Cambodia, NagaworldEVENT #3

2025.02.07 - 2025.02.10Add to Calendar

World Poker Tour

Blind level

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

Entries

37/122

Total Chips

6,100,000

Average

164,865

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 5:43:25 PM

Championship Warm Up Day 1C sees 38 qualify, Ireland’s Frank Lillis sits atop leaderboard

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

Frank Lillis

The last bus to Day 2 parked just after midnight as 122 entries concluded the qualification phase of the Championship Warm up with 38 players making it through to Day 2 which commences later (9th February) at 11:30am (UCT+7).

Many of the entries in the Turbo flight (only 20 minutes per level) were late fallouts from Day 1B such as Arjun Agarwal of India, Poland’s Mateusz Stanielewicz and NagaWorld Super Stack champion Johan Lees of Australia.

But it was a late surge by Ireland’s Frank Lillis that saw him catapult past Ilya Firstov of Russia and bring his stack of 335,000 to the forefront in Day 2. Second in chips from this flight was Vietnam’s Do Quang Trinh with 314,000 while third was Khayal Abbasov of Azerbaijan (who also saw action in the earlier Day 1B) with 312,000.

The close of Day 1C brings the total number of entries to 527 smashing the original guarantee of US$150,000.

The 114 qualifiers now lock horns anew as the payouts will revealed when the players reconvene for Day 2.

Championship Warm Up

Date/s: February 7-10, 2025

Buy-in: USD 600

Guarantee: USD 150,000

Day 1A: 154 entries, 27 qualified

Day 1B: 251 entries, 49 qualified

Day 1C: 122 entries, 38 qualified

Day 2: Sunday, February 9

Day 3/ Final: Monday, February 10

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 5:40:17 PM

Day1C Ends - 37 Survivors

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

Player	Chips
FJ Frank James Lillis	335,000(56 BB)
KA Khayal AbbasovAzerbaijan	312,000(52 BB)
QT Quang Trinh DoViet Nam	304,000(51 BB)
JG Joshua GebissaGermany	300,000(50 BB)
AP Arjun Pulak AgrawlIndia	296,000(49 BB)
JL Johan LeesAustralia	288,000(48 BB)
MS Mateusz StanielewiczPoland	280,000(47 BB)
VF Victor FrydaFrance	258,000(43 BB)
IF Ilya FirstovKazakhstan	258,000(43 BB)
KI Kohki Iwata	237,000(40 BB)
TH Thanh Ha DuongViet Nam	220,000(37 BB)
AA Alfie AdamUnited Kingdom	215,000(36 BB)
HM Haruto MurataJapan	184,000(31 BB)
YL Yuhan Liu (2)China	176,000(29 BB)
AS Aditya SushantIndia	164,000(27 BB)
YT Yves ThalmannSwitzerland	151,000(25 BB)
AK Alexander Khvatov	146,000(24 BB)
MS Michael SideridisAustralia	145,000(24 BB)
TE Thomas EychenneFrance	137,000(23 BB)
TV Tom VerbruggenNetherlands	135,000(23 BB)
BM Brian Matthew GreenUnited States of America	133,000(22 BB)
GS Georgios SkarparisCyprus	129,000(22 BB)
KN Kyosuke NagamiJapan	118,000(20 BB)
AL Alexander LeybovichUnited States of America	117,000(20 BB)
RS Roman ScherbakovRussia	114,000(19 BB)
AH Ali Hassan	112,000(19 BB)
XY Xin YuanChina	110,000(18 BB)
SA Sajjad Al Mamun	94,000(16 BB)
EK Elvijs KuceruksLatvia	90,000(15 BB)
CO Chung OhSingapore	89,000(15 BB)
TA Tom Anthony Christopher Eady	88,000(15 BB)
DA Dhiraj AgarwalIndia	85,000(14 BB)
JE John Edward PerryAustralia	84,000(14 BB)
JV Jordy VleugelsBelgium	77,000(13 BB)
MK Maciej Kacper KalaPoland	51,000(9 BB)
PK Peter KiemUnited States of America	45,000(8 BB)
LP Leonid PolesGermany	25,000(4 BB)

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 5:12:51 PM

Liu rails Mahadi

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

Liu Yuhan

In another all-in preflop situation Hasan Mahadi stakes his tournament life against Chinese veteran Liu Yuhan. Mahadi turns over T♦ T♥ but is crushed by Liu’s J♦ J♠ .

The runout threatened to chop the pot when the first four community cards went 3♠ 4♥ 5♦ 6♣ but then the river card put matters beyond doubt when the J♥ arrived.

The elimination of Mahadi also gave Liu more ammunition as his stack in now up to 173,000.

Player	Chips
YL Yuhan Liu (2)China	173,000(29 BB)
HM Hasan MahdiUnited States of America	busted

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 5:06:04 PM

Verbruggen doubles up thru Perry

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

Tom Verbruggen and John Edward Perry

Tom Verbruggen of the Netherlands goes all-in preflop for his last 74,500 and gets a caller in Australia’s John Edward Perry.

The Dutchman reveals A♦ K♥ while Perry shows a made hand in 9♠ 9♥ .

The first three community cards immediately tilted the odds in favor of Verbruggen: 7♣ 8♣ K♦ and no help arrived for the Australian: 8♦ 4♠ .

Verbruggen’s fortuitous double up sent Perry’s stack plummeting down to 68,000 at a crucial juncture of the competition.

Player	Chips
TV Tom VerbruggenNetherlands	176,000(29 BB)
JE John Edward PerryAustralia	68,000(11 BB)

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

20 minutes

Remaining Players: 40/122

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 5:02:27 PM

Al Mamun bounces back on river, ousts Byshell

Level 14: 2,500 / 5,000 ante: 5,000

Sajjad Al Mamun

India’s Aditya Sushant, Sajjad Al Mamun and Daniel Byshell were all-in on a board of A♥ 2♦ T♦ 7♠ Q♠ where Sushant had already taken the lead on the flop by virtue of his A♣ 2♣ but got threatened by a flush draw on the flop and redraw to a straight by Byshell on the turn as he had 9♦ 8♦, they all lost to the hand that was ahead preflop as Al Mamun has Q♣ Q♥ .

This result rails Byshell and reduces Sushant’s stack to below 200,000. The veritable triple up puts Al Mamun in contention for a berth in Day 2.

Player	Chips
AS Aditya SushantIndia	192,000(38 BB)
SA Sajjad Al Mamun	119,000(24 BB)
DB Daniel Byshell	busted

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 4:59:26 PM

Jacks hold for Nagami, boots out Lee

Level 14: 2,500 / 5,000 ante: 5,000

Kyosuke Nagami

With the action folded to the lowjack of Kyosuke Nagami, the player from Japan raises it up to 10,000 while on the button, Korea’s Lee Hon Cheong decides to 3-bet all-in for his remaining 74,000. It gets folded back to Nagami who makes the call. Lee shows A♥ J♠ while Nagami has J♦ J♣ .

The runout goes: K♦ 3♥ 5♠ 3♣ Q♣ as the Korean could not find an ace to keep him in the competition and has been eliminated. Nagami’s stack now goes up to 167,000.

Player	Chips
KN Kyosuke NagamiJapan	167,000(33 BB)
HC Hon Cheong LeeHong Kong	busted

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 4:56:34 PM

Elvijs is in the building: Kuceruks cracks Agarwal’s aces

Level 14: 2,500 / 5,000 ante: 5,000

Elvijs Kuceruks

Elvijs Kuceruks of Latvia open shoves from utg for his last 39,000 and gets called in the cutoff by India’s Arjun Agarwal and nobody else. Kuceruks tables 8♥ 8♠ and shakes his head when he sees Agarwal has A♣ A♠ .

However, the flop goes: 8♣ K♠ 9♥ as the Latvian hits a set to take the lead. None of Agarwal’s outs arrived among the last two community cards: 2♣ J♦ .

The double up for Kuceruks also drags the Indian’s stack to below the 200,000 mark.

Player	Chips
AA Arjun AgrawalIndia	175,000(35 BB)
EK Elvijs KuceruksLatvia	90,500(18 BB)

SMPSMP

2/8/2025, 4:52:16 PM

Lillis 5-bets Eychenne out of hand preflop

Level 14: 2,500 / 5,000 ante: 5,000

Frank Lillis

France’s Thomas Eychenne opens from utg+1 to 10,000 and the action gets folded all the way to the bb where Frank Lillis of Ireland 3-bets to 34,000. The Frenchman decides to 4-bet to 66,000 and Lillis didn’t take long to opt in 5-betting to 108,000. Eychenne goes into the tank and eventually chooses to fold.

Player	Chips
FJ Frank James Lillis	393,000(79 BB)
TE Thomas EychenneFrance	186,000(37 BB)

Level 14: 2,500 / 5,000 ante: 5,000

20 minutes

Remaining Players: 46/122

TriciaTricia

2/8/2025, 9:39:48 AM

Championship Warm Up Day 1C Turbo to cap off blistering run

After 154 entries descended upon this venue in Day 1A and almost 200 entries taking part in Day 1B, Day 1c (Turbo) of (Event #3) the WPT Cambodia Championship Warm Up is bound to carry a riveting conclusion to the qualifying stage of this opening highlight. Day 1C commences at 6:00PM (UCT+7) still here at Nagaworld.

The blinds will be reduced to 20 minutes per level (which is exactly half the time per level of its predecessors) but with the same starting stack and registration will remain open until the end of Level 10. The buy-in is still at US$600 in this US$150,000 guaranteed event.

This blitzkrieg format will see who joins the 27 who advanced from Day 1A and those who will be joining from the ongoing Day 1B.

Live reporting begins on February 8, 2024 at 21:30 local time.