WPT Prime Cambodia final winners: John Perry, Minkyu Kim, Deepankur Gupta, Shardul Aramudhan, Mahesh Shyamsundar, Nicholas Williams, Krishna Wadeesirisak, Bin Tang

 

That’s it! All thirty trophies of WPT Prime Cambodia Season XXI have been claimed. Here are the final side event winners. Congratulations to all!

FESTIVAL RESULTS
FESTIVAL PHOTOS

Huge victory for John Perry at the High Roller 3K

Thrilling finish at the featured High Roller 3K with John Perry‘s rail roaring after he defeated WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Smiljkovic. Perry was on a 3:1 deficit entering heads up, took the lead on a failed bluff by Smiljkovic, then shipped it with dominating . This was Perry’s first victory on Asian soil and largest career score of US$ 105,487.

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The High Roller 3K drew 125 entries to surge past the guarantee for a prize pool of US$ 363,750. The bubble burst on Oliver Schulze whose lost the flip against Pratibh Saluja’s . The final table was formed at the hard fall of Ian Litster to Perry who shoved with , Litster called for his tournament life with , the board ran for full house over full house. The lucky catch gave Perry the second largest stack entering the final table.

Chip leader Smiljkovic seemed to be cruising to victory after railing Leo Soma (8th), Dylan Wayne Foster (6th), Manuel Braunhofer (5th), and Monika Zukowicz (4th). However, at three-handed, Perry gained momentum by eliminating Pratibh Saluja (3rd). Perry’s rail erupted when he doubled up with two pair against a bluff. About even in chips, the final hand was pocket Jacks dominating pocket Tens.

Buy in: US$ 3,000
Guarantee: US$ 250,000
Entries: 125
Prize pool: US$ 363,750
ITM: 16 places

1	John Perry	$105,487
2	Daniel Smiljkovic	$65,475
3	Pratibh Saluja	$39,103
4	Monika Zukowicz	$24,553
5	Manuel Braunhofer	$18,188
6	Dylan Wayne Foster	$15,641
7	Justin Chu	$13,550
8	Leo Soma	$12,004
9	Ankit Jajodia	$10,549
10	Ian Litster	$9,276
11	Junwoo Lee	$9,276
12	Siddarth Karia	$9,276
13	David Chiv	$8,093
14	Florencio Campomanes	$8,093
15	Patrick Liang	$8,093
16	Terry Gonzaga	$7,093

Minkyu Kim overcomes a huge deficit at heads up to win the Bounty Event

The battle for the Bounty Event title came down between two Korean players, Minkyu Kim and Woojin Kim, both players seeking their first title in this series. Woojin was backed by an enormous stack having knocked out a whopping 17 players before reaching heads up. Woojin was also looking for redemption having missed the win at the earlier bounty event where he fell in 2nd place to Micheal O’Neill.

However, despite the massive lead, it was still not to be. Minkyu chipped away at the leader and drove it to victory. Minkyu shipped the US$ 14,745 top prize and six bounties amounting to US$ 900.

Buy in: US$ 500
Entries: 252
Prize pool: US$ 72,198
Bounty pool: US$ 37,800

*Bounties not included in payouts

1	Minkyu Kim	Korea	$14,745
2	Woojin Kim	Korea	$13,500
3	Gabriel Carter	UK	$7,400
4	Amir Abbas	NZ	$4,502
5	Stanislav Kovalenko	Russia	$3,476
6	Kai Perng Heng	Malaysia	$2,881
7	Firat Basbaydar	UK	$2,419
8	Romit Advani	India	$2,022
9	Tuan Anh Nguyen	Vietnam	$1,659
10	Chi Ling Tsang	Canada	$1,411
11	Raju Jaruplavath	India	$1,411
12	Seongmin Lee	Korea	$1,411
13	Jaehoon Lee	Korea	$1,213
14	Jongkyung Lee	Korea	$1,213
15	Roland Kivi	Estonia	$1,213
16	Lucas Tae	USA	$1,018
17	Gunisha Sinha	India	$1,018
18	Chao-Ting Cheng	Taiwan	$1,018
19	Takashi Taniguchi	Japan	$834
20	Jeremy Jehanne	France	$834
21	Amit Kaushik	India	$834
22	Jaeyong Kim	Korea	$657
23	Gyumock Jo	Korea	$657
24	Isaac Phua	Malaysia	$657
25	Erik Rozhynskyi	Ukraine	$570
26	Peter Laird Bennett	Singapore	$570
27	Eric Alexandre Ceret	France	$570
28	Tze Kin Vincent Koh	Singapore	$497
29	Shreyas Suresh Shinde	India	$497
30	Fung Kong	Hong Kong	$497
31	Joshua Tan	Singapore	$497
32	Chang Hyeon Kim	Korea	$497

Deepankur Gupta wins the NLH Turbo

India finished strong at the NLH Turbo with three players in the top four. Seizing the win was Deepankur Gupta after defeating Anmol Mehta at heads up. Gupta collected a career high live tournament score of US$ 8,000. This was only his second ever live tournament score outside of home turf which should boost his confidence towards attending more live international events. Missing the final table was Joseph Hebert, the 2020 WSOP Online Domestic Main Event champion.

Buy in: US$ 300
Entries: 121
Prize pool: US$ 31,690
ITM: 16 places

1	Deepankur Gupta	India	$8,000
2	Anmol Mehta	India	$6,895
3	Joshua Kai En Tan	Singapore	$3,407
4	Dhaval Mudgal	India	$2,139
5	Calvin Tan	Singapore	$1,584
6	Peng Zheng	China	$1,363
7	Konstantin Generalov	Russia	$1,180
8	Ting-Yi Tsai	Taiwan	$1,046
9	Kanta Matsuo	Japan	$919
10	Joseph Murphy Hebert	USA	$808
11	Kaoru Kishimoto	Japan	$808
12	Tze Kin Vincent Koh	Singapore	$808
13	Yosuke Kijima	Japan	$705
14	Chun Kit Lee	Hong Kong	$705
15	Tan Luan Le	Uk	$705
16	Joon- Han Lee	Korea	$618

Shardul Aramudhan awarded the Superstack Classic Freezeout win

The Superstack Classic Freezeout was a two-day affair with 150 players battling it out on that one bullet. Plenty of dramatic moments on the bubble round. Chip leader Hua Wei Lin dominated her table with repeated uncalled shoves, Jeremy Jehanne doubled up with a flush over two pair, followed by the fall of Yu Sheng Lin to Thai Bao Vu with a small pair turned counterfeit on a double paired board.

As the players raced to the top, Vu eliminated big stacked Lin to enter the final table with an overwhelming advantage. That lead further grew until four handed. Vu began to lose shoves, doubling up every player including Shardul Aramduhan who cracked pocket Aces with Ace-Queen trips queens. Vu eventually exited in 4th place.

Out next was Harsh Bubna in 3rd place. The final two players – Shardul and Yu Ogusu – struck an ICM deal. With Shardul ahead in chips, he was awarded the win and the trophy. This is Shardul’s career second WPT side event title having won the Super High Roller event last year.

Buy in: $600
Entries: 150
Prize pool: US$ 78,570
ITM: 19 places

*Heads up ICM deal, Shardul awarded the trophy

1	Shardul Aramudhan	India	$19,247*
2	Yu Ogusu	Japan	$16,190*
3	Harsh Bubna	India	$8,093
4	Thai Bao Vu	Viet Nam	$4,913
5	Keng Yong Tan	Singapore	$3,811
6	Duc Kien Tran	Viet Nam	$3,147
7	Vineet Kumar	India	$2,750
8	Jeremy Jehanne	France	$2,455
9	Jonathan Looi	Malaysia	$2,169
10	Hua-Wei Lin	Taiwan	$1,886
11	Jedrzej Gruszczynski	Poland	$1,886
12	Prommin Talordpong	Thailand	$1,886
13	Curt Livermore	Uk	$1,611
14	Arun Sriram	India	$1,611
15	Denis Pisarev	Russia	$1,611
16	Abhijith Cheruku	India	$1,375
17	Zhongya Wang	China	$1,375
18	Kjell Ove Dyb	Norway	$1,375
19	Shan Hui Chua	Singapore	$1,179

 India bags another as Mahesh Shyamsundar wins 1K Re-Entry

Mahesh Shyamsundar topped the 75 entries of the 1K Re-Entry event to lift his first ever WPT trophy. After heads up ICM deal, Shyamsundar and Chao Ting Cheng battled for glory. It ended with Shyamsundar shoving on a and getting tank-called. Cheng had top pair, Shyamsundar with the winning straight.

Buy in: US$ 1,000
Entries: 75
Prize pool: US$ 65,475
ITM: 10 places

*Heads up ICM deal

1	Mahesh Shyamsundar	India	$19,110*
2	Chao-Ting Cheng	Taiwan	$15,919*
3	Aroha Ngata	NZ	$7,988
4	Eric Wasylenko	Canada	$5,402
5	Chi-Jen Chu	Taiwan	$4,092
6	Vitalii Borodin	Russia	$3,274
7	David Chiv		$2,881
8	Nikolay Ponomarenko	Russia	$2,619
9	Erik Rozhynskyi	Germany	$2,226
10	Stephen Nathan	Uk	$1,964

Nicholas Williams pulls through in the end for Superstack 6-Max Finale

Australian Nicholas Williams emerged victorious at the Superstack 6-Max Finale defeating Taiwan’s Feng-Wen Chen at heads up. Before doing so, he paid a double up with dominated by to switch ranks. Williams grinded back up leading to the final hand. On a flop , Williams shoved with flush draw, Chen risked with top pair, the turn and river gave Williams the flush and first ever WPT victory.

Buy in: US$ 400
Entries: 87
Prize pool: US$ 37,380
ITM: 11 places

1	Nicholas Williams	Australia	$9,797
2	Feng-Wen Chen	Taiwan	$5,924
3	Saransh Garg	India	$3,684
4	Ben Abrahams	Thailand	$2,491
5	Max Menzel	Germany	$1,899
6	Armon Van Wijk	Australia	$1,519
7	Thijs Hilberts	Netherlands	$1,261
8	Chien-Chih Weng	Taiwan	$1,063
9	Hua-Wei Lin	Taiwan	$980
10	Adrien Franck Berger	France	$911
11	Jongkyung Lee	Korea	$851

Krishna Wadeesirisak comes from behind at the Closer Turbo

Buy in: US$ 550
Entries: 58
Prize pool: US$ 28,130
ITM: 8 places

1	Krishna Wadeesirisak	Thailand	$10,127
2	Nobuaki Sasaki	Japan	$5,949
3	Yu-Chung Chang	Taiwan	$3,727
4	Anton Widjaya	Indonesia	$2,532
5	Craig Daniel Jones	UK	$1,969
6	Dhaval Mudgal	India	$1,547
7	Tong Tan	Singapore	$1,266
8	Ankit Kumar Jajodia	India	$1,013

Bin Tang denies Kiale Matthews, wins 10/10/10 event

Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 60
Prize pool: US$ 10,476
ITM: 8 places

1	Bin Tang	China	$3,772
2	Kiale Jacob Matthews	Australia	$2,216
3	Willy Kevin Portier	France	$1,388
4	Yuji Kawata	Japan	$943
5	Brendon Rubie	Australia	$733
6	Keng Yong Tan	Singapore	$576
7	Chun Kit Lee	Hong Kong	$471
8	Setty Pon	France	$377