South Korea’s Dohang Na Leads the APT’s Richest-Event Tournament as Money Bubble Approaches

• Taiwan’s Wei Kai Lin Mixing it up to Top Mini Main Event Flight A

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, November 25, 2025 – It’s official, the TWD 311,000 (~USD 10,000) APT Championship Main Event Freezeout is the biggest and richest USD 10K buy-in tournament to run outside of Las Vegas in the last decade, and the largest and wealthiest ever to run in Asia.

Playing out at the tournament tables of the cavernous Red Space 多元商務空間 and run in partnership with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Club (CTP), Day 2 of the Main Event saw the 343 Day 1 survivors from the initial 595 Day 1 entries joined by a further 76 entries before late registration closed at the start of level 11 at 1:45pm local time (TST).

This brought the field up to 671 total entries, with the TWD 156 million (~USD 5M) guarantee reached and breached midway through the first day.

Notable late entries included Super High Roller championship runner-up Alexander Wice, Australia’s David Wang, the USA’s Dylan Linde, Hong Kong’s #1 ranked tournament player Danny Tang, Superstar Challenge champion Calvin Lee, and runner up Daniel Neilson, Natural8 Cup Championship winner Jon Rounce-Sue and runner-up Rob Hollink, and two-time APT Main Event champion Lester Edoc.

The prize pool stands at a massive TWD 194,080,973 (~USD 6,220,550), making this the richest tournament in the Asian Poker Tour’s 19-year history.

A total of 95 players will make the paying positions, with a min-cash coming in at TWD 572,500 (~TWD 18,350) and the eventual champion making the APT record books by banking the largest Main Event top prize ever awarded – a monstrous TWD 37,030,773 (~USD 1,186,880) first place prize, plus the exclusive APT Championship Gold Lion Main Event Trophy!

The Gold Lion APT Championship Main Event Trophy

Day 2 saw players compete over eight 75-minute levels, with 133 left in contention when the tournament clock ticked into the red.

It is Dohang Na who sits at the apex of the leaderboard, making a late surge for the tournament top spot on the last level played after cracking Yuanxi Chen’s pocket kings with ace-eight to bring the Singaporean’s Main Event run to a screeching halt.

Na bagged up a stack of 924,500, valued at a sizable 185 big blinds, and was the only player to conclude the day over the 900K mark.

India’s Aditya Agarwal sits second in the counts with a stack of 766,000, with Malaysia’s Ben Loo—who led for the last two levels of the day before being pipped for the lead—rounding out the top three with 738,500 in chips.

Computational wizard Dominik Nitsche (701,500) also bagged a top ten stack, as did inaugural Octo-Razz champion Chung Ching Cheung (655,000).

MAIN EVENT TOP TEN DAY 2 STACKS

Of the Day 2 entries mentioned above, only Daniel Neilson (119,000) was successful in his mission to make Day 3.

Other notables to make it through included former APT Super High Roller champion Julian Warhurst (407,000), India’s Ankit Ahuja (358,000), Australia’s Dylan Foster (356,000), Super High Roller Championship winner Roman Hrabec (302,500), and former APT High Roller champion Martin Sedlak (264,000).

Super High Roller Championship winner Roman Hrabec is hoping for another deep run

German bracelet winner Martin Finger (255,000), former Main Event champion Dicky Tsang (206,000), ten-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (204,000), Natural8 Ambassador Phachara Wongwichit (137,000), high stakes tournament specialist Steve O’Dwyer (127,000), and poker vlogger Frankie Cucchiara (71,500) were some others to fight their way through.

The 133 survivors will return for Day 3 at 11:15am on Wednesday, November 26, all hoping to survive the money bubble—which is expected to rear its ugly head in the first few levels of play—and cash in the APT’s richest-ever tournament.

For Main Event Day 2 Player List please CLICK HERE

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For Main Event Day 3 Draw please CLICK HERE

All tournament information can be found on the APT Championship Main Event Freezeout Day 2 tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Main Event Day 2 APT Blog.

A Main Event live stream on a 30-minute delay will be available on the official APT YouTube channel from Day 2 onwards.

Day 3 continues the action at 11:15am on Wednesday, November 26 with six 90-minute levels scheduled, with Day 4 following the same format on Thursday, November 27.

The exclusive Gold Lion APT Main Event Trophy will be awarded on the Final Day, which will play out at 11:15am on Friday, November 28.

Taiwan’s Wei Kai Lin Mixing it up to Top Mini Main Event Flight A

Mixed Game Championship winner Wei Kai Lin topped Flight A

The first of the four scheduled starting flights for the TWD 35,000 (~USD 1,120) Mini Main Event Championship got underway at 5pm local time (TST), drawing 245 entries (202 unique).

With only the top 14 percent of players making it through to the Final Day, it took close to twenty two 20-minute levels to whittle the field down to the last 35.

Continuing the run of form that saw him claim his maiden APT title in [Event 5] Mixed Game Championship, it was Taiwan’s Wei Kai Lin who topped the Flight A chip counts, bagging up a stack of 831,000.

Compatriot Chih Han Hsu finished a close second, concluding the action with 818,000 in chips, and the duo were the only two players to bag over 800K.

Hong Kong’s Kevin Lam (681,000) rounded out the top three, and was joined in the top ten by compatriot and multiple APT title holder Alan Lau (489,000), and APT Incheon 2025 Main Event champion Junjie He (384,000).

MINI MAIN EVENT FLIGHT A TOP TEN STACKS

Other notables to make it through to the Final Day and the paying positions include Singapore’s Ravn Teo (240,000), Israel’s Ben Gur (175,000), Canada’s Philipp Zukernik (154,000), and Hong Kong’s Vincent Li (28,000).

For Mini Main Event Championship Flight A Player List please CLICK HERE

For Mini Main Event Championship Flight A Survivors please CLICK HERE

All tournament information can be found on the Mini Main Event Championship Flight A tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Mini Main Event Championship Flight A APT Blog.

Flight B, which comes with slightly longer 35-minute levels, gets underway at 11am (TST) on Wednesday, November 26, with Flight C starting at 4:30pm local time and following the same 20-minute level format of Flight A.

The fourth and final Flight D kicks off at 8:30pm local time and comes with faster-paced 15-minute levels.

The survivors of all four flights will return for the Final Day to play it out for the lion’s share of the prize pool, and the exclusive Pewter Lion APT Championship Trophy, with the action commencing at 11:15am local time on Thursday, November 27.