bagged for a continuation of their journey for Day 2. Sitting at the top of the leaderboard is Chao Ting Cheng of Taiwan with a very healthy stack of 332,100.

Cheng was able to build his stack by winning a monstrous three-way all-in when his ace-king suited toppled the ace-nine suited of Daichi Terai and the queens of Lin Zhou.

Second-ranked in chips of Flight D was China's Liu ZIwen with 216,000 followed closely by compatriot Li Shaoming with 215,700.

These are the top ten chip counts of Flight D:

Michael Wang

Other notable names to make it through to Day 2 via Flight D were the likes of WSOP bracelet winners Joseph Cheong (110,600) and Michael Wang (109,000) and WPT champion Anton Lu (60,200).

To view the complete survivor list of Flight D, click HERE.

The remaining 63 Flight D survivors will be shuffled into Day 2 along with the 147 Flight A qualifiers, the 174 of Flight B and the 134 of Flight C, bringing the total Day 2 qualifeers to 516 from all the live flights.

There are 234 more on-live qualifiers who will be joining the Main Event on Day 3 and are already guaranteed a min-cash from the yet-to-be-determind total prize pool since last-minute registration will still be open before Day 2 lets cards fly on 11AM local time.

Those last minute-registrants will be part of APT history as it will push the 1,265 total of live entries from the four flights even further. Of course, once again, there are still 234 online entries to be counted. Once the final number is determined - the APT can officially announce that it will be the largest attendance of ANY main event ever held in Korean soil.

So far, this Main Event has already broken the Korean APT record as the biggest APT Main Event held in Korea. Now, it's time to bust the records from all other festivals.

Everything will be determined tomorrow when Day 2 resumes.

The surviving 63 players are now bagging for Day 2.

Stay tuned for the full end of day recap, which will be posted shortly.

Chau Chan Sheung is still alive!

The dealer was shipping chips his way. Sheung had A 7 against A J of an undetermined player.

Before the dealer scooped the board, there were 4 diamonds on the board and one of them was a J , which accounts for the jubilance of Sheung as he stacked his survival stack.

Gytis Lazauninkas

I didn't catch the entire hand or board, but Gtyis Lazauninkas had K Q in front of him and Jieming Xu had an A 9 in front of him while the chips were being sorted.

The board did show a K somewhere just before the dealer wrapped everything up.

The important thing was that a whole bunch of chips were shipped the way of Lazauninkas and Xu was left with crumbs.

Moments later, the dealer would announce "Seat Open" and Xu would be seen running away from the table.

The floor has announced that the remaining players will play seven more hands before bagging for Day 2.

Action was followed from when Dajia Chen jammed for his remaining 12,500 from the cutoff and Pingfeng Wu had made the call from the big blind.

Dajia Chen: Q J

Pingfeng Wu: A 8

Not much changed on the 6 K 5 flop, and both missed again on the 4 turn and 9 river.

Chen left the tournament at the start of Level 10, just 45 minutes from bagging for Day 2.

Zhe Li and Jinnan Zhao had a 15,500 pot in front of them beside a flop that showed 7 Q 4

Small blind Li led out for 5,100 and Zhao matched to open a T on the turn.

Li tapped over to Zhao who fired 13,000 - around half the stack of Li.

Li tanked, wondered why helium does that to your voice when you breathe it in, then mucked his hand.

Poseidon Ho

Players were already on the 4 3 5 flop with a pot of around 8,000. Wenbin Xu was on the button and Poseidon Ho in the small blind.

Ho moved all in for his remaining 23,000 and Xu made a quick call.

Poseidon Ho: A 7

Wenbin Xu: 9 9

Xu was ahead with pocket nines but Ho had plenty of outs, as had picked up a straight draw and a heart flush draw on the flop.

The dealer peeled the 6 turn, which brought in the straight for Ho.

Xu couldn't recoup and the 8 river was placed, securing Ho his double up.

Wenbin Xu opened to 2,500 on the button and saw Poseidon Ho and Yixi Tang defend the small and big blind respectively.

The Q 5 3 flop saw the blinds check to Xu who bet 4,000. Both remaining players called and action continued three-ways to the 2 turn.

Ho checked, and Tang bet out 15,000. Xu used up his shot clock time and a 30-second time bank card before folding. Ho made a quick fold behind.

Despite loosing some chips in the hand, Xu was sitting with a sizeable stack and in contention for bagging top of the counts at the end of the day.

Whatever happened between a raise and a three-bet didn't matter anymore. In the end, three players had all their chips in the middle to make what was probably the biggest pot of Flight D so far.

Without any fuss...

Lin Zhou Q Q

Daichi Terai: A 9

Chao Ting Cheng: A K

Flop arrived A T 2 , giving both Terai and Cheng top pair to overtake the queens of Zhou.

The turn comes 5 and Terai is begging the dealer for a nine.

The river spat out a 4 giving Cheng the check-mark.

After a thorough chip count, Zhou realised he was covered.

Terai - already knew he was covered - but was still busy speaking into his camera to record his moment on the vlog.

Cheng meanwhile stacked his chips as the flight chip leader.