Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
2023 APPT Cambodia
APPT Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
2023 APPT Cambodia
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$623,322
Entries
476
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Left
1
Out of a field of 476 entries, only nine players remain for the grand finale of the 2023 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Cambodia $1,500 Main Event and return to their seats on the feature stage of the grand ballroom at the five-star NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh at 1 p.m. local time. They are competing for the biggest portion of the $623,322 prize pool with $10,908 locked up so far, but the winner will walk away with $120,300 for the efforts and the golden shard trophy.
Junnie Pamplona leads the way with 3,015,000, closely followed by Ting-Yi "Eric" Tsai (2,960,000) and Jimmy Torres (2,725,000) as the trio atop the leaderboard is separated by a mere ten big blinds.
Pamplona will aim to go all the way and surpass his previous best score from the 2022 WPT Prime $1,100 Main Event right here at NagaWorld when he was part of a three-way deal and collected $106,482.
Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Tsai | Taiwan | 2,960,000 | 99 |
| 2 | Evgenii Nekrasov | Russia | 1,080,000 | 36 |
| 3 | Curtis Lim | Singapore | 850,000 | 28 |
| 4 | Bien Mai | Vietnam | 410,000 | 14 |
| 5 | Chao-Ting Cheng | Taiwan | 1,825,000 | 61 |
| 6 | Kien Tat Heng | Singapore | 795,000 | 27 |
| 7 | Junnie Pamplona | Philippines | 3,015,000 | 101 |
| 8 | Hua-Wei Lin | Taiwan | 600,000 | 20 |
| 9 | Jimmy Torres | Colombia | 2,725,000 | 91 |
Chao-Ting Cheng is the only player with a middling stack and the other five finalists have between 14 and 36 big blinds at their disposal. However, there are only 07:38 minutes left in level 24 at blinds of 15,000-30,000 and a big blind ante of 30,000.
This puts a lot of pressure on the short stacks Bien Mai (410,000) and Hua-Wei Lin (600,000). Mai has had two runner-up finishes in the last two months, one of which came right here in Phnom Penh in the 2023 WPT Prime Cambodia Main Event for $117,842.
Lin will be railed by her husband and fellow Taiwanese poker pro Yu-Chung "Nevan" Chang, both are known under their moniker "winpokercouple" on social media. Chang himself cashed in 38th place and had previously reached the final table of this very event in 2022, claiming $35,590 for his fourth place finish.
The levels on the final table continue with a duration of 60 minutes each with a break every two levels. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor from start to finish in the Kingdom of Cambodia until a winner has been crowned.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $120,300 | ||
| 2 | $75,795 | ||
| 3 | $54,290 | ||
| 4 | $42,760 | ||
| 5 | $33,597 | ||
| 6 | $26,242 | ||
| 7 | $19,759 | ||
| 8 | $13,775 | ||
| 9 | $10,908 |
APPT Main Event
Day 3 Started