USOP: Poker2U-Taiwan Series: Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 captures career first live title at the Mystery Bounty

Taiwan’s Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 entered Day 2 of the Mystery Bounty with just 15 BB, seven and a half hours later, he was crowned the USOP: Poker2U Taiwan Series’ newest champion. Chen 陳冠翰 defeated USA’s Michael Kravitz at heads up to claim his first ever live title and trophy along with the TWD 450,000 (~$14,900) winner’s purse. Read up on his race to victory via the Live Updates.

In addition, Chen 陳冠翰 collected the most bounties, eight in total with six amounting to a combined TWD 98,000 (~$3,245). Coming tomorrow, Chen 陳冠翰 will redeem the other two mystery rewards that will gain him anywhere from TWD 200K to a maximum of TWD 700K.

Final table payouts in TWD

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Mystery Bounty recap

The Mystery Bounty was the second event featuring a guarantee. It kicked off with four starting flights over two days to generate a sizable 534 entries. This was more than plenty to boost the prize pool to TWD 4,661,900 (~$154,390). Day 2 opened with 56 players in the money, each one eligible for mystery bounty rewards.

Buy in: TWD 10,000 (~$330)
Guarantee: TWD 3,000,000 (~$99,350)
Entries: 534
Prize pool: TWD 4,661,900 (~$154,390)
ITM: 56 players

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Day 2 took off in lightning pace as numerous short stacks were booted within minutes. Joining the fallouts was big stacked Nien Heng Li 李念恆 who entered with a sizable 35 BB stack only to lose it in one go toTse Paul Lee 李詩堡 with unable to improve against . Lee 李詩堡 became the first player to cross over the million marker.

Unlike Day 1, the entering top two, Australia’s Anton Lu and WSOP Online bracelet holder Aaron Siyang Phua, both had difficulty collecting chips at Day 2 to eventually fall 28th and 25th. Not the case for Taiwanese pro Pete Yen Han Chen 陳彥翰 and Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰. Both players entered with 15 BB and carried it deep. Pete missed the final table by one spot, finishing 10th, while Kuan carried in 40 BB.

Final table race

First to go was short stacked Kar Hou Lim 林家浩 who lost on a three-way. Lee 李詩堡 cleaned out the next two, Cheng Chzeh Yang 楊成傑 (8th) and Beng Wei Lim 林銘威 (7th), and seemed to be on a trajectory to take it all the way. However, the succeeding showdowns were not in Lee’s 李詩堡 favor, paying out two double ups before crashing out to Kuan Han Chen 陳冠翰 in 6th place.

Kuan Han Chen’s 陳冠翰 momentum continued, eliminating Cheng Jing Lim 林成旌 (5th) and Shou Dien Chen 陳守鈿 simultaneously to amass over half of the chips in play. The leader then set his sights on Kravitz with dominating but the American was granted a lucky one card flush to survive.

Not the case though for Wei Hsun Chen 陳韋勳 with Ace-Ten overcards unable to crack Kuan Han Chen’s 陳冠翰 pocket Nines. This brought about heads up with Chen 陳冠翰 ahead 66 BB to Kravitz’s 41 BB.

With both players deep, the race lasted three levels (30 mins per level). During that time, Kravitz bagged a double up with , spiking the Ace to beat Chen’s 陳冠翰 . On the next called shove, ranks reversed again. Chen’s 陳冠翰 held against to balloon to 76 BB as Kravitz plunged to 20 BB. Two hands later, Chen 陳冠翰 finished off Kravitz to capture his first ever live career title.

Mystery Bounty – Top prize winners

More action ahead so stay tuned to Somuchpoker as we bring you daily recaps and highlights of the ongoing series. The inauguralUSOP: Poker2U Taiwan Series is ongoing at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club) in Taipei City until February 19, 2023. For photos, head to the Somuchpoker News & Event Coverage facebook page.