Malaysia’s Jeremy Chan finally won a heads-up match, and it came with the biggest score of his career: ₩236,325,000 (~US$169,650) for taking down the APT Super High Roller at APT Incheon 2026 on Monday.
The ₩15,000,000 buy-in event drew 58 entries at Paradise City in Incheon, building a ₩801,705,000 prize pool (~US$575,525) with eight players paid. Chan closed it out against the Netherlands’ Michel Molenaar, who banked ₩170,950,000 (~US$122,720) as runner-up.
Zero From Five, and Then This
Chan came to the final two carrying a record that had become a running joke in Asia’s high-roller fields: five straight heads-up matches lost, including a runner-up finish in this exact event at APT Incheon twelve months ago.
“Very lucky. After the heads-up last year I ended up being zero from five in heads-ups,” Chan said. “Luckily this time the poker gods were in my favor.”
Alongside the cash he collected the APT Pewter Lion trophy and a seat in the APT Championship 2026 Main Event, which lands in Taipei in November.
A Final Table Drawn From Half the Region
The payout sheet doubled as a snapshot of who actually plays Asia’s biggest buy-ins. China’s Peng Chen took third for ₩110,290,000 (~US$79,175), Taiwan’s Chih Wei Fan was fourth for ₩83,500,000 (~US$59,940) and Germany’s Martin Sedlak fifth for ₩64,600,000 (~US$46,375). Taiwan’s Nevan Chang (₩50,420,000) finished sixth, with Japan’s Reoma Ogawa (₩40,180,000) and Yuya Arito (₩31,510,000) closing out the money in seventh and eighth.
Fifty-eight entries at a ₩15M buy-in is a solid turnout for a super high roller that isn’t riding on a Triton stop, and the spread of passports — Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Japan, plus the usual Hong Kong regulars — is a large part of why Incheon has become the summer anchor of the regional calendar.
The Main Event Is Still Growing Behind Him
While the high rollers were finishing, the ₩1.5 billion guaranteed Main Event (roughly US$1.08 million) was only half-built. Two live flights plus OnLive qualifying had produced 669 entries — 165 from Flight A, 222 from Flight B and 282 online — with Flight C and a turbo Flight D both scheduled for August 11.
Singapore’s Shawn Cheng Hong Lee is the man to catch, bagging 329,000 chips to top Flight B and the overall counts after ten levels. Ka Lok Lam of Hong Kong (304,900) sits just behind, followed by Japan’s Shota Nakanishi (287,000) and Joe Fujitsuka (270,500), with Australia’s John Perry on 228,300. Day 2 plays out on August 12.
Side-event silverware kept moving around as well. Japan’s Taizo Kumagai won the 273-entry NL Hold’em Freezeout for ₩45,970,000, Taiwan’s Szu Ying Wu took the Women’s Heads-Up and China’s Yue Sun the Women’s Event.
APT Incheon runs at Paradise City through August 16. Chan, meanwhile, already has a November flight to Taipei to think about.