Chinese pool starting to steal more and more 9 ballers, even without the big prize pool

There's a smaller Duya Golden Nine event going on in Malaysia right now. The first place prize is only $20k USD, tiny compared to the domestic Chinese events. Aside from the usual suspects (Ko brothers, Orcollo, etc) I was surprised by how many 9 ballers joined.

• Johann Chua
• Baseth Mocaibat
• James Aranas
• Paolo Gallito
• Aivhan Maluto
• Oliver Villafuerte
• Nguyen Anh Tuan (Tkon) – Remember how a couple years ago, Matchroom was pushing this guy to be one of their next stars…

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