Welcome to Seoul! One of the crucial Asia Pacific Poker Tour's most breathtaking stops. Not just is there another exciting week of poker in store here but players get the risk to benefit from the rich cultural experience that the town has to provide when they're clear of the tables.

Those tables began filling up on Monday when the 2-day Deepstack event signalled the beginning of this 8-day festival. Thus far the poker site here at Paradise Walkerhill Casino was buzzing and the electrical atmosphere is bound to continue as players set their sights at the KRW3,000,000 Main Event.

They'll be trying to lift Seoul's poker crown just as Jason Mo did last year. The yankee overcame a star-studded field of 241 to grow to be champion and collect KRW165,590,200 ($151,359) and the coveted APPT trophy.

Among that field was a robust force of Team PokerStars Pros. That will be putting it too lightly, actually, considering Celina Lin and Bryan Huang both booked final table finishes. Lin ultimately bowed out in 4th place while it was Huang who came up only one shy of victory after a heads up battle with Mo.

The two Team Pros have confirmed they'll be in attendance this week and can undoubtedly be trying to improve on last year's result. And it seems like they'll have some teammates to deal with if this APPT tweet is anything to move by.

"Team PokerStars may be well represented this week at #APPTSeoul!" read the tweet, accompanied by an image of Lin, Huang, Vivian Im, Kosei Ichinose, Yaxi Zhu and Chen An Lin.

Team PokerStars Pro Chen An Lin

Zhu and Chen An Lin both joined Team PokerStars in September last year so it will likely be their first time donning the Red Spade for this event. Chen An Lin is in fine form after cashing the APPT Macau Main Event last month, and finishing third within the HK$3,000 event from the similar series to pocket HK$57,730. These two and a pair hundred other poker hopefuls could be battling it out over the following five days.

Our final table will begin at midday on Monday before a brand new APPT champion is crowned. As always we'll have the entire action from the felt right her at the PokerStars Blog. We are hoping you'll be able to join us!

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