Main Event

Date: October 6, 2023 Buy in: ₫8,500,000 (~US$ 366) Entries: 65 Bagging time: 5% of field / 4 players

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Folded to small blind Iosub Dragos Gabriel, he shoved all-in into Ling Tien Loon’s big blind. Ling called off for his remaining 30,000 and headed for a race.

Iosub Q♥ T♦ Ling A♦ 6♥

The board ran T♠ 2♣ Q♠ K♣ 4♠ , quickly eliminating Ling one spot short of the money.

Small blind Phan Tuan Vinh limped in and fired a three bet to 35,000 after big blind Iosub Dragos Gabriel put in an 11,000 raise. Iosub completes and sees a flop of K♠ 4♣ 2♣ . Phan check-calls a 13,000 bet from his opponent and moves on to turn T♦ . Action checked round and the river 7♠ saw Phan with a check fold following a 25,000 river bet from Iosub.

After winning a flip against Ling Tien Loon, Lim Shyh Chyn pushed all-in once more, this time for a bigger 29,000. Iosub Dragos Gabriel found the call behind with A♥ 9♥ and was ahead against Lim’s A♦ 3♠ . The flop 3♥ A♣ 7♣ quickly gave Lim the advantage, but didn’t last long as the runout T♥ 5♥ landed Iosub a backdoor flush for the win.

7 players left in the Day 1H flight with only 4 runners making through to Day 2.

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Utg+1 Iosub Dragos Gabriel opened to 3,000, called by small blind Garson Francis Bernard. The two head on to see a flop of 6♥ K♥ 8♣ and Garson check calls a 5,000 bet from Iosub. Turn 7♠ saw Garson this time check raise all-in, Iosub with a final call.

Garson A♥ A♦ Iosub 6♠ 6♣

Left drawing to two outs against Iosub’s flopped set, the river 3♦ sealed Garson’s fate and crippled him down to 4.5 BB.

After Iosub Dragos Gabriel pushed all-in, small blind Ji Chuang called off for his tournament life and put in his remaining 3,700.

Iosub A♣ 8♣ Ji T♥ 9♠

The board ran 5♦ 6♥ A♥ 8♠ K♠ easily giving Iosub the pot and Ji his elimination.