APL Latest: Main Event Attracts 465 Entries

As was hoped, the final day 1 flight of the Asia Poker League Main Event in Beijing brought in a good crowd of players.

Here is a closer look at the APL Main Event by numbers:

The 5 starting days in numbers

– 178 – Entries for day 1E. Comfortably the largest of all the starting day flights, and enough to ensure that there wasn’t a large overlay. Wang Jing is the day 1E chip leader after finishing the day with 306,000.

– 465– Final figure for the Main Event field size. 465 entries for an inaugural event in a recently formed project is an excellent achievement. Legal tournaments such as this one will help build player confidence in future live events across mainland China, provided that they are organised in the correct way.

– 2 Ladies – The top 2 spots on the overall chip counts are occupied by 2 ladies. Xu Hong Dan topped day 1D, and the overall field with 385,000. Hot on her heels is Zhang Chen Xu, who accumulated 323,000 during day 1A.

67 –  The total Number of Survivors who will be coming back to contest day 2 of the Main Event.

4 International players to day 2: International players who will be a part of the day 2 field. Local players have been dominant through most of the series, with Team Vietnam’s victory in the team event being a notable exception. The composition of tables at the start of day 2 will reflect a Chinese prevalence here. Of the 4 non-Chinese players who are still standing, Singapore’s Li Hanbin leads the way and is 9^th in the chip counts. There are 3 Korean nationals in the chasing pack.

Day 2 Chip Counts

	Name	Country	Chip Counts
1	Xu Hong Dan	China	358000
2	Zhang Chen Xu	China	323000
3	Wang Jing	China	306000
4	Li Qingsong	China	266000
5	Shan Junda	China	253000
6	Tao Qiang	China	237000
7	Liu Yandong	China	223000
8	Wang Xiang Wei	China	219000
9	Li Hanbin	Singapore	217000
10	Lin Jian	China	210000
11	Liu Qiang	China	197000
12	Zhong Zichen	China	192000
13	Pang Wentao	China	187000
14	Li Huabing	China	184000
15	Sun Bo	China	180000
16	Kim Chi Yan	Korea	179000
17	Mao Zhuojie	China	177000
18	Bao Jun	China	165000
19	Liu Junda	China	162000
20	Chen Fan	China	154000
21	Chen Xuefeng	China	153000
22	Zhang Junjie	China	151000
23	Long Guojun	China	150000
24	Li Kexin	China	149000
25	Ten Paiv	China	147000
26	wang jun	China	144000
27	Liu Jie	China	144000
28	Wang Yueyuan	China	142000
29	Zhao Gang	China	141000
30	Chen Cancan	China	141000
31	Wu Haoyan	China	137000
32	Qi Tiansheng	China	137000
33	Shen Chao	China	133000
34	Gao Wei	China	129000
35	Zhao Yu	China	127000
36	Lin Xin	China	126000
37	Tang Dezhi	Korea	125000
38	Wang Zhong	China	124000
39	Yun Sheng	China	122000
40	Deng Zhe	China	120000
41	Wang Rong	China	118000
42	Ma Zedao	China	117000
43	Gao Shang	China	115000
44	Duan Kaiwen	China	113000
45	Zhang Ning	China	111000
46	Ma Jun	China	109000
47	Li Yunfei	China	106000
48	Cheng Ningning	China	101000
49	Shi Li	China	101000
50	Wang Guofeng	China	100000
51	Zhou Tong	China	97000
52	Song Wanjun	China	91000
53	Wang Yuping	China	90000
54	Wang Pei	China	83000
55	Xie Weijian	China	77000
56	Wang Yong	China	74000
57	Huang Yong Qiang	China	74000
58	Chen Yi	China	73000
59	He Ming	China	64000
60	Shi Dawei	China	59000
61	FV130	China	57000
62	Feng Wanbin	China	54000
63	Pan Shifeng	China	52000
64	Wang Weiwei	China	45000
65	Li Fangyu	China	38000
66	Hyeon Wooan	Korea	38000
67	Wu Sai	China	14000