The Asia Poker League Road Series was held in Ilsan, South Korea from July 29th to 31st

#1 Main Event: Yang defeats 750 players to become the main event champion of the Road Series ($33,590)

The total prize money of the main event in which 750 players participated from 6 flights was ₩300,000,000. 178 players advanced to Day-2 of the Main Event.

As a fact that He started playing poker only 7 months, Yang’s didn’t expect to get his Main Event Trophy so early. “I felt that I had a slightly edge than other players in where the average stack size came around 20bb at late period of the tournament. Yang said.

After playing 8 level of the Main Event Day-3. Yang was able to make deal with final three players.

 

 

#1 Main event Final Table result

Place
Player
Prize

1
*Hyeon Min Yang
₩44,400,000

2
*Min Su Kim
₩44,300,000

3
*Jun Hyuk Choi
₩44,300,000

4
Hwi Gon Park
₩22,000,000

5
Hyun Soo Gong
₩15,000,000

6
Chul Woong Joo
₩11,000,000

7
Tae Young Bae
₩8,500,000

8
Young Kwan Kim
₩6,500,000

9
Byung Sun Ham
₩5,000,000

 

#2 High Roller: Cho lifts his First trophy ever ($16,200)

The Road series opened with event #2 High Roller event which ended up with 100 entries, making the total prize-pool ₩80,000,000. Notable players in the field that day were poker pros Steve Yea, Sung Joo ‘Arte Poker’ Hyun.

Rising Korean Poker star

Arte Poker had led the Final table before he lost the huge stack against Cho. And Arte couldn’t go further than a third place. At the Winner Interview, “I am very pleasant to win the event especially with the High Roller trophy, from now on my Favorite hand will become 7’s”. Cho said.

 

 

#2 High Roller Final Table Result

Place
Player
Prize

1
Min Joo Cho
₩21,000,000

2
Bum Su Kim
₩17,000,000

3
Sung Joo Hyun
₩11,000,000

4
Yoo Sin Kang
₩8,200,000

5
Hwany Lee
₩6,400,000

6
Hyun Joon Joo
₩4,800,000

7
Chang Bum Jeon
₩4,000,000

8
Bo Sung Kim
₩3,200,000

9
Gyu Hyuk LEe
₩2,000,000

 

 

#3 Bounty Hunter: Yun collects the last remaining bounty chip with his first APL Trophy ($2,000)

#3 Bounty Hunter Final Table Result

Place
Player
Prize

1
Chang Ho Yun
₩2,600,000

2
Seong Un Yun
₩2,400,000

3
Sharon Yoon
₩2,400,000

4
Sun Ho Yoon
₩1,300,000

5
Joo Nam Moon
₩1,000,000

6
Sun Ho Park
₩800,000

7
Sang Jin Han
₩600,000

8
Yang Joo Tae
₩500,000

9
Soon Jae Jung
₩400,000

 

 

#4 Deep Stack: Choi is the champion of Deep Stack Event defeating 190 players ($11,000)

#4 Deep Stack Final Table Result

Place
Player
Prize

1
Gyu Sik Choi
₩14,300,000

2
Sang Deok Lee
₩10,000,000

3
Jun Ki Lee
₩7,300,000

4
Yoong Won Woo
₩5,550,000

5
Yong Sung You
₩4,200,000

6
Bo Sung Kim
₩3,200,000

7
 Myung In Bae
₩2,400,0000

8
Kwang Soo Kim
₩1,800,000

9
Seung Yong An
₩1,400,000

 

#5 No Limit Turbo: Kim takes the last trophy of the Series ($4,700)

#5 No Limit Turbo Final Table Result

Place
Player
Prize

1
Dong Wook Kim
₩6,100,000

2
Hak Yong Kim
₩,8,100,000

3
Nam Hoon Kim
₩4,000,000

4
Jin Woo Ahn
₩2,900,000

5
Chi Ho Lee
₩2,100,000

6
Il Park
₩1,600,000

7
Eun Seong Jung
₩1,300,000

8
Hessaum Sadri
₩1,100,000

9
Jae Woo Jung
₩900,000