National

16,000 ante

Eric Wasylenko and Thomas Carlin stare down a flop 3♠ 5♣ K♠ . Wasylenko bets 40,000, Carlin raises to 120,000, Wasylenko calls. On the turn 6♦ not bets land to bring the rive J♣ . Waylenko leads out 225,000, Carlin folds.

16,000 ante

On a turn board 6♦ T♥ K♠ A♣ and 88,000 in the pot, button player Cheng Zheng bets 34,000, big blind Thomas Carlin raises to 85,000, Zheng calls. On the river 5♣ , both chec. Cheng Zheng wins it with A♥ 8♥ over Q♥ 7♥ .

6,000 ante

The bubble round saw four players double up starting with Evgenii Kaytmaev 8♠ 8♦ full house over Cheng Zhang K♠ T♠ trips on a board 8♥ T♥ T♦ 5♠ A♠ . Another survivor was short stacked Vinay Boob with A♥ T♠ winning the flip against Hongru Zhang‘s {1h} 8♥ on a board T♦ 9♥ 5♦ 4♦ A♦

In addition to short stacks rising, big stacks Minwoo Kang, Eric Wasylenko, and Hongru Zhang were also putting pressure on their tablemates to stack up further.

After forty minutes, it finally popped on ailing stacked Amit Kaushik who was down to 15,000 and was on the big blind. Two players called his all in, on the flop 6♣ K♣ Q♥ Thomas Carlin bet 22,000 that pushed out a player. Carlin opened A♠ K♦ top pair, Kaushik 9♣ 9♠ , the turn was T♥ and river 4♣ .

The APPT National is back on with 78 players returning for a shot at the first PokerStars Shard Trophy and the US$ 42,737 top prize. We will track the action throughout the day with more up to date gameplay from the bubble onwards. Money begins at 47 places. Here are the payouts and list of returning players.