WPT Prime Vietnam nears USD 1M at halfway mark; Donna Lea, Jinlong Hu, Ta Nhat Vu win trophies; Dinh Quang Huy tops ME Warm Up Day 1A

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

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. 

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