Niko Koop

The German Niko Koop is the chip leader of the TWD 110,000 APT High Roller. After a slow start inside the Chinese Majong League, the registrations kept pouring in, ending at a total of 275 entries (192 unique), creating a total prize pool of TWD 26,136,000 (~$809,500). This means the guaranteed prize pool of TWD 11,000,000 was more than doubled! The winner of this event will be taking home TWD 5,244,000 (~$164,850).

Of the 61 players that made it to Day 2, four players bagged over 1 million chips. Closely following Koop, who ended the day with 1,185,000 chips, is the Brazilian Sebastian Iargo with 1,174,000. Iargo will be in great contention to surpass his current career-high cash of USD 6,335 which he achieved earlier this series in Event #21 Single Day High Roller - Mystery Bounty.

Sebastian Iargo

The podium was completed by Austrian's Daniel Robert Montagnolli with 1,156,000. It would be the first live title for the experienced professional.

Other notable names to make it to Day 2 are Stephen Song ( 990,000), Konstantin Held (786,000), Main Event 6th place finisher Chih Wei Fan (736,000), Punnat Punsri (596,000), and Rampage (203,000). ** Here are the top 10 chip counts after Day 1.**

APT Taipei High Roller - Payouts

Day 2 of the APT Taipei High Roller will continue at 11:15 AM local time inside the Asian Poker Arena. The final table will be live-streamed and can be seen through all social media channels of the Asian Poker Tour.

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And that's it. We have reached the end of day 1 of the APT High Roler. 16 levels have been played and the remaining players are bagging their chips. A recap of the day will follow shortly.

Kunal Patni limped in from the small blind, and Mikael Andersson checked over from the big blind to take it into the streets.

A runout brought J J 3 3 which they checked through until an A landed on the river. Patni bet 35,000, making Andersson muck his hand.

Daniel Montagnolli

Daniel Montagnolli raised to 20,000 from the cutoff only to be jammed by Yohwan Lim for 98,000 from the small blind. After thing for a while, Montagnolli folded.

Sebastian Iargo

Sebastian Iargo limped in from the small blind which Dominik Nitsche checked from the big blind.

Both read a flop of 5 2 8 and checked through to see the turn.

After the 8 hit on the turn, Iargo bet 8,000 and was called by Nitsche to see a 4 river to which Iargo fired out 27,000, but Nitsche stuck around. Iargo tabled J 8 for trips and scooped the pot through Nitsche. Iargo amassed over one million chips.

Kunal Patni

This was not Kunal Patni's day. He was struggling all day to build up a stack. Combine it with two coolers, there is not much he could have done to survive the day. After running his KK into AA and AK earlier today, he just busted in the last level of the day with A K against Zhan Guo's A A .

China's Shu Leung Yau raised to 16,000 from middle position, and only his countrymate Mean-Feng Huang called from the big blind.

Both read a runout of 4 9 8 K 3 and checked it through. Huang tabled Q T against the 7 7 from Yau, meaning Yau scored the pot with his candy canes.

Kon Tang opened from early-position and Nuttapath Saisilp called on the button. Jeremy Min got dealt A J and jammed his 15 big-blinds. Kon Tang re-jammed, covering both players. Saisilp tanked, as it turned out he had pocket tens, but decided to get out of the way.

Tang was the favorite to bust out Min with A K , but the A J 8 flop gave Min the lead which he could hold to double up and is now in great contention to make day 2.

Rishi Mehra

After we posted a hand Mehra had to lay down a couple of minutes ago, this time he won chips back and continues his hot run in this tournament. Punnat Punsri opened from the cut-off and Rishi Mehra in the small-blind and Zhan Guo called along.

On the :Td 6 3 flop Punsri made a small bet which both blinds called. Punsri continued to fire on the A turn and only Mehra wanted to see a river. This brought another six, the 6 and Mehra took over the initiative and donked 60,000 into a pot of around 220,000. After using one time bank Punsri decided to let his hand go.

A flop ran 8 3 A with around 45,000 chips in the middle. Joey Weissman folded, and Rishi Mehra bet 7,000 which Stephane Serfati called on the button.

A K landed on the turn Mehra check-folded after Stephane fired out 45,000.