Big win for the Chinese International Poker Team (CIPT) at Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Cambodia as one of their own, Guiyang Wang, took down the two-day NagaWorld Kickoff event. Wang bagged the Day 1A chip lead, dominated a majority of the action in Day 2, then defeated William Bolton in a bull-headed heads up match to seize the title, his first PokerStars Spade Trophy, and turn his US$ 200 to a payout of US$ 20,615.
In a brief interview with the champ, he shared,
“I am the captain of CIPT and I took the burden and responsibility today and played very hard to try to win this event for us.. During heads up, our stacks sizes kept shifting so I strategized and played the button aggressively. I am very happy to win it, I will go celebrate with the team and have hotpot!”
You can read up on some of the heads up action via the SMP Live Updates.
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The final hand has been dealt. William Bolton all in with 
, Guiyang Wang ahead in chips and in hand with 
, the board runs 
. Bolton is out in 2nd place.
Buy in: US$ 350
Guarantee: US$ 50,000
Entries: 346
Prize pool: US$ 105,720
ITM: 53 players
Final table payouts
| Place | Player |
Payout In USD
|
| 1 | Guiyang Wang | $20,615 |
| 2 | William Bolton | $13,109 |
| 3 | Daoxing Chen | $9,504 |
| 4 | Sirahei Chudapal | $7,707 |
| 5 | Armon Van Wijk | $6,121 |
| 6 | Eric Wasylenko | $4,694 |
| 7 | Yuwen Pan | $3,446 |
| 8 | Emil Ukalaev | $2,495 |
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Clutch victory for Xixiang Luo at KO Bounty Turbo Freezeout
Another Chinese pro emerged victorious at APPT Cambodia. Well known player Xixiang Luo outlasted the 48 players of the KO Bounty Turbo Freezeout event to turn his US$ 500 more than ten times over. Luo pocketed US$ 5,087 for his victory and another US$ 1,300 for his 13 bounties.
Luo’s rise to victory was very thrilling. At heads up against Qiaonan Liu, he paid a costly double up when his 
top pair was crushed by Liu’s 
runner runner trips on a board 
. Luo dropped to just 2.5 big blinds.
From there he decided to get it all in with 
then doubled up when his Three-card paired up. This was followed by two more double ups, Ace-Three pairing the Ace against King-Ten and Ace-Five pairing the Ace again to beat pocket Nines. Now back on top, the final hand was 
defeating 
on a board 
.
Buy in: US$ 500
Entries: 48
Prize pool: US$ 16,152
ITM: 7 places
| Place | Player | Payout in USD |
| 1 | Xixiang Luo | $5,087 |
| 2 | Qiaonan Liu | $3,675 |
| 3 | Yang Yuan | $2,342 |
| 4 | Erik Rozhynskyi | $1,777 |
| 5 | Quan Zhou | $1,373 |
| 6 | Xiaosheng Zheng | $1,050 |
| 7 | Panitan Poopadsri | $848 |
Khayal Abbasov wins the Freezeout
Over at the Freezeout event, Russia’s Khayal Abbasov was ecstatic for his victory over China’s Zhangbin Ying. On the final hand, both players went all in on the river 
. Ying had 
top pair while Abbasov had 
two pair to ship it. Abbasov defeated a field of 55 players to lift his first ever PokerStars Spade along with a pocketful US$ 3,026 payout.
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 55
Prize pool: US$ 9,603
ITM: 7 places
| Place | Player | Payout in USD |
| 1 | Khayal Abbasov | $3,026 |
| 2 | Zhangbin Ying | $2,185 |
| 3 | Jun Weng | $1,392 |
| 4 | Dave Labrecque | $1,056 |
| 5 | Chihiro Kiire | $816 |
| 6 | Yuya Fujita | $624 |
| 7 | Huanqi Xiao | $504 |
Hyunkyou Park claims the Win The Button Re-Entry
Another happy new Spade Trophy winner was Korea’s Hyunkyou Park who took down the Win The Button Re-Entry event after. He topped a field of 31 entries for a payout of US$ 2,003.
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 31
Prize pool: US$ 5,413
ITM: 5 places
| Place | Player |
Payout in USD
|
| 1 | Hyunkyou Park | $2,003 |
| 2 | Tyler James Warken | $1,380 |
| 3 | Thomas Jack Walters | $880 |
| 4 | Jan Martti Gregonia | $636 |
| 5 | Chien-Chih Weng | $514 |
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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