There Can Only Be One! 18 To Play To A Winner at EAPT UK Main Event!
From 170 players down to 18, we have reached the final day of the EAPT UK Main Event at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham with Yanwen Li bringing in the chip lead vying for the top prize of £75,500.
Li who has only three recorded cashes has already guaranteed the biggest payday in her playing career. She took out one of the hot favorites in Francis Obadun in the small hours of Day 2 to finish with a stack of 22,450,000.
In second place is Ionut Dumitrana, who probably wishes this was a bounty tournament as he sent five players to the rail inside an hour late on Day 2. He will start today with 21,500,000.
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yanwen Li | United Kingdom | 22,450,000 | 75 |
| 2 | Ionut Dumitrana | United Kingdom | 21,500,000 | 72 |
| 3 | Baktash Parsa | United Kingdom | 15,600,000 | 52 |
| 4 | Longmao Fan | China | 14,000,000 | 47 |
| 5 | Jason Riley | United Kingdom | 12,950,000 | 43 |
| 6 | Trevor Pearson | United Kingdom | 12,675,000 | 42 |
| 7 | Ben Clark | United Kingdom | 11,875,000 | 40 |
| 8 | Hong Pham | Vietnam | 10,100,000 | 34 |
| 9 | Ryan Cooper | United Kingdom | 8,450,000 | 28 |
| 10 | Lin Chen | United Kingdom | 8,225,000 | 27 |
| 11 | Foad Sattarzadeh | United Kingdom | 8,200,000 | 27 |
| 12 | David Langsdale | United Kingdom | 7,825,000 | 26 |
| 13 | Ali Ayub | United Kingdom | 6,750,000 | 23 |
| 14 | [PLAYER="yinchuan-liu"]Yinchuan Liu | [/PLAYER]United Kingdom | 6,325,000 | 21 |
| 15 | Lewis Nuttall | United Kingdom | 3,800,000 | 13 |
| 16 | Jorge Palomino | Spain | 3,450,000 | 12 |
Trevor Pearson brings the most experience to the final day with his first recorded cash back in 2007. Pearson reached back-to-back final tables at UKIPT Nottingham in 2014 and 2015 netting a cool £200,000 combined.
However, a big trophy has alluded Pearson and the EAPT UK Main Event trophy will nicely round his playing achievements.
Also in the hunt is rising star Hong Pham who has amassed $243,000 in live earnings in the past four years. Pham has ice running through her veins with a cool demeanor and ties her opponents in knots.
A win today would be the biggest cash of her life, eclipsing her second-place finish at the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Dusk Till Dawn last year.
Each player has locked up a cash of £3,500, but the next elimination will see a pay jump to £4,000.
Cards will be in the air at 1 p.m. local time and the clock will be extended from 50 minutes per level to 60 minutes.
Players received their last top-up of time bank cards at the three-table redraw and will need to use them wisely if they need any on the final table.
Dusk Till Dawn will be streaming the final table and when that happens PokerNews will report with a 30-minute delay to coincide with the broadcast. Stick with PokerNews for all the latest action.