APT Main Event (36,000,000 VND)

China’s Jinlong Hu, a three-time APT title holder (2019 APT Ho Chi Minh Single Day, 2023 APT Hanoi Tick Tock, and High Speed Main Event), leads the pack of the VND 36M Main Event after topping Flight C with an impressive stack of 476,600.

Hu finished at the summit of the leaderboard by eliminating Manuel Blaschke, who had accumulated over one hundred fifty thousand chips before being Hu showed him the door and shot to the top of the chip counts in one of the last hands played on level 10 of Flight C.

This flight saw 92 survivors emerge from a field of 225 entries (164 unique), bringing the total entries to 618, with Flight D still ongoing and registration open until 12:30 am local time.

Do Tien Vu is chasing closely with 447,800 chips, followed by Truong Thang Minh with 357,000. Nopparat Kongjai (221,600) climbed up the leaderboard with a tricky bluff using ace-eight in the last level of play. Gukhwan Woo (190,700) had a strong start, delivering an early knockout with a rivered flush using king-deuce against Pham Duy Anh’s ace-queen.

Hong Kong’s Tsz Fai Tong (70,200) maintained a steady run and scored another elimination with a flush using his ace-eight suited against Kiyoung Kim’s ace-deuce.

Natalia Rozova (61,700), the 2023 APT Hanoi Billions Single Day High Roller Mystery Bounty champion, went aggressive with quads late in the second-to-last level. Though she didn’t claim elimination, she left her opponent short with less than 20,000 chips.

Thanh Phat Nguyen (37,100) chipped up in a three-way showdown by flopping a seven, taking the pot with his king kicker against Le Van Hung’s seven-six and delivering elimination to Thanh Luong Dang.

Taiwan’s Li Ta “Leon” Hsu continued the run of form that has seen him claim six APT titles this year in the last three festivals by bagging a top ten stack.

Top Ten Flight C Stacks

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Flight D is now underway, offering players a final chance to build a stack for Day 2. The latest updates can be found on the APT blog.

The Thai Nopparat Kongjai opened from early-position and got four callers. The flop came down 5♥ 3♥ 3♣ and Kongjai continued with a 7,500 bet. Only his fellow countrymen Supanat Rojsukthavorn on the button called.

The turn brought the T♣ and Kongjai continued to fire 13,000. The button called once more and the river came the J♦ For a third time Kongjai put in a bet, this time 23,000. Rojsukthavorn seemingly was in a tough spot.

For multiple minutes he thought about his decision, even already counting out the calling chips. Kongjai did some acting himself. In the Rojsukthavorn decided to let his cards go. Regrets were coming fast though, as Kongjai tabled A♦ 8♥ for the airball bluff.