Daiki Shingae
Day 2 of the APT Main Event is in the books with 48 players bagging up their stacks to take forward into the third day of play. The 236 survivors from the four initial flights were joined by an additional 40 new entries who registered for Day 2 before the start of play.
This brought the field up to a total of 581 entries (345 unique), swelling the prize pool to VND 17,752,455,000 (~$759,340) with the eventual winner taking home a juicy paycheck of VND 3,401,355,000 (~$145,500).
It was Japan's Daiki Shingae who topped the counts after bagging up a stack of 1,941,000. Shingae bought directly into Day 2 just this morning and managed to spin up the biggest stack after almost ten levels of play.
Long-term chip leader Nguyen Van Sang brings through 1,429,000, which was good for second as Victor Em rounds off the top three stacks with 1,138,000.
Sang was another player who bought in on Day 2, surging into the chip lead in the opening levels after winning a huge pot in which he eliminated Flight A chip leader Gab Yong Kim and Daniel Brugman in the same hand with pocket kings. The local player would wield his big stack as a weapon to finish second in the counts.
Nguyen Van Sang
Nguyen Vu Ha was involved in a lot of the action towards the close of play, bringing the field down to the final six tables when his pocket aces shot down Robert Kiss' ace-king in the last hand of the day to boost his stack up to 893,000.
Two-time APT title winner Dennis Koon also managed to make Day 3, bringing through a stack of 593,000. Koon's two titles both came in Vietnam with the pick of the two coming in a High Roller event right here in Hanoi for VND 1,033,390,000.
Bracelet winner Alex Lindop made the cut with a respectable stack of 413,000. Lindop also has an APT title to his name after taking down a Super High Roller event in Ho Chi Minh for VND 1,160,333,000 and will be looking to use his experience to navigate through the field and reach another final table here.
Ha Va Thien deserves a special mention as he brings through 224,000 chips. The Vietnamese player was down to just 2,000 chips after losing a pot to Kiss, but managed to claw his way back and make it into Day 3.
Other notables to make it through were Thi Xoa Nguyen (1,100,000), Kang Chen (930,000), Quan Qiu (896,000), Eric Wasylenko (406,000), Peter Kiem (368,000), and Kunal Patni (265,000).
The top ten stacks can be found below.
A full APT Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw can be found HERE
The final table payouts can be found below.
A full APT Main Event Payout List can be found HERE
Join us tomorrow for Day 3 of the APT Main Event as we play down to a final table from 12pm local time. The action will also be streamed live, with a 30-minute delay, and you can tune in by following the below links.
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Goodnight.