APPT Cambodia: NagaWorld Kickoff Event draws 346 for over $100K prize pool; Bien Mai to defend his title; Daoxing Chen leads in the 51 players

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), in partnership Connaissance Management, concluded its second day at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with the Kickoff Event seeing another strong turnout. The final two flights generated a combined 205 entries for a total of 346 entries. This more than doubled the US$ 50K guarantee for a prize pool of US$ 105,720.

By night’s end, a total of 52 players populated the survivor list. Notable player from Vietnam, Bien Mai, was among the Day 1B qualifiers. Mai won this same event last year and is vying for a back to back victory. He will have his work cut out though as he trails the overall chip leader by a large margin. Mai bagged up 18 big blinds  while way up top was Daoxing Chen with a massive 154 big blinds.

Once again, China came out strong, fielding double digits. One player in the mix was Chinese pro Xixiang Luo who also closed with a solid stack. Luo was chip leader during the Day 1B bubble round but paid out two short stacks to drop down to 92 big blinds.

Day 1B bubble round was quite thrilling with eight players going all in and each one ahead at the showdown and doubling up. The bubble finally popped with Van Binh Pham knocking out a short stack who pushed with , called by Pham with that improved to a straight on a board . Pham bagged up a healthy 364,000 stack.

Players return to action on Sunday, May 7 at 1pm where they will chase down the US$ 20,615 top prize and the cool PokerStars Spade Trophy. We will have updates for you throughout until a champion is crowned.

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Buy in: US$ 350
Guarantee: US$ 50,000
Entries: 346
Prize pool: US$ 105,720
ITM: 51 players

Day 1A: 133 entries / 20 advanced (ITM)
Day 1B: 157 entries / 24 advanced (ITM)
Day 1C: 56 entries / 8 advanced (ITM)

Day 2 starting blinds: 2,000-5,000, 5,000 ante

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Day 2 players

Rank	Player	Stack	BB
1	Daoxing Chen	772,000	154
2	Guiyang Wang	554,000	111
3	Vincent Chauve	549,000	110
4	Xixiang Luo	462,000	92
5	Armon Van Wijk	426,000	85
6	Xinan Zou	382,000	76
7	Van Binh Pham	364,000	73
8	Emil Ukalaev	335,000	67
9	Xinshou Xu	304,000	61
10	Xiaosheng Zheng	286,000	57
11	Yuwen Pan	279,000	56
12	Haisheng Bi	273,000	55
13	Eric Wasylenko	268,000	54
14	Haisheng Qiu	268,000	54
15	William Bolton	260,000	52
16	Qiyuan Huang	245,000	49
17	Jihao Feng	226,000	45
18	Roman Kokotiuk	212,000	42
19	Gokul Raj Dharmarajan	205,000	41
20	Cheng Zhang	202,000	40
21	Vishal Ojha	190,000	38
22	Thomas Walters 180000	180,000	36
23	Ley Kydatov	171,000	34
24	Siarhei Chudapal	171,000	34
25	Yoongwon Woo	168,000	34
26	Tom Maguire	154,000	31
27	Bo Jin	151,000	30
28	Pheeratham Lerdthammatavee	141,000	28
29	Bihari Michael Adam	137,000	27
30	Andrew Kim	136,000	27
31	Chu-Yen Lin	129,000	26
32	Xiaohua Fu	128,000	26
33	Hwang Wei Choong	122,000	24
34	Zhenshan Wu	115,000	23
35	Chengbei Li	107,000	21
36	Adrien Michel Tantaro	100,000	20
37	Jounghun Kim	95,000	19
38	Quan Zhou	93,000	19
39	Bien Mai	88,000	18
40	Oleg Voschinin	84,000	17
41	Jiyang Gan	83,000	17
42	Yinfei Xiao	80,000	16
43	Yannick Jobin	79,000	16
44	Amit Kaushik	75,000	15
45	Vinay Boob	68,000	14
46	Dave Labrecque	60,000	12
47	Rodolphe Mathias	49,000	10
48	Roland Kivi	42,000	8
49	Martin Zheng	37,000	7
50	Fedor Dedelov	34,000	7
51	Kyoungchul Lee	29,000	6
52	Maxime Costas	24,000	5