Vietnam Open

[Vietnamese Translation]

The first trophy was claimed by Vietnam’s own Phan Minh Duc at the Vietnam Open event. Phan pocketed a cool ₫402,300,000 (~$16,500). 

It was a patient grind to the top for Phan who was down to 9 bb at 7 handed. After numerous uncalled shoves and three players dropping out, Phan earned his first double up against Adrian Chua with A♦ 9♠ spiking the ace on the river to dust 9♥ 9♣ .

At three-handed, Phan grinded to the top then won a big pot against Chua who then fell to Liu Tianyou. Heads up was quick with Phan eliminating Liu in just two hands. The final hand was Phan Q♥ J♦ , Liu 7♣ 7♦ , the board was 8♥ A♦ 8♦ J♠ 4♠ .

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Buy in: ₫4,000,000 (~$142) / ₫8,000,000 (~$245) Guarantee: ₫2,000,000,000 (~$82,290) Entries: 109 / 149 / 40 = 298 Prize pool: ₫2,000,000,000 (~$82,290) ITM: 9 / 23 / 6 = 38 players

Full payouts to be posted.

Table 1

Table 2

Cutoff Zhang Cheng raises 25,000 that finds three callers to the flop A♦ T♣ 5♠ . Zhang c-bets 37,000, button Phan Minh Duc calls, blinds fold. On the turn 4♥ and river 9♣ , Zhang check-calls Phan’s 86,000 bet and 169,000 shove. Phan wins it with 5♥ 5♦ set over Zhang’s A♣ J♣ top pair.

Short stacked Zhang Yang (19,000) and Mikheev Vladimir (29,000) shove, big blind Phan Minh Duc calls with J♠ T♠ . Board runs 7♦ T♣ A♠ 2♣ T♥ for trips to Phan and the sweep.