NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($500)

The NagaWorld Kickoff flights are done and dusted with 13 Flight B survivors out of the 89 runners booking their ticket to the money round. Turkey's Salih Kaya came out on top with 394,000 (49 bb) followed by Vietnamese heavy-hitter Van Tien Dinh with 324,000 (40 bb). The game resumes on Saturday, May 3 with 31 players returning. We will have the official prize pool and payouts posted once it has been released.

Catching the action on a board showing K♦ 8♦ 4♣ 8♣ T♥ and a big pot in the middle, Xinhong Chen checks then faces a bet of 65,000 from Van Tien Dinh. Chen tanks for some time then finally calls. Dinh flips open A♣ 9♣ and it's good with Chen mucking. Needless to say, the table was shocked. DVT later told SMP that Chen may have had Queen-high.

Another successful raise for Van Tien Dinh who called Rindra Norodom's 12,000 raise preflop then raised 45,000 after Norodom c-bet 16,000 on the flop 6♥ 2♦ 4♠ . Norodom folded.

Short stacked Jerome Khao risks 8000 of his 46,000 stack (11 bb) then can't pull the trigger when Van Tien Dinh shoves his big stack.