Taiwan’s Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 entered Day 2 of the Mystery Bounty with just 15 BB, seven and a half hours later, he was crowned the USOP: Poker2U Taiwan Series’ newest champion. Chen 陳冠翰 defeated USA’s Michael Kravitz at heads up to claim his first ever live title and trophy along with the TWD 450,000 (~$14,900) winner’s purse. Read up on his race to victory via the Live Updates.
Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰
In addition, Chen 陳冠翰 collected the most bounties, eight in total with six amounting to a combined TWD 98,000 (~$3,245). Coming tomorrow, Chen 陳冠翰 will redeem the other two mystery rewards that will gain him anywhere from TWD 200K to a maximum of TWD 700K.
Final table payouts in TWD
1
Kuan Han Chen
陳冠翰
Taiwan
450,000
2
Michael Kravitz
USA
312,000
3
Wei Hsun Chen
陳韋勳
Taiwan
200,000
4
Shou Dien Chen
陳守鈿
Taiwan
134,000
5
Elvis Cheng Jing Lim
林成旌
Malaysia
103,000
6
Tse Paul Lee
李詩堡
Malaysia
88,000
7
Jack Beng Wei Lim
林銘威
Malaysia
73,000
8
Cheng Chzeh Yang
楊成傑
Taiwan
58,000
9
Kar Hou Lim
林家浩
Malaysia
45,100
Mystery Bounty recap
The Mystery Bounty was the second event featuring a guarantee. Four starting flights were offered over two days to generate a sizable 534 entries. This was more than plenty to boost the prize pool to TWD 4,661,900 (~$154,390). Day 2 opened with 56 players in the money, each one eligible for the mystery bounty rewards.
Buy in: TWD 10,000 (~$330)
Guarantee: TWD 3,000,000 (~$99,350)
Entries: 534
Prize pool: TWD 4,661,900 (~$154,390)
ITM: 56 players
CLICK HERE for the Day 2 lineup and Day 1 chip counts
Day 2 took off in lightning pace as numerous short stacks were booted within minutes. Joining the fallouts was big stacked Nien Heng Li 李念恆 who entered with a sizable 35 BB stack only to lose it in one go to Tse Paul Lee 李詩堡 with 
unable to improve against 
. Lee 李詩堡 became the first player to cross over the million marker.
Tse Paul Lee 李詩堡
Unlike Day 1, the entering top two, Australia’s Anton Lu and WSOP Online bracelet holder Aaron Siyang Phua, both had difficulty collecting chips at Day 2 to eventually fall 28th and 25th. Not the case for Taiwanese pro Pete Yen Han Chen 陳彥翰 and Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰. Both players entered with 15 BB and carried it deep. Pete missed the final table by one spot, finishing 10th while Kuan carried in 40 BB.
Final table race
First to go was short stacked Kar Hou Lim 林家浩 who lost on a three-way. Lee 李詩堡 cleaned out the next two, Cheng Chzeh Yang 楊成傑 (8th) and Beng Wei Lim 林銘威 (7th), and seemed to be on a trajectory to take it all the way. However, the succeeding showdowns were not in Lee’s 李詩堡 favor, paying out two double ups before crashing out to Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 in 6th place.
Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰
The momentum continued with Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 eliminating Cheng Jing Lim 林成旌 (5th) and Shou Dien Chen 陳守鈿 to amass over half of the chips in play. Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 set his sights on Kravitz with 
dominating 
but the American was granted a lucky one card flush 
to survive Kuan Han Chen’s 陳冠翰 overpair.
Not the case though for Wei Hsun Chen 陳韋勳 with Ace-Ten overcards unable to crack Kuan Han Chen’s 陳冠翰 pocket Nines. This brought about heads up with Chen 陳冠翰 ahead 66 BB to Kravtitz’s 41 BB.
With both players deep, the race lasted nearly 1.5 hours. During that time, Kravitz bagged a double up with 
spiking the Ace to beat Chen’s 陳冠翰 
. On the next called shove, Chen’s 陳冠翰 
held against 
to balloon to 76 BB as Kravitz plunged to 20 BB. Two hands later, Chen 陳冠翰 finished off Kravitz for his first ever live career title.
Mystery Bounty – Top prize winners
Player
Draws
Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰
2
Leopold Godefroy
1
Zachary Duce
1
Chu Yu Sen
1
Tse Paul Lee
1
Cheng Jing Lim 林祐聖
1
Top prizes
Rewards
500,000
x1
200,000
x2
150,000
x1
100,000
x3
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