During Day 2 of the TWD 50,000 APT Main Event, it was confirmed that the event has entered the history books as the biggest and richest international event in Taiwan! The Main Event drew 1,991 entries, which in-turn generated a record-breaking prize pool of TWD 86,011,200 (~USD 2,709,014), with a top prize of TWD 14,413,200 (~USD 453,959). With this, 295 players are locked up for a guaranteed payday. Thank you for the amazing support.

A the combined survivors from Flights A and C (less three double qualifiers whose shortest stacks were removed from play) were joined by a further 65 Day 2 late entries and these 414 players duked it out over five 60-minute levels.

Only 164 players made the cut for Day 3. Here is a recap of what happened today in Day 2 of the Main Event:

Dylan Wayne Foster

Australia’s Dylan Wayne Foster accumulated 575,000 chips and currently sits on the top of the chip leaderboard. Prior to the event, Foster has only ever managed second place in an APT event, winning over $75,000 in APT Summer Series Hanoi, Vietnam 2023.

The second-biggest stack of 562,000 belongs to Macau’s Sio Fat Lau who started in 25th place at the beginning of today and managed to hoard over 300,000 chips to climb up on the board.

Cheng Yen Lo

Taiwan’s Cheng Yen Lo (554,000) lost his opportunity to be the chip leader as Lo went too far on a hand with Tomoki Terashima (518,500). Lo folded his hand, losing the pot with no help received from the deck.

Other notables to make it through are Shixiang Khoo (419,000), Jacob Ikuma (373,500), Lester Edoc (358,000), Daniel John Neilson (266,000), Yohwan “BoxeR” Lim (224,500), and Henry Kilbane (83,000).

The top ten stacks can be found below.

A full APT Taipei Main Event Day 2 Survivor List can be found by CLICKING HERE.

Join us tomorrow at 11:00 am local time for all the latest action from Day 3 of this record-breaking Main Event.

Players are bagging their chips as Da2 A/C has ended. A full recap of the day will follow shortly.

With totaling 35,000 chips in the middle and the flop spreading 5 3 6 , Wongyu Kang bet 15,000 on the button before Sheng-Kuang Fu check-called from the big blind, and Wei Jen Wang mucked his hand.

Both players saw the T fell on the turn and checked through until the river brought a 9 which Fu bet 4,000, and Kong made the call.

Sheng-Kuang Fu 5 4

Wongyu Kang 6 8

Kang tabled for a higher pair of sixes against a pair of fives from Fu.

Players are at the last 5 hands before the day ends.

Action folded to Man Fei Caleb Chui in big blind after Motoyoshi Okumura opened under-the-gun to 9,000. Chui called and the flop ran J T J . Allowing the initial raiser to lead, Chui check-called Okumura's bet of 7,000 on the turn 4 .

Action passed to Okumura again, the aggressor bet 15,000 on the river 2 . Chui called just to muck his hand after seeing Okumura's Q T

Tournament Director Lloyd Fontillas

Tournament Director Lloyd Fontillas hard at work as APT Taipei Poker Classic reaches another milestone.

Cheng Yen Lo raised to 18,000 from the hijack, and Tomoki Terashima three-bet to 23,000 on the button which Lo four-bet to 60,000 and was called by Terashima.

Lo bet 40,000 on the 3 J 8 flop which was snap-called by Terashima.

Both players saw a 5 hit on the turn and slowed down the pace as they checked through to see the 6 river which Lo check-folded after Terashima fired 150,000 chips.

The runout came Q 3 9 3 with the pot totaling 24,000, Minoru Murano bet 8,000 from the big blind, and Yao Hui Mok called from the hijack.

A board-pairing 9 rolled off on the river, and Murano fired 16,000 which Mok stuck around.

Minoru Murano Q T

Yao Hui Mok Q J

Mok tabled queen-jack for against queen-ten from Murano and earned himself the pot with kicker jack.

The Asian Poker Tour has once again broken its own record as the biggest and richest event in Taiwan history as the Main Event officially draws 1,991 entries! 295 players will cash for a share of the TWD 86,011,200 (~USD 2.7M) prize pool with a top prize of TWD 14,413,200 (~USD 452,000)!

Some key records broken by this Main Event:

• 1,991 entries is the Taiwan record for largest international field
• 1,991 entries is also the second largest Main Event field in APT history
• TWD 86,011,200 (~USD 2.7M) is the Taiwan prize pool record, obliterating the TWD 65M prize pool guarantee

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Players are on their last 15-minute of the day.