18 Aug
The APT Asian Poker Series Cebu quietly got underway in the Filipino beach city last weekend, with 160 players from around the region and the world turning out in the first two starting flights.
The intense competition has now resulted in the final table of eight being set for the final play of play, which is set to take place later today.
South Korean player SJ Kim will have the chip lead when Day 4 begins, with a stack of 972,000 chips to his name.
He will have a comfortable, but not huge buffer over the next largest chip stack, which belongs to Norwegian poker shark Henrik Tollefsen.
Tollefsen finished Day 3 with 738,000 chips and has put himself in a good position to go far on the final day of play.
That is especially the case given that he had the chip lead for a chunk of Day 3 after he won a huge hand a hand with a pair of Kings.
Two of three short stacks in the final table are also the only two players in the final table who are from the host country, the Philippines.
Edwin Marzan and Ian Brion will enter the final table with 147,000 and 117,000 chips respectively, and will be hoping to make a quick double up in order to get a chance at winning the event.
One player who won’t be in the final table is Day 1 leader Thomas Lee. The Canadian came close to making it to the final day of play, but ultimately had to settle for 12th place when it was all said and done.
The top 18 players in the Main Event were in the money, with the eventual winner of the event set to receive a 1,824,000 Philippines Peso (around US$39,220) boost to their bank account.
It doesn’t seem like much, but the accolades that come with winning an event like the APT Asian Series make the final table one to watch.
As always, we at PokerTube will keep readers up to date on the APT Asian Series Cebu Main Event final table when all of the action has taken place.
