Super High Roller (88,000,000 VND)

Xu Xinyin raised to 300,000 from hi-jack with A♣ Q♠. Hari Varma on the button three-bet with K♥ Q♦ for 2,000,000. Xu called.

Flop arrived J♦ 8♠ 3♥ Xu shoved all-in and Varma called.

Board completed 3♣ 7♥.

Hari Varma found K♦ K♣ on small blind and limped. Edgaras Kausinis on big blind with J♣ 6♥ raised to 350,000 and Varma pushed all-in to let Kausinis fold.

Azizjon Rakhimov raised to 300,000 with Q♠ J♣ on hi-jack and Hari Varma called on big blind with K♥ T♥.

Flop arrived A♠ 2♠ T♠. Varma checked and Rakimov fired 150,000 and Varma called to see a 9♠ turn.

Both check to see a K♣ on the river. Varma checked and Rakhimov bet 1,000,000. Varma tanked and used some time-bank cards before calling and shipping the chips to Rakhimov.

Ryan Hong raised on the button to 240,000 wtih A♦ 4♣. Hari Varma defended with J♥ 9♥. The flop came 5♥ A♣ 5♦. Both chck to see a Q♠. Hong checked and Varma checked. 7♣ on the river. Hong checked and Varma fired 300,000 and Hong called to finish the trap.

The USOP Hai Phong Grand Finale Super High Roller will crown a champion today at the Grand Ballroom of the Pullman Hai Phong Grand Hotel!

160 entries built a prize pool of VND 12,032,000 (~USD 473,000) which is 5x the original offering. The 24 qualifiers, who went through nearly 14 hours of poker action yesterday when the bubble burst, will take their seats today assured of a minimum VND 150,000,000 (~VND 6,000) payout.

Of course, they will fight their way up the payout ladder for bigger and better prizes with the top payout of VND 2.77 Billion (~USD 106,000) and a golden USOP trophy await the champion.

Leading the field of 24 in the chip counts is Korea’s Lee Juyeol who amassed a top-ranked 3,100,000 chips from a starting stack of 200,000. Next in rank would be Liu Defeng with 2,645,000 chips. Rounding up the top three was Kilian Kramer with 2,470,000 chips.

Some of the notable players who've been having success in this USOP Hai Phong Grand Finale series, but were unable to advance to Day 2 were:

High Roller: Warm Up Winner John Edward Perry; Mini High Roller champion Su Shanhe; Mini High Roller Runner-Up Natalia Rozova; Sunday Superstack Final Table Finalist Wencheng Lin and Superstar Challenge third placer Leo Du Boisbaudry.

The field is open for new names and faces to make their mark in USOP history, and today is one of those days!