Early highlights of APT Online Series 2nd Edition; Overlays, multi-winners, and Main Event $1M GTD begins

06/18/2020

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Action is underway at Natural8 with poker players from around the world taking part in the 2nd Edition of the Asian Poker Tour Online Series. With an ambitious $10 Million in prizes guaranteed, this marks the richest APT festival ever to be staged. Of the substantial 234 game lineup are six trophy-bearing events, three of them earning the winner an APT Championship Ring. Packing the biggest punches are the Main Event and the Championships Event each one guaranteeing a huge $ 1 million.

The festival kicked off on June 14 and is scheduled to run until June 28 inclusive. To date, 62 events have completed and well over $ 2.5 million paid out. Recent Natural8 High Roller MILLION$ champion, Lester “mon$terDad” Edoc, was awarded the first ring and later sealed a High Roller victory. Vietnam’s PatrikNguyen and Poland’s “relentless” were the first multi-winners. Value hunters had plenty to smile about with numerous games seeing an overlay. Read up on it in our early highlights.

The featured Main Event $1,000,000 GTD is currently ongoing. Reigning champion is Alex Wei Xiang Lee “DblBarrel” who won the first APT Online Series edition for over $ 91K.

Dates: June 18 to 21
Buy in: $ 500
Guarantee: $ 1,000,000
Entry Flights: 24 offered
Final Day: Sunday, June 21 @ 20:00 (HKT)

Entry Flight schedule

June 18: Starting Flight – 19:00
June 18: Starting Flight – 22:00
June 19: Starting Flight – 01:00
June 19: Starting Flight – 16:00
June 19: Starting Flight – 19:00
June 19: Starting Flight – 22:00
June 20: Starting Flight – 01:00
June 20: Starting Flight – 16;00
June 20: Starting Flight – 19:00
June 20: Starting Flight – 22:00
June 21: Starting Flight – 01:00
June 21: Starting Flight – 02:00
June 21: Starting Flight – 16:00
June 21: Starting Flight – 18:00

*All times listed in HKT

Early Highlights

Opening day rolled out an impressive list of 16 games and over a million dollars on the plate. However, at around 11:30pm HKT, with 12 games still running, the server crashed leading to abrupt game cancellations. Among the events affected was the featured $200K GTD Mini Main Event with 151 players still remaining out of 3,532 entries. Lester “mon$terDad” Edoc, led the chase at the shutdown and was awarded the victory. He earned his third career APT ring having won his first two back in 2018.

The $500K GTD Opening Event also experienced the same fate with 26 players still on the hunt out of 1,559 entries. Natural8 player “propofol-san” was awarded the win. Had this game completed, the eventual champion would have landed the largest prize money of over $78K.

Both tournaments mentioned above were among the four events overlaid on opening day. The next three days would see more events join the list extending plenty of value to the players. It would be wise for value hunters to browse the schedule with over 150 games yet to be played.

Results

Single largest winner: Theprofessor44 – $ 18,213.72

Three types of High Roller events are offered daily: High Roller, High Roller Turbo, High Roller Deep Stack. The High Roller has the largest buy in of $ 1,000 and guarantee of $ 75,000. After four days, Event 27 High Roller pulled in 79 runners to pay out the largest first prize worth $ 18,213.72. Theprofessor44 defeated Natural8 Team Hot Ambassador Yen Han Chen “TurboPete” at heads up.

Buy in: $ 1,000
Date: June 15
Guarantee: $ 75,000
Entries: 79
Prize pool: $ 75,050
ITM: 11 places

Payouts

1st Theprofessor44 – UAE – $ 18,213.72
2nd TurboPete – Macau – $ 13,874.31
3rd Mathrandil – Germany – $ 10,568.80
4th CowBaby – Singapore – $ 8,050.82
5th LEN1234980 – Japan – $ 6,132.74
6th airbnb – Malaysia – $ 4,671.63
7th Rivertome – Malta – $ 3,558.64
8th AngelKK – China – $ 2,710.80
9th brix – Israel – $ 2,453.19
10th Rollpounder – Singapore – $ 2,220.05
11th ffffiiiissshhhh – China – $ 2,220.05

Winning streak continues for Lester “mon$terDad” Edoc

Lester “mon$terDad” Edoc has been crushing the online scene with numerous big figure scores since the start of the pandemic. As mentioned above, mon$terDad was awarded the APT ring for having the most chips at the time the Mini Main Event was cancelled on opening day. Last night, mon$terDad claimed his first rightful win at the High Roller Turbo preventing TurboPete the title. mon$terDad shipped $ 11,312.82 while TurboPete took runner-up for the second time.

Event 59: High Roller Turbo – Lester Edoc “mon$terDad” – $ 11,312.82

Buy in: $ 500
Date: June 17
Guarantee: $ 40,000
Entries: 101
Prize pool: $ 47,975
ITM: 13 places

Final table payouts

1st Lester Edoc “mon$terDad” – Hong Kong – $ 11,312.82
2nd Pete Chen “TurboPete” – Macau – $ 8,567.44
3rd MonNDaughter – China – $ 6,488.35
4th Timothy Nuter – Canada – $ 4,913.80
5th Resolve – Canada – $ 3,721.34
6th S1nobi – Belarus – $ 2,818.27
7th brotherfinger – Hong Kong – $ $ 2,134.35
8th BriedziantisTriedis – Lihtuania – $ 1,616.40
9th MahalnaHari – Hong Kong – $ 1,388.87

Multi-winners: PatrikNguyen & relentless

Two players became the first multi-winners: Vietnam’s PatrikNguyen and Poland’s relentless. On Day 4, PatrikNguyen claimed back to back victories at Event 60 No Limit Hold’em Turbo and Event 61 Deep Stack Hyper Bounty.

Event 60: No Limit Hold’em Turbo – PatrikNguyen – $ 2,312.86

Buy in: $ 50
Date: June 17
Guarantee: $ 15,000
Entries: 301
Prize pool: $ 15,000
ITM: 47 places

Final table payouts

1st PatrikNguyen – Vietnam – $ 2,312.86 (deal)
2nd choushazi – China – $ 2,604.62 (deal)
3rd Leon S. Kennedy – UK – $ 1,524.50
4th dizhuzhiwang – China – $ 1,117.45
5th depas2 – China – $ 819.09
6th okitango_tom – Japan – $ 600.39
7th tomyshelbi – Israel – $ 440.08
8th theterminator444 – $ 322.58
9th –wDx- – Lithuania – $ 236.45

Event 61: Deep Stack Hyper Bounty – PatrikNguyen – $ 2,545.88

Buy in: $ 52.50
Date: June 17
Guarantee: $ 12,500
Entries: 297
Prize pool: $ 14,850
ITM: 48 places

Final table payouts

1st PatrikNguyen – Vietnam – $ 2,545.88 – includes $1,141.10 in bounties
2nd xiaoBaby. – China – $ 1,702.56 – includes $ 673.05 in bounties
3rd TenderCuticles – Mexico – $ 1,147.59 – includes$ 392.97 in bounties
4th TschuessiBaba – Luxembourg – $ 912.51 – includes $ 359.37 in bounties
5th vhc258 – $ 709.34 – Vietnam – includes $ 303.90 in bounties
6th 4istoUeban – $ 536.24 – Ukraine – includes $ 239.05 in bounties
7th $tereo – $ 302.21 – Singapore – includes $ 84.37 in bounties
8th lonewolf2020 – China – $ 248.73 – includes $ 89.07 in bounties
9th BoldandBankrupt – Finland – $ 357.65 – includes $ 240.61 in bounties

On opening day, “relentless” won Event 3 Pot Limit Omaha then Event 55 High Roller Deep Stack in Day 4. “”relentlees” nearly bagged another at Event 20 Progressive Bounty finishing 2nd to Freddy_Guarin.

Event 3: Pot Limit Omaha – relentless – $ 3,718.21

Buy in: $ 200
Date: June 14
Guarantee: $ 20,000
Entries: 110
Prize pool: $ 20,240
ITM: 17 places

Final table payouts

1st relentless – Poland – $ 3,718.21
2nd yoshiro333 – Japan – $ 2,95390
3rd BIGfishet – Hong Kong – $ 3,090.18
4th canbo – Hong Kong – $ 2,775.31
5th hki23 – Russia – $ 1,396.95
6th neverbluff2020 – China – $ 1,033.95
7th Bryne Koon – Turkey – $ 765.28
8th Badbeat2020 – Vietnam – $ 566.42
9th KilltheRake – Canada – $ 500.84

Event 55: High Roller Deep Stack – relentless – $ 12,339.96

Buy in: $ 500
Date: June 17
Guarantee: $ 50,000
Entries: 108
Prize pool: $ 51,300
ITM: 15 places

Final table payouts

1st relentless – Poland – $ 11,690.48
2nd Mrs Limi – China – $ 8,802.53
3rd Theprofessor44 – UAE – $ 6,628.04
4th Wrooom – Russia – $ 4,990.72
5th TschuessiBaba – Luxembourg – $ 3,757.86
6th airbnb – Malaysia – $ 2,829.55
7th HeisseSchokolade – Austria – $ 2,130.57
8th Fiddlesticks – Albania – $ 1,604.25
9th CallMckOk – Austria – $ 1,415.04

Largest Field – Mini Main Event

The first of six featured events of the series was the Mini Main Event $ 200K GTD. The event pulled in the largest field to date with 3,532 entries across 8 entry flights.

Buy in: $ 50
Dates: June 11 to 14
Guarantee: $ 200,000
Total Entries: 3,532
Prize pool: $ 200,000
Final Day qualifiers: 933
ITM: 440 places
Game cancelled: 151 remaining

Event 1 Opening Event also fielded a big one with 1,559 entries across 12 entry flights. To date, this was the second largest event of the series.

Buy in: $ 300
Dates: June 11 to 14
Guarantee: $ 500,000
Total Entries: 1,559
Prize pool: $ 500,000
Final Day qualifiers: 439
ITM: 224 places
Game cancelled: 26 remaining

Somuchpoker will continue to bring you updates on the ongoing series.