APPT Seoul Main Event: Raiden Kan bags Day 1 chip lead

pokerstars_appt_seoulRaiden Kan emerged as the chip leader who bagged 156,400 chips in Day 1b of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT)Main Event in Seoul. 138 players hit the tables but only 50 managed to last the eight levels that were played. Many distinguished players will play in Day 2; however, unfortunately the journey ended for Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Raymond Wu who were busted in Level 8.

Former Aussie Millions Main Event finalist Sam Cohen was also present and with her strong start winning her a big pot, she finished the day with 107,700 chips. On the other hand, former ANZPT Sydney winner Michael Kanaan was knocked out in the final level of play.

Others who are moving on to Day 2 were Ryan ‘piggysnipz’ Pignatelli who was seated between with between Juicy Li, who finished sixth in this event last year, and online star Dylan ‘WhiteRabbito’ Honeyman. Pignatelli bagged 59,200, Honeyman 19,000 and Li 52,400.

Also moving on is Any Chan who is the runner-up in the first ever ACOP Macau. He finished with 95,300 after playing against Kanaan and Grospellier for most of the day.

The end of the day chip counts reads as follows:

Player

Chips

RaidenKan

156,400

Timothy Place

155,400

Tsun Ming Chan

128,300

Sang Hyun Park

110,700

Sam Cohen

107,700

Toshiyuki Onda

100,200

Andy Chan

95,300

Yoshiyuki Takahashi

88,900

Chen Yu Ma

77,100

Ming Yu Zou

76,400

Takahisa Watanabe

64,600

Derek Bethea

64,300

Kosaku Akashi

61,900

Yaxi Zhu

61,200

Jiaxiu Liu

60,000

Ryan Piganatelli

59,200

Marvin de La Cruz

58,000

Keiichiro Sugimoto

55,400

Christian Haggart

55,100

Masanori Ishihara

54,600

Ye Han Chen

53,000

Juicy Li

52,400

BatnyamZayabaatar

52,100

Takao Kazuta

51,300

ChaneKampanatsanyakorn

50,200

Makoto Yoshimichi

48,000

Li Si Wei

48,000

Serge Rived

44,300

Yong Zhi Jin

40,000

Ronald Kluber

39,100

Clement Chung Man Lau

37,100

Colin Lovelock

37,000

Mike Kim

34,600

Chunjie Liu

34,400

ClaudiuGurau

34,200

Eiichi Mizuno

33,100

AlexandreChieng

32,700

Daniel Belov

32,600

AnnicaIvert

32,000

Tyrone Kerrigan

31,600

ToshimasaKawahira

31,000

Raymond Kut Fu Chow

25,900

KitsonKho

20,900

Jason Kim

19,600

Dylan Honeyman

19,000

Shinya Umano

17,800

Ryan Kim

16,500

 

With 138 players in Day 1b and 118 players on Day 1a, the total field of players is 256. It’s an improvement on last year’s field of 222 players. This also created a prize pool of USD $650,409 and here’s what the payouts looks like for the final 28.