Malaysia’s Jeremy Chan followed last year’s runner-up finish by winning the title this year, winning the 2026 APT Incheon Super High Roller at Paradise City in South Korea.
Chan defeated a 58-entry field, including 48 unique players, in the KRW 15 million buy-in event. The tournament generated a prize pool of KRW 801,705,000, approximately $575,000, with eight players reaching the money.
The victory earned Chan KRW 236,325,000 — roughly $169,650 — along with a $10,000 seat to the APT Championship Main Event in November.
It also delivered his first APT title after several near misses.
Chan Gets His Win After Finishing Second Last Year
The result carried extra significance because Chan had finished runner-up in the same Super High Roller at APT Incheon one year earlier.
He had also recorded four additional runner-up finishes during the previous three months, making the breakthrough in Incheon particularly timely.
This time Chan closed the tournament himself, overcoming Dutch professional Michel Molenaar in a long heads-up battle that lasted 44 hands and nearly three full 40-minute levels.
Molenaar earned KRW 170,950,000, approximately $122,720, for second place. China’s Peng Chen finished third for roughly $79,175, while Taiwan’s Chih Wei Fan collected approximately $59,940 for fourth.
Career Earnings Pass $1 Million
The Super High Roller victory also pushed Chan beyond $1 million in recorded live tournament winnings and represented the second-largest cash of his career.
The Malaysian had entered the event with plenty of recent final-table experience but without the major title to show for it. In Incheon, he finally converted one of those deep runs into a trophy.
The result gives Chan one of the biggest wins of APT Incheon 2026 and adds another emerging name to the high-stakes Asian tournament scene, with the included APT Championship Main Event seat giving him an immediate opportunity to build on the result later this year.