APPT National ($900)

With the rivered ace, cowboys are crushed and Yamada finishes in 9th place.

The APPT National wrapped up Day 2 with the Final 9 players determined in just 7 hours of play. Bagging up the biggest was Hyeonsik Yun with 52 bb. Yun is the only representative left from Korea hoping to lift the title and the US$ 44,350 top prize. Yun catapulted to join the leaders after eliminating Bruno Moyse with A♦ A♠ dominating K♦ Q♦ .

Trailing the leader by a small margin was Francisco Sanchez with 49 bb. Sanchez earned a good chunk of his chips by cleaning out Quan Qiu with K♥ K♦ against J♦ 9♦ .

Other players earning their spot in the final lineup were Adrien Berger, Michael Kim Falcon, Hironori Yamada who is on his second final table having done the same at the NagaWorld Kick Off, Jeorge Lagatus, Ron Tate, Ihor Yerofieiev, and Oliver Schulze.

Read up on how they survived the day via the updates below.

The final table gets underway at 11:30am on November 19, 2024.

Another blind battle goes to showdown with Rahden shoving A♥ T♠ from SB for 315,000 and Yamada calling 8♦ 8♠ from big. The cards run J♠ 7♥ 6♦ 8♣ 3♣ , eliminating Rahden and making the final table complete.

Small blind Hironori Yamada puts 500,000 in the middle and Kotaro Tanaka calls with his remaining 101,000 from the BB

Board runs 6♥ T♣ A♣ 3♦ 6♣

Hironori Yamada: 9♣ 9♥

Kotaro Tanaka: A♥ K♦

The pot came to 294,000 after a five-bet shove preflop for Hironori Yamada with K♥ K♦ called by Zinan Xu with A♦ K♠ . The flop 9♠ 7♦ 3♣ 6♠ 2♦ is no help for Xu.

Hironori Yamada (UTG) raises all-in preflop with 59,000. Oliver Schulze (SB) calls Hironori’s all-in. Both players reveal their cards.

Hironori had Q♦ Q♣ while Oliver had A♥ K♦ .

The board ran 9♦ 7♠ Q♠ 2♠ 2♣ . Hironori takes the win with Queens set beating Oliver.

Hironori Yamada (UTG) raises to 1,600, Aleksei Ignatev (HJ) and Itsuki Homma (D) call, while Woo Seok Kim (SB) three-bets to 6,300. Aleksei and Itsuki call to see the flop Q♥ 7♠ 7♦ , where Woo Seok bets 5,000. Both players call again.

The turn 2♥ prompts Woo Seok to shove all-in. Aleksei folds, but Itsuki calls, revealing K♥ 7♥ , crushing Woo Seok’s 9♠ 9♦ . The river 3♦ confirms Itsuki’s win with trip sevens, eliminating Woo Seok.