WPT Cambodia – Championship Warm Up draws 489, Amit Kaushik leads in 103 survivors

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Updated: 2026.10.16

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Cambodia – Championship Warm Up was the hottest item on the menu the past two days, drawing a combined 489 entries over three entry flights. This sent the prize pool soaring over double to USD 341,518.

WPT Cambodia Championship Warm Up – Day 1A

Day 1B drew the largest crowd of 217 entries. Among the attendees were large contingents from Vietnam, Philippines, and Australia, that included top players Dao Minh Phu, Nguyen Quang Huy, Mike Takayama, Christopher Mateo, and John Perry.

The heat wrapped up with 40 players advancing led by India’s Amit Kaushik with a commanding 822,000 stack. Kaushik will be the only player entering Day 2 with over 100 bb.

Over at Day 1C, only 47 new players jumped in plus 102 re-entries for 149 in total. Among the 40 survivors were Chinese players Jinlong Hu, Zhifan Ye, and Renji Mao. Bagging the largest was South Africa’s Marc Joseph with 403,000 (50 bb).

Coming Day 2, on January 20, 103 players will return, each one hunting down a spot in the money round which begins at 62nd place. The minimum payout is USD 1,393but what everyone will be aiming for is a seat at the final table where USD 66,029 awaits the champion.

Check out all the numbers and chip counts down below.

Date: January 18 to 21, 2024

Buy in: USD 800

Guarantee: USD 150,000 (already breached)

Entries: 489 (289 unique)

Prize pool: USD 340,518

ITM: 62 places

1st place payout: USD 66,000
*Full prize pool breakdown to be announced

Day 1 results

Day 1A entries: 123 entries (107 unique) / 23 advanced

Day 1B entries: 217 (135 unique) / 40 advanced

Day 1C (Turbo): 149 entries (47 unique) / 40 advanced

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Day 2 info

Day 2 qualifiers: 103 players

Chips in play: 24,450,000

Average stack: 237,378 (29 bb)

Opening blnids: 4K-8K ante 8K

Cards flying: January 20 at 11:30am

Day 2 players by stack size

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack	BB	Table / Seat
1	Amit Kaushik	India	822,000	103	T-46 [02]
2	Maulik Bharatkumar Shukla	India	658,000	82	T-20 [03]
3	Dmitrii Ippolitov	Russia	650,000	81	T-46 [05]
4	Samuel David Adams	New Zealand	537,000	67	T-03 [08]
5	John Edward Perry	Australia	504,000	63	T-08 [04]
6	Tian Hao Zheng	China	500,000	63	T-09 [05]
7	Koen Breed	Netherlands	472,000	59	T-20 [07]
8	Rayhaan Adam	South Africa	471,000	59	T-45 [09]
9	Hun Tae Choi	Korea	466,000	58	T-01 [05]
10	Adrien Franck Berger	France	435,000	54	T-14 [04]
11	Jianfeng Sun	China	423,000	53	T-01 [03]
12	Ilya Firstov	Kazakhstan	421,000	53	T-09 [01]
13	Jonald Obana Garcia	Philippines	420,000	53	T-14 [09]
14	Sean Ragozzini	Australia	410,000	51	T-14 [02]
15	Marc Anthony Joseph	South Africa	403,000	50	T-02 [07]
16	Byoung Soo Lee	Korea	396,000	50	T-20 [01]
17	Hyungtaek Jo	Korea	395,000	49	T-45 [02]
18	Pyeongkang Kim	Korea	388,000	49	T-15 [08]
19	Minh Phu Dao	Viet Nam	375,000	47	T-03 [01]
20	Diego Alejandro Miyashiro Uechi		372,000	47	T-02 [06]
21	Christopher Vecino Mateo	Philippines	353,000	44	T-15 [06]
22	Song Hau Pham	Viet Nam	346,000	43	T-02 [08]
23	Jun Li	Ireland	341,000	43	T-14 [07]
24	Van Men Nguyen	Viet Nam	333,000	42	T-21 [03]
25	Kyle Bao Quoc An Diep	USA	331,000	41	T-46 [09]
26	Dmitrii Isaev	Russia	322,000	40	T-03 [05]
27	Luke Martinelli	Australia	307,000	38	T-15 [07]
28	Maxime Joseph Tantaro	France	305,000	38	T-15 [09]
29	Tien Loon Ling	Malaysia	303,000	38	T-45 [03]
30	Xin Zhao	China	300,000	38	T-03 [07]
31	Trung Quan Nguyen	Viet Nam	287,000	36	T-14 [08]
32	Abbouchi Mohamad	Lebanon	286,000	36	T-08 [06]
33	Zsolt Cserhati	Hungary	277,000	35	T-09 [02]
34	Jinlong Hu	China	266,000	33	T-20 [04]
35	Wei-Tse Chang	Taiwan	254,000	32	T-01 [04]
36	Wattana Sophontanakup	Thailand	252,000	32	T-45 [04]
37	Jijun Xu	China	251,000	31	T-46 [01]
38	Oliver Schulze	Germany	240,000	30	T-21 [04]
39	Oleg Titov	Russia	240,000	30	T-01 [07]
40	Van Xuan Nguyen	Viet Nam	235,000	29	T-20 [02]
41	Vikaash Shah	India	233,000	29	T-03 [03]
42	Zhifan Ye	China	231,000	29	T-01 [06]
43	Julian Andrew Warhurst	Australia	222,000	28	T-01 [02]
44	Adrien Michel Tantaro	France	221,000	28	T-02 [01]
45	Jeongmin Park	Korea	220,000	28	T-46 [07]
46	Jennifer Kate Cassell	Australia	217,000	27	T-14 [01]
47	Frank James Lillis	Ireland	216,000	27	T-15 [01]
48	Raja Sekhar Puttamsetty	India	215,000	27	T-46 [06]
49	Zuxiong He	China	208,000	26	T-08 [03]
50	Dexter Santos	Philippines	206,000	26	T-20 [08]
51	Anthony Cierco	France	199,000	25	T-09 [04]
52	Hwanho Choe	Korea	198,000	25	T-21 [01]
53	Seongmin Lee	Korea	197,000	25	T-02 [05]
54	Minsu Kim	Korea	195,000	24	T-02 [03]
55	Yita Choong	Australia	195,000	24	T-01 [09]
56	Hon Cheong Lee	Hong Kong	190,000	24	T-02 [09]
57	Joni Seppo Juhani Rantamaki	Finland	184,000	23	T-46 [08]
58	Ronan Madden	Iceland	182,000	23	T-13 [03]
59	Mike Andillo Takayama	Philippines	171,000	21	T-02 [02]
60	Laury Philippe Vanlerberghe	France	163,000	20	T-45 [05]
61	Nobuyasu Sato	Japan	162,000	20	T-09 [09]
62	Erick Alex Goni Marcos	Peru	157,000	20	T-09 [06]
63	Youngchae Youn	Korea	156,000	20	T-20 [05]
64	Cheng Zhang	China	155,000	19	T-08 [02]
65	William Noble Bolton	Australia	155,000	19	T-09 [07]
66	Rauf Kaan Avci	Turkey	151,000	19	T-13 [07]
67	Yuwen Pan	China	151,000	19	T-13 [09]
68	Taruli Asima Aritonang	Indonesia	149,000	19	T-14 [06]
69	Nicolae-Claudiu Marinescu	Romania	148,000	19	T-09 [03]
70	Bien Mai	Viet Nam	147,000	18	T-13 [05]
71	Hua-Wei Lin	Taiwan	146,000	18	T-08 [07]
72	Thomas Lee	Canada	144,000	18	T-21 [06]
73	Xiaosheng Zheng	China	144,000	18	T-21 [02]
74	Mark Kavaleu	Belarus	144,000	18	T-45 [07]
75	Aayush Arya	India	138,000	17	T-15 [04]
76	Bonifacio Jr.Delingon Mondalo	Philippines	137,000	17	T-15 [05]
77	Haile Rafik Kuo	Grenada	136,000	17	T-46 [03]
78	Pablo Beltran De Heredia Garcia	Spain	135,000	17	T-13 [04]
79	Quang Huy Nguyen	Viet Nam	134,000	17	T-03 [04]
80	Matthew Bevin	USA	133,000	17	T-03 [06]
81	Georgios Skarparis	Cyprus	128,000	16	T-14 [05]
82	Jhon Hendri	Indonesia	128,000	16	T-13 [06]
83	Davidyouveakreach Koy		127,000	16	T-15 [03]
84	Thomas Gary Pound	USA	123,000	15	T-21 [07]
85	Marlon Darius Bazgar	Germany	121,000	15	T-20 [06]
86	Bas Wilhelmus Cornelis Jo De Laat	Netherlands	114,000	14	T-14 [03]
87	Zhihao Chen	China	112,000	14	T-13 [01]
88	Daniel Patrick Tighe	Ireland	112,000	14	T-45 [08]
89	Tola Keo	Australia	106,000	13	T-09 [08]
90	Jerome Adam Bradpiece	United Kingdom	104,000	13	T-15 [02]
91	Rundulf Martin Gonzales	Philippines	99,000	12	T-08 [08]
92	Hongru Zhang	China	95,000	12	T-21 [05]
93	Ali Khalili		94,000	12	T-45 [06]
94	Todd Randall Hansen	USA	94,000	12	T-13 [08]
95	Rindra Norodom		90,000	11	T-02 [04]
96	Chien-Chih Weng	Taiwan	84,000	11	T-13 [02]
97	Thanh Ha Duong	Viet Nam	83,000	10	T-20 [09]
98	Zhun Wang	China	80,000	10	T-21 [08]
99	Kenji Hamamoto	Japan	74,000	9	T-08 [01]
100	Chakshu Deep Raina	India	69,000	9	T-03 [09]
101	Francesco Micucci	Luxembourg	68,000	9	T-08 [09]
102	Li Xue Yan Andy	Singapore	52,000	7	T-45 [01]
103	Sergei Egorov	Russia	30,000	4	T-01 [01]

Day 1A – 23 survivors

Player	Flag	Stack
Samuel David Adams	New Zealand	537,000
John Edward Perry	Austraila	504,000
Koen Breed	Netherlands	472,000
Hun Tae Choi	Korea	466,000
Adrien Franck Berger	France	435,000
Ilya Firstov	Kazakhstan	421,000
Hyungtaek Jo	Korea	395,000
Jun Li	UK	341,000
Maxime Joseph Tantaro	France	305,000
Zsolt Cserhati	Hungary	277,000
Oliver Schulze	Germany	240,000
Adrien Michel Tantaro	France	221,000
Raja Sekhar Puttamsetty	India	215,000
Minsu Kim	Korea	195,000
Youngchae Youn	Korea	156,000
Cheng Zhang	China	155,000
Rauf Kaan Avci	Turkey	151,000
Thomas Lee	Canada	144,000
Aayush Arya	India	138,000
Davidyouveakreach Koy		127,000
Zhihao Chen	China	112,000
Tola Keo	Australia	106,000
Ali Khalili	Canada	94,000

Day 1B – 40 survivors

Player	Flag	Stack
Amit Kaushik	India	822,000
Maulik Bharatkumar Shukla	India	658,000
Dmitrii Ippolitov	Russian Federation	650,000
Tianhao Zheng	China	500,000
Rayhaan Adam	South Africa	471,000
Jianfeng Sun	China	423,000
Jonald Obana Garcia	Philippines	420,000
Sean Ragozzini	Australia	410,000
Pyeongkang Kim	Korea, Republic Of	388,000
Minh Phu Dao	Viet Nam	375,000
Christopher Vecino Mateo	Philippines	353,000
Van Men Nguyen	Viet Nam	333,000
Kyle Bao Quoc An Diep	Usa	331,000
Dmitrii Isaev	Russian Federation	322,000
Xin Zhao	China	300,000
Trung Quan Nguyen	Viet Nam	287,000
Abbouchi Mohamad	Lebanon	286,000
Wattana Sophontanakup	Thailand	252,000
Van Xuan Nguyen	Viet Nam	235,000
Julian Andrew Warhurst	Australia	222,000
Jeongmin Park	Korea, Republic Of	220,000
Jennifer Kate Cassell	Australia	217,000
Dexter Santos	Cambodia	206,000
Hwanho Choe	Korea, Republic Of	198,000
Seongmin Lee	Korea, Republic Of	197,000
Mike Andillo Takayama	Philippines	171,000
Laury Philippe Vanlerberghe	France	163,000
William Noble Bolton	Australia	155,000
Yuwen Pan	China	151,000
Nicolae-Claudiu Marinescu	Romania	148,000
Hua-Wei Lin	Taiwan, Province Of China	146,000
Bonifacio Jr.Delingon Mondalo	Philippines	137,000
Pablo Beltran De Heredia Garcia	Spain	135,000
Quang Huy Nguyen	Viet Nam	134,000
Todd Randall Hansen	Usa	94,000
Rindra Norodom	Cambodia	90,000
Chien-Chih Weng	Taiwan, Province Of China	84,000
Thanh Ha Duong	Viet Nam	83,000
Kenji Hamamoto	Japan	74,000
Sergei Egorov	Russian Federation	30,000

Day 1C – 40 survivors

Player	Flag	Stack
Marc Anthony Joseph	South Africa	403,000
Byoung Soo Lee	Korea, Democratic People’S Republic Of)	396,000
Diego Alejandro Miyashiro Uechi	Cambodia	372,000
Song Hau Pham	Viet Nam	346,000
Luke Martinelli	Australia	307,000
Tien Loon Ling	Malaysia	303,000
Jinlong Hu	China	266,000
Wei-Tse Chang	Taiwan, Province Of China	254,000
Jijun Xu	China	251,000
Oleg Titov	Russian Federation	240,000
Vikaash Shah	India	233,000
Zhifan Ye	China	231,000
Frank James Lillis	Iran (Islamic Republic Of)	216,000
Zuxiong He	China	208,000
Anthony Cierco	Afghanistan	199,000
Yita Choong	Australia	195,000
Hon Cheong Lee	Hong Kong	190,000
Joni Seppo Juhani Rantamaki	Finland	184,000
Ronan Madden	Iceland	182,000
Nobuyasu Sato	Japan	162,000
Erick Alex Goni Marcos	Peru	157,000
Taruli Asima Aritonang	Indonesia	149,000
Bien Mai	Viet Nam	147,000
Xiaosheng Zheng	China	144,000
Mark Kavaleu	Belarus	144,000
Haile Rafik Kuo	Grenada	136,000
Matthew Bevin	Usa	133,000
Georgios Skarparis	Cyprus	128,000
Jhon Hendri	Indonesia	128,000
Thomas Gary Pound	Usa	123,000
Marlon Darius Bazgar	Germany	121,000
Bas Wilhelmus Cornelis Jo De Laat	Netherlands	114,000
Daniel Patrick Tighe	Ireland	112,000
Jerome Adam Bradpiece	United Kingdom	104,000
Rundulf Martin Gonzales	Philippines	99,000
Hongru Zhang	China	95,000
Zhun Wang	China	80,000
Chakshu Deep Raina	India	69,000
Francesco Micucci	Luxembourg	68,000
Li Xue Yan Andy	Singapore	52,000

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