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Early Birds

Level 1: Blinds 100 / 200 - Ante 200

Flight C of the National Cup Championship is underway at Red Space, with players from all four corners of the world among the early entries.

Here are some of the players who have taken their seats so far.

Name

Country

Chip Count

Arvydas Vilcinskas

Lithuania

40,000

Yohn Paredes

Peru

40,000

Amit Binyamin

Israel

40,000

Nishit Jain

India

40,000

Darren Goh

Singapore

40,000

Jun Keat Lee

Malaysia

40,000

Krisada Winpatthanon

Thailand

40,000

Truong Nhat Sinh

Vietnam

40,000

Jaesoon Kim

South Korea

40,000

Takashi Nakagoshi

Japan

40,000

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National Cup Championship Rolls On with Flight C

National Cup Championship Rolls On with Flight C

The Asian Poker Tour Championship (APTC) 2026 continues at Red Space with Flight C, the third of five starting flights in the TWD 16,000 buy-in event. Cards are in the air at 11:00 AM local time, and with 25-minute levels, Flight C offers a little more breathing room than last night's turbo.

So far the first two flights have drawn 820 entries. Flight A brought 602 (464 unique), with 84 players surviving, while 218 entries (181 unique) got involved in Flight B and 31 made it through. That's 115 players already locked into Sunday's Final Day with a TWD 20,000,000 guarantee on the line.

Players start with 40,000 in chips, and can jump into this flight until approximately 3:40 PM ahead of Level 11. As with the previous flights, the field will play down to the top 14%, with every survivor securing a min-cash and a seat on the Final Day.


Australia's Troy Mclean currently holds the lead after bagging 1,261,000 in Flight B, just ahead of Flight A leader Konosuke Nakajima (1,234,000). Jun Wei Yan is the only other player to have bagged a seven-figure stack so far.

National Cup Championship Top Ten Stacks So Far

Place

Player

Country/Region

Flight

Chip Count

1

Troy Mclean

Australia

B

1,261,000

2

Konosuke Nakajima

Japan

A

1,234,000

3

Jun Wei Yan

Taiwan

A

1,126,000

4

Pei Chih Shih

China

B

956,000

5

Chien Fa Chou

Taiwan

A

940,000

6

Chia Yun Wu

Taiwan

A

792,000

7

Wei Lin Lai

Taiwan

B

748,000

8

Aaron Yuxuan Gao

United States

A

741,000

9

Yi Cheng Lo

Taiwan

A

690,000

10

Teng Chih Lin

Taiwan

A

689,000


Flights D and E follow later today, before the Final Day gets underway tomorrow, Sunday, November 15, at 11:15 AM.

Stay tuned to the APT Live Reporting blog for all the action from Flight C.