Andy Li Xueyan rails Minh Le
Andy Li Xueyan had pocket kings, Minh Le had pocket nines, the board ran 3-8-9-8-K for a full house to both but Xueyan with the higher spread.
Tony Trieu wins two, rises to 230k
Lucky quads for Chih Ying Liang, busts An Joung Huk
Big blind special for Piet Pape, zooms to 240k
Lloyd Fontillas’s aces cracked by Brodie
Takagi Yosuke railed by Andy Li Xueyan
Prize pool is up!

Prize pool: VND 15,105,034,000 (US$651,175) 1st prize: VND 2,777,360 (US$119,700) Entries: 686 ITM: 86 places
Full pay for Marvin Rettenmaier’s boat
Jaewook Shin tanks to Dinh Gia Hung
Nam Phuong not afraid of the big stack
Registration closed! 339 entries for Day 1C
Chip update
Phan Hong Cuong 140k Le Tan Quang 170k Piet Pape 140k Minh Le 120k Michael Kim Falcon 120k Pavel Lubov 130k Rex Clinkscales 140k La Anh Tuan 135k Tan Wah Meng 125k Jae Wook Shin 210k (chip leader)
Level 9 begins! Last round to enter
This is the last level to enter the Main Event. Once Level 10 begins, that’s it.
Set over set! Antoine Ky rails Han Wool Jang
299 entries…
A♠ expected, Day 1C was going to be huge. We are now at 299 entries - 255 uniques and 44 re-entries. Three more levels of registration open. We’ll keep you updated as we inch closer to last year’s number to beat.
Seongmin Han grabs some back from Chul Ho Bae
Le Tan Dung ships all of Harry Lim’s stack
Chul Ho Bae doubles up through Seongmin Han
Chip leader update
We’ve got several players over 100k…. these are the current front runners:
Seongmin Han 150k Nguyen Tuan Thanh 130k Minh Le 115k Nguyen Quoc Anh 102k
Chauve Vincent doubles up through Clinkscales
Michael Kim Falcon banks through Niharika
Over 600 entries combined…
We have crossed into 600 entries combined… the screen shows 258 entries. Combine that with the past two starting days 347 total, we are at 605 entries. With 5 more levels to go before reg closes, we are looking in fine shape to exceed last year’s 679 entries and possibly even surpass WPT India’s 697 tour record for Asia.
Andres Beliakov doubles up through Dinh Xuan Dinh
WPT Japan winners - Killian Lehec and Takagi Yosuke
Another one bites the dust… Hoang Hai Ha rails Panel Lubov
Full house over full house! Nguyen Dang Toan rails Amanpreet Singh
Palmas Nguyen doubles up through Le Nam
Set over set! Constantin Harach rails Vinh Nguyen
Seen at the felt
Among the crowd getting an early start here are: Nguyen Thanh, Minh Le, Michael Kim Falcon, Le Ngoc Khanh, Kjell Ove Dyb, Dinh Xuan Dinh, Eun Ho Kwon, Peter Nguyen, and Tomoharu Furuya.











































