Four days are down and just one remains in the record-breaking Asian Poker Tour Incheon Main Event in South Korea. The final nine players will return on Saturday to play for a top prize of $349K, the 24K gold Lion trophy, and three seats in the APT Championship this November.
The field of 1,281 is the largest-ever for a South Korean APT stop, and it generated a prize pool of KRW 2,766,660,000 (~$2M). Action resumes on Saturday with blinds at 80K/160K/160K and everyone is guaranteed at least KRW 37 million (~$26K).
The final nine
Let's take a look at the players at the final table:
Seat 1: Mingyang Na — 4,100,000 (26 BB)
Mingyang Na has just five cashes, according to The Hendon Mob, and three of them happened at this stop. His live earnings is about to jump big with what is guaranteed to be a career-high score, up from $3,100. He's one of three players from China at the final table.
Seat 2: Thanisorn Saelor — 7,600,000 (48 BB)
Thanisorn Saelor has cashed three times already at APT Incheon, including two final tables. He already has a win from the APT High Roller at the Incheon stop in 2023, and this potential signature win would be his second.
Seat 3: Bin Li — 1,500,000 (9 BB)
This is the first APT Main Event final table for Bin Li, who nears $100K in live earnings in 14 years of results. He is one of the short stacks on Saturday and will need a quick spin-up, but Li already has a career-high score locked up.
Seat 4: Junjie He — 13,200,000 (83 BB)
Junjie He is the chip leader and this is his fourth APT final table appearance in more than $420,000 in live earnings. He will need to finish second to generate his best finish ever, and he already has an eighth-place prize from the Korean National Cup on this stop.
Seat 5: Daniel Lee — 1,100,000 (7 BB)
Daniel Lee is the only American and the short stack for Saturday's final table. He's one of the most experience players at the table with $920K in Hendon Mob finishes, and he already has a final table from the PLO High Roller at the 2025 Incheon series. It is one of the nine APT final tables he has on his record.
Seat 6: Kuoki Okumiya — 1,900,000 (12 BB)
Kuoki Okumiya has no tournament poker record, according to The Hendon Mob, and he will return with the one of the shorter stacks on Saturday. He will need to spin it up at the final table, but he's already locked in the firsts: cash and final table.
Seat 7: Anusorn Asiralertsiri — 8,625,000 (54 BB)
Thailand's Anusorn Asiralertsiri is second in chips and he seeks some retribution for a 10th-place finish in the APT Taipei Main Event earlier this year. That was his career-high score and he will need to finish at least seventh for another one to add to his $82K in live earnings.
Seat 8: Kuroda Kiyoto — 8,325,000 (52 BB)
Kuroda Kiyoto returns to the final table in the third position on the leaderboard. It's his second APT final table, with the previous being back in 2016 at APT Manila. That was only good for $3,356, so he has already locked in his best finish yet.
Seat 9: Naoki Ota — 4,600,000 (29 BB)
Naoki Ota is in the middle of the pack and the Japanese player is at his first-ever APt final table. He already has one cash in this series — 16th-place in Event #41: NLH — and this will be his best finish ever. The Japanese player is also the only one sporting Triton gear.
Catch all of the action on Saturday at 11:15am local time (KST) on the APT YouTube channel.
Images courtesy of the Asian Poker Tour.
