APT Championships Philippines 2017: Andre Peh Tops Main Event Day 1A, Aditya Sushant Third in Chips; Kim Gab, Jeon Seung & Sam Razavi Win Titles

The APT Championships Philippines 2017 is now deep into its 12-day schedule, with the first flight of the Main Event attracting a huge 170 entries. Bagging the chip lead on the opening flight was Germany`s Andre Peh with a stack of 183,625. Right on his heels in third place was India`s Aditya Sushant with 124,750 in chips.

In the meantime, Korea`s Kim Gab won Event 3 – $440 Head Hunter 100/Bounty while noted APT regular and fellow countryman Jeon Seung took down his second APT OFC title in Event 5 – $330 OFC Pineapple Progressive.

Rounding up this report is news of another title by Sam Razavi who took down a special SNG hosted by APT sponsors PokerFishS for $2,400.

Main Event – Day 1A

Main Event Day 1A saw a huge turnout of 170 hopefuls including notable pros from around the globe including previous APT Main Event champions Iori Yogo, Hisashi Ogi, Czardy Rivera, Katsuhiro Muto, Julius Malzanini, In Chul Sin, Shinichiro Tone, Feng Zhao, and Alexis Lim. At the end of day’s play only 90 players survived and leading them all was Germany’s Andre Peh who bagged 183,625 in chips.

The field also included Indian pro Aditya Sushant who bagged the third highest stack of 124,750. Seems like Sushant is back in form as earlier this month he shipped the DPT 15K event for ₹4,76,950 and finished runners-up in the High Roller event for around ₹23 Lakhs!

UK’s Daryl Green ended the day second in chips with 131,700 and the only other player to cross the 100K-mark was Guam’s Annie Bordallo who bagged a stack of 115,625.

Day 1B of the Main Event is currently underway.

Head Hunter

The Head Hunter event saw 189 entries and the final eight players returned to play down to a winner yesterday. The top two stacks at the start of the day i.e. Korea’s Kim Gab Yong and USA’s Nick Gorman eventually ended up battling it out in the heads-up match, with Yong being the aggressive one between the two.

Yong even collected a massive pot through the eventual fifth place finisher Mark Pagsuyuin when the latter’s pocket aces lost out to Yong’s pocket jacks who hit a set on the board.

Yong’s streak of cracking pocket aces didn’t stop there as the final hand of the event saw both players moving all-in on the board with Yong’s defeating the of Gorman who failed to catch any help on the river .

Yong pocketed $13,620 for his first-place finish including Gorman’s bounty reward, his own bounty, and title.

Final Day Results

1.Kim Gab Yong – $13,620

2. Nick Gorman – $7,840

3. John Clyde Tan – $5,330

4. Duong Vi Khoa – $3,810

5. Marquez Pagsuyuin – $3,100

6. Keisuke Okamura – $2,500

7. Junichi Nakagiri – $2,010

8. Carlo Poblete – $1,630

OFC Pineapple Progressive

The OFC Pineapple Progressive event attracted 36 hopefuls creating a prize pool of $10,480 and outlasting them all was Jeon Seung Soo who defeated Vietnam’s Bui Duc Dung in the heads-up battle to claim $3,670 for his finish.

Seung is among one of only three players who have won two APT Main Event titles apart from several other APT side event titles.

Final Results

1. Jeon Seung Soo – $3,670

2. Bui Duc Dung – $2,420

3. Pham Ngoc Quoc Bao – $1,570

4. Hung Sheng Lin – $940

5. Winston Koh – $940

6. Yuri Ishida – $940

PokerFishS SNG Special Event

The official sponsor of APT – PokerFishS, hosted a special Sit n Go event featuring top four APT players who competed against four PokerFishS’s players. The APT roster included notable pros like Sam Razavi, Iori Yogo, Lester Edoc, and Lim Yo Hwan who battled against PokerFishS team comprising of Ada Chen, Jaden Wang, Lynn Huang, and Alex Liu.

The first two players to get eliminated were APT’s Lester Edoc followed by Yo Hwan. The next three were from PokerFishS i.e. Chen, Huang, and Wang.

Yogo then went on to eliminate Liu and heads up battle started between him and Razavi.

Though both players have competed several times in the past for the APT Player of the Year title but a head-to-head clash between the two has been rare. The heads-up battle started with Yogo leading the stacks but Razavi slowly chipped up to a point when both stacks were almost equal.

Yogo eventually lost a big pot when his were up against Razavi’s . The board provided no help to either and Razavi’s king high got him the pot. In the very next hand the short-stacked Yogo was eliminated and Razavi collected the entire $2,400 prize pool!

Razavi expressed his sentiments through a social media post “Couldn’t be having that runner up monkey sat on my back for more than a day could I. Winner of the PokerfishS sponsored winner-takes-all Sit-n-Go for a selection of crisp $100 bills, a trophy, a phone charger (needed!) and a cute Panda bear that will join Elis zoo tomorrow”

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