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Fu Bang Huang Queens fall to Campomanes’ cowboys
Kim Jae Hyun dusts Jack Wu
-2500 BB Ante
Last five hands has been called and with that a flurry of shoves around the room. Jack En Ching Wu was one of the casualties going down with pocket Fours against Kim Jae Hyun’s top pair Tens on the river.
Nguyen Hoang Nam rails Saquing to zoom over 2.4M
Main Event Day 1B ends!
With all tables done with the last hands, that’s a wrap for Main Event Day 1B! We will have the chip counts up as soon as it has been made available. The screens currently have the count at 377 entries and 85 survivors. Phan Thanh Hung is the unofficial chip leader of this heat with over 300k. Standby for the recap where we will have all the info.
Nguyen Trong Nghia vs Truong Vu Tran Khanh
38 players remaining; several stacks of mil and more
-20000 Ante BB
38 players remaining Chips in play: 24,660,000 Average stack: 648,947
Estimated chip counts of players with a mil and over
Jenam Yu - 1.5M Nguyen Hoang Nam - 1.45M Minh A Nguyen - 1M Ngo Minh Tien - 1.25M Van Tien Dinh - 1.15M Fu Bang Huang - 1M David Erquiaga - 1M
Mark Tze Yi Wong alive with Aces
-2500 BB Ante
Another short stack survivor with Mark Tze Yi Wong getting full pay for his pocket Aces. Taking the cut was Tran Huy Hoang with pocket Queens. Wong zoomed to 100k. Tran dropped to 65k.
Blinds up
-2000 BB Ante
Blinds are up, play continues with 112 remaining out of 294 total entries. This is the second to the last level of the day. Average stack is 78,750. Jeffrey Pamplona leads with over 300k.
Tran Hong Chuong tanks Ning Zhi Yi, drags in a big one
Kannapong Thanarattrakul crashes to Pamplona
Last level of Day 1B, shove fest continues; Talordpong all in
Fuk On Wong wins the three-way as Crawshaw busts
Jason Kyle Magbanua earns a bit from Plicvs
Registration is closed!
-1500 BB Ante
Level 10 is underway which means registration is closed. A handful of players signed up during the break. The screens say 293 entries but that’s not official. We will have the count for you shortly.
Break time! Last chance to enter
Players are on their last break of the day which means it is the last chance for anyone who wishes to enter today’s starting heat. There are currently 290 entries. The event is on pace to smashing the guarantee.
Ha Tuong Manh gets big pay for the nut flush
Cooler alert! Kok Wai Sim versus Jaesung Park
Minh A. Nguyen beats Koh’s aces on the turn
Blinds up and last level of late registration
-1200 BB Ante
Blinds have already gone up which means we are on the last level of late registration. At the end of this round there will be a break. Those looking to enter, you still have 20 BB to play with if you enter on the last second. The current tally is 285 entries.
Registration closes at 379 entries
-1500 BB Ante
Registration closed with 379 entries, there are currently 165 players remaining. Three levels to go before bagging time for this heat. For those that want to sign up, we suggest to do so soon. Day 1C has blinds increasing every 20 minutes so it is a fast one. Buy in is ₫25,000,000 (~$1,020). The ₫10 Billion guarantee is already history with the pot pushing past ₫16 Billion.
Jenam Yu rails Shardul Parthasarathi
-12000 Ante BB
End of the road for Shardul Parthasarathi with massive stacked Jenam Yu giving him the boot. It was all in preflop with Yu commanding with pocket Tens against Ace-Ten that held to the end. Yu now at 1.5M.
Big stacks around the room
-1000 BB Ante
Shyh Chyn Lim - 210k Jeffrey Pamplona - 205k Ta Khanh Linh - 164k Thai Duong Ho Vo - 163k Dhaval Mudgal - 150k Richard Marquez - 150k Lee Haerok - 140k Aigars Plivcs - 130k Neel Joshi - 122k
Trinh Huy Thong gets Nguyen Duc Nhat to fold
Prommin Talordpong in shock, Fu Bang Huang zooms to 940k
Blinds up
-1000 BB Ante
Blinds are up again. There current tally of entries is 280 with seventy of those re-entries. Average stack is 40,000.
Three way ends Tiger Lee and Iyer, Ming San Chung ship it
Players are back on the beat, blinds are up!
-800 BB Ante
Cards are back in the air here at Day 1A. The dinner break added another 12 entries, the tally is now 260 with 208 players seated.
Cowboys good to Tan Xi Zuan
-1000 BB Ante
Blinds are climbing which means short stacks are getting desperate. One of them, Tan Zi Xuan shoved his 17.2k stack, got called, then happily doubled with pocket Kings domination pocket Tens.
Kulnattee Kunatharakul gets a bit more from Colada
Dinner break
50-minute dinner break. There are currently 248 entries with 204 seated. Registration is still open, closing at the end of Level 9 approx 9:30pm. We’ll be back!
Main Event Day 1A ends
After 12 rounds of play, Main Event is in the books. 293 signed up with only 72 surviving. We will have the chip counts posted here as soon as it has been made available.
Players back from the dinner break
-800 BB Ante
Players have returned from a dinner break. They play another six round of 40-minute blinds before bagging up.
Neel Joshi goes bust
-10000 Ante BB
Neel Joshin all in with A♣ 4♦ , two players were also in the hand both with Jack-Ten. A Jack found the board to end Joshi’s run.
Quang Nguyen finds some luck to stay alive
Blinds up
-600 BB Ante
Another level done. Players have now entered Level 6 with buy ins at 300-600-600 BB Ante. 234 have entered so far with 198 seated. There will be a one hour dinner break after this the round. Still plenty of time to sign up with registration closing at the end of Level 9.
Choi Seunghoon bags a double with rockets
-500 BB Ante
Premium hands lighting up the felt. Choi Seunghoon woke up with Aces and Moses Saquing had Kings. No bad beats arrived for a double up to Choi to 57k.
Break time
-6000 Ante BB
Players are back from break. 103 remaining. They play another 8 rounds of 50-minute blinds before bagging up.
17:13: Blinds up -500 BB Ante
New level with blinds up to 300-500-500 BB Ante. Average stack is 34,000. There are 212 entries with 187 seated.
Pham Lam Duy delivers double KO to Takayama and Trung
Richard Marquez with Queens to bust one
-6000 Ante BB
Big blind Richard Marquez called a player’s shoved with pocket Queens dominating Ace-Six suited hearts. The board dropped a Queen on the flop to ensure the win for Marquez for a scoop to 210k while booting a player.
Aces cracked! Kim Hyun Sup booted, Hwang Jungmin scoops
Bubble bursts! Kartik Ved railed by Seung Yeol Kim
Break time
-300 BB Ante
Play has reached the first break of the day. There are currently 178 entries, fourteen of those are re-entries.
Big stacks
-5000 Ante BB
Big stacks around the room… estimated counts.
Emmanuel Segismundo - 400k Vincent Huang - 445k Nguyen Van Trung - 530k Kunal Patni - 430k Nguyen Hoang Nam - 380k Changhwan Lee - 650k Jenam Yu - 460k Nguyen Tuan Anh - 430k
Thanakrit Lachaima defends big blind and wins a raised pot
Blinds up
-300 BB Ante
New level with blinds now up to 200-300-300 BB Ante. The previous level picked up another 22 entries. Main Event is now at 147 entries. Among the faces in the crowd are Neel Joshi, Seungmook Jung, Hwany Lee, Tzai Wei Phua, Jack En Ching Wu, Moses Saquing, and Pham Bao.
Players back from the break
-400 BB Ante
After the 15-minute break, the field is at 248 with 208 seated. Among the new players coming in during the previous rounds were Phachara Wongwichit, Teddy Pham, Tran Huy Hoang, Christopher Mateo, Quang Nguyen, Cao Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Ngoc Dai, Dang Van Hien, and Poker Dream creator Winfred Yu. Currently leading the race is John Tech with over 100k.
Short stacked Hamish Crawshaw raises nearly all
-5000 BB Ante
From mid-position Hamish Crawshaw raised 50k leaving himself 4k behind. Action folded around with no callers to pick up the blinds and ante.
Too much for Tran Hong Cuong
-5000 BB Ante
Tran Hong Cuong raised it up to 11k, Lee Sung Kum thought it was too small and repopped for all his chips amounting to 120k. With everyone folding around, Tran did the same and said “too much”.
Nguyen Hoang Nam doubles up through Choi Seunghoon
Players on break
The first break of the day is at hand. There are 138 players remaining from the 192 that started. We are inching closer to the money which starts at 119th place.
Blinds are up
-200 BB Ante
New level with blinds now up to 100-200-200 BB Ante. The field continues to grow with 125 entries.
Players continue to fill up seats, 100 breached
-100 BB Ante
We are still at Level 1 with 14 minutes left before blinds go up. The screens have the count at 103 entries. Seated among the crowd are Yohwan Lim aka BoxeR, multi finalist Lee Haerok, Shyh Chyn Lim, Grant Gardner, Fu Bang Huang, and Yi Wei Peng. Looks like Vietnam has also come out early with players Dinh Xuan Dinh and Kyle Bao Diep in the mix.
Long queue at registration
-100 BB Ante
The screens say 62 players but with the long queue at registration that number will swell in minutes. There are 8 tables up and running.
Four way to the flop, Thanakrit Lachaima bets to win
Changhwan Lee delivers nasty beat to Nguyen Quang Minh
Dhaval Mudgal gets the best of Dinh Xuan Dinh
Changhwan Lee over double starting
-100 BB Ante
Deepstack runner up Changhwan Lee is up to 67k, which is more than double the starting stack of 30k. We aren’t sure how he got there but we will keep an eye on him.
Over 100 entries
-100 BB Ante
A♠ predicted, the 100 marker has been breached with ten minutes to spare in this opening round. The screens have it at 106 entries.
Cooler alert! Yohwan Lim doubles through Teddy Pham
Early busts
-3000 BB Ante
Short stacks are dropping fast with the field down to 180 within the first fifteen minutes. Among the fallouts were Phan Minh Duc who ran into pocket Kings, Tran Huy Hoang cleaned out by Manh Tong Ha to 245k, and Korea’s Wonchul Bae.
At the scene
-100 BB Ante
Among the players getting an early start are Main Event newcomers Men “the master” Nguyen, Hieu Ngo, Short Deck champion Jason Lau, and Day 1A fallouts Hamish Crawshaw, Pham Tien Dung, Kunal Patni, and Grant Gardner.
Cards in the air for Day 2!
-3000 BB Ante
Shuffle up and deal! Cards in the air for Day 2! 192 players race to the money of 119 places. We will have the payouts for you in a few minutes.
Van Tien Dinh rises to 3M, Huyen Kinh Nguyen out
Hojin Kim’s jacks hold against big slick
-30000 Ante BB
Classic flip at the feature table with Hojin Kim all in with pocket Jacks called by Hazel Chiu with Ace-King. The jacks hold for a double up to 825k while Chiu dropped to 860k.
