Dajie Zhuo

With the opening event of the APT Jeju 2025 festival setting a new Korean poker record, the second event on the schedule also did not disappoint.

Day 2 of the series opened with another gem with the APT Super High Roller offering one of the juiciest prizes of festival – awarding one of seven coveted seats to the APT Championship Main Event worth KRW 14M (USD 10,000).

The tournament attracted it's largest-ever Korean-based field to set a new tour record for the country, drawing a total of 97 entries (65 unique), making it the fourth-largest iteration of the tournament ever to play out.

Of course, apart from that bonus award, the main focus of the players was on the lion's share of KRW 348,252,500 (~USD 246,990) prize pool accrued.

Only 13 places will earn a piece of the payout pie with a few more eliminations left on Day 2 before the bubble bursts.

A total of 22 players successfully fought their way through to the Final Day, with China's Dajie Zhuo returning as the chip leader with the Pewter Lion APT Super high Roller trophy in his sights.

Zhou concluded the sixteen 40-minute Day 1 levels played with 2,450,000 chips. Next in line is compatriot Mingcong Chen who is breathing down Zhou's neck with 2,315,000.

Rounding out the top three and the only other player to bag over 2M in chips was the Czech Republic's Roman Hrabec, who concluded play with a stack of 2,265,000.

Some notables who also made the cut include Hong Kong's Biao Ding (1,535,000), Natural8 Ambassador Nevan Chang (1,230,000), Germany's Fabian Schmidt (910,000), Hong Kong's Hon Cheong "Ivan" Lee (535,000) and APT All-Time Money List #1 Joseph Cheong (365,000), although the latter will be returning as the shortest stack.

APT Super High Roller Top Ten Stacks

Complete chip counts can be viewed HERE

Official seat draw for Day 2 is available HERE

Complete payouts available HERE

The Final Day action resumes at 11:15am (KST) with a feature table and final table live steam available at the APT Official Youtube Channel and full coverage right here on the APT Blog.

Sixteen forty-minute levels have just passed with 22 players of 97 making it across the line for tomorrow's day two finale.

Stay tuned for a recap of the day and full chip counts.

The floor has just announced last 7 hands for the evening. 22 out of 97 entries still remain.... as of now.

SungwonLee

Martin Fritz raised to 40,000 from the cut-off only to face a three-bet jam all in from Sungwon Lee in the big blind for 285,000. Fritz snap-called.

Sungwon Lee: 4 4

Martin Fritz: :A K

A clean run-out for Lee on the J 3 5 J 7 board meant he was awarded the pot for a full double up.

Iulian BleBea raised to 40,000 from early position and found calls from Tai Kim in the small blind and Mustapha Kanit in the big blind.

The dealer rolled off the flop of T 5 J and it was checked to BleBea who continued for 35,000. Kim called and Kanit folded.

The turn saw the 2 fall and Kim check-called BleBea's bet of 130,000.

Our players saw the 3 peel off on the river.

The action went check-check and Kim tabled A J and was shipped the pot as NleBea inst-folded his hand.

Iulian BleBea

Iulian BleBea raised to 40,000 from middle position only to face a three-bet jam all in from Wayne Foster on the button.

BleBea didn't take long to make the call.

Wayne Foster: T T

Iulian BleBea: A K

The flop of 4 6 K was not what Foster wanted to see and with no set coming on the 2 turn nor the 6 river he was sent to the rail.

The APT Jeju Super High Roller has just smashed the record for the highest Korean APT Super High Roller event held taking the record away from APT Incheon set in August this year.

The final numbers are now in and with 97 players(62 unique) ponying up the KRW 15,000,000 buy-in the total price pool is a massive KRW 1,340,782,500((~USD 950,910)) smashing the KRW 500,000 guarantee.

All remaining players will be eyeing up the first place prize of 348,252,500(~USD 246,990) which has the added bonus of a APT Championship Main Event ticket.

Full payouts can be seen below:

Plat has resumed for the final two levels of the day.

The remaining 28 players are now on their last break of the day and when they return will play two more levels before bagging up for the night.

Mustapha Kanit

On the flop of 3 K 8 Mustapha Kanit checked from the big blind to Hyunyeong Kang on the button who bet out for 22,000.

Kanit made the call and the dealer peeled off the A for the turn.

Kanit again checked to Kang who bet out for 90,000 this time. Kanit then check-raised to 185,000 and Kang insta-mucked his cards sending Mustapha the pot.