NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($500)

The NagaWorld Kickoff flights are done and dusted with 13 Flight B survivors out of the 89 runners booking their ticket to the money round. Turkey's Salih Kaya came out on top with 394,000 (49 bb) followed by Vietnamese heavy-hitter Van Tien Dinh with 324,000 (40 bb). The game resumes on Saturday, May 3 with 31 players returning. We will have the official prize pool and payouts posted once it has been released.

Both players had an ace while at-risk player Rinatalahati had a lower kicker. With the board running 9♣ 2♦ 3♠ Q♦ K♠ , the kicker played for the bubble to burst.

Following Pham Bao's 16,000 raise, small blind Kotaro Uchida three-bets 35,000. Pham calls to take the battle to the flop 5♦ 3♦ Q♠ . Both players check to the turn J♥ . No more checking for Uchida who slides out 33,000 and wins the pot with Pham giving up his hand.

The bubble is at hand with 14 players remaining.

Catching the action on a board showing K♦ 8♦ 4♣ 8♣ T♥ and a big pot in the middle, Xinhong Chen checks then faces a bet of 65,000 from Van Tien Dinh. Chen tanks for some time then finally calls. Dinh flips open A♣ 9♣ and it's good with Chen mucking. Needless to say, the table was shocked. DVT later told SMP that Chen may have had Queen-high.

From the button, Hyungtaek Jo calls Gavin Flynn's 12,000 raise then goes charging down the streets. Flynn first checks the flop 8♣ 2♠ 5♣ , Jo bets 15,000 to continue. Flynn calls to take them to the turn K♦ . Flynn checks again, Jo fires 30,000, this time Flynn let's go of his stake in the pot.

Rindra Norodom could only shake his head in disappointment after getting bumped on a bad beat. Raising with 9♥ 9♠ from utg for 12,500, Gavin Flynn called with 8♦ 8♣ .

When the flop landed 4♥ 8♥ 6♥ , Norodom bet 16,000, Flynn raised, Norodom jammed, and Flynn called with his set. Norodom still had outs however they did not come on the turn T♦ and river Q♣ .

Another successful raise for Van Tien Dinh who called Rindra Norodom's 12,000 raise preflop then raised 45,000 after Norodom c-bet 16,000 on the flop 6♥ 2♦ 4♠ . Norodom folded.

Short stacked Jerome Khao risks 8000 of his 46,000 stack (11 bb) then can't pull the trigger when Van Tien Dinh shoves his big stack.

With Chen holding an ace, his hand was ahead though Zhou had live cards. When the board ran out 5♠ A♣ T♠ 6♣ 2♦ , Chen stayed ahead throughout to clean out Zhou.

Action is folded around to the button Jinlin Shi who takes a chance for 6000 that's met with a jam from small blind Jussi Rintalahati for 78,500. Shi let's him have the pot.

Vasylenko was ahead with a pair but Pham had a flush draw. The turn 8♣ paired the board and with the river 9♦ , Vasylenko's pair was canceled out for a split pot.

With only folds before him, cutoff player Jussi Rintalahati raises to 4500 and gets action from button player Kotaro Uchida. Both players check down a ten-high flop T♦ 9♠ 2♦ then go at it on the turn 3♦ with Rintalahati betting 6000 and Uchida raising to 15,000. Rintalahati flats and the dealer flips open the river Q♥ . Rintalahati slides out 10,000, Uchida pays to see his hand, Rintalahati shows K♥ J♦ straight and claims the pot.

Battle of the blinds with small blind Salih Kaya attempting to steal the big blind with a raise of 5500. Big blind Shuai Chang defends to bring a flop 2♠ 7♥ A♦ . Salih continues to represent with a 12,000 bet and with that, he wins the pot.

Itsuki Chiba looks down at A♠ A♣ and gives it a respectable raise of 4500. Down the orbit Roongliang Chan has K♣ K♦ and drives it higher to 19,000. Action back at Chiba who shoves. Chan is covered but can't resist with premium at hand and calls for his tournament life.

At showdown, Chan is in trouble, and no help arrives on a board 3♥ 2♦ 4♣ T♣ 5♥ instead improving Chiba to a straight to end Chan's hopes.

Xinhong Chen opened for 3000 then faced a three-bet of 8500 from button Jinlin Shi. Chan called to take the battle to the flop J♠ 9♥ K♣ . Chen checked to Shi who continued the aggression with a 5500 bet, Chen called to take it further down to the turn Q♠ . Another 15,500 bet from Shi still couldn't push out Chen to complete the board 8♦ . Instead of the usual check, Chen jumped out with a shove for 66,500, Shi had less behind and proceeded to tank until he chose to give up his hand.

That's it! Registration for the APPT Cambodia opener - NagaWorld Kickoff - is closed with the final flight reaching the time limit. Another 89 jumped in for 206 entries in total for this event for a prize pool of US$ 87,921.

Flight B continues with 40 players remaining and will bag up when the 13 ITM qualifiers has been determined.

Live updates begin at the close of registration at 10:20pm.