WPT Prime Cambodia final winners: John Perry, Minkyu Kim, Deepankur Gupta, Shardul Aramudhan, Mahesh Shyamsundar, Nicholas Williams, Krishna Wadeesirisak, Bin Tang
That’s it! All thirty trophies of WPT Prime Cambodia Season XXI have been claimed. Here are the final side event winners. Congratulations to all!
FESTIVAL RESULTS
FESTIVAL PHOTOS
Huge victory for John Perry at the High Roller 3K
Thrilling finish at the featured High Roller 3K with Daniel Smiljkovic. Perry was on a 3:1 deficit entering heads up, took the lead on a failed bluff by Smiljkovic, then shipped it with dominating . This was Perry’s first victory on Asian soil and largest career score of US$ 105,487.
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The High Roller 3K drew 125 entries to surge past the guarantee for a prize pool of US$ 363,750. The bubble burst on Oliver Schulze whose lost the flip against Pratibh Saluja’s . The final table was formed at the hard fall of Ian Litster to Perry who shoved with , Litster called for his tournament life with , the board ran for full house over full house. The lucky catch gave Perry the second largest stack entering the final table.
Chip leader Smiljkovic seemed to be cruising to victory after railing Leo Soma (8th), Dylan Wayne Foster (6th), Manuel Braunhofer (5th), and Monika Zukowicz (4th). However, at three-handed, Perry gained momentum by eliminating Pratibh Saluja (3rd). Perry’s rail erupted when he doubled up with two pair against a bluff. About even in chips, the final hand was pocket Jacks dominating pocket Tens.
Buy in: US$ 3,000
Guarantee: US$ 250,000
Entries: 125
Prize pool: US$ 363,750
ITM: 16 places
1 | John Perry | $105,487 |
2 | Daniel Smiljkovic | $65,475 |
3 | Pratibh Saluja | $39,103 |
4 | Monika Zukowicz | $24,553 |
5 | Manuel Braunhofer | $18,188 |
6 | Dylan Wayne Foster | $15,641 |
7 | Justin Chu | $13,550 |
8 | Leo Soma | $12,004 |
9 | Ankit Jajodia | $10,549 |
10 | Ian Litster | $9,276 |
11 | Junwoo Lee | $9,276 |
12 | Siddarth Karia | $9,276 |
13 | David Chiv | $8,093 |
14 | Florencio Campomanes | $8,093 |
15 | Patrick Liang | $8,093 |
16 | Terry Gonzaga | $7,093 |
Minkyu Kim overcomes a huge deficit at heads up to win the Bounty Event
The battle for the Bounty Event title came down between two Korean players, Minkyu Kim and Woojin Kim, both players seeking their first title in this series. Woojin was backed by an enormous stack having knocked out a whopping 17 players before reaching heads up. Woojin was also looking for redemption having missed the win at the earlier bounty event where he fell in 2nd place to Micheal O’Neill.
However, despite the massive lead, it was still not to be. Minkyu chipped away at the leader and drove it to victory. Minkyu shipped the US$ 14,745 top prize and six bounties amounting to US$ 900.
Buy in: US$ 500
Entries: 252
Prize pool: US$ 72,198
Bounty pool: US$ 37,800
*Bounties not included in payouts
1 | Minkyu Kim | Korea | $14,745 |
2 | Woojin Kim | Korea | $13,500 |
3 | Gabriel Carter | UK | $7,400 |
4 | Amir Abbas | NZ | $4,502 |
5 | Stanislav Kovalenko | Russia | $3,476 |
6 | Kai Perng Heng | Malaysia | $2,881 |
7 | Firat Basbaydar | UK | $2,419 |
8 | Romit Advani | India | $2,022 |
9 | Tuan Anh Nguyen | Vietnam | $1,659 |
10 | Chi Ling Tsang | Canada | $1,411 |
11 | Raju Jaruplavath | India | $1,411 |
12 | Seongmin Lee | Korea | $1,411 |
13 | Jaehoon Lee | Korea | $1,213 |
14 | Jongkyung Lee | Korea | $1,213 |
15 | Roland Kivi | Estonia | $1,213 |
16 | Lucas Tae | USA | $1,018 |
17 | Gunisha Sinha | India | $1,018 |
18 | Chao-Ting Cheng | Taiwan | $1,018 |
19 | Takashi Taniguchi | Japan | $834 |
20 | Jeremy Jehanne | France | $834 |
21 | Amit Kaushik | India | $834 |
22 | Jaeyong Kim | Korea | $657 |
23 | Gyumock Jo | Korea | $657 |
24 | Isaac Phua | Malaysia | $657 |
25 | Erik Rozhynskyi | Ukraine | $570 |
26 | Peter Laird Bennett | Singapore | $570 |
27 | Eric Alexandre Ceret | France | $570 |
28 | Tze Kin Vincent Koh | Singapore | $497 |
29 | Shreyas Suresh Shinde | India | $497 |
30 | Fung Kong | Hong Kong | $497 |
31 | Joshua Tan | Singapore | $497 |
32 | Chang Hyeon Kim | Korea | $497 |
Deepankur Gupta wins the NLH Turbo
India finished strong at the NLH Turbo with three players in the top four. Seizing the win was Deepankur Gupta after defeating Anmol Mehta at heads up. Gupta collected a career high live tournament score of US$ 8,000. This was only his second ever live tournament score outside of home turf which should boost his confidence towards attending more live international events. Missing the final table was Joseph Hebert, the 2020 WSOP Online Domestic Main Event champion.
Buy in: US$ 300
Entries: 121
Prize pool: US$ 31,690
ITM: 16 places
1 | Deepankur Gupta | India | $8,000 |
2 | Anmol Mehta | India | $6,895 |
3 | Joshua Kai En Tan | Singapore | $3,407 |
4 | Dhaval Mudgal | India | $2,139 |
5 | Calvin Tan | Singapore | $1,584 |
6 | Peng Zheng | China | $1,363 |
7 | Konstantin Generalov | Russia | $1,180 |
8 | Ting-Yi Tsai | Taiwan | $1,046 |
9 | Kanta Matsuo | Japan | $919 |
10 | Joseph Murphy Hebert | USA | $808 |
11 | Kaoru Kishimoto | Japan | $808 |
12 | Tze Kin Vincent Koh | Singapore | $808 |
13 | Yosuke Kijima | Japan | $705 |
14 | Chun Kit Lee | Hong Kong | $705 |
15 | Tan Luan Le | Uk | $705 |
16 | Joon- Han Lee | Korea | $618 |
Shardul Aramudhan awarded the Superstack Classic Freezeout win
The Superstack Classic Freezeout was a two-day affair with 150 players battling it out on that one bullet. Plenty of dramatic moments on the bubble round. Chip leader Hua Wei Lin dominated her table with repeated uncalled shoves, Jeremy Jehanne doubled up with a flush over two pair, followed by the fall of Yu Sheng Lin to Thai Bao Vu with a small pair turned counterfeit on a double paired board.
As the players raced to the top, Vu eliminated big stacked Lin to enter the final table with an overwhelming advantage. That lead further grew until four handed. Vu began to lose shoves, doubling up every player including Shardul Aramduhan who cracked pocket Aces with Ace-Queen trips queens. Vu eventually exited in 4th place.
Out next was Harsh Bubna in 3rd place. The final two players – Shardul and Yu Ogusu – struck an ICM deal. With Shardul ahead in chips, he was awarded the win and the trophy. This is Shardul’s career second WPT side event title having won the Super High Roller event last year.
Buy in: $600
Entries: 150
Prize pool: US$ 78,570
ITM: 19 places
*Heads up ICM deal, Shardul awarded the trophy
1 | Shardul Aramudhan | India | $19,247* |
2 | Yu Ogusu | Japan | $16,190* |
3 | Harsh Bubna | India | $8,093 |
4 | Thai Bao Vu | Viet Nam | $4,913 |
5 | Keng Yong Tan | Singapore | $3,811 |
6 | Duc Kien Tran | Viet Nam | $3,147 |
7 | Vineet Kumar | India | $2,750 |
8 | Jeremy Jehanne | France | $2,455 |
9 | Jonathan Looi | Malaysia | $2,169 |
10 | Hua-Wei Lin | Taiwan | $1,886 |
11 | Jedrzej Gruszczynski | Poland | $1,886 |
12 | Prommin Talordpong | Thailand | $1,886 |
13 | Curt Livermore | Uk | $1,611 |
14 | Arun Sriram | India | $1,611 |
15 | Denis Pisarev | Russia | $1,611 |
16 | Abhijith Cheruku | India | $1,375 |
17 | Zhongya Wang | China | $1,375 |
18 | Kjell Ove Dyb | Norway | $1,375 |
19 | Shan Hui Chua | Singapore | $1,179 |
India bags another as Mahesh Shyamsundar wins 1K Re-Entry
Mahesh Shyamsundar topped the 75 entries of the 1K Re-Entry event to lift his first ever WPT trophy. After heads up ICM deal, Shyamsundar and Chao Ting Cheng battled for glory. It ended with Shyamsundar shoving on a and getting tank-called. Cheng had top pair, Shyamsundar with the winning straight.
Buy in: US$ 1,000
Entries: 75
Prize pool: US$ 65,475
ITM: 10 places
*Heads up ICM deal
1 | Mahesh Shyamsundar | India | $19,110* |
2 | Chao-Ting Cheng | Taiwan | $15,919* |
3 | Aroha Ngata | NZ | $7,988 |
4 | Eric Wasylenko | Canada | $5,402 |
5 | Chi-Jen Chu | Taiwan | $4,092 |
6 | Vitalii Borodin | Russia | $3,274 |
7 | David Chiv | $2,881 | |
8 | Nikolay Ponomarenko | Russia | $2,619 |
9 | Erik Rozhynskyi | Germany | $2,226 |
10 | Stephen Nathan | Uk | $1,964 |
Nicholas Williams pulls through in the end for Superstack 6-Max Finale
Australian Nicholas Williams emerged victorious at the Superstack 6-Max Finale defeating Taiwan’s Feng-Wen Chen at heads up. Before doing so, he paid a double up with dominated by to switch ranks. Williams grinded back up leading to the final hand. On a flop , Williams shoved with flush draw, Chen risked with top pair, the turn and river gave Williams the flush and first ever WPT victory.
Buy in: US$ 400
Entries: 87
Prize pool: US$ 37,380
ITM: 11 places
1 | Nicholas Williams | Australia | $9,797 |
2 | Feng-Wen Chen | Taiwan | $5,924 |
3 | Saransh Garg | India | $3,684 |
4 | Ben Abrahams | Thailand | $2,491 |
5 | Max Menzel | Germany | $1,899 |
6 | Armon Van Wijk | Australia | $1,519 |
7 | Thijs Hilberts | Netherlands | $1,261 |
8 | Chien-Chih Weng | Taiwan | $1,063 |
9 | Hua-Wei Lin | Taiwan | $980 |
10 | Adrien Franck Berger | France | $911 |
11 | Jongkyung Lee | Korea | $851 |
Krishna Wadeesirisak comes from behind at the Closer Turbo
Buy in: US$ 550
Entries: 58
Prize pool: US$ 28,130
ITM: 8 places
1 | Krishna Wadeesirisak | Thailand | $10,127 |
2 | Nobuaki Sasaki | Japan | $5,949 |
3 | Yu-Chung Chang | Taiwan | $3,727 |
4 | Anton Widjaya | Indonesia | $2,532 |
5 | Craig Daniel Jones | UK | $1,969 |
6 | Dhaval Mudgal | India | $1,547 |
7 | Tong Tan | Singapore | $1,266 |
8 | Ankit Kumar Jajodia | India | $1,013 |
Bin Tang denies Kiale Matthews, wins 10/10/10 event
Buy in: US$ 200
Entries: 60
Prize pool: US$ 10,476
ITM: 8 places
1 | Bin Tang | China | $3,772 |
2 | Kiale Jacob Matthews | Australia | $2,216 |
3 | Willy Kevin Portier | France | $1,388 |
4 | Yuji Kawata | Japan | $943 |
5 | Brendon Rubie | Australia | $733 |
6 | Keng Yong Tan | Singapore | $576 |
7 | Chun Kit Lee | Hong Kong | $471 |
8 | Setty Pon | France | $377 |