Big Turnout At WPT Cambodia Passport To The WC Championship Warm Up With 398 Entries; James Brooks Leads Day 2 Lineup

Day 2 at WPT Cambodia – Passport To The World Championship – saw the Championship Warm Up draw plenty of attention with a wave of new arrivals and Day 1A fallouts eagerly pulling up seats. The last two flights were on deck, and by the end of registration, it pulled in 337 entries. Combined with the Day 1A turnout of 61 entries, the event drew a total of 398 entries for a $193,030 prize pool.

James Brooks, Hogyun Kang Top Flights

Returning to the felt on July 14, 2024 are 76 survivors led by UK’s James Brooks who topped Day 1B. During the last level of play, Brooks was already one of the leading stacks when he shipped a big pot with a set of Nines that simultaneously eliminated a player. He enters the final day with 101 bb.

At the Day 1C Turbo, Korea’s Hogyun Kang topped the counts to earn third rank in the overall Day 2 lineup, he returns with 69 bb. Sandwiched in between is Day 1A heat leader Dmytro Lytvynov from Ukraine with 79 bb.

Other players making the cut in these flights were 2024 WPT Cambodia Championship POY player and finalists Jinlong Hu, Amit Kaushik, Kyle Bao Diep,  Trung Quan Nguyen, Dhanesh Chainani, Sean Ooi, and Ryan Revai. Australia’s Danielle Noja had a stellar day. He finished 2nd at the PLO event then jumped in the Day 1C Turbo and bagged up a healthy 26 bb.

Breaking it down by nations, Korea returns strong in Day 2 with 12 players in the lineup. China and India follow with 10 each. Viet Nam is not too far behind with 7 players.

Listed below are the top 10 in chips. For the full list, head to the Passport Championship Warm Up Live Updates page.

1	James Robert Brooks	UK	809,500
2	Dmytro Lytvynov	Ukraine	635,000
3	Hogyun Kang	Korea	555,000
4	Craig Daniel Jones	UK	537,500
5	Young Hun Kim	Korea	475,000
6	Vishal Ojha	India	441,500
7	Bing Wang	China	424,500
8	Trung Quan Nguyen	Viet Nam	419,500
9	Chainani Dhanesh	Singapore	394,000
10	Nikesh Vijay Chawla	India	385,000

Passport Championship Warm Up – Numbers

Date: July 12-14, 2024
Buy in: $550
Guarantee: $100,000
Entries: 398
Prize pool: $193,030
ITM: 50 players

Day 1A: 61 entries / 11 advanced
Day 1B: 217 entries / 34 advanced
Day 1C: 120 entries / 31 advanced
Day 2 qualifiers: 76 players

Payouts

1	$38,743
2	$27,908
3	$17,940
4	$11,900
5	$9,159
6	$7,586
7	$6,360
8	$5,171
9	$3,984
10-12	$3,349
13-15	$2,818
16-18	$2,307
19-21	$1,921
22-24	$1,602
25-27	$1,351
28-36	$1,091
37-45	$984
46-50	$892

Seat Draw

Lars Hougaard	Denmark	T-01 [01]	232,000
Jaewook Jo	Korea	T-01 [02]	249,500
Kai Fong Fam	Singapore	T-01 [03]	104,500
Yonghwa Jung	Korea	T-01 [04]	114,000
Ngoc Linh Cao	Viet Nam	T-01 [05]	227,000
Amit Kaushik	India	T-01 [06]	77,000
Jinlong Hu	China	T-01 [07]	312,000
Yeonkyo Hong	Korea	T-01 [08]	116,000
Yi Chuen Hung	Taiwan	T-01 [09]	84,000
Xinglong Huang	China	T-02 [01]	226,000
Danielle Noja	Australia	T-02 [02]	208,500
James Robert Brooks	United Kingdom	T-02 [03]	809,500
Hyunsub Hwang	Korea	T-02 [04]	163,500
Dmytro Lytvynov	Ukraine	T-02 [06]	635,000
Joseph Sandaev	Australia	T-02 [07]	148,500
Raju Jaruplavath	India	T-02 [08]	124,000
Patrik Selin	Sweden	T-02 [09]	201,000
Nikesh Vijay Chawla	India	T-03 [01]	385,000
Antonius Franciscus Krijn	Netherlands	T-03 [02]	142,500
Shaohua Luo	China	T-03 [03]	121,000
Sorawit Suriyakarn	Thailand	T-03 [04]	146,000
Khoa Anh Ngo	Viet Nam	T-03 [05]	90,000
Mingchen Zhang	China	T-03 [06]	88,500
Nemiroysky Dmitry	Russia	T-03 [07]	65,000
Yong Chen	China	T-03 [08]	150,000
Jia Yi Low	Singapore	T-03 [09]	79,500
Haile Rafik Kuo	Grenada	T-08 [01]	263,000
Vishal Ojha	India	T-08 [02]	441,500
Khrongphat Kongprasert	Thailand	T-08 [03]	70,500
Cliton Taliwanth	South Africa	T-08 [04]	187,000
Lei Zhang	China	T-08 [05]	187,000
Stanislav Kovalenko	Russia	T-08 [06]	263,000
Yuto Watanabe	Japan	T-08 [07]	250,500
Thi Xuan Ha Tran	Viet Nam	T-08 [08]	172,500
Khayal Abbasov	Azerbaijan	T-08 [09]	92,500
Patrick James Standen	Canada	T-09 [01]	104,500
Trung Quan Nguyen	Viet Nam	T-09 [02]	419,500
Harsh Dev Rajendra Kumar Jhirmiria	India	T-09 [03]	261,500
Jayden Anthony Zalac	Australia	T-09 [04]	121,000
Dorian Paul Charles Debals	France	T-09 [05]	52,500
Andrei Budykin	Russia	T-09 [06]	135,000
Ki Bum Park	Korea	T-09 [07]	253,000
Young Hun Kim	Korea	T-09 [09]	475,000
Craig Daniel Jones	United Kingdom	T-13 [01]	537,500
Frank James Lillis	Ireland	T-13 [03]	56,000
Bing Wang	China	T-13 [04]	424,500
Gyula Ryan Revai	Canada	T-13 [05]	115,000
Max Benjamin Christian Menzel	Germany	T-13 [06]	67,500
Juyeol Lee	Korea	T-13 [07]	183,000
Xiaosheng Zheng	China	T-13 [08]	364,000
Ayan Biswas	India	T-13 [09]	261,500
Chainani Dhanesh Vijaykumar	Singapore	T-14 [01]	394,000
Seokjun Lee	Korea	T-14 [02]	134,500
Nguyen Nam Duong	Viet Nam	T-14 [04]	83,500
Somashekar Kurkhepally Nahadeva	India	T-14 [05]	76,000
Quan Qiu	China	T-14 [06]	285,000
William Salim	Indonesia	T-14 [07]	162,000
Faiz Alam	India	T-14 [08]	100,000
Hwanho Choe	Korea	T-14 [09]	279,500
Seonggwon Kim	Korea	T-15 [01]	96,000
Siddharth Chetanbhai Karia	India	T-15 [03]	243,000
Van Hung Khuc	Viet Nam	T-15 [04]	110,000
Vikaash Shah	India	T-15 [05]	321,500
Junpeng Pan	China	T-15 [06]	70,500
Zheko Valentinov Dinev	Bulgaria	T-15 [07]	164,500
Stefan Nagl	Hong Kong	T-15 [08]	352,000
Erwan Michel Regnault	France	T-15 [09]	83,500
Ryan Nicholas Johnson	Usa	T-43 [01]	50,500
Zhi Jian Sean Ooi	Malaysia	T-43 [02]	361,000
Kyoungseok Chai	Korea	T-43 [03]	215,000
Kyle Bao Quoc An Diep	USA	T-43 [04]	106,500
Bihari Michael Adam	Hungary	T-43 [05]	317,500
Kai Yat Fam	Singapore	T-43 [06]	174,500
Chayanit Weerapan	Thailand	T-43 [07]	30,500
Hogyun Kang	Korea	T-43 [08]	555,000
Quang Huy Nguyen	Viet Nam	T-43 [09]	101,500

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