NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($500)

After sixteen levels and around 13 minutes into Level 17, Flight A of the APPT Cambodia opener - NagaWorld Kickoff - wrapped up with the final 18 players established. Up top was Hong Kong's Cheuk Wing Wong with a commanding stack of 646,000 (107 bb).

Wong was already leading the pack at the end of registration and continued the momentum, to never be at risk of elimination. To emphasize the enormity of his stack, Wong's closes challenger was Adam Lydford with 350,000 (58 bb) and in third rank was Avneesh Munjal with 314,000 (52 bb).

Also advancing were PokerStars regulars Christian Lortie Cloutier (301,000 - 50 bb) and Joseph Magnotti (138,000 - 23 bb) who delivered the bubble.

Flight A drew 117 entries with 18 headed to Day 2's ITM round. Among the players that missed the mark were Lei Zhang, Adrien Berger, Kyle Bao Diep, and Amir Abbas. They still have a chance with Flight B registration still open.

The last hand of Flight A has been delivered by Joseph Magnotti who opened 12,000 from cutoff holding K♣ T♦ . Small blind Zaobin Wu called leaving himself only 2000 behind. With the big blind folding, the flop ran 3♥ 4♠ J♥ . Wu tossed in his last chips and flipped over T♠ 7♣ after the call was made.

The turn Q♥ and river 3♦ filled up the board. Wu missed completely to fall as the stone cold bubble.