China’s Chengshan Wu Wins USOP Vietnam Ha Long Bay 2026 Mini Main Event for VND 3 Billion (~USD 113,760)

The U Series of Poker (USOP) Vietnam 2026 Ha Long Bay Mini Main Event just wrapped up at the world-class InterContinental Ha Long Bay Resort with China’s Chengshan Wu lifting the trophy and pocketing the first place prize of VND 3 billion (~USD 113,760).

Chengshan Wu Secures First USOP Title and Career-Best Cash

The Mini Main Event saw five Day 1 starting flights spread through the first two days that attracted a total of 1,061 entries and generated a total prize pool worth VND 18,122,220,000 (~USD 687,195), easily crushing the original VND 15 billion guarantee.

A total of 134 survivors advanced to the Day 2, with each guaranteed a minimum VND 35,000,000 (~USD 1,325) – nearly doubling their VND 20 million (~USD 760) buy-in.

Day 2 Highlights

Entering the day as the chip leader was Vietnam’s Tuan Anh Nguyen with 1,384,000 chips amassed from flight Day 1D. Nguyen’s stack and tournament life was under threat though from his irresponsible behavior. During the money bubble of his flight, Nguyen showed his cards to other players when the floor instructed him not to do so. He was given a warning, but continued to commit the error.

Nguyen was penalized for one hand with a stern warning that if he repeated this infringement of pulling his cards off the table, then he would face disqualification from the event.

Entering Day 2 hot on his heels was South Korea’s Wongyu Kang , who bagged a close second with 1,168,000 chips (117 big blinds). Those two were the only ones to enter Day 2 as millionaires.

Other top stacks belonged to Wu (660,000) who topped flight Day 1A and was awarded a VND 60 million bonus for the effort. Day 1B chip leader Kaiyu Zhu of China bagged 565,000 chips and took home the VND 50 million bonus.

#19 MINI MAIN EVENT (20,000,000 VND)

Total Prize USD

$687,195

Total Prize

₫18,122,220,000

Guaranteed

₫15,000,000,000

Entries

1,061

ITM

133

#	Payout	Player	SPI
1	₫3,000,000,000 $113,760	CW Chengshan Wu China
2	₫2,050,000,000 $77,735	QT Quang Thang Do Viet Nam
3	₫1,400,000,000 $53,090	NA Nhu An Le Viet Nam
4	₫1,011,920,000 $38,370	VT Van Tam Vu Viet Nam
5	₫791,100,000 $30,000	DA Dakota Anderson United States of America
6	₫631,800,000 $23,960	MS Mangkone Sanaphanith Lao People's Democratic Republic
7	₫501,700,000 $19,025	AS Aditya Sushant India
8	₫387,200,000 $14,685	TM Than Minh Nguyen Viet Nam
9	₫300,000,000 $11,375	WC Wang Chen China

Check the 133 Payouts & Results ...

The Final Table Battle

The final table was formed after eight hours of play when Yongyi Liu found a natural death to the blinds to bust out as the final table bubble boy. Liu’s stack was earlier crippled after his straight lost to the flush of Quang Thang Do and he never recovered.

Laos’ Mangkone Sanaphanith entered the final table as the chip leader with 7,100,000 chips. His closest rival was American Dakota Anderson with 6,100,000, followed by Van Tam Vu of Vietnam with 4,775,000.

The first two levels of the final table were patient and careful with very little risks taken. Chips exchanged back and forth without much showdown action.

It was on the very first hand after the first break of the final table that the first final table casualty happened when China’s Wang Chen was busted out by Nhu An Le of Vietnam in ninth place.

It didn’t take long before Vietnam’s Than Minh Nguyen exited in eighth place, being eliminated by a surging Sanaphanith. Aditya Sushant of India was the next to exit after nearly two hours of play when he lost a flip to Do to finish in seventh place.

In a wild series of events that led to the unlikely exit of Sanaphanith, the Laotian player who had led most of the final table suddenly hit the rail. Sanaphanith relinquished his lead when he took heavy damage against the pocket rockets of Do. That was quickly followed by a hero call against straight on the flop of Wu that went all wrong, leading to his elimination in sixth place.

Fifth place fell to the short-stacked Anderson, who was expected by many to fall earlier. Anderson managed the pay jump beautifully but couldn’t spin his short stack any further. The pressure of the blind levels finally took its toll on his stack, and he was busted by Wu when Anderson made a desperate all-in shove.

Vu finished in fourth place, also hitting the rail at the hands of Wu. Le held the shortest stack during three-handed play and wasn’t able to find a double-up, eventually bowing out in third place to Do, which set up the heads-up match against Wu.

Heads-Up: Wu vs Do

Wu had the slight advantage entering heads-up play with 21 million chips to the 16 million of Do.

It took around 30 minutes of heads-up play before Wu was officially crowned the champion. Wu never relinquished the lead and applied constant pressure to Do throughout, causing Do’s stack to dwindle slowly.

Finally, Wu took it down when both players agreed to put their chips in preflop with Do at risk. Wu’s ace-four found an ace on the flop and held cleanly against the pocket sevens of Do to claim the championship title of the Mini Main Event.

The win marks Wu’s best live cash and rockets his total live earnings to over USD 250,000. This is also his first USOP title, improving on his 3rd place finish in a NLH – Hyper Turbo event during USOP Hai Phong 2024 .

Meanwhile, Do earned a runner-up finish of VND 2,050,000,000 (~USD 77,735), which improves his total live earnings to over USD 200,000. This also stands as Do’s most significant career score to date.

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