That’s it! All thirty trophies of WPT Prime Cambodia Season XXI have been claimed. Here are the final side event winners. Congratulations to all!
FESTIVAL RESULTS
FESTIVAL PHOTOS
Huge victory for John Perry at the High Roller 3K
Thrilling finish at the featured High Roller 3K with John Perry’s rail roaring after he defeated WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Smiljkovic. Perry was on a 3:1 deficit entering heads up, took the lead on a failed bluff by Smiljkovic, then shipped it with 
dominating 
. This was Perry’s first victory on Asian soil and largest career score of US$ 105,487.
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The High Roller 3K drew 125 entries to surge past the guarantee for a prize pool of US$ 363,750. The bubble burst on Oliver Schulze whose 
lost the flip against Pratibh Saluja’s 
. The final table was formed at the hard fall of Ian Litster to Perry who shoved with 
, Litster called for his tournament life with 
, the board ran 
for full house over full house. The lucky catch gave Perry the second largest stack entering the final table.
Chip leader Smiljkovic seemed to be cruising to victory after railing Leo Soma (8th), Dylan Wayne Foster (6th), Manuel Braunhofer (5th), and Monika Zukowicz (4th). However, at three-handed, Perry gained momentum by eliminating Pratibh Saluja (3rd). Perry’s rail erupted when he doubled up with two pair against a bluff. About even in chips, the final hand was pocket Jacks dominating pocket Tens.
Buy in: US$ 3,000
Guarantee: US$ 250,000
Entries: 125
Prize pool: US$ 363,750
ITM: 16 places
1
John Perry
$105,487
2
Daniel Smiljkovic
$65,475
3
Pratibh Saluja
$39,103
4
Monika Zukowicz
$24,553
5
Manuel Braunhofer
$18,188
6
Dylan Wayne Foster
$15,641
7
Justin Chu
$13,550
8
Leo Soma
$12,004
9
Ankit Jajodia
$10,549
10
Ian Litster
$9,276
11
Junwoo Lee
$9,276
12
Siddarth Karia
$9,276
13
David Chiv
$8,093
14
Florencio Campomanes
$8,093
15
Patrick Liang
$8,093
16
Terry Gonzaga
$7,093
Minkyu Kim overcomes a huge deficit at heads up to win the Bounty Event
Minkyu Kim
The battle for the Bounty Event title came down between two Korean players, Minkyu Kim and Woojin Kim, both players seeking their first title in this series. Woojin was backed by an enormous stack having knocked out a whopping 17 players before reaching heads up. Woojin was also looking for redemption having missed the win at the earlier bounty event where he fell in 2nd place to Micheal O’Neill.
However, despite the massive lead, it was still not to be. Minkyu chipped away at the leader and drove it to victory. Minkyu shipped the US$ 14,745 top prize and six bounties amounting to US$ 900.
Buy in: US$ 500
Entries: 252
Prize pool: US$ 72,198
Bounty pool: US$ 37,800
*Bounties not included in payouts
1
Minkyu Kim
Korea
$14,745
2
Woojin Kim
Korea
$13,500
3
Gabriel Carter
UK
$7,400
4
Amir Abbas
NZ
$4,502
5
Stanislav Kovalenko
Russia
$3,476
6
Kai Perng Heng
Malaysia
$2,881
7
Firat Basbaydar
UK
$2,419
8
Romit Advani
India
$2,022
9
Tuan Anh Nguyen
Vietnam
$1,659
10
Chi Ling Tsang
Canada
$1,411
11
Raju Jaruplavath
India
$1,411
12
Seongmin Lee
Korea
$1,411
13
Jaehoon Lee
Korea
$1,213
14
Jongkyung Lee
Korea
$1,213
15
Roland Kivi
Estonia
$1,213
16
Lucas Tae
USA
$1,018
17
Gunisha Sinha
India
$1,018
18
Chao-Ting Cheng
Taiwan
$1,018
19
Takashi Taniguchi
Japan
$834
20
Jeremy Jehanne
France
$834
21
Amit Kaushik
India
$834
22
Jaeyong Kim
Korea
$657
23
Gyumock Jo
Korea
$657
24
Isaac Phua
Malaysia
$657
25
Erik Rozhynskyi
Ukraine
$570
26
Peter Laird Bennett
Singapore
$570
27
Eric Alexandre Ceret
France
$570
28
Tze Kin Vincent Koh
Singapore
$497
29
Shreyas Suresh Shinde
India
$497
30
Fung Kong
Hong Kong
$497
31
Joshua Tan
Singapore
$497
32
Chang Hyeon Kim
Korea
$497
Deepankur Gupta wins the NLH Turbo
Deepankur Gupta
India finished strong at the NLH Turbo with three players in the top four. Seizing the win was Deepankur Gupta after defeating Anmol Mehta at heads up. Gupta collected a career high live tournament score of US$ 8,000. This was only his second ever live tournament score outside of home turf which should boost his confidence towards attending more live international events. Missing the final table was Joseph Hebert, the 2020 WSOP Online Domestic Main Event champion.
Buy in: US$ 300
Entries: 121
Prize pool: US$ 31,690
ITM: 16 places
1
Deepankur Gupta
India
$8,000
2
Anmol Mehta
India
$6,895
3
Joshua Kai En Tan
Singapore
$3,407
4
Dhaval Mudgal
India
$2,139
5
Calvin Tan
Singapore
$1,584
6
Peng Zheng
China
$1,363
7
Konstantin Generalov
Russia
$1,180
8
Ting-Yi Tsai
Taiwan
$1,046
9
Kanta Matsuo
Japan
$919
10
Joseph Murphy Hebert
USA
$808
11
Kaoru Kishimoto
Japan
$808
12
Tze Kin Vincent Koh
Singapore
$808
13
Yosuke Kijima
Japan
$705
14
Chun Kit Lee
Hong Kong
$705
15
Tan Luan Le
Uk
$705
16
Joon- Han Lee
Korea
$618
Shardul Aramudhan awarded the Superstack Classic Freezeout win
Shardul Parthasarathi Aramudhan
The Superstack Classic Freezeout was a two-day affair with 150 players battling it out on that one bullet. Plenty of dramatic moments on the bubble round. Chip leader Hua Wei Lin dominated her table with repeated uncalled shoves, Jeremy Jehanne doubled up with a flush over two pair, followed by the fall of Yu Sheng Lin to Thai Bao Vu with a small pair turned counterfeit on a double paired board.
As the players raced to the top, Vu eliminated big stacked Lin to enter the final table with an overwhelming advantage. That lead further grew until four handed. Vu began to lose shoves, doubling up every player including Shardul who cracked pocket Aces with Ace-Queen trips queens. Vu eventually exited in 4th place.
Out next was Harsh Bubna in 3rd place. The final two players – Shardul and Yu Ogusu – struck an ICM deal. With Shardul ahead in chips, he was awarded the win and the trophy. This is Shardul’s career second WPT side event title having won the Super High Roller event last year.
Buy in: $600
Entries: 150
Prize pool: US$ 78,570
ITM: 19 places
*Heads up ICM deal, Shardul awarded the trophy
1
Shardul Aramudhan
India
$19,247*
2
Yu Ogusu
Japan
$16,190*
3
Harsh Bubna
India
$8,093
4
Thai Bao Vu
Viet Nam
$4,913
5
Keng Yong Tan
Singapore
$3,811
6
Duc Kien Tran
Viet Nam
$3,147
7
Vineet Kumar
India
$2,750
8
Jeremy Jehanne
France
$2,455
9
Jonathan Looi
Malaysia
$2,169
10
Hua-Wei Lin
Taiwan
$1,886
11
Jedrzej Gruszczynski
Poland
$1,886
12
Prommin Talordpong
Thailand
$1,886
13
Curt Livermore
Uk
$1,611
14
Arun Sriram
India
$1,611
15
Denis Pisarev
Russia
$1,611
16
Abhijith Cheruku
India
$1,375
17
Zhongya Wang
China
$1,375
18
Kjell Ove Dyb
Norway
$1,375
19
Shan Hui Chua
Singapore
$1,179
India bags another as Mahesh Shyamsundar wins 1K Re-Entry
Mahesh Shyamsundar
Mahesh Shyamsundar topped the 75 entries of the 1K Re-Entry event to lift his first ever WPT trophy. After heads up ICM deal, Shyamsundar and Chao Ting Cheng battled for glory. It ended with Shyamsundar shoving on a 
and getting tank-called. Cheng had 
top pair, Shyamsundar with the winning 
straight.
Buy in: US$ 1,000
Entries: 75
Prize pool: US$ 65,475
ITM: 10 places
*Heads up ICM deal
1
Mahesh Shyamsundar
India
$19,110*
2
Chao-Ting Cheng
Taiwan
$15,919*
3
Aroha Ngata
NZ
$7,988
4
Eric Wasylenko
Canada
$5,402
5
Chi-Jen Chu
Taiwan
$4,092
6
Vitalii Borodin
Russia
$3,274
7
David Chiv
$2,881
8
Nikolay Ponomarenko
Russia
$2,619
9
Erik Rozhynskyi
Germany
$2,226
10
Stephen Nathan
Uk
$1,964
Nicholas Williams pulls through in the end for Superstack 6-Max Finale
Nicholas Williams
Australian Nicholas Williams emerged victorious at the Superstack 6-Max Finale defeating Taiwan’s Feng-Wen Chen at heads up. Before doing so, he paid a double up with 
dominated by 
to switch ranks. Williams grinded back up leading to the final hand. On a flop 
, Williams shoved with 
flush draw, Chen risked with 
top pair, the turn 
and river gave Williams the flush and first ever WPT victory.
Buy in: US$ 400
Entries: 87
Prize pool: US$ 37,380
ITM: 11 places
1
Nicholas Williams
Australia
$9,797
2
Feng-Wen Chen
Taiwan
$5,924
3
Saransh Garg
India
$3,684
4
Ben Abrahams
Thailand
$2,491
5
Max Menzel
Germany
$1,899
6
Armon Van Wijk
Australia
$1,519
7
Thijs Hilberts
Netherlands
$1,261
8
Chien-Chih Weng
Taiwan
$1,063
9
Hua-Wei Lin
Taiwan
$980
10
Adrien Franck Berger
France
$911
11
Jongkyung Lee
Korea
$851
Krishna Wadeesirisak comes from behind at the Closer Turbo
Krishna Wadeesirisak
Buy in: US$ 550
Entries: 58
Prize pool: US$ 28,130
ITM: 8 places
1
Krishna Wadeesirisak
Thailand
$10,127
2
Nobuaki Sasaki
Japan
$5,949
3
Yu-Chung Chang
Taiwan
$3,727
4
Anton Widjaya
Indonesia
$2,532
5
Craig Daniel Jones
UK
$1,969
6
Dhaval Mudgal
India
$1,547
7
Tong Tan
Singapore
$1,266
8
Ankit Kumar Jajodia
India
$1,013
Bin Tang denies Kiale Matthews, wins 10/10/10 event
Bin Tang
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 60
Prize pool: US$ 10,476
ITM: 8 places
1
Bin Tang
China
$3,772
2
Kiale Jacob Matthews
Australia
$2,216
3
Willy Kevin Portier
France
$1,388
4
Yuji Kawata
Japan
$943
5
Brendon Rubie
Australia
$733
6
Keng Yong Tan
Singapore
$576
7
Chun Kit Lee
Hong Kong
$471
8
Setty Pon
France
$377
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