Highlights of the AJPC Asian Circuit Taiwan 2019

Asia-Pacific
06/12/2019

The AJPC Asian Circuit in Taiwan has come to a conclusion and we are delivering you the highlights of this festival.

It was a 10-event festival running from 5th to 9th June at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association in Taipei.

The Main Event (Event #3)

Main Event 1
Shingo Horikoshi –Credit AJPC

The NTD 20,000 (USD 637) Main Event kicked off on 6th June and had three starting flights, two of them on 7th June. The Main Event came to a finish on 9th June with Japan’s Shingo Horikoshi scooping the NTD 672,560 (USD 21,443) first prize.

Main Event
Main Event Final Table – Credit AJPC

Here are the results of the 9-handed final table:

1st Shingo Horikoshi – NTD 672,560 (USD 21,443)
2nd Akihiro Yamada – NTD 448,200 (USD 14,290)
3rd Chang Chung – TD 290,000 (USD 9,246)
4th Chi Chu – NTD 224,100 (USD 7,145)
5th Kuang Lee – NTD 184,500 (USD 5,882)
6th San Hsiao – NTD 151,600 (USD 4,834)
7th Kun Lee – NTD 125,200 (USD 3,992)
8th Seiji Hamajima – NTD 98,800 (USD 3,150)
9th Tomoyuki Yoshimiya – NTD 72,500 (USD 2,312)

Opening Event (Event #1)

winner
Tsang Hang– Credit AJPC

The NTD 10,000 (USD 318) buy-in Opening Event for the festival saw 98 entries over two starting flights on Wednesday, 5th June.

This created a prize pool of NTD 855,540 (USD 27,239) to be fought over the day after, ultimately at a 10-handed final table.

Tsang Hang from Hong Kongfinally won the event for a NTD 227,040 (USD 7,229) payday.

1st Tsang Hang – NTD 227,040 (USD 7,229)
2nd Pin Huang – NTD 154,000 (USD 4,903)
3rd Hao Wu – NTD 102,600 (USD 3,267)
4th Chin Wei – NTD 81,200 (USD 2,585)
5th Kun Lee – NTD 64,100 (USD 2,041)
6th Victor Wong – NTD 55,600 (USD 1,770)
7th Kam Yang – NTD 47,000 (USD 1,496)
8th Wen Wu – NTD 38,500 (USD 1,226)
9th Yuan Lee – NTD 30,000 (USD 955)
10th Wu Po Yi – NTD 21,300 (USD 678)

Other winners

Event #4 – NTD 6,000 (USD 190) AJPC KO Bounty

Winner
Pan Yun – Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 115,424 (USD 3,680)
Entries: 48
Winner: Pan Yun – NTD 48,924 (USD 1,560)

Event #5 – NTD 6,000 (USD 190) NLH Hyper Turbo

Wu Po Yi
Wu Po Yi – Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 162,378 (USD 5,177)
Entries: 31
Winner: Wu Po Yi – NTD 60,278 (USD1,922)

Event #6 – NTD 15,000 (USD 478) Samurai (10% ITM)

Kenji Hamamoto
Kenji Hamamoto– Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 877,365 (USD 27,973)
Entries: 67
Winner: Kenji Hamamoto – NTD 301,765 (USD 9,621)

Event #8 – NTD 10,000 (USD 318) AJPC x CTP 10,000 NLH Turbo

Ka Mak
Ka Mak – Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 232,010 (USD 7,397)
Entries: 37
Winner: Ka Mak – NTD 110,010 (USD 3,507)

Event #9 – NTD 10,000 (USD 318) Megastack

Chao Chng
Chao Chng– Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 637,290 (USD 20,326)
Entries: 73
Winner: Chao Chng – NTD 175,590 (USD 5,600)

Party & Flip Out – NTD 1,000 (USD 32)

Ricky Cheung
Ricky Cheung– Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 96,030 (USD 3,062)
Entries: 110
Winner: Ricky Cheung – NTD 26,630 (USD 849)

Event #10 – NTD 6,000 (USD 190)AJPC Deep Stack Hyper Turbo

Daisuke Ogita
Daisuke Ogita– Credit AJPC

Prize pool: NTD 303,804 (USD 9,690)
Entries: 58
Winner: Daisuke Ogita – NTD 89,304 (USD 2,848)

Article by Christin Maschmann

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