NAGAWORLD Kickoff ($500)

After Van Xuan Nguyen was eliminated, Cheuk Wai Wong and Anh Tuan Ho struck another deal. With Wong sitting on the bigger stack, he was automatically crowned the champion and was awarded the PS spadie. For runner up Anh, he was awarded the APPT Main Event ticket worth $,1750.

After the three-way deal, Van Xuan Nguyen went all in with Q♥ 2♣ and fell to Cheuk Wai Wong's A♥ K♥ on a board of T♣ 2♠ A♣ 9♦ 7♣ .

After Adam Lydford's fall, the fina three players agreed on an ICM deal with the Main Event ticket and PS trophy left to play for. Listed below are the guaranteed payouts.

Cheuk Wai Wong - $13,879

Anh Tuan Ho - $13,642

Van Xuan Nguyen - $10,185

End of the road for Cheng Zhang who three-bet all in holding K♦ J♦ and just under a million in chips. Action was back on the initial raiser Anh Tuan Ho who wasn't going anywhere with T♣ T♠ . When the board ran A♥ Q♣ 9♦ 7♠ 8♦ , Zhang missed completely to finish in 5th place.

Cheuk Wai Wong wins back to back hands with the first one just an uncalled raise. The next was much larger, defending on the big blind by calling a 120,000 raise from cutoff Anh Tuan Ho. At the flop 4♦ A♠ K♠ , Anh continued for 100,000, Wong put the heat on with a 300,000 raise, Anh called. On the turn Q♣ , Wong wasted no time counting and shoved 745,000, Anh surrendered his hand for a well deserved pot for Wong.

Cheng Zhang picked up a couple of pots to rise back to a million. First hand, he raised 120,000 and chip leader Anh Tuan Ho defended his big blind. At the flop 2♦ 5♠ K♣ , Zhang slid out 60,000 that Anh called. Another 200,000 bet on the turn 5♣ by Zhang was rejected by Anh.

On the next winning hand, Zhang defended his big blind by calling Van Xuan Nguyen's 125,000 raise then went aggro on the flop. Nguyen bet 90,000, Zhang check-raised 325,000, Nguyen folded.

Van Xuan Nguyen raises 125,000 from utg then folds to Anh Tuan Ho's 300,000 raise. Nguyen shows A♥ before folding.

Another pot for the leader Anh who three-bet again to 250,000. Initial raiser Cheuk Wai Wong called then folded to the 150,000 c-bet at the flop 4♠ 8♥ 5♣ .

Small blind Anh Tuan Ho and big blind Cheng Zhang call a 100,000 raise from Adam Lydford then all three check the flop 5♦ 8♠ 6♠ . With another small spade on the turn 3♠ , small blind Anh test-bets 200,000 and it's good to claim the pot.

The "win all showdowns" player Van Xuan Nguyen picked up a couple of pots and this time there all the chips didn't go in. The first hand was up against Anh Tuan Ho who raised 60,000 then called Nguyen's 150,000 three-bet. When the flop landed Q♠ 2♦ T♦ , Nguyen's 100,000 c-bet was called again by Anh to head to the turn Q♦ . Another barrel from Nguyen for 200,000 this time and it was good enough to rake in the pot.

Immediately following that hand, Nguyen raised 70,000 preflop and won the blinds and ante.

A little bit more action was seen in this hand with Anh Tuan Ho raising 60,000 then went hunting at the flop with caller Cheuk Wai Wong on the big blind. Wong led out 60,000 then folded to Anh's 150,000 raise.

Not much action in the new level with many uncalled preflop raises. A flop was seen when Van Xuan Nguyen called Cheuk Wai Wong's min-raise then folded on the c-bet on a flop K♠ 2♦ 5♥ .

With the board running 2♥ 9♥ 5♦ 5♠ 2♣ , the aces hold for another double up to Nguyen.

The Final Table of the NagaWorld Kickoff is set! One of the nine remaining players will be the first big winner of the festival and collect the $18,203 top prize along with the big spadie on display.

After suffering two bad runouts, Christian Cloutier takes a stand with A♥ J♣ only to run inot Anh Tuan Ho's A♠ Q♦ . The board ends his title bid after it completed 8♠ 8♥ 6♣ Q♥ 3♣ .

Anh Tuan Ho is at it again, raising 32,000 from the button, small blind calls and they head to the flop 5♥ 2♠ 7♣ . Anh continues for 22,000 to win the pot easy.

Banking on momentum, Anh Tuan Ho three-bet Van Xuan Nguyen's cutoff raise of 35,000 making it 126,000 to continue. At the flop A♣ 5♥ 2♠ , Anh fired 50,000, Nguyen opted out. Anh showed A♠ A♦ .

Anh Tuan Ho opened from utg with A♥ J♦ and big blind Christian Cloutier defended his chips with J♥ 7♠ . When the flop fanned out 6♦ 7♦ J♠ , Cloutier trapped with two pair, Anh c-bet his top pair for 27,000, then Cloutier sprung into a shove. Despite being well covered, Anh called his 322,000 stack and saw the bad news.

No change came on the turn 8♣ but when the river landed A♦ , Anh celebrated his luck as Cloutier paid up.

The turn 7♠ and river 5♠ keep Nguyen ahead to collect a double up.