Smashing day at the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) as players from around the world descended upon NagaWorld Phnom Penh in Cambodia for a chance at the Main Event title and a piece of the US$ 400K guarantee. As the three flights wrapped up, the guarantee was crushed with a total of 476 entries for an impressive prize pool of US$ 623,322. This was nearly 100 entries more than its inaugural run last year.
Joining the 41 qualifiers of Day 1A were another 92 players for a combined 133 players into Day 2. Alexander Puchalski, the reigning APPT Cambodia champion, was in the list with a healthy 25 bb stack, WSOP bracelet holder as well, Guoliang Wei, with a much larger 67 bb stack. Outranking them both was Day 1B chip leader Vishal Ojha who pocketed a large 136 bb stack.
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Day 2 of the APPT Main Event is scheduled to begin on Sunday, May 14 at 1pm, and it will likely be a long one with blinds increasing at a slower 60 minute pace. The money bubble will burst at 72nd place, and once it does, the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum payout of US$ 2,369. The eventual champion is slated to bank a hefty US$ 120,300. Day 2 will bag up once the final 9 players is formed.
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Main Event info
Dates: May 12 t0 15, 2023
Buy in: US$ 1,500
Guarantee: US$ 400,000
Entries: 476
Prize pool: US$ 623,322
Day 1A results: 176 entries / 41 advanced
Day 1B results: 219 entries / 58 advanced
Day 1C results: 81 entries / 34 advanced
Top 10 in chips
| Player | Stack | BB |
| Vishal Ojha | 407,000 | 136 |
| Cheng Zhang | 399,000 | 133 |
| Bien Mai | 394,000 | 131 |
| Curtis Lim | 316,500 | 106 |
| Riki Yokono | 282,000 | 94 |
| Chao-Ting Cheng | 241,000 | 80 |
| Victor Chong | 210,000 | 70 |
| Roman Kolotiuk | 209,000 | 70 |
| Guoliang Wei | 201,000 | 67 |
| Seunghun Ko | 194,000 | 65 |
Payouts
| Place | Payouts in USD |
| 1 | 120,300 |
| 2 | 75,795 |
| 3 | 54,290 |
| 4 | 42,670 |
| 5 | 33,597 |
| 6 | 26,242 |
| 7 | 19,759 |
| 8 | 13,775 |
| 9 | 10,908 |
| 10-11 | 9,038 |
| 12-13 | 7,729 |
| 14-15 | 6,732 |
| 16-17 | 5,984 |
| 18-20 | 5,361 |
| 21-23 | 4,737 |
| 24-27 | 4,114 |
| 28-31 | 3,615 |
| 32-39 | 3,117 |
| 40-55 | 2,680 |
| 56-71 | 2,369 |
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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