WPT Prime Cambodia: Fabio Oka and Micheal O’Neill win trophies; Benjamin Mun tops Main Event Day 1A; Norietis leads PLO final six

 

Day 8 of WPT Prime Cambodia Season XXI opened with Day 1A of the $500,000 guaranteed Main Event lighting up the tournament floor. Running alongside were the Bounty Event with 31 players resuming the title chase, the 10K Super High Roller Single Day Challenge, and the PLO. At night’s end, WPT Global Japan brand ambassador Fabio Oka and Ireland’s Micheal O’Neill emerged victorious while Latvia’s Roland Norietis bagged the PLO chip lead. We’ve got those results down below.

WPT Prime Cambodia – Festival Results

MAIN EVENT: Day 1A closes with 28 survivors, Benjamin Mun bags the lead

DJR05033Benjamin Mun

As expected, players poured in for the festival’s star attraction, the $500,000 guaranteed Main Event. The four and a half hours of registration drew 218 entries (190 unique, 28 re-entry) with bagging time at ITM of 28 players. At the twelfth hour, it was reached with India’s Abhishek Goindi eliminated in brutal fashion by fellow compatriot Shardul Parthasarathi. Short stacked Goindi was all in with AcKc, Shardul had Ad5h, the board ran 9c8c7dKs6s for a straight to Shardul on the river.

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Goindi will return for Day 1B. As for his slayer Shardul, he finished third in chips with 509,000 (63 bb). Shardul is behind pack leader Benjamin Mun who bagged up 578,000 (72 bb) in chips and Ireland’s Frank Lillis with 563,000 (70 bb).

The Day 1A survivors await the results of Day 1B and Day 1C before returning to action on Sunday, March 19 at 1pm. Here are the top 10 in chips. Click the link provided for the full list.

Top 10 in chips

1
Benjamin Mun
578,000

2
Frank Lillis
563,000

3
Shardul Parthasarathi
509,000

4
Alok Birewar
474,000

5
Anh Minh Nguyen
407,000

6
Thijs Hilberts
347,000

7
Gaurav Sood
345,000

8
Zi Xuan Tan
338,000

9
Jeffry Kurniawan
323,000

10
Shengchao Zhu
320,000

WPT Prime Cambodia – Main Event – Chip Counts
WPT Prime Cambodia – Main Event – Live Updates
WPT Prime Cambodia – Event Schedule

Fabio Oka dominates 10K Super High Roller Single Day Challenge

DJR05128Fabio Oka

WPT Global Japan ambassador / vlogger Fabio Oka, was a force to reckon with at the 10K Super High Roller Single Day Challenge. For a majority of the race, Oka was backed by a big stack, if not the biggest. One of the players he railed was WPT brand ambassador Brad Owen whose Ah8h trips on a board 9s8cJs10c8s fell to his Ks10s flush. Another bust was Gary Lin whose pocket Sevens ran into Oka’s pocket Kings.

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The bubble burst on WPT ambassador, Andrew Neeme, with AsKs not improving against Roman Hrabec‘s 6s6h. Entering ITM, Oka led and surged. He eliminated the last three players – Hrabec (4th), Vincent Huang (3rd), and Lun Loon in 2nd place to seize his first WPT title and a six figure US$ 109,500.

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Buy in: US$ 10,000
Entries: 31
Prize pool: US$ 291,679
ITM: 5 places

1
Fabio Oka
Japan
$109,500

2
Lun Loon
Malaysia
$73,000

3
Vincent Huang
Australia
$48,600

4
Roman Hrabec
Czech Republic
$34,500

5
Richard Sheils
England
$26,079

Micheal O’Neill wins the Bounty Event

DJR04971Micheal O’Neill

The two-day Bounty Event was highly popular with a hungry 244 pulling up seats to generate a prize pool of US$ 170,410. Day 1 closed at ITM with Pratibh Saluja serving the bubble with 6h6c standing solid against AdKh.

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Resuming the following day, the 31 returnees were led in by Rajneesh Katoch who went on to reach the final table as one of four players from India in the lineup. However, the crew were unable to take it all the way. Katoch exited in 5th place while Raju Jaruplavath held on but only reached 3rd place.

DJR04526Rajneesh Katoch

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The title came between Korea’s Woojin Kim and Micheal O’Neill, the lone Irishman in the round. O’Neill closed it out with QdJc pairing the Queen on a board 6s7sQc2d5c to dust and bust Kim’s Kh8h. O’Neill pocketed his largest live tournament cash of US$ 25,358 and his maiden live title.

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Buy in: US$ 800
Entries: 244
Prize pool: US$ 109,410
Bounty pool; US$ 61,000
ITM: 31 places

*Bountiy prizes not included

1
Micheal O’Neill
Ireland
$25,358

2
Woojin Kim
Korea
$17,817

3
Raju Jaruplavath
India
$11,214

4
Akshay Kapoor
India
$6,822

5
Rajneesh Katoch
India
$5,268

6
Dylan Wayne
Australia
$4,365

7
Joshua Mccully
Australia
$3,720

8
Aladin Reskallah
France
$3,173

9
Anmol Mehta
India
$2,536

10
Tomohiro Yamamoto
Japan
$2,150

11
Yen-Han Chen
Taiwan
$2,150

12
Marvin Unsworth
Germany
$2,150

13
Ngoc Khanh Le
Viet Nam
$1,849

14
Richard Marquez
Philippines
$1,849

15
Amir Abbas
NZ
$1,849

16
Sevvy Steenman
UK
$1,548

17
Andrey Leonov
Cambodia
$1,548

18
Abhijith Cheruku
India
$1,548

19
Pratibh Saluja
India
$1,271

20
Thijs Hilberts
Netherlands
$1,271

21
Joseph Adams
UK
$1,271

22
Somashekar Nahadeva
India
$1,007

23
Adrien Franck Berger
France
$1,007

24
I-Chun Chiu
Taiwan
$1,007

25
Mr. Shyamsundar
India
$882

26
Tien- Min Liang
Taiwan
$882

27
Selim Souissi
Tunisia
$882

28
Andrew Kittipong Adamson
NZ
$754

29
Vincent Chauve
France
$754

30
Filipe Miranda
Usa
$754

31
Jasven Saigal
India
$754

Event 18: PLO – 6 players remaining led by Roland Norietis

DJR05146Roland Norietis

Only 47 runners took interest in Event 18: Pot Limit Omaha for a prize pool of US$ 32,825. It was a 12 hours race to ITM of 6 places. Bagging up the chip lead was Latvia’s Roland Norietis of 443,000, equivalent to 37 bb. Also in the lineup was India’s Deep Raina who was on his third final table in this series. Action resumes at 1pm on Friday, March 17 for the title and the US$ 12,803 top prize.

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Buy in: US$ 800
Entries: 47
Prize pool: US$ 32,825
ITM: 6 places

Chips in play: 1,305,000
Average stack: 235,000
Day 2 blinds: 6K-12K, 12K ante (15:16 time remaining)

Seat
Player
Flag
Stack
BB

1
Roland Norietis
Latvia
443,000
37

2
Kamran Suriya
Pakistan
209,000
17

3
Philippe
Switzerland
81,000
7

4
Generalov
Russia
259,000
22

5
Deep Raina
India
145,000
12

6
Sajay Kandampully
India
168,000
14

Payouts

1
$12,803

2
$7,550

3
$4,595

4
$3,282

5
$2,616

6
$1,969

Player of the Festival – update after 16 events

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Kiale Matthews

After 16 completed events, Australia’s Kiale Matthews maintains his Player of the Festival lead with 800 points. Matthews reached three final tables with his deepest a 3rd place finish. Ireland’s Micheal O’Neill moved up to second rank with 675 points after his victory at the Bounty Event. Sharing the third spot are RIchard Marquez and Joshua McCully, both players with 650 points.

Still plenty of events to conquer and earn points including the Main Event which is underway. The player with the most points at the end of the festival will win a WPT Passport worth $5,000 to any WPT Main Tour of Season XXI.

Top 10 in POF points

1
Kiale Matthews
800

2
Micheal O’Neill
675

3
Richard Marquez
650

4
Joshua McCully
650

5
Chien-Chih Weng
550

6
Duc Thanh Nguyen
525

7
Bien Mai
500

8
Tyler Suansrakaew
450

9
Fung Kong
450

10
Vikaash Shah
425

11
Deep Raina
425

12
Huyen Duc Luu
400

13
Brad Owen
400

14
LeoSoma
400

15
Fabio Oka Da Silva
400

16
Woojin Kim
375

Season XXI WPT Prime Cambodia

WPT Prime Cambodia, in partnership with Connaissance Management, runs from March 9 to 21 at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A total of 30 tournaments are scheduled and US$ 1 Million in guarantees. To date, sixteen players have walked away victorious. Only 14 trophies up left.

The Main Event $500,000 guaranteed is underway. With Day 1A completed, two starting days left to join the race. It runs from March 16 to 20. Buy in is US$ 1,100. By the looks of it, it will easily breach one thousand entries with the potential to surpass current Gold Coast record of 1,224 entries.

WPT Prime Cambodia – Player Guide
Breakdown of WPT Prime Cambodia schedule
WPT Prime Cambodia – Festival Payouts

For added enjoyment, there are ample cash games running daily and the Cash Game Bonanza.

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Author: Henry Brown