WPT Vietnam: VN₫ 15 BN guaranteed Main Event surpassed; Huynh Tan Dung leads 156 players into Day 2

It is official! The World Poker Tour has delivered the richest tournament ever seen in Vietnam. The past three days witnessed players descend upon the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City for the WPT Vietnam – Main Event VN₫ 15 billion guaranteed (~US$ 644,000). At the end of Day 1C, the overall count was 344 entries at VN₫ 55,000,000 buy-in each to drive the prize pool in the ballpark of VN₫ 16.5 billion. That figure will continue to bloat with registration open during the first hour of Day 2.

For now, here are all the details coming into the next stage of the race.

Main Event Day 2 info

Day 1A: 41 advanced out of 93 entries

Day 1B: 53 advanced out of 121 entries

Day 1C: 62 advanced out of 130 entries

Total: 344 entries

Day 2 qualifiers: 156 players

Total chips in play: 13,760,000

Average stack: 88,205

Opening blinds: 600-1200 (Level 10)

Bagging time: end of Level 19

Entering chip leaders: Huynh Tan Dung (272,300) and Christopher Mateo (272,000)

For entering players

Starting stack: 40,000 (~33x opening big blind)

Level intervals: 60 minutes

Registration: closes at the start of Level 11

Structure: Main Tour

Format: Ante Big Blind

Important note: If you are a new player in Day 2, you will be allowed one re-entry before registration closes. For Day 2 qualifiers that bust out early, you can buy-in your first Day 2 entry. If you bust out again, you can re-enter before registration closes.

Day 2 – Seat Draw

Day 1 ABC – Chip Counts

Main Event Day 1C recap

Main Event Day 1C had many tales to tell. For starters, it drew the largest field of 130 entrants (108 players, 22 re-entries) with 63 powering through. By Level 5, the VN₫ 15 billion guarantee was breached with only 98 needed to match it.

Another big one, Vietnam’s Huynh Tan Dung bagged the overall chip lead of 272,300. He was the only player to successfully overtake Christopher Mateo who set the bar very high at 272,000 in Day 1A. Huynh gained momentum after railing Nguyen Van Thuan midway through the day.

Other players bagging up heavy stacks were Huynh Duc Tai (268,000), William Kang (226,900), and Pham Thanh Tung (213,900). These players all closed in the 200k range. WSOP bracelet winners Alex Lindop (28,400) and Mike Takayama (37,600) also advanced however they need to make up plenty of ground to catch up to the leaders.

Seen for the first time at a WPT Vietnam event were France’s Jimmy Guerrero and fallen players from Day 1B, Aaron Lim and Tom Alner. Guerrero had a great start but was caught bluffing by William Kang to send him plummeting then re-entering. All three advanced to Day 2. Lim and Alner only needed one bullet today.

You can read up on the starting days action via our live updates.

Day 1C – Live Updates

Completed Events

Event #8: Pot Limit Omaha – – VN₫ 208,433,000 (~US$ 9,000)

Buy-in: VN₫ 8,800,000 (~US$ 380)

Entries: 79 (61 uniques, 18 re-entries)

Prize pool: VN₫ 613,040,000 (~US$ 26,000)

ITM: 10 places

Payouts

1st Vu Duc Trung (Vietnam) – VN₫ 208,433,000

2nd Chang Gon Lee (Korea) – VN₫ 119,543,000

3rd Chi Chung Ho (Hong Kong) – VN₫ 74,791,000

4th Ryan Revai (Canada) – VN₫ 50,576,000

5th Charalampos Lappas (Greece) – VN₫ 38,315,000

6th Vincent Chauve (France) – VN₫ 30,652,000

7th Tobias Cornelius Napel (Netherlands) – VN₫ 26,973,000

8th Kenji Kurashina (Japan) – VN₫ 24,521,000

9th Martin Stausholm (Denmark) – VN₫ 20,845,000

10th Tsun Ming Chan (Hong Kong) – VN₫ 18,391,000

Event #9: Superstack Turbo Freezeout – Andre Lettau – VN₫ 283,114,000 (~US$ 12,000)

Buy-in: VN₫ 11,000,000 (~US$ 470)

Players: 92

Prize pool: VN₫ 892,400,000 (~US$ 38,300)

ITM: 12 places

Payouts

1st Andre Lettau (Austria) – VN₫ 283,114,000

2nd Ong Guan Heng (Singapore) – VN₫ 169,556,000

3rd Alok Birewar (India) – VN₫ 107,088,000

4th La Anh Tuan (Vietnam) – VN₫ 69,161,000

5th Fuk On Wong (China) – VN₫ 53,544,000

6th Nguyen Khoi (Vietnam) – VN₫ 42,389,000

7th Vincent Chauve (France) – VN₫ 35,696,000

8th Neeraj Kumar (India) – VN₫ 31,235,000

9th Ronak Vyas (India) – VN₫ 28,316,000

10th Tobias Cornelius Napel (Netherlands) – VN₫ 25,879,000

11th Lok Tin Chan (China) – VN₫ 22,327,000

12 Kwun Ngai Vincent Li (Hong Kong) – VN₫ 24,095,000

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