Indian players continue to dominate the WPT Prime Cambodia headlines with Shardul Parthasarathi as the latest to join the champions list. Also bagging titles were UK’s Richard Mari and Indonesia’s Ms. Asmiati. We’ve got those stories below including the updated Player of the Festival leaderboard with Trong Hieu Ngo in the lead. Here are the highlights.
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Shardul Parthasarathi awarded the trophy at the Super High Roller
After a heads up deal, Shardul Parthasarathi picked up another title and trophy for India making that now five for the country. Shardul overcame a deficit at the final table of the $5.3K Super High Roller, rising from the shortest at five handed to winner. From the deal, he walked away US$ 68,922 richer while runner up Philippines Christopher Mateo earned the largest cut of US$ 73,778.
Event recap
Day 2 of the Super High Roller resumed with registration still open before the first deal of the day. Nine players took advantage to bump up the total entries to 54. With buy in at a hefty US$ 5,300, it built a prize pool of US$ 261,900. Among the newcomers were Viet Nam‘s Nguyen Quang Minh, Filipino Lester Edoc, and Taiwan‘s Chi Jen Chu , joining pros such as Thailand‘s Punnat Punsri who was back in Asia after a spectacular WSOP run, and WSOP bracelet champions Mike Takayama and Abhinav Iyer.
WPT PRIME CAMBODIA SHR FINAL TABLE
By the time the final table was formed, the day’s entering chip leader Sweden’s Matt Douhan and Denmark’s Michael Kim Falcon were long gone with the latter cleaned out by Shardul. Philippines Florencio Campomanes brought in the lead followed by Viet Nam’s Trong Hieu Ngo who won the Mystery Bounty yesterday and was back at his third final table. Filipinos dominated the lineup with David Erquiaga and Christopher Mateo also in the round.
Florencio Campomanes
Action proceeded with Florent Remi out as the stone cold bubble with Campomanes 
landing the Two to dust 
. First to the money was China‘s Jiazhi Zhong (9th) with all his chips sent to Ngo. Struggling short stack Vincent Huang soon followed and was Mateo’s first final table knockout. As Mateo continued to chip up, Shardul survived an all in, while Erquiaga seesawed to see his stack drained by Mateo and Campomanes.
At five handed, Shardul landed his second double up, this time through Mateo. The loss was minor for Mateo who quickly made up for it and more in a big pot against Ngo then eliminated Malaysia’s Victor Chong (5th) with Ace-Jack outdrawing pocket Fours. Shardul did the rest. He finished off Campomanes (4th) and Ngo (3rd) then struck an ICM deal that ended the chase. Shardul was officially awarded his first ever WPT title.
Buy in: US$ 5,300
Entries: 54
Prize pool: US$ 261,900
ITM: 8 places
Payouts
1st
Shardul Parthasarathi
India
$68,922*
2nd
Christopher Mateo
Philippines
$73,778*
3rd
Trong Hieu Ngo
Viet Nam
$38,050
4th
Florencio Campomanes
Philippines
$26,450
5th
Victor Chong
Malaysia
$19,150
6th
David Erquiaga
Philippines
$14,500
7th
Vincent Huang
New Zealand
$11,500
8th
Jiazhi Zhong
China
$9,550
*Heads up deal
UK’s Richard Mari wins Short Deck
UK’s Richard Mari overcame a deficit at heads up against Thailand‘s Phachara Wongwichit to capture his first ever WPT title and a cool US$ 4,214 in cash.
Richard Mari
The Short Deck event was one of the cheapest events on the menu costing just US$ 200 to enter. This brought 73 to action for a pot of US$ 12,392. By bubble time, one of the shorties was recent winner Akshay Kapoor who folded 
with two players all in before him. Wongwichit delivered the bubble with 
over 
, both players pairing their lower card. Kapoor met his end in 9th place. South Africa’s Marc Joseph exited (7th), big stacked Michael Lindstrom was stopped in 5th place, then two busts later, Wongwichit opened heads up as massive chip leader.
SHORT DECK HOLDEM (RE-ENTRY) FINAL TABLE
However, the Thai pro could not close it out. Instead, Mari landed two double ups with a full house on the river over a straight on the turn. The counts switched, Mari grabbed the win with 
set over 
two pair on a board 
.
Phachara Wongwichit
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 73
Prize pool: US$ 12,392
ITM: 10 places
Payouts
1st
Richard Mari
UK
$4,214
2nd
Phachara Wongwichit
Thailand
$2,416
3rd
Chen Zhen Liu
Taiwan
$1,512
4th
Hye Min Choi
Korea
$1,022
5th
Michael Lindstrom
Denmark
$774
6th
Huaxin Wang
China
$620
7th
Marc Joseph
South Africa
$545
8th
Jongha Kim
Korea
$496
9th
Akshay Kapoor
India
$421
10th
Tsz Him Pun
Hong Kong
$372
Asmiati finds victory at the Ladies NLH
Ms. Asmiati
The first trophy for Indonesia was claimed at the Ladies NLH with Ms. Asmiati rising out of the event’s 20 entrants. With buy in also at the cheapest of US$ 200, Asmiati turned it into US$ 1,700 after defeating India‘s Gunisha Sinha at heads up. This was her first ever poker win.
Mei San Ang
Asmiati already racked up the biggest stack well before the money round. At four handed, which was bubble time, the only known pro remaining Japan’s Yuri Ishida fell to Singapore‘s Mei San Ang with pocket Nines dominating pocket Eights. Despite the boost, Ang was met with a crushing defeat when her pocket Sixes were cracked by Asmiati’s pocket Fives, Five on the flop. With a massive lead against Gunisha Sinha at heads up, it was an easy finish for the Indonesian.
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 20
Prize pool: US$ 3,395
ITM: 3 places
Payouts
1st
Ms Asmiati
Indonesia
$1,700
2nd
Gunisha Sinha
India
$1,020
3rd
Mei San Ang
Singapore
$675
Updated: WPT Player of the Festival
After 13 completed events, Viet Nam’s Trong Hieu Ngo has jumed out front with a big lead in the WPT Player of the Festival race. He finished 3rd at the Super High Roller to overtake Kunal Patni. More points to rack up with 11 events yet to complete. The winner of this race will win a WPT Passport worth US$ 5,000 to any WPT Main Tour of choice this year.
TRONG HIEU NGO
825
KUNAL PATNI
600
SEMEN KAPITONOV
550
SHARDUL PARTHASARATHI
520
AKSHAY KAPOOR
500
MINSEONG CHO
425
ANAND KUMAR
400
GAKUTO OSHIRO
400
MARC ANTHONY JOSEPH
375
CHRISTOPHER VECINO MATEO
375
KYLE BAO QUOC AN DIEP
350
ASHISH MUNOT
300
YOUNGHOON JOO
300
LEAK SORN
300
ZURVAN TUMBOLI
300
HYE MIN CHOI
300
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