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A lightning session has resulted in the final table being decided just over two hours from the time play commenced on day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event at the Paradise Walker-hill Casino. Wooka Kim's smile before the flop evaporated after Sam Faqiryar made a pair. Short-stacked Japanese...more

Having been assured a finish in the money, the short stacks didn’t waste much time early on day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event at the Paradise Walker-hill Casino. Two players were eliminated on the opening hand – the first being US PokerStars Qualifier Robert Campitiello, who started...more

The Sheraton Grande Walker-hill, home of the Paradise Walker-hill Casino and the APPT Seoul main event. The 16 players still in contention for the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event title have started arriving for the final day’s play. Everyone’s still talking about the dramatic end to day 2 in...more

A dramatic end to day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event saw David Saab crash out of the event on the bubble after leading for much of the afternoon and Canada's Brian Kang take the chip lead into day three. Even David Saab need to take a breath...more

With 24 players remaining after five levels on day two of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event at the Walker-hill Casino, four big stacks have emerged. Sam Faqiryar has slipped under the radar today but made his move when it mattered. Japan’s Yoshihiro Tasaka is the clear leader with 230,000,...more

A single blog entry is a long time in poker, as we just discovered when PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event chip leader Tim Davis busted out barely seconds after the last report was uploaded. Replacing Davis at the top of the chip count is Yoshihiro Tasaka, and it’s thanks to...more

“Players the banana bucket is coming around.” Now that’s a line you’re unlikely to here in a poker room, but APPT Tournament Director Danny McDonagh has just alerted players that they won’t need to hang on to those peels for too much longer. Yes, the PokerStars girls have once again...more

Fresh from his success in the APPT Macau main event, Eddie Sabat has found a new adversary waiting to test his mettle as the young Californian chases an unprecedented double of APPT titles. Japan’s Yu Kurita has less experience than most of her opponents but has spent the past 18...more

The final Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ElkY Grospellier has been eliminated from the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event. ElkY shrugged his shoulders as Osawa Masahiro scooped up his chips, but could have been forgiven for turning on a more demonstrative display of his feelings. ElkY heads home early on day...more

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APPT Tournament Director Danny McDonagh has just announced that the opening day of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event has been reduced to six levels, meaning there’s less than one hour of play remaining. name="flashvars" value="VIDEOCONSTRUCTID=4680&SMILURI=http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/34181/movies/export_smil/4680.smil?from=embed&APIHOST=http://www.pokerstars.tv&ENABLEMENU=YES&APICONTEXT=pokerstars">Watch http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/34181/movies/4680.html">APPT Seoul 08: James Honeybone on PokerStars.tv That’s small comfort for New Zealander James...more

At last year’s APPT Seoul main event, Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem scoffed down enough bananas to send a troop of monkeys into frenzy (keeping a certain PR manager on her toes over the course of the event). It seems the staff at the Paradise Walker-hill Casino have picked up...more

The opening day of the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event is starting to take shape, with 25 of the 165 players already free to sample to sights and sounds (and smells) of Korea’s capital city. name="flashvars" value="VIDEOCONSTRUCTID=4673&SMILURI=http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/34181/playlists/38148/movies/export_smil/4673.smil?from=embed&APIHOST=http://www.pokerstars.tv&ENABLEMENU=YES&APICONTEXT=pokerstars">Watch http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/34181/playlists/38148/movies/4673.html">APPT Seoul 08: Khan and Raymer on PokerStars.tv The three Team PokerStars Pros...more

The field for the PokerStars.net APPT Seoul main event has been confirmed at 165 – slightly down on last year’s figure but still an impressive figure given that many of the world’s best players are firmly entrenched in London for the WSOP Europe and PokerStars EPT London events. However, APPT...more