Big names capture Crown Poker Series titles: Julien Tran, Seungmook Jung, Koichi Kono emerge newest champions

While the Main Event has concluded, the excitement of the Crown Poker Series continues with a variety of side events still to be won. On the second to last day, three players emerged victorious at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Da Nang, Vietnam, namely Julien Tran, Seungmook Jung, and Koichi Kono. Here are the results.

Julien Tran dominates the Monster Stack

A good two days of work for Vietnamese pro Julien Tran who locked up the Monster Stack event for VN₫  302,200,000 (~US$ 12,800). Tran entered the final table as chip leader, and throughout, was never in danger of elimination.

After knocking out Jun Hee Kim on the bubble with set over second pair, he coasted to heads up with 81 bb against Kyu Kang Won‘s  17 bb. It was no contest as Won was unable to dent Tran’s overwhelming stack. The final hand was a pure trap. On a board , with both players checking, Won went all in on the river with top pair only to walk into Tran’s . 

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Buy in: VN₫ 22,000,000 (~US$ 930)
Entries: 38
Prize pool: VN₫ 737,200,000 (~US$ 31,400)
ITM: 5 places

Place	Player	Flag	Payout in VN₫
1	Julien Tran	Vietnam	302,200,000
2	Kyu Kang Won	Korea	173,200,000
3	Chun Ho Seo	Korea	113,000,000
4	Min Song Lee	Korea	81,800,000
5	Jung Won Kim	Korea	67,000,000

Seungmook Jung takes down 8 Max High Roller

The 8 Max High Roller was a hot item on the day’s menu with some of Asia’s finest poker players among the 64 that ponied up the VN₫ 66,000,000 (~US$ 2,810) buy in. Among the players that shaved a cut of the VN₫ 3,724,800,000 (~US$ 158,670) prize pool were WSOP bracelet winners Abhinav Iyer and Gediminas Uselis, while Korean pro Seungmook Jung earned the biggest piece of VN₫ 1,073,700,000 (~US$ 45,700) for his victory. 

Buy in: VN₫ 66,000,000 (~US$ 2,810)
Entries: 64
Prize pool: VN₫ 3,724,800,000 (~US$ 158,670) 
ITM: 8 places

Place	Player	Flag	Payout in VN₫
1	Seung Mook Jung	Korea	1,073,700,000
2	Thanh Tien Dinh	Vietnam	1,022,300,000
3	Louie Yu	Korea	480,000,000
4	Gediminas Uselis	Lithuania	354,000,000
5	Jhon Hendri	Indonesia	280,000,000
6	Abhinav Iyer	India	215,000,000
7	Tien Quyet Pham	Vietnam	168,000,000
8	Linh Hoang Nguyen	Vietnam	131,800,000

First live victory for Koichi Kon at the No Limit Turbo event

The field may have been small but a victory never is. Japanese player Koichi Kono bested the 11 entry field of the No Limit Hold’em Turbo for his first ever live title and a cool VN₫ 50,000,000 (~US$ 2,130). 

Buy in: VN₫ 7,700,000 (~US$ 330)
Entries: 11
Prize pool: VN₫ 74,690,000 (~US$ 3,180)
ITM: 2 places

Place	Player	Flag	Payout in VN₫
1	Koichi Kono	Japan	50,000,000
2	Sumin Jang	Korea	24,690,000