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Day 2
Three way showdown. Do Tuan Phong spikes lucky river
Action packed preflop opens with utg+1 Anthony Lewis raising 200,000, utg+2 Thomas Ward three-bets 480,000, lojack Sishu Peng four bets 795,000, cutoff Do Tuan Phong shoves 850,000, Lewis and Ward call, and Peng calls for his tournament life. At the flop A♥ A♦ 7♠ , Lewis bets 70,000, Ward folds. Lewis 7♣ 7♦ full house, Peng 9♠ 9♣ two pair, and Do A♦ K♠ trips. The turn 6♥ sees no change but the river K♥ is a higher full house to Do for a massive scoop. Peng is eliminated.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 5,200,000(52 BB) | -1,000,000 | |
| 3,600,000(36 BB) | 2,500,000 | |
| 1,600,000(16 BB) | -900,000 |
Anthony Lewis rails David Soin
David Soin K♠ J♠ open shoves and is called by Anthony Lewis A♥ T♠ . The board runs T♣ 2♦ 5♥ 8♦ 6♣ . Soin goes bust.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500,000(31 BB) | 500,000 |
Final 26 players - 3 tables
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 9,100,000(114 BB) | 2,100,000 | |
| 6,200,000(78 BB) | 3,750,000 | |
| 4,000,000(50 BB) | 2,000,000 | |
| 2,250,000(28 BB) | -60,000 | |
| 2,000,000(25 BB) | -1,600,000 | |
| 1,400,000(18 BB) | -100,000 | |
| 1,100,000(14 BB) | -1,285,000 | |
| 500,000(6 BB) | -1,800,000 | |
| 330,000(4 BB) | -46,000 |
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 3,800,000(48 BB) | 2,700,000 | |
| 3,000,000(38 BB) | 600,000 | |
| 3,000,000(38 BB) | 2,696,000 | |
| 2,750,000(34 BB) | -200,000 | |
| 2,400,000(30 BB) | 2,046,000 | |
| 2,050,000(26 BB) | 800,000 | |
| 825,000(10 BB) | -235,000 | |
| 730,000(9 BB) | -570,000 |
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 5,005,000(63 BB) | 5,000 | |
| 3,800,000(48 BB) | -800,000 | |
| 2,840,000(36 BB) | 1,440,000 | |
IL | 2,700,000(34 BB) | -170,000 |
JM | 2,640,000(33 BB) | 40,000 |
| 1,790,000(22 BB) | 90,000 | |
| 1,300,000(16 BB) | 1,040,000 | |
| 1,295,000(16 BB) | -205,000 | |
| 1,225,000(15 BB) | 825,000 |
42 players remaining
Chip leaders:
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000,000(83 BB) | 800,000 | |
| 3,600,000(60 BB) | 2,950,000 | |
| 3,100,000(52 BB) | 800,000 | |
| 2,950,000(49 BB) | 250,000 | |
| 2,450,000(41 BB) | -350,000 | |
| 2,400,000(40 BB) | -350,000 | |
| 2,300,000(38 BB) | 1,858,000 |
Ge Yung Rui wins the flip against Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis opens from utg+2 then calls hijack Ge Yung Rui’s 395,000 shove. Lewis has T♣ T♥ , Ge A♥ Q♥ . The board comes 6♣ 8♠ K♠ Q♦ 7♦ , Ge wins the flip to double up.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 830,000(55 BB) | 830,000 | |
| 650,000(43 BB) | 69,000 |
Day 1B
Kim Tae Hyoeng
Kim Tae Hyoeng wraps up Day 1B as chip leader, Won Chul Bae at his tail, 52 players advance
After twelve hours of play, Main Event Day 1B closed with Korea’s leading the 52 ITM qualifiers. Kim was a grinding force throughout the day claiming pot after pot with rarely a showdown. He dragged in one of the last pots at his table to just edge over fellow countryman Won Chul Bae for the day’s top spot.
Also advancing was 2024 USOP Taiwan Main Event champion Sam Chen Yu Hung with a decent 24 bb stack. He became the first USOP champion to qualify with Nguyen Ngoc Dai and The Naing both missing the mark today.
Main Event Day 1B was another record setter with 416 entries on record, marking it the largest Day 1B flight in USOP history. Combined with Day 1A, the cumulative entries is now 782 bringing the pot to around VN₫ 20 Billion.
Among the faces in the crowd today were WSOP bracelet holders Abhinav Iyer, Siyang Phua, Aayush Arya however they were unable to go the day’s distance. Also falling were notables Nam Hyung Kim, Pham Tien Dung, Dao Minh Phu, Gab Yong Kim, Edward Yam, Manish Lakhotia, and Ian Lee to mention a few. Luckily, there are still two more flights to run, both taking place on Saturday, March 30, 2024.
Date: March 29, 2024 Buy in: VN₫ 30,000,000 (~USD 1,235) Guarantee: VN₫ 15,000,000,000 (~USD 614,500) Day 1B: 416 entries (314 unique) ITM: 52 players Chips in play: 16,640,000
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 883,000 | 883,000 | |
| 874,000 | 874,000 | |
| 790,000 | 790,000 | |
| 774,000 | 774,000 | |
| 650,000 | 650,000 | |
| 622,000 | 412,000 | |
| 581,000 | 581,000 | |
| 545,000 | 545,000 | |
| 537,000 | 537,000 | |
| 461,000 | 461,000 | |
| 453,000 | -47,000 | |
| 442,000 | 442,000 | |
| 427,000 | 427,000 | |
| 407,000 | 407,000 | |
| 405,000 | 405,000 | |
| 398,000 | 215,000 | |
| 375,000 | 375,000 | |
| 354,000 | 354,000 | |
| 346,000 | 346,000 | |
| 334,000 | 259,000 | |
| 321,000 | -4,000 | |
| 308,000 | 308,000 | |
| 291,000 | 291,000 | |
| 282,000 | 282,000 | |
| 277,000 | 277,000 | |
| 249,000 | 249,000 | |
| 243,000 | 243,000 | |
| 239,000 | 239,000 | |
| 233,000 | 233,000 | |
| 228,000 | 228,000 | |
| 218,000 | 218,000 | |
| 216,000 | 216,000 | |
| 211,000 | 211,000 | |
| 209,000 | 209,000 | |
| 203,000 | 143,000 | |
| 200,000 | 200,000 | |
| 188,000 | 188,000 | |
| 182,000 | 182,000 | |
JM | 177,000 | 177,000 |
| 176,000 | 176,000 | |
| 173,000 | 13,000 | |
| 169,000 | 169,000 | |
| 148,000 | 148,000 | |
| 137,000 | 137,000 | |
| 134,000 | 134,000 | |
| 122,000 | -70,000 | |
| 118,000 | 118,000 | |
CB | 98,000 | 98,000 |
| 91,000 | 91,000 | |
| 86,000 | 86,000 | |
| 60,000 | 60,000 | |
| 30,000 | 30,000 |
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