After seven day of games completed, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Vietnam series crossed the halfway mark at the Crown Poker Club in Hanoi. To date, a total of 20 events have been claimed and over US$ 980K paid out. The latest winners were Donna Lea, Jinlong Hu, and Ta Nhat Vu. The 8-Max Main Event Warm Up also wrapped up with Day 1A attracting 178 entries. Here are the results and links to the full coverage.
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Donna Lea flies straight to victory at the WPT Ladies Event
Donna Lea
The WPT Ladies Event drew 27 entries that included some of the festival’s daily attendees such as Hanna Azimai and Candy Duong however in the end it was Australia’s Donna Lea who persevered, turning her VN₫ 3,300,000 (~US$ 140) buy in into VN₫ 35,300,000 (~US$ 1,500) and claiming her first ever WPT trophy.
“The timing was just right, we were on holiday and I found out this was here so we flew in from Nha Trang. The competition was great. It was hard. I started off really slow, I thought I wasn’t going to go anywhere, but I just took my time and I got here. At the end there she was was really tough but I got lucky because I got the two pair. I haven’t played in two and a half years so this is very special, it’s my first win.”
At heads up Korea’s Jeongwon Lee pushed on a turn board 
, Lea said “I gotta call” then opened up 
two pair ahead of Lee’s 
top pair straight draw. The river 
secured the victory.
Date: May 22, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 3,300,000 (~US$ 140)
Entries: 27 (20 unique, 7 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 78,570,000 (~US$ 3,350)
ITM: 4 places
Place
Player
Flag
Payout in VN₫
1
Donna Lea
Australia
35,300,000
2
Jeongwon Lee
Korea
21,200,000
3
Ngoc Huong Nguyen
Vietnam
13400000
4
Khushboo Asnani
India
8,670,000
Jinlong Hu wins first WPT titlle at the Deepstack NLH
China’s Jinlong Hu is fast on the rise this year with a few trophies and numerous deep runs already under his belt. He added a Deepstack NLH title to that list for his career first WPT trophy. In addition, he also collected a cool VN₫ 137,000,000 (~US$ 5,840) for his victory.
Jinlong Hu
The event drew a 122-entry field with 16 earning a piece of the VN₫ 473,360,000 (~US$ 20,190) prize pool. It took over an hour for the bubble to burst as numerous short stacks doubled up. Frederick Robitaille even tripled up with 
holding firm against Bao Pham’s 
, and a big stack’s . The money finally flowed at the fall of a short stack to Robitaille with Ace-Ten over Ten-Nine.
From there, it was a fast race to the final table where Hu dominated. By heads up, his stack dwarfed Pham leading to a fast heads up round. The final hand was Hu 
, Pham 
, the board ran 
for a rivered higher two pair.
Date: May 22, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 4,400,000 (~US$ 188)
Entries: 122 (99 unique, 23 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 473,360,000 (~US$ 20,190)
ITM: 16 places
Place
Player
Flag
Payout in VN₫
1
Jinlong Hu
China
137,000,000
2
Bao Pham
Vietnam
85,000,000
3
Duc Minh Vu
Vietnam
51,000,000
4
Cuong Trinh
Vietnam
32,000,000
5
Da Huu Dinh
Vietnam
23,600,000
6
Do Duc Nguyen
Vietnam
20,400,000
7
Frederick Robitaille
Canada
17,760,000
8
Tien Manh Nguyen
Vietnam
15,600,000
9
Aleksei Varashev
Vietnam
13,700,000
For the full payouts, head to the FESTIVAL RESULTS
Ta Nhat Vu wins the day’s Hyper NLH trophy
Vietnam’s Ta Nhat Vu may have missed the trophy at the WPT Opener by one spot but made up for the missed merch at Day 7’s Hyper Turbo NLH. The event clocked in at an uber-fast four hours with Vu outgunning the 64 entry field. He also walked away with a payout of VN₫ 67,000,000 (~US$ 2,860).
Date: May 22, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 3,300,000 (~US$ 140)
Entries: 64 (47 unique, 17 re-entry)
Prize pool: VN₫ 186,240,000 (~US$ 7,945)
ITM: 8 places
Place
Player
Flag
Payout in VN₫
1
Ta Nhat Vu
Vietnam
67,000,000
2
Cong Tien Nguyen
Vietnam
39,400,000
3
Linh Hai Hoang
Vietnam
24,600,000
4
Michael Wilklow
USA
16,800,000
5
Masafumi Shimizu
Japan
13,000,000
6
Tangirbergen Yespolov
Kazakhstan
10,200,000
7
Suji Hwang
Korea
8,440,000
8
Nam Hai Chu
Vietnam
6,800,000
Event 18: 8 Max Main Event Warm Up – Day 1A results
Swell turnout at the 8-Max Main Event Warm Up with 178 turning up for Day 1A. Many new faces hit the felt such as Taiwan’s Yu Sheng Lin who bagged up the 7th largest stack and India’s Kanchan Sharma who racked up the third largest. The bubble burst on a cooler with China’s Yuhan Liu 
running into Đinh Quang Huy‘s 
. This gave Huy the end of day chip lead.
Liu will have another chance at qualifying with Day 1B taking place on Tuesday, May 23, starting at 11am. Registration closest at 4:30pm. This is the last flight to enter this event.
Buy in: VN₫ 16,500,000 (~US$ 700)
Guarantee: VN₫ 2,000,000,000 (~US$ 85,320)
Day 1A: 178 entries / 23 ITM
1
Đinh Quang Huy
Vietnam
560,000
2
Phan Minh ĐứC
Vietnam
491,000
3
Kanchan Sharma
India
368,000
4
Dylan Foster
Australia
365,000
5
NguyễN Văn Trung
Vietnam
357,000
6
Ashish Munot
India
356,000
7
Yu Sheng Lin
Taiwan
336,000
8
Đào Xuân Khánh
Vietnam
316,000
9
NguyễN Tuan Anh
Vietnam
259,000
10
Romit Advani
India
231,000
11
Đinh TiếN Thành
Vietnam
214,000
12
Phan Đình Nam
Vietnam
208,000
13
Pham Trung Kien
Vietnam
187,000
14
Ngô Văn ĐạT
Vietnam
179,000
15
Thanh Lucky
Vietnam
168,000
16
Dhavac Mudgal
India
130,000
17
Tu Le
Australia
107,000
18
Sua Shong Er
Malaysia
102,000
19
Hoàng Thái Sơn
Vietnam
102,000
20
Raju Jaruplavath
India
101,000
21
Amit Kaushik
India
86,000
22
Lê TrầN HảI Đăng
Vietnam
76,000
23
Eric Wasylenko
Canada
66,000
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