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Stephen Pang Wins Record APT Incheon Main Event
- Stephen Pang wins record APT Incheon Main Event (KRW 411.18M)
- Festival awarded $11.4M+ in prizes with record participation
- Sakiyama (Mini Main) & Chan (Super High Roller) also score big wins
APT Incheon has closed another record-breaking chapter in South Korea, with Stephen Pang taking the biggest title of a festival that generated more than $11.4 million in prize money.
The 10-day stop at Paradise City recorded 14,059 entries across 103 trophy events and three satellites. Its centrepiece was a 1,393-entry Main Event won by Pang for KRW 411.18 million, while Toru Sakiyama and Jeremy Chan were among the other players to collect six-figure USD scores during the series.
Pang Takes Down the Richest APT Incheon Main Event
The KRW 2.5 million Main Event built a KRW 3.008 billion prize pool, more than doubling its original KRW 1.5 billion guarantee and setting a new APT mainland Korean record for the event.
Pang reached the nine-player final table as chip leader and remained in contention as five Japanese players, China’s Shoumin Zhang, Thailand’s Phachara Wongwichit and the United States’ Yifu He chased the Gold Lion.
One of the decisive pots came four-handed. Pang’s pocket queens held against Tempei Kotani’s ace-king, eliminating Kotani and returning Pang to the top of the counts.
Pang, Zhang and He later agreed an ICM deal. He went out in third for KRW 257 million, leaving Pang and Zhang heads-up. Zhang threatened to turn the match around, but Pang recovered to secure the title and a career-best KRW 411.18 million.
APT Incheon Main Event Final Table
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Pang | Hong Kong | KRW 411,180,000 |
| 2 | Shoumin Zhang | China | KRW 366,500,000 |
| 3 | Yifu He | United States | KRW 257,000,000 |
| 4 | Tempei Kotani | Japan | KRW 155,650,000 |
| 5 | Kazuki Koyama | Japan | KRW 121,860,000 |
| 6 | Shinichiro Kano | Japan | KRW 92,440,000 |
| 7 | Phachara Wongwichit | Thailand | KRW 70,740,000 |
| 8 | Takeru Endo | Japan | KRW 50,130,000 |
| 9 | Ryo Fujita | Japan | KRW 38,580,000 |
The top three also received seats for November’s APT Championship Main Event.
Sakiyama Wins a Record Mini Main
If the Main Event produced the festival’s richest prize pool, the Mini Main supplied its largest field.
A total of 1,427 entries turned up for the event, comfortably surpassing the previous APT Incheon Mini Main record of 1,029. The resulting KRW 1.078 billion prize pool was almost three times the guarantee.
Japan’s Toru Sakiyama emerged with the title and KRW 189.982 million. The result represented an enormous jump from a previous career-best live cash of just over $3,000. Shingo Matsushima finished second for KRW 108.77 million, while Andrew Geonwoong Choi took KRW 76.6 million in third.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toru Sakiyama | KRW 189,982,000 |
| 2 | Shingo Matsushima | KRW 108,770,000 |
| 3 | Andrew Geonwoong Choi | KRW 76,600,000 |
Chan Breaks Through in the Super High Roller
Jeremy Chan claimed another of the festival’s largest prizes in the KRW 15 million Super High Roller.
The Malaysian topped a 58-entry field and defeated Michel Molenaar heads-up for KRW 236.325 million. Molenaar earned KRW 170.95 million, while Peng Chen finished third for KRW 110.29 million.
For Chan, it ended a particularly stubborn run of near misses. He had reached five heads-up matches without winning another live title since his first recorded victory in London in 2023, including a runner-up finish in the same Super High Roller at APT Incheon one year earlier.
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