Poker Dream‘s inaugural Vietnam series is now the richest poker event ever staged in the country. Kicking off on October 14 in Hoi An, at the Grand Hall of Hoiana Hotel & Suites, it broke the US$ 1 Million dollar marker on Day 5, and was on pace to set even greater heights with the headliner yet to come.
On October 20, the Main Event took center stage, and after three starting days, it drew a record breaking 822 entries and a record prize pool of ₫17,940,150,000 (~$731,350). This is now the largest Main Event pot ever amassed in Vietnam, beating the previous record set last month by over ₫100M. It is also the largest Main Event field produced in the country of the same buy in.
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Breaking it down, the ₫25 Million buy in Main Event opened with Day 1A pulling in 293 entries. The next day saw the advertised ₫10 Billion guarantee shattered when 377 turned up for Day 1B and 152 for the Day 1C Turbo flight. A total of 192 players advanced and will return on Saturday, October 22 for the next stage of the race.
Leading the charge is Day 1A frontrunner, Korea’s Hojin Kim, trailed by Day 1B leader Vietnam’s Phan Thanh Hung by just one 500 chip. Both players will bring in stacks over 100 BB into Day 2. You can read up on the action via the Live Updates.
Buy in: ₫25,000,000 (~$1,020)
Entries: 822
Prize pool: ₫17,940,150,000 (~$731,350)
Day 2 qualifiers: 194 players
ITM: TBA
Top 10 in chips
| 1 | Hojin Kim | Korea | 310,500 |
| 2 | Phan Thanh Hung | Vietnam | 310,000 |
| 3 | Nguyen Hoang Nam | Vietnam | 285,500 |
| 4 | Vincent Huang | NZ | 285,000 |
| 5 | Jeffrey Tan Pamplona | Philippines | 280,500 |
| 6 | Jenam Yu | Korea | 280,500 |
| 7 | Tran Hong Chuong | Vietnam | 273,500 |
| 8 | Dinh Xuan Dinh | Vietnam | 262,500 |
| 9 | Lee Changhwan | Korea | 261,500 |
| 10 | Ngo Minh Tien | Vietnam | 261,000 |
Full chip counts and seat draw
Chips in play: 24,660,000
Average stack: 128,437
Day 2 opening blinds: 1500-3000-3000 BB Ante
Level intervals: blinds increase every 50 minutes
The 192 players will return on Saturday, October 22, 2002 for Day 2. They play another 12 rounds with blinds increasing every 50 minutes.
You can read up on the Day 1A and Day 1B action via the Live Updates. Follow us as we bring you live coverage from start to finish.
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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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