APT Main Event (36,000,000 VND)

Gia Nguyen opened from the button and Xuddong Yang defended his big-blind. On T♠ 4♠ 2♥ Nguyen continued with a 4,000 bet to which Yang responded with an all-in with his 17,600 chips. Nguyen called and Yang was at risk busting at the very end of Day 1.

Xuddong Yang: T♣ 4♣

Gia Nguyen: A♣ 3♦

Yang had to fade the five to double up back to starting stack, and indeed the turn J♣ and river 3♠ ran out clean for the Chinese national.

An Hoang Binh opened the hijack to 1,800 and received two callers, Tran The Anh on the button and Xudong Yang from the big blind.

Three players saw a flop of T♣ K♠ 6♦ and checked it through to the Q♦ turn, where Yang checked in to Binh, who led out for 2,000. Only Anh made the call.

The river showed a board-pairing 6♥ . Binh checked it over, and Anh fired 3,000 this time, which didn’t deter Binh from dropping in a call. Anh tabled two pair with K♣ J♦ , making Binh fold and concede the pot.