WPT Prime Vietnam: High Roller Warm Up runners shatters guarantee with 168 entries for ₫ 8.1BN prize pool; Day 9 highlights and POF update

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Wall to wall action at Day 9 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Vietnam as players poured in Crown Poker Club in capital city Hanoi. The highlight was the High Roller Warm Up event, attracting a  168 entries (110 unique, 58 re-entry) to shatter its VN₫ 2BN guarantee and create a prize pool of  VN₫ 8,148,000,000 (~US$ 347,100). To date, this was the largest prize pool of the festival. 

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With the past couple of days seeing an influx of international players hit the felt, it was no surprise to see many bump elbows with the local pros. Among the attendees were Abhinav Iyer, David Erquiaga, Benjamin Sai, Robert Kiss, and John Perry however all missed the mark.

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On the thirteen and a half hour mark, the intense action concluded with Russia’s Roman Kolotiuk delivering the bubble to ensure the remaining 21 players a piece of the lucrative pot. Kolotiuk bagged up the sixth largest stack.

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Locking up the chip lead was a very familiar face, Vietnam’s Huynh Ngoc Cuong who recently won the Mystery Bounty event. Cuong was one of eleven locals that reached the money round. Others making it through were Ngoc Anh Cao, Huu Dung Nguyen, and Player of the Festival second ranked Dinh Tien Thanh. Check out the chip counts below and the payouts.

The final stage of the race is on Thursday, May 25, 2023 starting at 11:30am. Returning players are guaranteed VN₫ 116,000,000 (~US$ 4,940), and for the eventual champion, a massive VN₫ 1,964,000,000 (~US$ 83,660) awaits. 

High Roller Warm Up

Date: May 24-25 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 55,000,000 (~US$ 2,345)
Entries: 168 (110 unique, 58 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 8,148,000,000 (~US$ 347,100)
ITM: 21 places

1
HuỳNh NgọC CườNg
1,440,000

2
Alo Toi He Day
1,238,000

3
Huu Dung Nguyen
1,222,000

4
Alan Pham
1,186,000

5
Ngoc Anh Cao
986,000

6
Đinh TiếN Thành
937,000

7
Roman Kolotiuk
880,000

8
Đinh Quang Huy
878,000

9
Daniel Francis
875,000

10
Mike Wilklow
872,000

11
Evgenii Katymqel
849,000

12
Cankai Zhang
831,000

13
Jhon Hendri
748,000

14
Peter Kiem
728,000

15
Hieu Lavita
682,000

16
Pham Bao
510,000

17
Sakai Yuki
482,000

18
Evegnii Chernyl
470,000

19
Ngo Khoa Anh
422,000

20
Van Phing Nguyen
334,000

21
Baby Tuchu
268,000

Payouts

Place
Payout in VN₫

1
1,964,000,000

2
1,307,000,000

3
938,000,000

4
686,000,000

5
511,000,000

6
388,000,000

7
300,000,000

8
237,000,000

9
190,000,000

10
190,000,000

11
161,500,000

12
161,500,000

13
140,500,000

14
140,500,000

15
126,500,000

16
126,500,000

17
116,000,000

18
116,000,000

19
116,000,000

20
116,000,000

21
116,000,000

In addition to the above-mentioned event, a large field was also seen at the two-day Big Bounty with 182 runners (136 unique, 46 re-entry) for a cash pool of VN₫ 855,400,000 (~US$ 36,440). To reach the money round, five double ups were first seen and a cooler that sent Jia Chi Lee‘s stack plunging. 

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This led to the final hand. Lee was in a three-way shove and was nearly out with 6d6c dominated by AdAh. Lucky for her, the two-outer materialized on the river to survive elimination while a short stack with 8h5h went bust. 

The final 23 players return on Thursday, May 25 at 11am. With every player guaranteed a piece of the pot, the hunt will be for the VN₫ 5M per head scalped and the VN₫ 221,000,000 (~US$ 9,415) top prize. 

Date: May 24-25, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 11,000,000 (~US$ 470)
Entries: 182 (136 unique, 46 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 855,400,000 (~US$ 36,440)
Bounty pool: VN₫ 910,000,000 (~US$ 38,765)
ITM: 23 places

End of Day 1 – 23 players

1
Chu Thế Dân
439,000

2
Hưng Lê
402,000

3
Nguyen Duy Anh
357,000

4
TuấN Tùng
320,000

5
Shih Chien Kuei
315,000

6
Man Lok
263,000

7
Phan NgọC Quang
255,000

8
Linh Ran
247,000

9
Beab Su Kim
233,000

10
Jiang Yongbo
216,000

11
Shu Wei Chou
198,000

12
Harvey Woon
198,000

13
Chuan Hsieh
177,000

14
Paul Elliott
145,000

15
Kenji Hamamoto
144,000

16
Laksh Pal Sinh
137,000

17
Shoh Iohinoseki
134,000

18
Jia Chi Lee
105,000

19
Chamaria
91,000

20
Zemedkun Masrsha
88,000

21
Scoh Carmichael
50,000

22
Jae Kyung Sim
28,000

23
Yang Hai Yang
25,000

Payouts

Place
Payout in VN₫

1
221,000,000

2
148,500,000

3
87,500,000

4
53,000,000

5
41,000,000

6
34,000,000

7
29,000,000

8
25,400,000

9
22,000,000

10
19,000,000

11
19,000,000

12
19,000,000

13
16,000,000

14
16,000,000

15
16,000,000

16
13,000,000

17
13,000,000

18
13,000,000

19
10,000,000

20
10,000,000

21
10,000,000

22
10,000,000

23
10,000,000

Thuy Trung Duong wins Superstack Turbo

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The Superstack Turbo was also quite popular with 90 sign ups. Chinese Texas Holdém Poker Association (CTP) founder David Tai from Taiwan was among the attendees. He ran deep into 3rd place while the title went to Thuy Trung Duong for his first ever WPT cash.

Date: May 24, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 5,500,000 (~US$ 235)
Entries: 90 (80 unique, 10 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 436,500,000 (~US$ 18,595)
ITM: 12 places

Place
Player
Flag
Payout in VN₫

1
Thuy Trung Duong
Vietnam
138,500,000

2
Ong Chien Chan
Malaysia
83,000,000

3
Hsing Hsiung Tai
Taiwan
52,500,000

4
Yi Te Wu
Taiwan
34,000,000

5
Kazuki Maeda
Japan
26,000,000

6
Long Gia Le
Vietnam
20,700,000

7
Guillame Lecointre
France
17,500,000

8
Marc Inizan
UK
15,200,000

9
Bien Mai
Vietnam
13,900,000

10
Pei Chen Lee
Taiwan
12,600,000

11
Khuong Van Hoang
Vietnam
11,700,000

12
Ivan Govorov
Russia
10,900,000

WPT Player of the Festival – update

After 23 events, there has been a change of leadership. Australia’s Armon Van WIjk has now moved into the top spot after placing second at the Hyper Turbo event. Dinh Tien Thanh has moved one spot down to second rank.

There’s still plenty of time to rake in points with the Main Event coming up on May 25, starting at 11am. The player with the most points accrued at the end of the festival will win a WPT Passport worth $5,000 to be used at any Season XXI Main Tour. Here are the standings.

1st
Armon Van Wijk
850

2nd
Dinh Tien Thanh
775

3rd
Tran Thanh Hung
765

4th
Vu Ta Nhat
750

5th
Nguyen Trung Quan
700

6th
Huynh Ngoc Cuong
650

7th
Avneesh Munjal
630

8th
Chu The Dan
550

9th
Dhaval Mudgal
530

10th
Truong Toan Chan
500

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Author: Henry Brown