APT Online Series: Alex Wei Xiang Lee Becomes the First-Ever APT Online Main Event Champion!

There were five new champions named yesterday at the Asian Poker Tour (APT) 2020 Online Series currently underway at GGNetwork’s Asia-facing online operator, Natural8.com.

The star of the day was Singaporean pro Alex Wei Xiang Lee (cover image), playing under the moniker ‘DblBarrel,’ became the first-ever APT Online Series Main Event champion. Lee collected a career-high $91.35K in prize money for the win along with an APT Guardian Trophy. One of the headline events of the series, the $500 buy-in Main Event $200K GTD, logged in 1,377 entries across five starting flights to garner a prize pool worth $578K.

This has been a remarkable year for Lee, who had won two live titles at the Asia Millions 2020 series earlier in the year. These two live titles could have very easily been four as Lee took runner-up finishes twice at different stops. One of them was at the APT Vietnam High Roller for $15.97K. The APT live circuit regular, Lee has three APT live titles to go with this latest Main Event online title. With over $990K in live tournament earnings, Lee is ranked 4th on Singapore’s all-time money list.

The third Monster Stack event of the schedule played out two opening flights on Tuesday. Registering 254 entries, the tourney generated $71.52K in the prize pool with one fight left to go. Flight A chip leader, Japan’s ‘Dostoevsky’ (238,289), sits on top of the chip counts followed by Flight B chip leader ‘-MortenVM-’ (232,818), and ‘redrum’ (222,977).

Event #24 Short Deck champion ‘tikkipokka’ and Event #04 Progressive Bounty winner Dicky ‘Floatingworld’ Tsang added a second title each at the ongoing series yesterday.

‘tikkipokka’ outlasted a field 117 contenders including Lester ’mon$terDad’ Edoc heads-up to take down Event #32: High Rollers for $24.36K. The APT Korea Incheon 2019 Main Event winner Dicky ‘Floatingworld’ Tsang topped a 204-strong field to walk away with $7.46K as the prize in Event #33: NLHE Freeze-Out.

‘JACKPOT’ (Event #34: PLO for $2.22K), and ‘Buddha Kid’ (Event #35: NLHE Turbo for $3.06K) were the other side event winners on Tuesday!

Here is the complete list of winners so far:

Featured Event: $500 Main Event $200K GTD – Day 2

Total Entries – 1217

Prize pool – $578,075

Places Paid – 170

One of the headline events at the APT 2020 Online Series, the $500 Main Event $200K GTD, played down to a winner yesterday. The tourney logged in 1,377 entries (Flight A – 177, Flight B – 286, Flight C – 190, Flight D – 285, and Flight E – 279) to garner a prize pool worth $578K, almost thrice the $200K guarantee.

Day 2 began with 320 hopefuls (Flight A – 41, Flight B – 74, Flight C – 43, Flight D – 67, and Flight E – 95), and several among them fell out empty-handed as only 170 places got paid.

After five hours and half hours of tournament action, Singaporean pro Alex Wei Xiang Lee playing under the online moniker ‘DblBarrel’ etched his name as the first-ever APT Online Series Main Event champion! For the victory, Lee banked his biggest career cash of $91.35K. He also won an APT Guardian Trophy to add to his collection of three live APT trophies.

This has been a phenomenal year for Lee, who had won two live tourney titles at the Asia Millions 2020 series in January. He also finished runner-up on two occasions this year. One of them was at the APT Vietnam High Rollers.

Lee’s heads-up opponent was an anonymous user ’Olekonjole,’ who entered the final table as the chip leader. When heads-up started, Lee was ahead by 3.5:1 against ‘Olekonjole.’ Ten minutes later, ‘Olekonjole’ doubled up but was still some distance behind Lee.

The final hand of the tourney was dealt just two minutes later. Lee’s overtook ‘Olekonjole’s as the board opened top two-pair for the former.

Final Table Results (USD)

1. Alex Wei Xiang ‘DblBarrel’ Lee – $91.353.53
2. Olekonjole – $66,294.72
3. Kryptonite8899 – $48,110.11
4. huisean – $34,913.47
5. urawapoy – $25,336.73
6. Yacht – $18,386.88
7. LEN1234980 – $13,343.35
8. DdeviL – $9,683.2
9. SkupyZid – $7,027.19

Event #31: $300 Monster Stack $30K GTD – Flight A & B

Flight A & B Entries – 254

Flight A & B Survivors – 91

The third Monster Stack event on the schedule was just as popular as its predecessors. The two-day-long event logged in a guarantee-crushing 254 entries (Flight A – 115, and Flight B – 139) in its first two opening flights.

The event has already collected $71,527.50 in the prize pool, decimating the $30K prize pool guarantee with one last starting flight still left to play out.

Only 91 hopefuls (Flight A – 41, and Flight B – 50) have advanced to Day 2, and it is the flight A chip leader Japan’s ‘Dostoevsky’ (238,289), who leads the charge.

Flight B chip leader ‘-MortenVM-’ (232,818), and ‘redrum’ (222,977) hold the next top stacks after the first two starting flights.

Flight C got underway at 1:30 PM today, while Day 2 begins at 4:30 PM.

Top 10 Chip Counts After Two Flights

1. Dostoevsky – 247,111
2. –MortenVM- – 232,818
3. redrum – 222,977
4. yimengshan – 220,344
5. jet7777 – 199,078
6. Timo1993 – 188,027
7. Xaunayan – 186,348
8. czdbx – 171,461
9. Pokerboom27 – 165,628
10. TheGreatDanton – 150,870

Event #32: $1,000 Buy-in High Rollers $30K GTD

Total Entries – 117

Prize pool – $111,150

Places Paid – 17

The $1,000 buy-in High Rollers $30K GTD logged in 117 registrations to accumulate a prize pool worth $111K.

Event #24 Short Deck Champion ‘tikkipokka’ became the fourth player at the ongoing series to win two titles. He defeated Hong Kong’s Lester ’mon$terDad’ Edoc heads-up yesterday to win $24.36K as the winner’s prize.

Edoc, who has finished runner-up in the featured Mini Main Event, missed out on the title yet again.

Final Table Results (USD)

1. tikkapokka – $24,362.59
2. Lester ’mon$terDad’ Edoc – $18,532.22
3. TheGreatDanton – $14,097.22
4. wildmonkey – $10,732.56
5. S1n0bi – $8,157.27
6. DingZhu88 – $6,205.12
7. fish3098 – $4,720.15
8. Yummers – $3,590.55
9. ProBrock – $2,731.28

Event #33: $100 NLHE Freeze-Out $10K GTD

Total Entries – 204

Prize pool – $38,148

Places Paid – 35

The Progressive Bounty champion from the opening week of the series, who also happens to be the APT Korea Incheon 2019 Main Event winner, Dicky ‘Floatingworld’ Tsang, took down his second title of the series after topping a 204-strong field in the $100 NLHE Freeze-Out $10K GTD.

Tsang defeated ‘reofa’ heads-up to walk away with $7.46K in prize money, and with that became the fifth player of the series to win two titles.

Final Table Results (USD)

1. Dicky ‘Floatingworld’ Tsang – $7,460.25reofa – $5,518.17
2. icho – $4,081.77
3. Customll – $3,019.27
4. jacwill – $2,233.34
5. einmalrunnenwievalue – $1,651.99
6. innocentClimb – $1,221.97
7. SushiLoverr – $903.89
8. OneTrickpoNy_ – $668.60

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