Off to a strong start at the inaugural U Series of Poker Vietnam with the opening event Mystery Bounty smashing its VN₫ 2.5BN guarantee. This is a great sign for the series as more players are expected in the coming days which means more guarantees certain to be crushed.
The Mystery Bounty saw 414 pony up across three entry heats to boost the prize pool to VN₫ 4,015,400,000 (~US$ 171,270). 52 players advanced to Day 2, each one already in the money. Action resumes on Sunday, April 15 at 10:30am at the Crown Poker Club, Vietnam’s Quang Ngoc Phan will carry in the chip lead. He topped the counts at Day 1B with 454,000 (76 bb).
Since this is a mystery bounty event, returning players will be hunting down the biggest bounty of VN₫ 270,000,000 (~US$ 11,500) and the hefty first prize payout of VN₫ 540,000,000 (~US$ 23,000). You can find the payout breakdown and bounty prizes at the bottom of the page.
Dates: April 14 to 16
Buy in: VN₫ 11,000,000 (~US$ 470)
Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 106,600)
Entries: 414
Prize pool: VN₫ 2,609,900,000 (~US$ 111,320)
Bounty Pool: VN₫ 1,405,500,000 (~US$ 59,950)
Day 2 qualifiers / ITM: 52 players
Mystery Bounty Chip Counts – Side Events Live Updates
Day 1A: 79 entries (62 unique, 17 re-entry)
Day 1B: 195 entries
Day 1C: 140 entries (95 unique, 45 re-entry)
Mystery Bounty Day 1B recap
The local force came out for Day 1B to gather the largest turnout of 195 entries. After eight hours of play, Anh Duy Nguyen delivered the bubble with 
dominating 
. The remaining 24 players bagged up and were all guaranteed to cash coming Day 2. Racking up the largest stack was Quang Ngoc Phan with 76 bb. At his heels was Triton champion Dao Minh Phu with 72 bb. Other notable players advancing were Taiwan’s Nevan Chang, Singapore’s Benjamin Sai, and Vietnam’s Ngoc Anh Cao.
End of Day 1B survivors – 24 / 195 entries
| Player | Flag | Stack | BB |
| Quang Ngoc Phan | Vietnam | 454,000 | 76 |
| Dao Minh Phu | Vietnam | 434,000 | 72 |
| Ngo Anh Cao | Vietnam | 347,000 | 58 |
| Nevan Chang | Taiwan | 317,000 | 53 |
| Po Wen Fang | Taiwan | 291,000 | 49 |
| Thuy Trung Duong | Vietnam | 286,000 | 48 |
| Benjamin Sai | Singapore | 270,000 | 45 |
| Kong Fung | Hong Kong | 258,000 | 43 |
| Kien Duc Tran | Vietnam | 225,000 | 38 |
| Dat Van Ngo | Vietnam | 219,000 | 37 |
| Tien Van Dinh | Vietnam | 191,000 | 32 |
| Zachary Lim | Malaysia | 187,000 | 31 |
| Anh Duy Nguyen | Vietnam | 178,000 | 30 |
| Chak Lam Tsang | Hong Kong | 178,000 | 30 |
| Hung Le | Vietnam | 158,000 | 26 |
| Vuong Cong Le | Vietnam | 144,000 | 24 |
| Aleksei Vazashev | Russia | 139,000 | 23 |
| Fumitaka Ikeda | Japan | 117,000 | 20 |
| Phu Van Nguyen | Vietnam | 112,000 | 19 |
| Le Anh Duc | Vietnam | 109,000 | 18 |
| Kimotsuki Yoshihiro | Japan | 96,000 | 16 |
| Linh Duc Dinh | Vietnam | 76,000 | 13 |
| Hieu Nguyen | Vietnam | 69,000 | 12 |
| Thang Chien Hoang | Vietnam | 37,000 | 6 |
Mystery Bounty Day 1C recap
The last flight also dragged in a decent number of 140 runners to bring the total entry count to 414. The bubble burst on short stacked Cuong Ngoc Huynh who went all in with 
but failed to improve against Rolands Norietis 
. The final 18 players bagged up. Snow Love bagged the largest of 419,000 putting him third in the overall Day 2 chip counts.
End of Day 1C survivors – 18 / 140 entries
| Player | Flag | Stack | BB |
| Snow Love | 419,000 | 70 | |
| Pham Truong Thu | Vietnam | 380,000 | 63 |
| Ha Thien | Vietnam | 345,000 | 58 |
| Thanh Tien Dinh | Vietnam | 311,000 | 52 |
| Ryan Ong | Singapore | 306,000 | 51 |
| Rolands Norietis | Latvia | 238,000 | 40 |
| Trung Van Nguyen | Vietnam | 224,000 | 37 |
| Kenny | Vietnam | 211,000 | 35 |
| Ngoc Phuong Nguyen | Vietnam | 163,000 | 27 |
| Michael Newby | England | 149,000 | 25 |
| Patrick Liang | Brazil | 120,000 | 20 |
| Wayne Lam | Hong Kong | 104,000 | 17 |
| Linh Ngo Duong | Vietnam | 101,000 | 17 |
| Tu Le | Austalia | 95,000 | 16 |
| Luat Khac Nguyen | Vietnam | 92,000 | 15 |
| Rusin Dzmitry | Belarus | 89,000 | 15 |
| Chien Van Nguyen | Vietnam | 83,000 | 14 |
| Shyh Chyn Lim | Malaysia | 80,000 | 13 |
Payouts
| Place | Payout in VN₫ |
| 1 | 540,000,000 |
| 2 | 376,000,000 |
| 3 | 240,000,000 |
| 4 | 161,200,000 |
| 5 | 124,000,000 |
| 6 | 104,000,000 |
| 7 | 85,500,000 |
| 8 | 68,000,000 |
| 9 | 53,500,000 |
| 10-12 | 44,700,000 |
| 13-15 | 37,500,000 |
| 16-18 | 30,600,000 |
| 19-21 | 25,400,000 |
| 22-24 | 21,000,000 |
| 25-27 | 17,500,000 |
| 28-36 | 14,400,000 |
| 37-45 | 12,900,000 |
| 46-52 | 11,700,000 |
Mystery Bounty prizes
| Pcs | Prize in VN₫ |
| 1 | 270,000,000 |
| 2 | 150,500,000 |
| 4 | 80,000,000 |
| 6 | 40,000,000 |
| 15 | 9,500,000 |
| 24 | 5,500,000 |
* One of the VN₫ 150,500,000 (~US$ 6,420) bounty prizes will be set aside for the Final Table.
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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