Tyler Jennens raised from the small blind to 24,000 and Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Jennens bet 20,000 after which Lin raised it up to 54,000. Jennens tanked for a bit before making the call.
On the turn the hit and both players checked.
The river was the and Jennens checked once again. Lin put together a bet of 69,000 and slid it forward.
Jennens paused for a while but eventually he made the call. Lin tapped the table in defeat, Jennens showed the and that made the Team PokerStars Pro muck her hand. Jennens did not even show his second card and he raked in this pot.
The first hand of the day has resulted in the first casualty.
The action folded around to Daniel Demicki in the cut off who raised to 20,000. Junichi Nakagiri then moved all in for his remaining 68,000 from the small blind. Jason Mo folded his big blind before Demicki made the call.
Demicki:
Nakagiri:
Nakagiri was in great shape to double up until the board ran out to see Demicki spike a pair on the river resulting in the Japanese player hitting the rail.
The cards are in the air for the final day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Seoul! There are 13 players remaining, but in the end there will be only one winner.
Welcome to Day 3 of PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 PokerStars.net APPT Seoul Main Event.
The starting field of 241 players is down to just 13, each with hopes of capturing the first-place prize of ₩165,590,200 (KRW) (just a touch over US$150,000). Leading the way into Day 3 is American Jason Mo with 960,000 followed by Poland’s Daniel Demicki (792,000) and Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin (540,000).
Also in contention is fellow PokerStars Team Pro Bryan Huang, online Heads Up specialist Dong Kim and the Japanese trio of Takuya Suzuki (397,000), Shintaro Baba (170,000) and short-stack Junichi Nakagiri (69,000).
Here is the Day 3 table and seat draw.
Table
Seat
Name
Country
Chips
14
1
Daniel Kneafsey
Ireland
174,000
14
2
Boris Li
Russia
128,000
14
3
Dong Kim
USA
314,000
14
5
Tyler Jennens
Canada
414,000
14
6
Celina Lin
China
540,000
14
7
Bryan Huang
Singapore
309,000
17
1
Takuya Suzuki
Japan
397,000
17
3
Tai Zheng Tan
Singapore
277,000
17
4
Vladimir Demenkov
Russia
259,000
17
5
Daniel Demicki
Poland
792,000
17
7
Shintaro Baba
Japan
170,000
17
8
Junichi Nakagiri
Japan
69,000
17
9
Jason Mo
USA
957,000
Play resumes at noon local time and will commence until a winner emerges. Be sure to keep it here throughout the day as the quest to crown a new APPT champion concludes.