PokerStars APPT Seoul Day 1b – Kim Leads Overall

The second and final opening day flight at the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Seoul has come to an end with Day 1b attracting another 100 players to bring the total entries to 222 for this event. Out of the 100 that started the day only 34 of them will be progressing into Day 2 with the other 50 players that made it through from Day 1a.

With the total figure now reached it was soon revealed that the total prize pool for the event will be around $534,810 once converted from the South Korean Won. It was also revealed that just 24 of the players will be being paid in the event, with the top prize being $147,141.

It was Mike Kim that made sure he was in pole position to take home that money, with us pretty glad he did, simply because we do not want to type the name of the player in second more than once in this report. Kim finished with 179,300 chips whilst the player who is hot on his heels is Chane Kampanatsanyakakorn with 133,000.

Those two have pulled out a nice little gap from the rest, with the field a further 65k back. In fact the two of them have also secured more chips than the players from Day 1 too, which puts them as the overall leaders in this event.

There is also 2011 Macau Poker Cup winner Raiden Kan in the mix, with him looking to secure yet another title in Asia.

Day 1b Top Ten!

Mike Kim – 179,300

Chane Kampanatsanyakakorn – 133,000

Guillaume Paty – 66,000

Jan-Eric Schwippert – 65,000

John Kim – 64,000

Raiden Kan – 62,000

Andrija Martic – 54,000

Ted Wang – 50,000

Bin Sun – 43,000

Andrew Moreno – 41,200

The day starts again on tomorrow at the same time of 12 noon local time, with the game continuing until the players are whittled right down to those who will battle it out on the final table. Once there, they will be battling it out for the larger payouts found just below.

The Pay Structure (Converted into $)!

1st – 147,141

2nd – $93,651

3rd – $53,489

4th – $40,162

5th – $33,408

6th – $26,745

7th – $21,432

8th – 16,029

9th – $12,101

10th – 12th – $9,500

13th – 16th – $7,450

17th – 20th – $5,950

21st – 24th – $4,750

Don’t forget to come back at around the same time tomorrow for a roundup of what happened on Day 2 of this event, where we will be one step closer to finding out our latest APPT champion.