Vietnam National Cup

Kunal Patni shoved all in for 1,085,000 from the cutoff and Shohei Osugi dropped in a call.

Kunal Patni: 6♠ 6♣

Shohei Osugi: 9♥ 9♦

Osugi held the lead with pocket nines. The flop came K♦ Q♥ T♥ , changing nothing for both sides. A 9♣ fell on the turn, improving Osugi’s pair to a set of nines and leaving Patni hopeless to win. A 7♦ landed on river only to complete the board and show Patni the way of cash desk for a payday of VND 82,270,000 (~$3,240).

Yuttakan Sangri shoved all in from under the gun and was called by Kunal Patni from the big blind.

Yuttakan Sangri: A♦ 8♦

Kunal Patni: A♠ Q♠

Patni picked up the lead with the queen, and the flop filled out 5♠ 9♣ 7♥ , providing Patni a backdoor flush draw and Sangri a straight draw. Unfortunately for Sangri, a dry runout rolled off J♦ 2♣ , meaning he fell short of the final table and finished in tenth place for a payday of VND 67,630,000 (~$2,660).

Shimizu Nozomu raised to 40,000 from middle position and Kunal Patni called from the big blind.

Both saw the J♥ J♠ 4♥ flop, bringing flush possibilities, and checked through to a 7♥ turn, where Patni bet 50,000 and Nozomu stuck around.

The river brought the Q♥ . The action went check-check. Patini tabled a flush with A♥ 5♥ , leaving Nozomu no choice but to much his hand.

Kunal Patni opened the cutoff to 40,00 and Nguyen Trung Chien defended from the big blind.

Both saw a flop of A♣ J♠ 5♥ and decided to check through to see a 5♦ land on the turn.

The action went check-check again. The river brought a board-pairing 5♣ , where Chien checked over, which Patni changed his strategy and bet 70,000. Chien snap-folded.

Sergei raised from middle position and received two callers, Kunal Patni from the small blind and Yuttakan Sangri from the big blind.

Three player saw a flop fill out K♥ 4♥ T♠ , where Patni and Sangri checked the action to Korzhenko, who then bet 60,000. This was enough to force the other two players to fold.

Nguyen Trung Chien opened from the cut-off and Kunal Patni defended his big-blind. Nguyen continued with a 30,000 bet on K♥ 7♥ 6♦ . The turn brought the 4♣ , Patni checked and Nguyen continued his aggressive line with a 115,000 bet, leaving himself around 275,000 more behind. The Indian professional responded with an all-in, covering Nguyen. After some deliberation time Nguyen folded and Patni showed the 5♣ for a potential bluff. He is certainly one of the players to look out for when it comes to favorites to win this tournament.