A thunderous showing of 224 runners for the WPT Vietnam High Roller event; 67 into the Final Day
Asia-Pacific
10/03/2018While the inaugural WPT Vietnam Main Event was running, the Pro Poker Club continued to fill to capacity with players gobbling up seats to the side events. One of the hottest tickets was the High Roller event pulling a thunderous 224 entries over the course of two starting days. With each entry ponying up the VND 44,000,000 buy-in, the prize pool beefed up to VND 8,691,200,000 (~US$372,250).
67 players made the cut into the Final Day which is currently in full swing. Only 28 places will be paid with the eventual winner pocketing VND 2,072,680,000 (~US$88,840). We’ve got the chip counts for you below.
| Name | COUNTRY | Table | Seat | Chips | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHAN TSUN MING | HONGKONG | 3 | 7 | 917000 |
| 2 | NISHANT SHARMA | INDIA | 3 | 1 | 773000 |
| 3 | PENTA KOTA MANOJ | INDIA | 2 | 4 | 737000 |
| 4 | IORI YOGO | JAPAN | 9 | 4 | 662000 |
| 5 | NGUYEN CHI THANH | VIETNAM | 6 | 4 | 652000 |
| 6 | DANNY TANG | HONG KONG | 4 | 5 | 641000 |
| 7 | HIEU NGO | VIETNAM | 7 | 2 | 632000 |
| 8 | AKSHAY NASA | INDIA | 8 | 8 | 627000 |
| 9 | MICHAEL FALCON | DENMARK | 8 | 1 | 606000 |
| 10 | SOO JO KIM | KOREA | 2 | 7 | 553000 |
| 11 | SAMANTHA COHER | USA | 3 | 5 | 542000 |
| 12 | DINH XUAN DINH | VIETNAM | 5 | 6 | 530000 |
| 13 | PHAM BAO | VIETNAM | 5 | 8 | 515000 |
| 14 | SHYN CHYN LYM | MALAYSIA | 9 | 7 | 514000 |
| 15 | PIET PAPE | GERMANY | 4 | 6 | 512000 |
| 16 | EUGENE CO | PHILIPINE | 2 | 6 | 467000 |
| 17 | DANG VAN HIEN | VIETNAM | 4 | 4 | 446000 |
| 18 | JAE WOOK SHIN | KOREA | 9 | 6 | 446000 |
| 19 | KEN OKADA | JAPAN | 3 | 3 | 418000 |
| 20 | HOANG HONG GIANG | VIETNAM | 5 | 3 | 406000 |
| 21 | LAM KIM LONG | VIETNAM | 5 | 4 | 404000 |
| 22 | HUYNH DUC TAI | VIETNAM | 8 | 7 | 400000 |
| 23 | MARVIN PETTENMATER | GERMANY | 6 | 8 | 379000 |
| 24 | AMAN DHAMIJA | INDIA | 7 | 8 | 371000 |
| 25 | TRAN HONG HAI | VIETNAM | 7 | 3 | 365000 |
| 26 | DO MANH TUAN | VIETNAM | 1 | 7 | 351000 |
| 27 | DYLAN WILKERSON | USA | 8 | 6 | 342000 |
| 28 | ABHINAN IYEN | INDIA | 5 | 7 | 336000 |
| 29 | VICTOR CHONG | MALAYSIA | 1 | 1 | 323000 |
| 30 | HWANG SANG YEON | HONGKONG | 6 | 1 | 304000 |
| 31 | NGUYEN VAN PINH | VIETNAM | 8 | 3 | 304000 |
| 32 | WEI CHENG YIN | TAIWAN | 4 | 2 | 301000 |
| 33 | VI KHOA | VIETNAM | 7 | 6 | 301000 |
| 34 | PRANAV BASAI | INDIA | 4 | 7 | 297000 |
| 35 | DUONG NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 8 | 2 | 297000 |
| 36 | HENRIK TOLLEFSEN | NORWAY | 3 | 6 | 290000 |
| 37 | VINH TRAN | VIETNAM | 5 | 5 | 280000 |
| 38 | HUU DUNG NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 7 | 1 | 276000 |
| 39 | PAUL HONG | NEW ZEALAND | 3 | 4 | 267000 |
| 40 | NGUYEN PHAM DUY KHANH | VIETNAM | 1 | 5 | 258000 |
| 41 | ALEX LEE | SINGAPORE | 1 | 6 | 254000 |
| 42 | HUYNH VAN TAN | VIETNAM | 1 | 3 | 237000 |
| 43 | LI KWUN NGAI VIVAENT | HONGKONG | 2 | 2 | 237000 |
| 44 | YEN HAN CHEN | TAIWAN | 9 | 2 | 236000 |
| 45 | TRAN DUC PHUONG | VIETNAM | 7 | 7 | 230000 |
| 46 | BENJAMIN GONZVA | THAILAND | 7 | 4 | 228000 |
| 47 | ORJAN SKOMNO | NORWAY | 2 | 3 | 216000 |
| 48 | CHUA SHAN HUI | SINGAPORE | 4 | 1 | 212000 |
| 49 | VIVER RINHANI | INDIA | 4 | 3 | 206000 |
| 50 | TA DUY QUOC KHANH | VIETNAM | 9 | 1 | 197000 |
| 51 | QUAN NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 1 | 2 | 190000 |
| 52 | NGUYEN CHI THINH | VIETNAM | 9 | 8 | 170000 |
| 53 | DAO XUAN KHANH | VIETNAM | 6 | 3 | 168000 |
| 54 | TRAN XUAN TRUC | VIETNAM | 6 | 7 | 163000 |
| 55 | NATALIE PO | MALAYSIA | 6 | 2 | 154000 |
| 56 | PHANESH CHAINANI | SINGAPORE | 1 | 4 | 149000 |
| 57 | APOORVA GOEL | INDIA | 7 | 5 | 138000 |
| 58 | SEITARO ASO | JAPAN | 8 | 5 | 137000 |
| 59 | RAGHAV BANSAL | INDIA | 5 | 2 | 133000 |
| 60 | DARUMA | INDIA | 9 | 5 | 112000 |
| 61 | NGUYEN TIEN SON | VIETNAM | 3 | 2 | 111000 |
| 62 | QUANG NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 6 | 5 | 105000 |
| 63 | TUNG NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 2 | 5 | 100000 |
| 64 | TRAN UY THANH | VIETNAM | 5 | 1 | 87000 |
| 65 | TUN NGUYEN | VIETNAM | 6 | 6 | 77000 |
| 66 | PHAM THANH TUNG | VIETNAM | 9 | 3 | 74000 |
| 67 | GAO WEN LING | CHINA | 2 | 1 | 26000 |
