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Viet Nam, Pullman Danang Beach ResortEVENT 
Day 2
Ian Lee lucks out on a three way
Utg Ian Lee T♦ T♣ open shoves 960,000, two spots over Bui The Nguyen A♦ A♥ shoves 750,000, lojack joins in with J♠ J♥ for a three way cooler. The board runs a wild T♥ K♣ Q♣ 4♥ 6♠ , Lee’s lesser hole cards improve to a set to scoop it up.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
IL | 2,870,000(36 BB) | 2,305,000 |
| 1,100,000(14 BB) | -1,050,000 |
Tae Hyoeng Kim cracks aces
All in preflop, Tae Hyoeng is in need of major help with 7♥ 7♠ running into Bui The Nguyen’s A♣ A♥ . Help does arrive with cards landed on board 7♣ 5♣ 9♥ 5♠ 6♣ .
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 2,150,000(27 BB) | -950,000 | |
| 700,000(9 BB) | 400,000 |
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 |
Tae Hyoeng Kim outdraws Darragh Curtin
Cutoff Darragh Curtin raises 100,000, small blind Tae Hyoeng Kim three-bets 700,000, back to Curtin who goes all in for 873,000, Kim calls. Curtin is ahead A♣ Q♥ of Kim’s Q♠ J♦ , however with a jack turning up on a board J♥ 5♥ 4♣ 8♦ 2♥ , Curtin is eliminated.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 2,300,000(46 BB) | 900,000 |
Fan Ying Kun continues to rise
Battle of the blinds, Tae Hyoeng Kim raises 100,000, big blind Fan Ying Kin calls, both proceed to see the board complete J♦ 5♦ 8♠ 7♥ 3♠ . Kim bets on every street, 80,000, 175,000, and 450,000, Fan calls the flop and turn then raises all in on the river, Kim folds.
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 4,200,000(105 BB) | 800,000 | |
| 1,400,000(35 BB) | -50,000 |
Blinds up, 132 players remaining
Players are back from the first break of the day. New level underway. 132 players remaining. Here are the chip leaders:
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
JM | 1,600,000(107 BB) | 662,000 |
| 1,580,000(105 BB) | 180,000 | |
| 1,450,000(97 BB) | 567,000 | |
| 1,300,000(87 BB) | 561,000 | |
| 1,150,000(77 BB) | 412,000 | |
| 1,050,000(70 BB) | 640,000 | |
| 1,000,000(67 BB) | 412,000 |
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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