Yunpeng Bai is looking for a third career APT cash in the APT High Roller after topping Day 1

• China’s Siyu Ji Wins APTC Seat & KRW 252.9M (~USD 175K) in Tour’s Richest Korean Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8

• Australia’s Emad Zarghami Wins Tour’s Richest Korean Mini Main Event for KRW 147M (~USD 100K)

APT JEJU CLASSIC 2026 SCHEDULE | OFFICIAL RESULTS | LIVE REPORTING | PLAYER LISTS | IMAGES | WINNERS

JEJU, SOUTH KOREA, February 7, 2026 – Running at the tournament tables of tables of LES A Casino — located at the luxurious Jeju Shinhwa World resort and hosted in partnership with Landing Entertainment Korea — the penultimate day of the ten-day APT Jeju Classic 2026 saw the last of the festival’s Big Three Lion Trophies on the line in the APT High Roller.

In addition to the Day 1 action in the APT High Roller, there was also the conclusion of the Mini Main Event.

The Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8 also came to a close after an additional third day and you can catch up on the highlights of the action below.

There were also the opening three flights of the KRW 1M (~USD USD 680) Ultra Stack and its KRW 100M GTD, plus a plethora of other side event action including a Women’s Event, the Dealer’s Choice Masters mix game tournament, a hi-lo 5-card Big O event, and a Triple Draw Mix, plus a selection of Turbo and Hyper Turbo offerings which you can read all about in the side event press release.

APT High Roller Generates KRW 1.1B (~USD 763K) Prize Pool; China’s Yunpeng Bai Leads Day 1

The last of the festival’s Big Three tournaments saw 259 (167 unique) high rolling lion tamers ante up the KRW 5M (~USD 3.4K) buy-in for the APT High Roller in an attempt to tame the Rose Gold Lion Trophy.

The KRW 700 million (~USD 763K) guarantee was easily surpassed, with the tournament generating a sizable KRW 1,118,880,000 (~USD 763,740) prize pool.

By the time the tournament clock ticked into the red at the conclusion of the sixteen 40-minute levels played, just 55 players remained in contention with China’s Yunpeng Bai leading the pack after bagging up a chip-leading stack of 1,408,000.

Following his third place finish in the record-breaking Main Event, Mihai Tabac seemed determined to make another deep run in another of the tour’s marquee tournaments and the Romanian player bagged the second largest stack of 1,350,000.

Bracelet winner Weiran Pu rounded out the top three, concluding the Day 1 action with 1,213,000 in chips.

Another Main Event finalist to bag a top ten stack was APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 champion Rene von Reden, and the German player will be returning with a stack of 666,000 with which to mount his Rose Gold lion hunt.

APT HIGH ROLLER DAY 1 TOP TEN STACKS

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Other notables returning for the Final Day include the USA’s Robert Kiss (610,000), Main Event finalist Haohui Ma (499,000), APT Taipei Poker Classic High Roller champion Martin Sedlak (382,000), Superstar Challenge finalist Fendy Kosasih (351,000), APT All-Time Money List #1 Joseph Cheung (300,000), and bracelet winner Renji Mao (216,000).

Notables unable to make it through to the final day included back-to-back APT Super High Roller and APT Superstar Challenge champion Tony Ren Lin, former APT champion Punnat Punsri, and Natural8 Ambassadors Nevan Chang, Sparrow Cheung, and Eric “Six Poker” Tsai, and APT High Roller champion Trung Quan Nguyen to name but a few.

All tournament information can be found on the APT High Roller Day 1 tournament page and you can read all the live coverage on the APT High Roller Day 1 APT Blog.

The Final Day action gets underway at 11:15am (KST) on Sunday, February 8 with the tournament playing down to a champion. Full coverage will be available on the APT Blog, and you can also watch all the tournament thrills and spills via the APT High Roller Final Day live stream on the official APT YouTube channel.

China’s Siyu Ji Wins APTC Seat & KRW 252.9M (~USD 175K) in Tour’s Richest Korean Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8

Siyu Ji is the tour’s second-ever female Zodiac Classic champion

Following an additional day, the KRW 3.6M (~USD 2,400) Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8 saw the tournament crown its second-ever female champion.

China’s Siyu Ji triumphed over a field of 426 entries to claim the lion’s share of the KRW 1,325,030,400 (~USD 920,160) prize pool — the richest the tournament has ever generated in the country — after battling back from behind to overcome compatriot Yi Feng Zhang in a lightning-fast five hand heads-up match.

Ji earned a career-best KRW 252,980,400 (~USD 175,680) top prize for her victory — the largest first-place prize this event has awarded in the country.

In addition to her maiden live tournament title, Ji also claimed a KRW 14.4 million (USD 10,000) seat to the tour’s USD 5M GTD season-ending showpiece – the APT Championship (APTC) Main Event running November 13-29 in Taipei, Taiwan.

“I still haven’t fully calmed down from the intense and thrilling competition at the table, but I’m really happy right now. I love this Zodiac event trophy so much,” said Ji in Mandarin immediately following her win.

“First, let me talk about the final table. Yesterday I was actually very lucky. On Day 2, my cards were incredibly good — basically all big hands.”

“When there were seven players left at the final table, I personally eliminated five of them, and at one point almost all the chips were in front of me. The dealer was busy just helping me consolidate my stack. I really thought that day I was going to complete my “number one” mission.”

Fate however, had other plans with Zhang wrestling the chip lead once play reached heads-up before the tournament was stopped at 2:45am (KST), leaving Ji all night to think about her change of fortune.

“It felt like fate was testing me. I kept losing all-ins, and the heads-up stacks became 1 to 1.2 — he even had more chips than me. You can’t imagine that feeling, like falling from the top straight down to the bottom. I couldn’t sleep at all that night.”

Ji and Zhang prepare to battle heads-up

Fortunately for Ji, despite the insomnia the overnight break allowed her to return refreshed and revitalized, and she quickly turned things around, finding pocket kings in the first hand played to take down the pot pre-flop after a brief betting war with Zhang.

Ji took a 3-to-1 chip lead she would not relinquish the following hand after flopping a flush, closing out the match three hands later.

“Luckily today, things turned around. I got three cooler hands and managed to take my opponent out. It was pretty fortunate,” Ji gushed following the match.

“If I get the chance to go to the APTC in Taiwan, I’ll definitely go. Even if I don’t, I’ll show up to every APT stop from now on. APT has already become a must-play series for me. Next, I’ll probably try some bigger events with higher buy-ins and keep challenging myself.”

ZODIAC CLASSIC FINAL TABLE RESULTS

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Other notables to cash but come up short of the final table included Russia’s Maxim Sorokin (44th), Australia’s Dylan Foster (46th), APT Incheon 2025 Super High Roller champion Michael Foo (59th),

Notables to fall short of the paying positions included Natural8 Ambassador Eric “Six Poker” Tsai, two-time champion Joseph Cheong, and the Philippines James Mendoza.

All tournament information can be found on the Zodiac Classic Final Day tournament page, and you can read about how all the action played out via the Zodiac Classic APT Blog.

Australia’s Emad Zarghami Wins Tour’s Richest Korean Mini Main Event for KRW 147M (~USD 100K)

Emad Zarghami claimed his maiden APT title in the tour’s richest Korean edition of the Mini Main Event

Just 115 players from an initial field of 812 entries returned for the Final Day of the tour’s richest-ever Korean-based KRW 1.2M (~USD 820) Mini Main Event.

All returning players were guaranteed a KRW 1,910,000 (~USD 1,300) share of the KRW 841,881,600 (~USD 574,660) prize pool, but it was the KRW 160,061,600 (~USD 109,260) top prize and coveted Silver Lion Silhouette Trophy that all were aiming for.

It took seventeen full 25-minute levels to reduce the field to the final two players, and then close to a further two 15-minute levels to crown a champion with Australia’s Emad Zarghami cutting a deal with opponent Bowen Xue of China once play reached heads-up.

The duo decided to take some money off the top to guarantee the runner-up a payday of KRW 110,000,000 (~USD 75,085), and then duked it out for a KRW 147,421,600 (~USD 100,630) top prize - in addition to the trophy and title.

It was Zarghami who emerged victorious, with the Aussie claiming his maiden APT title in addition to the largest cash of his poker career. Xue also cashed for a career-best score, as did compatriot and third place finisher Zhili Zhou.

Other notables to make a final table appearance included Hong Kong’s Ka Ho Ip, who was able to turn his start-of-day second largest stack into a fourth place finish and the second-best score of his poker career to date.

While Shuang Bao was unable to convert his start-of-day chip lead into his first tournament title, the Chinese player did cash in fifth place for his second-largest cash, so will not be too disappointed with the result.

MINI MAIN FINAL TABLE RESULTS

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For Mini Main Event Final Day Player List please CLICK HERE

Other notables to cash but come up short of the Final Table included China’s Hao Chen (10th), Natural8 Ambassador Hua-Wei Lin (36th), Russia’s Aleksei Sei (42nd), Australia’s Farhad Mohajerani (57th), and APT Taipei 2025 Main Event champion Akira Takasugi (90th).

All tournament information can be found on the Mini Main Event tournament page.