APT National Cup - Turbo Flight C - TWD 10,000,000 GTD

And that’s it with Day 1 of the ATP National Cup at the Asia Poker Arena. Flight C drew 429 (346 unique) players, 61 of those will come back at 11:15 am to continue their quest for the trophy. All in all 235 players will return to Day 2 of this APT National Cup.

Taiwan's Yu Cheng Lee finishes Flight C on top with a chip stack of 933,000. This makes him the overall chip leader going into Day 2.

Second in chips in Flight C comes Hong Kong citizen Robert Cheung with a stack of 612,000. Kaihung Hu from Taiwan completes the podium by accumulating 567,000.

Other notable survivors include former APT Main Event Champion Shixian Khoo from Singapore (154,000) as well as his countryman Ravn Teo (106,000). We will also welcome back to Day 2 Natural 8 ambassador Kunal Patni from India and Taiwan's Kun Han Lee, who will be looking to win another APT title.

The top ten stacks in Flight C can be found below:

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Flight C of the National Cup is officially in the books. Chattanat Sirirattanapat is the unlucky bubble boy.

He was forced to put his remaining chips all-in in the big blind with J♦ 2♣ and went heads up against Korea's Jinuk Lee A♠ K♥. He was alive until the river, though could not manage to hit a pair on T♠ 6♣ 3♦ 8♣ A♦.

All remaining players are now in the money and will come back in a few hours to play Day 2.

A full recap of Flight C's action will follow shortly.

Thailand's Sarawoot Ratanatabtim was one of the shortest stacks with only a few eliminations away from the bubble. It helps to get A♦ A♥ all in against A♣ K♦

In early position Lin open jammed for his remaining 87,000 with A♦ J♥ and was dominated by Taiwan’s Sung Chi Yuan A♠ Q♥. However, the J♦ 9♥ 8♥ flop looked promising for Lin. And indeed 3♠ on the turn and 8♠ on the river helped Lin to stay alive nearing the bubble.

Hung En-Cheng from Taiwan opens the action in the lo-jack, only to be met with a 3-bet from Huang Wei Xun in the small blind, sitting on a shorter stack. Hung calls, and they go to a flop of 2♦ 6♥ 2♥, with a chunky 70,000 already in the middle.

Xun decides to down-bet to just 8,000, leaving himself 40k behind. Without hesitation, Hung shoves all-in, putting the small blind to the test. Xun isn’t thrilled but makes the sigh-call. He’s all smiles when he sees he’s in fantastic shape against 3♠ 3♣, and fades the outs to scoop the pot. Another day at the office!

Early position decided to shove their 55,000 chip stack, only to find some serious resistance from the small blind, who promptly re-jams. Cards hit the felt and it’s A♠ 4♠ versus the classic A♦ K♣, a tough spot for the small ace.

The board has no drama as it ran out clean, leaving ace-king high to scoop the pot. Another victim bites the dust in Flight C.

Sasitorn opened the action from early position and got a caller from the hi-jack, Hou Chine. The flop came J♠ 9♦ 6♠, and Sasitorn decided to go for it, shoving all-in with a massive 2x pot-sized bet. The hi-jack, sitting on top pair with J♦ T♠, made the call.

But Sasitorn wasn’t sweating—she flipped over Q♠ Q♥, miles ahead with her over-pair. The runout came clean, and she secured a crucial double-up, leaving the hi-jack wishing he hadn’t tangled with the Thai sensation!

Japanese player Yuji Watanabe opened the action to 6,000 in middle position, followed by his fellow countryman Ryoji Hatanaka next to him three-betting to 17,000. Watanabe jammed all in effectively for Hatanaka 61,000 who called. And we were off to the races: A♣ J♠ for Watanabe, and T♦ T♠ for his opponent. To Hatanaka’s relief the board ran out clean 6♦ 3♦ 4♥ 3♥ Q♣ and he doubled up while Watanabe was left with just under the starting stack.

We have been seeing a lot of players holding Aces in all-in situations and Ekthanat Nakdee was one of the lucky ones to have woken up with A♣ A♦ in the hole. He was all-in against Wen Yun Chung's pockets 9♦ 9♣.

Both players saw a board of 6♥ 8♥ 3♣ A♥ 7♦ holding up the aces and adding some chips to Nakdee's stack.