The first ever Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) festival in Cambodia was off to a smashing start with the NagaWorld Kickoff event drawing 299 entries over three starting heats. Day 1A pulled in an impressive 118 entries, Day 1B stormed in creating a larger 126 field, then the Day 1C Turbo flight added another 55 to the mix. With buy in at $300 each, the $50K guarantee was easily crushed. 46 players advanced to the final day and were now guaranteed a piece of the boosted $78,326 prize pool.
Earning the overall chip lead was Filipino pro Mike Takayama who surged at Day 1B, just before the bubble round. Tabled with Korea’s Namhyung Kim who had amassed a towering stack, Takayama won three pots against Kim nearly back to back and all without a showdown. The biggest pot saw Kim raise preflop, big blind Takayama defended, at the flop 
, Takayama fired 80K, Kim called. On the 
turn, Takayama jammed and won the 280k pot. The loss in chips dropped Kim down to second rank. Rounding out the top three was Day 1A chip leader Yu Qi Zhao.
Day 1B ended with Korea’s Wanki Baik falling to Australia’s Roy Khor Wai Meng with 
dominated by 
. Day 1C ended with Natural8 Team Hot Pro Pete Chen delivering the bubble. Other players missing the mark at Day 1B and Day 1C were Singapore’s Feng Zhao, New Zealand’s Hamish Crawshaw, and Taiwan’s Zong Chi He.
The next stage of the race is on Saturday, November 5 starting at 2pm at the Grand Ballroom of NagaWorld Phnom Penh. Everyone is due to pocket a minimum of $446 but what they will be chasing is the iconic spade trophy and the $15,709 first prize.
Day 2 qualifiers – 46 players
| Mike Takayama | 601,000 |
| Namhyung Kim | 460,000 |
| Yu Qi Zhao | 390,000 |
| Jonathan Wayne Sanborn | 375,000 |
| Quoc Huy Phan | 375,000 |
| Ori Haim Elul | 341,000 |
| Eike Soren Strub | 299,000 |
| Selim Souissi | 295,000 |
| Yu Chung Chang | 288,000 |
| Bin Chen | 284,000 |
| Kim Lay Ly | 267,000 |
| Jonas Magdalinski | 255,000 |
| Le Hai Nhu | 246,000 |
| Pete Chen | 219,000 |
| Mai Bien | 217,000 |
| Christopher Mateo | 203,000 |
| Dhanesh Chainani | 203,000 |
| Panitan Poopadsri | 201,000 |
| Luke Oliver John Keay | 199,000 |
| Davidyouveakreach Koy | 197,000 |
| Zarvan Tumboli | 183,000 |
| Veronika Safonova | 175,000 |
| Adrien Franck Berger | 175,000 |
| Tony Phaysith | 170,000 |
| Renniel Galvez | 161,000 |
| Quan Qui | 161,000 |
| Le Ngoc Khanh | 160,000 |
| Trent Fechter | 160,000 |
| Nguyen Tung Duy | 152,000 |
| Kristian Wiermyhr | 145,000 |
| Marc Joseph | 145,000 |
| Leo Du Boisbaudry | 140,000 |
| Wai Meng Khor | 136,000 |
| Jonggu Choi | 124,000 |
| Ido Aboudi | 123,000 |
| Kyle Bao Diep | 101,000 |
| Mohamad Abbouchi | 81,000 |
| Jonathan Tek Wye Looi | 77,000 |
| Jerome Khao | 72,000 |
| Koen Breed | 72,000 |
| Benjamin Sai | 63,000 |
| Frederic Souksamlane | 61,000 |
| Akshay Kapoor | 59,000 |
| Kang Yoon Ko | 51,000 |
| Ricky Sun Kim Gov | 46,000 |
| Go Mori | 43,000 |
More events to conquer at APPT Cambodia 2022. Up next is the highly popular Mystery Bounty with buy in of $550. Two flights are scheduled, both running on Saturday, November 5 – Flight A is at 1pm, Flight B is at 6pm. Other key events to seek out are the APPT National $100K GTD taking place on November 6 to 8, and the APPT Main Event featuring a rich $400K guarantee on November 10 to 13.
APPT Cambodia 2022 – full schedule
Stay tuned to Somuchpoker for all the action as we bring you updates from start to finish.
Links:
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APPT Cambodia 2022 Guarantee breached!
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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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