WPT Prime Cambodia has crossed the halfway mark with Day 6 awarding four more players side event trophies. We have the results of the first three, the PLO results will be posted on the next recap. The biggest winner was Filipino Richard Marquez at the Mystery Bounty for roughly US$ 38K.
Over at the NLH Single Day, Duc Thanh Nguyen gave Vietnam its third win, and at the NLH Hyper Turbo, it was a clutch victory for Tyler Suansrakaew to put Thailand on the board. Also bagging up was the Super High Roller with 16 players remaining out of 51 entries. Australia’s Vincent Huang leads the race.
Richard Marquez wins the Mystery Bounty; Frank Lillis draws biggest bounty
On his second bullet, Richard Marquez rose above the 69 final day Mystery Bounty returnees to win his first solo WPT title. Marquez seized the US$ 33,385 top prize and 11 bounty rewards amounting to US 4,500 for a grand total US$ 37,885.
The battle for the title was determined at three-handed when the chip lead switched from Marquez to Australia’s Kiale Matthews, and Hong Kong’s Kong Fung. Matthews looked to be in fine shape to ship it with two prior final table finishes, but was ultimately stopped by Marquez with top two pair over a missed draw.
To capture the win, the final hand was 
against Fung’s 
. The board was 
. You can read up on the final day action via the LIVE UPDATES
The added enjoyment of this event was hunting down the biggest bounty reward. At the start of the day, only one out of the 69 envelopes was a massive US$ 18,000 reward. The lucky winner was Frank Lillis who had a friend pull it. Lillis finished in 11th place and walked way with a sizable US$ 21,540.
The Mystery Bounty was the second event scheduled featuring a guarantee and with 550 turning up over three starters, it shattered the $100K offer in place of a richer US$ 266,750 prize pool. 69 reached the money. Click for FULL PAYOUTS
Buy in: US$ 550
Guarantee: US$ 100,000
Entries: 550
Prize pool: US$ 266,750
ITM: 69 places
Final table payouts
| 1 | Richard Marquez | Philippines | $33,835 |
| 2 | Kong Fung | Hong Kong | $23,710 |
| 3 | Kiale Matthews | Australia | $15,250 |
| 4 | Jasven Saigal | India | $10,750 |
| 5 | Sameer Agarwal | India | $8,255 |
| 6 | Piet Pape | Germany | $6,810 |
| 7 | Selim Souissi | Tunisia | $5,655 |
| 8 | I-Chun Chiu | Taiwan | $4,510 |
| 9 | Zaldo Catela | Portugal | $3,385 |
Biggest Bounty winners
| Frank Lillis | $18,000 |
| Kiahle Matthews | $10,000 |
| Jasven Saigal | $10,000 |
| Jae Kyung Sim | $5,000 |
| Sameer Agarwal | $5,000 |
Duc Thanh Nguyen wins NLH Single Day
Duc Thanh Nguyen ahead dominated the final table of the NLH Single Day to give Vietnam its third win. This was Nguyen’s second final table having finished 5th at the Deepstack NLH.
Buy in: US$ 400
Entries: 168
Prize pool US$ 58,666
ITM: 21 places
| 1 | Duc Thanh Nguyen | Viet Nam | $15,595 |
| 2 | Marvin Unsworth | Germany | $10,217 |
| 3 | Timothy Nichols | USA | $6,019 |
| 4 | Thai Bao Vu | Viet Nam | $3,664 |
| 5 | Mark Kline | USA | $2,828 |
| 6 | Minkyu Kim | Korea | $2,344 |
| 7 | Muhammad Rana | Pakistan | $2,030 |
| 8 | Ian Modder | Canada | $1,789 |
| 9 | Arun Sriram | Namibia | $1,559 |
| 10 | Trent Fechter | USA | $1,349 |
| 11 | Thomas Carlin | USA | $1,349 |
| 12 | Nithiwat Suphanit | Thailand | $1,349 |
| 13 | Tyler Warken | Canada | $1,144 |
| 14 | Thi Xuan Ha Tran | Viet Nam | $1,144 |
| 15 | Sombath Sok | Cambodia | $1,144 |
| 16 | Kentaro Hayashi | Korea | $950 |
| 17 | Yasir Yaqoob | Pakistan | $950 |
| 18 | William Wong | Australia | $950 |
| 19 | Chao-Ting Cheng | Taiwan | $764 |
| 20 | Melvin Wei Zong Ng | Singapore | $764 |
| 21 | Maulik Shukla | India | $764 |
Tyler Suansrakaew overcomes swingy heads up for Hyper Turbo title
First trophy for Thailand with Tyler Suansrakaew outlasting Anton Widjaya at heads up of the NLH Hyper Turbo. With blinds increasing at an incredibly fast 15 minutes, it was below 10 bb average at the final table. In no time, heads up arrived. Big stacked Widjaya was closing in on a title for Indonesia but could not nail it shut. Instead, Suansrakaew caught a lucky runner runner straight with 
on a board 
to beat 
. From there, the lead bounced until the Thailander Suansrakaew seized the victory.
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 90
Prize pool US$ 15,539
ITM: 12 places
| 1 | Tyler Suansrakaew | Thailand | $3,941 |
| 2 | Anton Widjaya | Indonesia | $3,940 |
| 3 | Rahul Marwaha | India | $1,865 |
| 4 | Thaolien Eune | Laos | $1,204 |
| 5 | Saransh Garg | India | $932 |
| 6 | Niko Nyman | Finland | $738 |
| 7 | Junwoo Seo | Korea | $622 |
| 8 | Kjell Ove Dyb | Norway | $544 |
| 9 | Pongkhun Busmongkhon | Thailand | $493 |
| 10 | Aristotle Sigua | Philippines | $451 |
| 11 | Junggu Kim | Korea | $420 |
| 12 | Harsh Bubna | India | $389 |
Event 11: WPT Prime Cambodia SHR
The $5,300 buy in WPT Prime Cambodia Super High Roller attracted a power lineup of 51 entries for a juicy prize pool of US$ 247,350. Only 16 survived the day’s scheduled 13 rounds. Bagging up the chip lead was Australia’s Vincent Huang. Also making an appearance and advancing with WSOP bracelet winner Jinho Hong.
The players return on Wednesday March 15 at 1pm to chase down the large US$ 91,520 top prize which is quite a hefty pay jump from 2nd place of US$ 54,417.
Buy in: US$ 5,300
Entries: 51
Prize pool US$ 247,350
ITM: 7 places
Payouts
| 1 | $91,520 |
| 2 | $54,417 |
| 3 | $33,392 |
| 4 | $23,498 |
| 5 | $18,551 |
| 6 | $14,841 |
| 7 | &11,131 |
Day 2 – 16 players – stack / bb
| 1 | Vincent Huang | 1,535,000 | 51 |
| 2 | Florencio Campomanes | 1,420,000 | 47 |
| 3 | Shardul P | 1,320,000 | 44 |
| 4 | Leo Soma | 1,295,000 | 43 |
| 5 | Nevan Yu-Chung Chang | 965,000 | 32 |
| 6 | Gytis Lazauninkas | 910,000 | 30 |
| 7 | Brandon Koh | 850,000 | 28 |
| 8 | Jinho Hong | 720,000 | 24 |
| 9 | Roman Hrabec | 660,000 | 22 |
| 10 | Qiu Quang | 540,000 | 18 |
| 11 | Daniel Smiljkovic | 535,000 | 18 |
| 12 | Joseph Nelson Adams | 525,000 | 18 |
| 13 | Richard “Ginge Poker” Sheils | 485,000 | 16 |
| 14 | Justin Chi-Jen Chu | 385,000 | 13 |
| 15 | Gary | 330,000 | 11 |
| 16 | Joshua McCully | 280,000 | 9 |
On Season XXI WPT Prime Cambodia
WPT Prime Cambodia, in partnership with Connaissance Management, runs from March 9 to 21 at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A total of 30 tournaments are scheduled and US$ 1 Million in guarantees. To date, ten players have walked away victorious. More trophies up for grabs including the upcoming Main Event $500,000 guaranteed which runs from March 16 to 20. For added enjoyment, there are ample cash games running daily and the Cash Game Bonanza.
Also happening on Wednesday March 15 is the Meet-Up Game with Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen. That begins at 1pm. Click on the link for all the details
Meet-Up Game with Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen
WPT Prime Cambodia – Player Guide
Breakdown of WPT Prime Cambodia schedule
WPT Prime Cambodia – Festival Payouts
Reminders:
- NO TAX on winnings
- Event photos can be found in the Somuchpoker Facebook page and in Somuchpoker IG page.
Stay tuned to Somuchpoker as we bring you updates of WPT Prime Cambodia from start to finish.
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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