WPT Cambodia: Mystery Bounty draws 532; Cao Ngoc Anh tops overall heats; biggest bounty at $20K

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Updated: 2026.10.16

World Poker Tour (WPT) Cambodia experienced yet another impressive turnout as the highly popular Mystery Bounty event lit up NagaWorld Phnom Penh,attracting a total of 532 entries across three starting days. Not only did the event smash its guarantee, the top mystery reward is set at a mightyUSD 20,000. Here is the breakdown:

Mystery Bounty rewards

USD	Pieces
$20,000	1
$15,000	1
$10,000	2
$5,000	3
$2,000	8
$1,000	18
$1,360	1
$500	34

Mystery Bounty numbers

Date: January 20-22, 2024

Buy in: USD 800

Guarantee: USD 200,000

Entries: 532 (295 unique)

Prize pool: USD 371,549

ITM: 68 players

Day 1 results

Day 1A: 146 entries (119 unique) / 19 ITM

Day 1B: 207 entries (118 unique) / 26 ITM

Day 1C: 179 (58 unique) / 23 ITM

When the 68 players return, they are all guaranteed a piece of the cash prize pool. The top five finishers will pocket five-figures with the eventual champion slated to win USD 48,006.

Emerging as overall chip leader was Vietnamese pro Cao Ngoc Anh, the only player to bag up a million in chips. Anh delivered the bubble at Day 1B, calling a player’s three-bet shove to clean up with over .

At Day 1C, Australia’s Zhifan Ye did the same, emerging as heat leader after knocking out a player on the bubble. Ye’s found the ace to crush a short stack’s . He bagged up overall 4th in chips following Day 1A leader Bien Mai in second rank and Le Ngoc Minh in third rank.

Top 9 payouts

Place	Payout in USD
1	$48,006
2	$33,251
3	$21,611
4	$15,123
5	$11,831
6	$9,661
7	$8,036
8	$6,417
9	$4,814

Day 2 qualifiers – 68 players

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack	Table-Seat
1	Ngoc Anh Cao	Viet Nam	1,183,000	T-03 [05]
2	Bien Mai	Viet Nam	862,000	T-14 [03]
3	Ngoc Minh Le	Viet Nam	683,000	T-15 [08]
4	Zhifan Ye	China	676,000	T-15 [06]
5	Kenji Hamamoto	Japan	658,000	T-02 [04]
6	Thomas Lee	Canada	646,000	T-08 [09]
7	Deok-Yeong Lee	Korea	589,000	T-03 [07]
8	Win Meng Tan	Malaysia	564,000	T-14 [01]
9	Bonil Koo	Korea	560,000	T-01 [02]
10	Bonifacio Mondalo Jr	Philippines	549,000	T-15 [04]
11	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	536,000	T-09 [07]
12	Somphone Ung	Canada	465,000	T-09 [06]
13	Ngoc Quoc Bao Pham	Viet Nam	465,000	T-02 [05]
14	Renji Mao	China	453,000	T-03 [04]
15	Mr. Fendy	Indonesia	395,000	T-09 [03]
16	Minh Thang Tran	Viet Nam	385,000	T-01 [08]
17	Michael Gordon Smith		372,000	T-45 [05]
18	William Bolton	Australia	370,000	T-08 [06]
19	Kien Tat Heng	Singapore	366,000	T-02 [02]
20	San Lin Voong	Usa	355,000	T-03 [09]
21	Oleg Titov	Russia	350,000	T-08 [08]
22	Dmitrii Gnusaev	Russia	318,000	T-14 [09]
23	Adrien Michel Tantaro	France	314,000	T-14 [08]
24	Chainani Dhanesh Vijaykumar	Singapore	303,000	T-14 [02]
25	Sean Ragozzini	Australia	303,000	T-14 [05]
26	Harnan Jaybee Villa	Philippines	283,000	T-15 [03]
27	Rayhaan Adam	South Africa	282,000	T-09 [02]
28	Sean Joseph Keeton	United Kingdom	277,000	T-15 [07]
29	Jianfeng Sun	China	274,000	T-09 [01]
30	Eike Soren Strub	Germany	267,000	T-45 [02]
31	Jennifer Cassell	Australia	267,000	T-03 [06]
32	Dmitrii Isaev	Russia	261,000	T-02 [09]
33	Kevin Arne Ewald	USA	253,000	T-02 [08]
34	Jason Tyler Kapoor	USA	251,000	T-14 [07]
35	Anthony Cierco	France	249,000	T-03 [01]
36	Shivam Shukla	India	242,000	T-45 [09]
37	Cheng Zhang	China	241,000	T-14 [04]
38	Chao-Ting Cheng	Taiwan	237,000	T-45 [01]
39	Rolands Norietis	Latvia	236,000	T-15 [02]
40	Conor Mark Berry Grimsley	United Kingdom	235,000	T-45 [03]
41	Tony Lee Miles	USA	230,000	T-01 [03]
42	Sarkiss Osalian	Australia	228,000	T-09 [04]
43	Adrien Franck Berger	France	214,000	T-08 [03]
44	Yadi Yao	China	210,000	T-08 [01]
45	Frank James Lillis	Ireland	209,000	T-45 [07]
46	Hongru Zhang	China	208,000	T-08 [04]
47	Oleg Furman	Russia	201,000	T-14 [06]
48	Renniel Galvez	Philippines	201,000	T-08 [05]
49	Chien-Chih Weng	Taiwan	197,000	T-03 [08]
50	Dhaval Mudgal	India	195,000	T-15 [05]
51	Max Nolting	Germany	192,000	T-01 [07]
52	Maurice Wee Teck Tan	Singapore	190,000	T-08 [07]
53	Mathias Schell	Switzerland	184,000	T-02 [06]
54	Marc Rivera	Philippines	178,000	T-01 [06]
55	Richard Serrano Marquez	Philippines	177,000	T-01 [09]
56	Takuma Sasaki	Japan	176,000	T-45 [08]
57	Jinlong Hu	China	172,000	T-02 [01]
58	Norberto Andres Korn	Germany	166,000	T-01 [01]
59	Bin Yang	China	158,000	T-02 [07]
60	Kentaro Mori	Japan	138,000	T-45 [06]
61	Younghun Moon	Korea	131,000	T-01 [04]
62	Davidyouveakreach Koy		130,000	T-45 [04]
63	John Carlo Sayo	Philippines	122,000	T-15 [09]
64	Maxime Joseph Tantaro	France	121,000	T-09 [05]
65	Ville Jyrki Santeri Pohjalainen	Finland	109,000	T-03 [03]
66	Chul Woong Joo	Korea	101,000	T-15 [01]
67	Yoay Ram	Israel	97,000	T-09 [08]
68	Erick Alex Goni Marcos	Peru	74,000	T-09 [09]

End of Day 1A – 19 players

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack
1	Bien Mai	Viet Nam	862,000
2	Thomas Lee	Canada	646,000
3	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	536,000
4	Renji Mao	China	453,000
5	Mr. Fendy	Indonesia	395,000
6	Oleg Titov	Russia	350,000
7	Dmitrii Gnusaev	Russia	318,000
8	Sean Joseph Keeton	United Kingdom	277,000
9	Eike Soren Strub	Germany	267,000
10	Anthony Cierco	France	249,000
11	Chao-Ting Cheng	Taiwan	237,000
12	Rolands Norietis	Latvia	236,000
13	Conor Mark Berry Grimsley	United Kingdom	235,000
14	Maximilian Detlef Horst Von Nolting	Germany	192,000
15	Bin Yang	China	158,000
16	Younghun Moon	Korea	131,000
17	Ville Jyrki Santeri Pohjalainen	Finland	109,000
18	Chul Woong Joo	Korea	101,000
19	Yoay Ram	Israel	97,000

End of Day 1B – 26 players

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack
1	Ngoc Anh Cao	Viet Nam	1,183,000
2	Ngoc Minh Le	Viet Nam	683,000
3	Kenji Hamamoto	Japan	658,000
4	Somphone Ung	Canada	465,000
5	Minh Thang Tran	Viet Nam	385,000
6	WilliamBolton	Australia	370,000
7	Kien Tat Heng	Singapore	366,000
8	Adrien Tantaro	France	314,000
9	Chainani Dhanesh Vijaykumar	Singapore	303,000
10	Harnan Jaybee Villa	Philippines	283,000
11	Jianfeng Sun	China	274,000
12	Jennifer Cassell	Australia	267,000
13	Dmitrii Isaev	Russia	261,000
14	Kevin Arne Ewald	USA	253,000
15	Jason Tyler Kapoor	USA	251,000
16	Shivam Shukla	India	242,000
17	Adrien Berger	France	214,000
18	Hongru Zhang	China	208,000
19	Oleg Furman	Russia	201,000
20	Chien-Chih Weng	Taiwan	197,000
21	Richard Serrano Marquez	Philippines	177,000
22	Takuma Sasaki	Japan	176,000
23	Norberto Andres Korn	Germany	166,000
24	Kentaro Mori	Japan	138,000
25	John Carlo Sayo	Philippines	122,000
26	Maxime Joseph Tantaro	France	121,000

End of Day 1C – 23 players

Rank	Player	Flag	Stack
1	Zhifan Ye	China	676,000
2	Deok-Yeong Lee	Korea, Republic Of	589,000
3	Win Meng Tan	Malaysia	564,000
4	Bonil Koo	Korea, Republic Of	560,000
5	Bonifacio Jr.Delingon Mondalo	Philippines	549,000
6	Ngoc Quoc Bao Pham	Viet Nam	465,000
7	Michael Gordon Smith	Vanuatu	372,000
8	San Lin Voong	Usa	355,000
9	Sean Ragozzini	Australia	303,000
10	Rayhaan Adam	South Africa	282,000
11	Cheng Zhang	China	241,000
12	Tony Lee Miles	Usa	230,000
13	Sarkiss Osalian	Australia	228,000
14	Yadi Yao	China	210,000
15	Frank James Lillis	Iran (Islamic Republic Of)	209,000
16	Renniel Estrada Galvez	Philippines	201,000
17	Dhaval Mudgal	India	195,000
18	Maurice Wee Teck Tan	Singapore	190,000
19	Mathias Schell	Swaziland	184,000
20	Marc Richelieu Rivera	Philippines	178,000
21	Jinlong Hu	China	172,000
22	Davidyouveakreach Koy	Cambodia	130,000
23	Erick Alex Goni Marcos	Peru	74,000

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