Opening day at Poker Dream 7 Vietnam roared in with the Vietnam Open ₫2 Billion guaranteed kicking off the festivities. By night’s end, 298 entered over three flights. Bagging up the overall chip lead was well known Vietnamese pro Pham Bao with a 103 bb stack. Pham topped the 149 entry field of Day 1B.
Leading up to the bubble round with only 23 players reaching ITM, Pham won a big pot against Dream Player of the Year (DPOY) race leader You Jun Hong who double barreled with 
mid pair called by Pham with 
higher pair on a board 
.
To wrap up the flight, Pham eliminated Chhikara Himanshu on the bubble with 
dominating 
on a board 
.
Other flight leaders were Kyle Bao Diep (Flight A) and Iosub Dragos-Gabriel (Flight C). At Flight A, with 109 entries, Diep picked up a big chunk of chips by knocking out local pro Huynh Ngoc Cuong in two hands. The first pot saw a board complete 
, Huynh raised preflop and bet every street, then mucked to Diep’s 
. Dropping to 8 bb, Huynh lost the rest to Diep with 
top pair falling to straight on a board 
.
Short stacked Nguyen Phu bubbled with 
running into Ngo Hoang Hieu’s . Nine players advanced from Flight A.
Over at Flight C, this turbo flight brought in 40 entries. Dragos -Gabriel charged up the ranks with Ace-King awarding him the double boost. His first double up was through Czar Ian Marcos with dominating 
. The next was through Tan Van Viet with staying ahead of . Dragos-Gabriel closed out the day by knocking out Wei Chao on the bubble with 
trips dusting on a board 
.
Vietnam Open – Day 1 results
Buy in: ₫4,000,000 (~$142) / ₫8,000,000 (~$245)
Guarantee: ₫2,000,000,000 (~$82,290)
Entries: 109 / 149 / 40 = 298
Prize pool: ₫2,000,000,000 (~$82,290)
ITM: 9 / 23 / 6 = 38 players
| Rank | Player | Flag | Table | Seat | Stack |
| 1 | Pham Ngoc Quoc Bao | Vietnam | 4 | 8 | 515,000 |
| 2 | Tan Hing Kang Jason | Singapore | 3 | 3 | 329,000 |
| 3 | Liu Tianyou | China | 1 | 2 | 319,000 |
| 4 | Ho Duy Manh | United States | 2 | 2 | 307,000 |
| 5 | Iosub Dragos-Gabriel | Romania | 2 | 7 | 280,000 |
| 6 | Nguyen Duc Cuong | Vietnam | 5 | 3 | 254,000 |
| 7 | Diep Kyle Bao Quoc An | United States | 1 | 7 | 252,000 |
| 8 | Chua Adrian Boon Chye | Singapore | 3 | 2 | 229,000 |
| 9 | Zhang Cheng | Cambodia | 5 | 1 | 222,000 |
| 10 | Tsang Ka Shun | Hong Kong | 3 | 6 | 214,000 |
| 11 | Chu Wei Chien | Taiwan | 4 | 4 | 211,000 |
| 12 | Tan Ong Kwan | Malaysia | 3 | 8 | 208,000 |
| 13 | Tong Van Viet | Vietnam | 4 | 3 | 199,000 |
| 14 | Rauh Andreas | Germany | 3 | 1 | 167,000 |
| 15 | Pham Duy Tien | Vietnam | 5 | 8 | 166,000 |
| 16 | You Jun Hong | Malaysia | 3 | 5 | 159,000 |
| 17 | Nguyen Thi Bao An | Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 151,000 |
| 18 | Joel Justin Singam | Malaysia | 5 | 7 | 148,000 |
| 19 | Raina Chakshu Deep | India | 1 | 6 | 145,000 |
| 20 | Hu Wenjin | China | 5 | 2 | 133,000 |
| 21 | Cho Sinwoo | Korea, South | 3 | 4 | 131,000 |
| 22 | Nguyen Tan Khoa | Vietnam | 1 | 5 | 118,000 |
| 23 | Linh Ta Tri | Vietnam | 5 | 4 | 116,000 |
| 24 | Godden Noorzad Aaron | Canada | 1 | 4 | 106,000 |
| 25 | Thanh Le Quang | Vietnam | 4 | 1 | 102,000 |
| 26 | He Zuxiong | China | 5 | 5 | 99,000 |
| 27 | Nguyen Trung Ha | Vietnam | 4 | 2 | 97,000 |
| 28 | Tran Hoang Nam | Vietnam | 4 | 7 | 97,000 |
| 29 | Marcos Czar Ian | Philippines | 2 | 5 | 90,000 |
| 30 | Liu I Hsuan | Taiwan | 1 | 8 | 86,000 |
| 31 | Chiu Jen Chun | Taiwan | 2 | 3 | 77,000 |
| 32 | Mikheev Vladimir | Russia | 2 | 4 | 77,000 |
| 33 | Tlk; Trent Wayne | United States | 1 | 3 | 65,000 |
| 34 | Jung Yousuk | Korea, South | 3 | 7 | 57,000 |
| 35 | Phan Minh Duc | Vietnam | 2 | 6 | 52,000 |
| 36 | Ta Khanh Linh | Vietnam | 4 | 6 | 40,000 |
| 37 | Ng Tsun Yin | Hong Kong | 2 | 1 | 36,000 |
| 38 | Zhang Yang | China | 2 | 8 | 34,000 |
Prize pool breakdown
| 1 | ₫402,300,000 |
| 2 | ₫267,700,000 |
| 3 | ₫195,900,000 |
| 4 | ₫157,700,000 |
| 5 | ₫123,700,000 |
| 6 | ₫93,700,000 |
| 7 | ₫68,900,000 |
| 8 | ₫50,700,000 |
| 9 | ₫42,100,000 |
| 10-11 | ₫35,300,000 |
| 12-13 | ₫30,900,000 |
| 14-15 | ₫27,900,000 |
| 16-17 | ₫24,900,000 |
| 18-20 | ₫21,900,000 |
| 21-23 | ₫19,900,000 |
| 24-27 | ₫17,900,000 |
| 28-31 | ₫15,900,000 |
| 32-38 | ₫14,100,000 |
Mid-Autumn Festival
This week in particular will be special as it is the Mid-Autumn festival. A special Chinese Moon Festival was held at dawn on opening day. Snacks and drinks were served along with mini-games to win some cool prizes.
Newcomers to Poker Dream 7 Vietnam
For newcomers to Poker Dream 7 Vietnam, if you are flying in, the closest airport is Da Nang International Airport. From there, you can hire a taxi or book a Grab to Hoiana Resort & Golf. It takes around 40 minutes to get to Hoiana. Make sure to have the local currency – Vietnamese Dong – no other currencies are accepted. At the event, the organizers will be happy to assist if you need to change additional currency.
Hoiana Resort & Golf is a developing resort area located right on the East Vietnam Sea. The newly built facilities are top-notch with room choices for every type of traveler. Make sure to book your rooms as it is certain to fill up.
Room Packages still available
Good news, room packages are still available for both Main Event and High Rollers! Side event players also can avail of the Main Event packages as long as it meets the amount.
New World Hoiana Beach Resort (adjacent to the venue)
New World Hoiana Hotel (5-minute walk from the venue)
*All photos by Poker Dream
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Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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