Jiaxian Pan holds the chip lead in Event #111: High Roller – Ultra Stack at APT Jeju 2026, with 41 players remaining and 20 places set to be paid.
Pan finished Day 11 with 1,358,000 chips, just 3,000 ahead of Hang Xu on 1,355,000. Yaoyu He is third with 1,322,000.
The KRW 4.3 million buy-in event drew 141 entries for a KRW 523,650,200 (~USD 393,870) prize pool. A min-cash is worth KRW 7,020,000 (~USD 5,280), while the winner is set to receive KRW 125,713,200 (~USD 94,520).
Pan, Xu and He Set the Pace
Pan already has two cashes and one final-table appearance at APT Jeju 2026 and is seeking his first APT title.
Xu enters the final day only 3,000 chips behind. He has more than USD 1.5 million in live tournament earnings, with his best APT result coming from a Turbo High Roller victory at the APT Championship 2025.
Yaoyu He has cashed four times during the Jeju festival and will be looking to end a wait for an APT title stretching back to the APT Hanoi Summer Series 2023.
Stanley Weng is fourth in chips after a Jeju run that already includes a Single Day Super High Roller title and a runner-up finish in another Hyper Turbo High Roller.
Toby Joyce returns seventh in chips following his fourth-place finish in the APT Main Event. Daniel Neilson is ninth and previously finished runner-up in the High Roller – Ultra Stack at APT Incheon 2026.
Three First-Time APT Champions Emerge
Day 11 saw three players capture their maiden APT titles across the side events.
Xuan Zhou won Event #110: PL Omaha High, defeating a 38-entry field for KRW 8,300,432 (~USD 6,126). She had already recorded five cashes at the festival before finally breaking through for her first APT trophy.
Taiwan’s Yih Ming Hsu finished runner-up for KRW 5,710,000 (~USD 4,214). He was a four-time APT champion entering the event and had already won three times at APT Jeju 2026. Douglas Jose De Melo Costa of Italy placed third for KRW 3,640,000 (~USD 2,686).
Alena Ermaskevich also collected her first APT title in Event #113: Fixed Limit – Triple Draw Mix, a 19-entry tournament that ended with a heads-up deal. Ermaskevich received the trophy and title along with KRW 2,227,728 (~USD 1,644), while Taiwan’s Kuo Wei Kao received the larger share of the remaining prize money, taking KRW 6,050,000 (~USD 4,465). Yun Lam Kevin Choi of Hong Kong finished third for KRW 2,130,000 (~USD 1,572). The event marked Ermaskevich’s first recorded live tournament appearance.
The third maiden winner was Zhenye Zhou in Event #115: Turbo – NLH. Zhou took down the 24-entry tournament for KRW 3,726,345 (~USD 2,750), improving on a prior runner-up finish to Stephen Pang in Event #96: Sunday Superstack – Big Bounty. Chen Zhang took second for KRW 2,480,000 (~USD 1,830), and Gerardus Johannes Vogels of the Netherlands finished third for KRW 1,590,000 (~USD 1,173).
Aoi, Zeng, Sun and Chen Add More Jeju Titles
Four other winners on Day 11 had already claimed victories earlier at APT Jeju 2026.
Geka Aoi of Japan won Event #112: Women’s Event, earning KRW 1,892,115 (~USD 1,396) from the eight-entry field. Aoi had no recorded live tournament cashes prior to the festival, but now holds two career APT titles after an earlier victory in Event #57: Women’s Event. Xinran Ma of China finished second for KRW 1,060,000 (~USD 782).
Zeng Weiyong earned his second career APT title in Event #114: Turbo – NL Omaha Hi-Lo – 5 Card (Big O). He topped the 10-entry event for KRW 1,970,160 (~USD 1,454), following his first title earlier in Jeju in Event #44: NL – Hold’em – Bounty. Pavel Platonov finished runner-up for KRW 1,310,000 (~USD 967), with Yang Lu third for KRW 820,000 (~USD 605).
Wei Sun emerged victorious in Event #116: Hyper Turbo – NL R-O-S-E-T for KRW 1,770,144 (~USD 1,306). The 10-entry event gave Sun his third career APT title and his second of the festival following his earlier win in Event #29: Hyper Turbo – NL Triple Draw Mix. Xinze Li finished second for KRW 1,180,000 (~USD 871), while Koyo Moriki of Japan took third for KRW 740,000 (~USD 546).
Guangling Chen completed the group by claiming Event #117: Super Hyper Turbo – NLH. Chen collected KRW 1,610,268 (~USD 1,188) from the 14-entry field. His first recorded poker cash came from winning Event #108: Super Hyper Turbo – NLH earlier at the same festival. The Event #117 result gives him two career APT titles, both in the identical format at APT Jeju 2026. Singapore’s Changjie Zhang finished runner-up for KRW 1,080,000 (~USD 797), with fellow Singaporean Kwang Chung Tan third for KRW 670,000 (~USD 494).
