Super High Roller (88,000,000 VND)

Action folded to the blinds when small blind Li Yongxin limped and Xinyin Xu checked her option to see a flop of T♦ 2♠ 9♠. Both checked to see a 9♦ on the turn. Yongxin check-called the 175,000 bet of Xu to see a 4♣ on the river. Both checked.

Li Yongxin flipped over A♦ K♦ which was drawing to a nut flush while Xu flipped over K♠ 2♣ to win the pot with a pair of deuces. Xu smiled and thanked the poker gods nothing catastrophic happened.

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!