APPT National ($1,000)

Flight A of the APPT National concluded at ITM of nine players led by Korea's Sungheon Hong with a stack of 387,000 (77 bb), setting the bar for the next flights. Hong was a dominant presence throughout, climbing to the top early and never once facing elimination. One of his key knockouts came after registration closed, when his AK out-kicked 2023 APPT Cambodia Main Event champion Chao Ting Cheng’s KJ.

The nine survivors now enjoy a day’s break before returning on Wednesday, May 7 for the next stage of the tournament. All are guaranteed a piece of the prize pool, which is on pace to smash its $150,000 guarantee.

Still to come are Flight B and Flight C (Turbo), offering the last opportunities to join the race for the first PokerStars shard trophy of the 2025 APPT season.

Max Deveson just lost a pot to Adrien Berger and lost a little more to Armon Van Wijk. Both players built a pot of around 30,000 before the cards landed K♦ T♦ J♥ . Wijk quickly pushed with a stack well covering Deveson who opted to fold.

Armon Van Wijk opens for 6500 and big blind Bien Mai defends his big blind. Both players check the flop 6♥ 4♥ 2♠ then Mai fires 21,000 on the turn 9♣ . Wijk lets him have it.

Action heavy preflop opens with a 3000 cutoff raise from Bien Mai that's met with a three-bet of 12,000 from small blind Armon Van Wijk. Action moves to big blind Adrien Berger who defends with a four-bet of 28,000, Mai and Wijk let go of their hands.