APT Taipei 2023

APT High Roller - 8 Max - TWD 4,500,000 GTD - Day 1

WONGWICHIT PHACHARA

CHAN TSZ HIM

NEMESKERI-KISS ROBERT

CHEN HSUANCHAO

CHEN KUAN-HAN

DA PETER

TUMBOLI ZARVAN

CHOI KEVIN

MCCULLY JOSHUA CURTIS

NAKAGIRI JUNICHI

LEE HON CHEONG

JUNG SEUNGMOOK 

SALVESEN JULIAN EK

LECH MICHAEL ANDREW

SASAKI NOBUAKI

CHEUNG SPARROW

CHOKEJINDACHAI NAPAT

OGURA TAKASHI

QUANG NGUYEN NANG

CHENG CHAO TING

JOLY BASTIEN

LIN CHIEH PAO

SEO MOONHO

MENDOZA JAMES

ROUXEL JULIEN

CO CHUNG CHUEN

ANTON ZHEN ZHAO LU

CHOONG YITA

DUNG NGUYEN HUU

HE ZONG CHI

SHIH CHUN-KANG

CHO WOORAM

SONG JUNYEOB

STOJKOVIC MILAN

WONG SAU IN

LEE WAI KIAT

WU JUN HAO

YIM TIMOTHY

GUIMARAES SEBASTIAN

![APTTaipei2023_Event43_APTHighRoller_004.jpg](https://apt-content.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/APT_Taipei2023_Event43_APT_High_Roller_004_62713e6a80.jpg) Peter Da

Day 1 of the **TWD 90,000 + 10,000 High Roller** has been concluded. A total of 302 entries created a total prize pool of **TWD 26,364,600 (~$861,000)**. The winner of this event will take home **TWD 5,286,500 (~$172,650)**. Norwegian **Peter Da** is our Day 1 chip leader and the only player to finish above a million chips (1,096,000). 

| Place | Name | Country | Chip Counts |
| --- | ----------|---------|-----------|
|     1           |  Peter Da         | Norway             | 1,096,000     |
|    2            |   Adam Kharman        |  Auustralia          |   999,000     |
|      3          |  Timothy Yim         |  Hong Kong            |   870,000       |
|     4           |  Zarvan Tumboli         |     India          |  813,000     |
|    5            |  Napat Chokejindachai         |    Thailand            |  751,000    |
|      6          |  Chung Chuen Co         |    Hong Kong             |  727,000    |
|       7         |   Wooram Cho        |     Korea               |   708,000         |
|    8            |    Julien Rouxel       |     France           |  703,000    |
|       9         |  Robert Kiss         |    United States             |  669,000    |
|     10           |  Milan Stojkovic         |    Australia                |  663,000          |

Several big pots in the and a last hand hero call against Dylan Foster made sure Peter Da is our chip leader. During the first hours of the day it was however **Adam Kharman** that grabbed the early chip lead. An all-in pot with :Ad: :Kh: against Alan Lau's :Ac: :Qd: made sure Kharman was in cruisecontrol all day. 

Coming in as fourth in chips is Indian poker professional **Zarvan Tumboli**. The Indian had a good start when he flopped a set of nines and got full value from top pair. Tumboli has won 3 APT titles in his career and will be dreaming tonight of a fouth title. 

**Seungmook Jung** from Korea made it to Day with 602,000. The Korean poker profesional is a regular on the APT tour. Jung holds a total of 2 APT titles which one of them came in a High Roller event in Manila last year. Further Jung was second in the APT High Roller at APT Hanoi ($62,750) in February of this year. Can he go back-to-back in the same event?

Other notables that made it to Day 2 are Vietnam's Nguyen Nang Quang (656,000), Korea's Nahmyung Kim (463,000), bracelet winner Abhinav Iyer (371,000), and APT Incheon Main Event winner Farhad Agbayev (257,000).

**High Roller Payout Structure**
| Place | Prize (TWD) | Prize (~USD) | 
| --- | ----------|---------|
|      1          |    5,286,500       |     172,630         |
|      2          |   3,514,400        |    114,760        | 
|       3         |   2,570,500        |       83,940       | 
|       4         |   2,074,900        |      67,755         |  
|     5           |     1,626,700      |      53,120          |  
|      6          |    1,231,200       |       40,200          |   
|     7           |    904,300       |       29,530             |         
|     8           |   664,400        |     21,700           |    
|      9          |   551,000        |      17,990        |     
|     10 -11           |   461,400        |       15,070      |
|      12-13          |   403,400        |   13,170     |
|    14-15            |   263,800        |    11,880         |
|     16-17           |   324,300        |      10,590     |
|     18-20           |    284,700       |   9,300     |
|      21-23          |   258,400        |    8,440    |
|    24-27            |    232,000       |   7,575      |
|     28-31           |   205,600        |    6,710    |
|      32-39          |  181,900         |    5,940     |

Day 2 will resume at 12:15 PM local time (GMT+8) on Sunday, May 7th and we will play down to a winner. Join our live reporting blog again tomorrow to not miss anything of this prestigious event.

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Peter Da Leads Final 84 of High Roller Event

Day 1 of the High Roller is in the books. All the bags are getting bagged. Stay tuned for the final day chip counts and prize pool update.

Day 1 of the High Roller is in the Books

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John "Jojo" Tech will not be our new High Roller champion at the APT Taipei as he just busted out of this event after a preflop all-in with :Ad: :5d: against the :Ac: :9d: of Australia's Milan Stojkovic.

The board ran :Kd: :2h: :9h: :Qd: :5h:.

After his impressive win in the APT Superstar Challenge not another High Roller win for Tech, but we are sure we will see Tech back in the future.

| Name | Chip Counts |
| ----------- | ----------|
| Milan Stojkovic               |   630,000        |
|     John Tech           |     0      |


John Tech Busts Out in Final 4 Hands of the Day

| Name | Chip Counts |
| ----------- | ----------|
|   Adam Kharman             |  910,000         |
|   Zarvan Tumboli             |     810,000      |
|      Nguyen Nang Quang          |   790,000        |
|    Seungmook Jung            |    770,000       |
|  Julien Rouxel             |    730,000       |


Top-5 Chip Stacks in the Room

We are down to the final 96 players in the High Roller. We will play another 25 minutes till the day ends. 

Down to 96 Players

We are in the last level of the day. The High Roller received a total of 302 entries that generated a total prize pool of **TWD $26,364,600 (~$860,950)**.

The winner of this High Roller event will walk away with **TWD $5,286,500 (~$172,630)**.

Last Level of the Day

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We just witnessed a big setup situation at table 36 between Jun Hao Wu and Jinho Hong. All the chips went into the middle on the river on a board of :Qh: :3c: :9h: :Qd: :7h:. Hong thought he was strong with his :Kh: :Jh:, but couldn't beat Wu's boat :9d: :9c:.

| Name | Chip Counts |
| ----------- | ----------|
|     Jun Hao Wu           |   280,000        |
|     Jinho Hong          |     0      |


Setup Eliminates Hong

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Kartik Ved has been eliminated from the High Roller. The Indian poker shoved all-in for his last 37,000 with :Ac: :6d: after an other player opened the action to 12,000.  The initial raiser showed :Th: 7h: and out-flopped Kartik as the board ran :5h: :8h: :7c: :6s: :Jd:.

| Name | Chip Counts |
| ----------- | ----------|
| Kartik Ved               |     0      |


Kartik Ved Eliminated

The short stacked Keita Minami has just doubled up when he jammed his last 45,000 into the middle with :Kh: :Ks:. Minami's opponent Yoosu Kim only had :Js: :9s: and needed a miracle to win the hand. 

The board ran out without a sweat for the Japanese: ::3s: :Ad: :3h: :Ac: :5d:. Minami started Day 3 of the Main Event here in Taipei with only 2,5 big blinds and he was able to still run deep. Can he make another come back run?

| Name | Chip Counts |
| ----------- | ----------|
|   Keita Minami             |    105,000       |
|    Yoosu Kim            |    56,000       |


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