Daniel Lee took dwelling the match title within the Asian Poker Tour principal occasion on the Metropolis of Goals Manila Resort for a high payout price $256,020. Lee holds a handful of match titles, however this was his largest rating so far. He additionally took dwelling his first 24K gold lion APT principal occasion trophy.
“Again in faculty and highschool I’d recreation professionally, I at all times cherished video games, at all times obtained to the highest. I additionally love markets, I like threat, I like betting. I like that sort of stuff, so poker is sort of a nice mixture of these two. I’ve a deep ardour for the sport, it’s so enjoyable, it’s so exhilarating. This deep run makes it so price it,” mentioned Lee to reporters after the win.
He continued, “It really feel’s so surreal, I’ll be trustworthy, I obtained fairly fortunate. I believe heads-up I didn’t play it that properly, however ultimately we floor it out and persevered and got here away with the victory.”
Though the principle occasion was the star of the sequence, a number of tournaments set data for the APT in each phrases of turnout and prize pool.
The 85,000 Philippine Peso buy-in principal occasion noticed a big area of 8,102 entries to place the whole prize pool at $5,944,757. The highest 159 gamers all made the cash together with Joey Weissman (forty fifth), Hye Park (72nd), Joseph Cheong (97th).
Lee held the chip lead at first of the ultimate desk, however a rocky begin noticed him fall close to the underside of the pack. Jaejoong Kim fell in ninth place, and Vincent Huang adopted him in eighth place. Renji Mao hit the rail in seventh place, after which Lee bounced again and took over the ultimate desk by eliminating the subsequent three gamers.
Gab Yong Kimn (sixth), Sandagdorj Munkhbaatar (fifth), and Ferdinand Lu (fourth) all fell on the toes of Lee, after which Edgar Antezana obtained in on the motion by busting John Costiniano in third place to set the heads-up closing. Antezana had a slight edge by simply 5 huge blinds over Lee when that closing skirmish started.
The remaining two gamers selected a chop, however it nonetheless took 53 fingers between them to resolve a winner. There have been three lead adjustments between them earlier than the destiny of the match was determined. Lee rivered a flush in essentially the most consequential hand to finest the journey threes of Antezana, and that each one however settled the matter.
The ultimate hand was only a formality to crown Lee as the brand new APT champion. Antezana took dwelling a pleasant comfort prize price $235,450 because of his deep run within the match. This second-place end was the biggest rating of the South African participant’s profession by far.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Payout
POY
1
Daniel Lee
$256,020
1,320
2
Edgar Antezana
$235,450
1,100
3
John Costiniano
$129,880
880
4
Ferdinand Lu
$97,850
660
5
Sandagdorj Munkhbaatar
$74,630
550
6
Gab Yong Kim
$54,570
440
7
Renji Mao
$40,970
330
8
Vincent Huang
$29,325
220
9
Jaejoong Kim
$22,865
110
Picture Credit score: Asian Poker Tour
