China’s Yuxuan Deng was the only player to crack a seven figure stack in the Main Event!

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INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA, August 12, 2026 – The APT Incheon 2026 Main Event has shattered last year's record-setting field, drawing 1,393 entries (807 unique) to the tournament tables of Paradise City Casino Resort and generating a KRW 3,008,540,000 (~USD 2,148,960) prize pool to set a new high-water mark for the tour stop.

By effectively doubling its KRW 1.5 billion guarantee, the event stands as the largest international poker tournament in Incheon’s history. Nationally, it ranks as the third-largest APT Main Event ever held in South Korea by both metrics—behind only the APT Jeju 2025 Main Event (1,693 entries / KRW 3.80B) and the APT Jeju Classic 2026 Main Event (1,718 entries / KRW 3.41B).

You can read about that in more detail in our Incheon Goes Bigger as 1,393 Chase the Gold Lion feature.

The top 207 places will make the money, with min-cashes starting at KRW 3,790,000 (~USD 2,700). The champion will take home a KRW 523,720,000 (~USD 374,085) top prize, with the top three finishers each earning a USD 10,000 (~KRW 14M) seat to November’s APT Championship Main Event.

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Play kicked off at 11am (KST), with 419 Day 1 survivors returning to the felt led by start-of-day chip leader Shawn Lee of Singapore. An additional 216 late entrants jumped in during the first hour before registration officially closed at the end of Level 11.

Action spanned nearly nine 60-minute levels, anchored by a grueling two-and-a-half-hour money bubble. Play officially concluded 45 minutes into Level 19 when China’s Lifu Huang fell to compatriot Haohui Ma on the stone bubble, although Huang did draw a consolation prize of a free Main Event ticket via a lucky draw immediately following his exit.

China’s Lifu Huang exits on the money bubble

While Lee kept his Main Event dream alive, it was Yuxuan Deng who topped the Day 2 chip counts with the Chinese player the only man to crack a seven-figure stack, concluding the action with 1,052,000.

Japan’s Tomoki Matsuda (980,000), and Atsushi Miyakoshi (959,000) round out the top three, with APT Super High Roller third-place finisher Peng Chen (852,000) also managing to bag a top ten chip stack:

MAIN EVENT DAY 2 TOP TEN STACKS

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With the departure of defending champion Junjie He, APT Jeju Classic 2026 Main Event champion William Li, and APT Manila Classic 2025 Main Event champion Ivan Govorov, Thailand’s Punnat Punsri (492,000)—who won his way through to Day 3 OnLive via Natural8—is the only man remaining in the field to have successfully hunted the Gold Lion APT Main Event Trophy.

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The other Mega Lion winners still in contention are 2025 APTC High Roller Championship winner Toby Joyce (433,000), APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 Super High Roller champion Phanlert Sukonthachartnant (397,000), APT Phu Quoc 2024 High Roller champion Jason Lau (148,000), APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 High Roller champion Martin Sedlak (285,000), and APT Taipei 2025 High Roller champion Trung Quan Nguyen (99,000).

Other notables to survive the Day 2 maelstrom include Australia’s John Perry (648,000), Malaysia’s Chin Wei “Webster” Lim (512,000), start-of-day leader Shawn Lee (428,000), the UK’s Jun Li (153,000), bracelet winner Maxim Lykov (126,000), and Natural8 Ambassador Nevan Chang (114,000).

Including Punsri, there are 39 Natural8 OnLive players joining the Day 3 action. Other former APT signature trophy winners coming in are newly crowned APT Super High Roller champion Jeremy Chan (219,000), and APT Taipei 2023 High Roller champion Phachara Wongwichit (92,000).

The Day 3 action resumes at 11:15am (KST) where the 207 remaining survivors will play down to 48 players, or ten 60-minute levels – whichever comes first.

Live Streaming & Blog Coverage

All tournament information can be found on the APT Main Event Day 2 tournament page and you can follow along with all the action via the Main Event Day 2 APT Blog. You can also watch all the action as it played out with the Main Event live stream on the official APT YouTube channel starting at 11am on Wednesday, August 12 and picking up the action from Day 2 onwards.