Shinichiro Kano Leads APT Incheon Main Event Into Day 4
The Day 3 leader held 3,050,000 chips as 47 players returned, with a record field and steep pay jumps shaping the run to the final table.
Shinichiro Kano led the APT Incheon Main Event into Day 4 with 3,050,000 chips, giving him the top spot as 47 players returned at Paradise City Casino Resort. Zhentao Long sat second with 2,965,000 and Yoko Sasaki was third on 2,580,000, so the top of the counts was tight even before the field got much smaller.
Spadepoker’s stack analysis said the event had reached 1,393 entries and a prize pool of KRW 3,008,540,000. It described that total as the largest international tournament the city had ever hosted, and noted that the average stack had been climbing fast while the field narrowed.
The payout structure is why those chip counts mattered. First place was worth $374,085 and second was worth $214,120, a drop of more than $159,000 for finishing one spot lower. The final table guaranteed at least KRW 38,580,000, while 10th and 11th both paid KRW 32,230,000, which made the fight around the bubble especially sharp.
As covered in our Aug. 8 report on the Korea National Cup, APT Incheon was already producing record numbers before the Main Event reached this stage. With 47 players left, the field still had 38 eliminations to go before it could reach the nine-handed final table.
