Flight D Chip Leader Hong Kong’s Wing Fai Kwan

The fourth flight of the TWD 15,000 (~USD 495) National Cup Championship drew the second-largest field of the five starting flights, with a hefty 647 entries (533 unique) packing into the Red Space and fighting it out at the felt over twenty-two 20-minute levels.

After a relatively short bubble period in Flight D of the 2025 National Cup Championship play has concluded with the elimination of Taiwan's Puyen Fang at the hand of China's Yu Bao, ending Fang's dreams of making the Final Day and shooting Bao up to second in the chip counts, with 91 players left standing.

The remaining 91 players have now bagged up their chips to carry through to the final day starting Sunday, November 16th, and merge with the 198 players who have already survived the earlier flights.

It was Hong Kong’s Wing Fai Kwan who closed out the flight with the chip lead bagging an impressive 1,112,000 chips. Hot on Kwan’s heels was China’s Yu Bao with 1,078,000 chips and rounding out the podium in third spot was Taiwan’s Wei Chun Kuo with 1,012,000 chips.

The APTC Taipei National Cup Championship is officially the largest non-Main Event field, with a massive 2,398 (1,157 unique) entries. The prize pool stands at a sizable TWD 29,849,200 (~USD 985,120) and has smashed the TWD 12,000,000 guarantee. This puts the event in the top three of the richest non-High Roller side events the tour has ever run.

Flight D Top Ten Chip Counts

Kwan was the silent assassin throughout the day and went under the radar, gradually building his stack without winning any major hands.

Bao picked up the majority of his chips when his pocket aces held against Puyen Fang’s pocket queens to burst the bubble and bring play to a conclusion for the day.

Filipino Christopher Mateo is sitting pretty in sixth spot with 700,000 in chips and will be looking for a deep run in the final day to take his lifetime earnings to over USD 1,300,000.

Mateo’s compatriot Edgar Asehan rounds out the top ten in ninth spot with 631,000 chips and will be hoping to take his lifetime earnings to the milestone one million USD mark with a final table finish.

Multiple APT event winner, Thailand’s Sukhum Kiwanont, is sitting in the top 50 with 244,000 in chips and will be striving to take his lifetime earnings to near the USD 500,00 mark with a deep run.

WSOP Bracelet Holder Mike Takayama Squeaked Through to the Final Day

WSOP Bracelet holder, WPT Championship winner and dual APT Main Event winner, Filipino Mike Takayama, squeaked into the final day in 90th spot but will need some help to take his lifetime earnings across the USD 4,000,000 mark carrying a short stack of 50,000 chips into the final day.

For a full list of all flight D survivors with chip counts click HERE.

The final day plays down to a winner on Sunday, November 16th, starting at 11.15am.

Tune in here for all the day’s action and to see who takes down the record breaking 2025 APTC Taipei National Cup Championship.

With the bubble bursting play has now concluded for the day and the remaining 91 players are now bagging up their chips to take through to the final day tomorrow.

Stay tuned for a recap of the day and a full list of flight D survivors and chip counts.

Action folded to Puyen Fang in the cutoff who open jammed all in for 340,000 and it was folded to Yu Bao in the big blind who snap called.

Puyen Fang: Q Q

Yu Bao: A A

Not the door card Fang wanted to see on the A 6 5 flop and when the 7 peeled off on the turn he was drawing dead. The irrelevant 3 came on the river to seal the deal and Fang was sent home in 92nd place as the unfortunate bubble boy.

Cheong Lam

Cheong Lam open jammed from early position for 109,000 and action folded around to Yu Lin who made the call.

Cheong Lam: 5 5

Yu Lin: A K

A safe run out of 8 7 2 J 3 for Lam and he was shipped the pot for a full double up.

Huyen Quach

Robert Cheung raised to 32,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Huyen Quach in middle position who moved all in for 156,000.

Action folded back around to Cheung who snap called.

Huyen Quach: A J

Robert Cheung: A K

No help for Quach on the T A K flop.

"Queen, Queen" Quach begged the dealer as they peeled off the 8 turn.

"Heart, heart" changed the plea as the dealer flipped over the 5 as the river and the ever jovial Quach was sent to the rail.

Jing Huang

Action folded around to Yaozhang Bai on the button who open jammed all in for his remaining 49,000.

Jing Huang sat in the small blind made the call and the big blind got out of the way sharpish.

Yaozhang Bai: K 5

Jing Huang: Q Q

Some help for Bai on the 4 5 6 flop and he picked up some chop outs on the 3 turn.

No miracle though when the 9 peeled off on the river and Bai was sent packing.

Sun Choi raised to 20,000 from early position and action folded around to Vamerdino Magsakay in the small blind who moved all in for 130,000.

Choi went into the tank for a short time before he tossed in the call.

Vamerdino Magsakay: 8 8

Sun Choi: A J

A safe flop came for Magsakay of 5 7 7 and the 6 on the turn was no danger either. But when the dealer rolled off the J as the river Magsakay let out a sigh as he was sent to the rail when Choi hit his higher pair.

Kong Shum

Robert Cheung moved all in from early position for 53,000 and action folded to Kong Shum who also moved all in to isolate. The rest of the table folded.

Robert Cheung: A A

Kong Shum: 9 9

No miracles for Shum on the run out of T Q 8 8 5 and Cheung was shipped the pot for a full double up.

Jia Lee

There was over 30,000 in the middle and the flop of T K A was spread out by the dealer. Jia Lee checked from the small blind to Sukhum Kiwanont who bet out for 6,000. Lee made the call.

The turn brought the 6 and Lee now led out for 17,000, Kiwanont made the call and the dealer peeled off the A for the river.

Lee checked to Kiwanont who fired out a bet of 27,000 which sent Lee into the tank. She thought for a while and the dealer pulled in a time bank before she released he hand to send the pot to Kiwanont with no showdown.

Cards are back in the air for flight D with 211 players remaining.