In a momentous occasion for the World Poker Tour (WPT) and live poker events in Asia, the second-ever WPT Prime stop in Vietnam shattered records at the Crown Poker Club. Over the course of three thrilling starting days, the Main Event drew 1,151 entries with Day 1C alone pulling in an astonishing 525 entries. This was the biggest WPT Main Event turnout in the region and the second largest WPT Prime Main Event worldwide, just behind the 2023 WPT Prime Gold Coast. Moreover, the prize pool reached seven figures, ~US$ 1,079,610 (VN₫ 25,343,869,000), the richest ever recorded for a non High Roller event in Vietnam.
Main Event by the numbers
Buy in: VN₫ 25,000,000 (~US$ 1,065)
Guarantee: VN₫ 12,000,000,000 (~US$ 511,180)
Total Entries: 1,151
Prize pool: VN₫ 25,343,869,000 (~US$ 1,079,6110
Day 2 / ITM: 143 players
Day 1 turnout
Day 1A: 238 (182 unique, 56 re-entry)
Day 1B: 388 (304 unique, 84 re-entry)
Day 1C: 525 (373 unique, 152 re-entry)
The next stage of the Main Event is Day 2 with 143 players returning, each one is guaranteed a piece of the prize pool. Initially tallied at 145 players, there was one double qualifier, Khanh Pham Duy Nguyen who earned the minimum for his shorter stack, and at Day 1C, two players fell on the bubble to split the 144th place cash of VN₫ 39,000,000. Chu Hong Fu lost the flip against Ngoc Anh Cao and Kunal Patni’s set was burned by Ta Son Tung‘s straight on the river.
Day 2 will play down to the final table. You can catch all the action and the previous Day 1 race via the Live Updates on WPT.com.
Top 10 entering Day 2
| Player | Flag | Stack | BB |
| Richard Balkau | Australia | 935,000 | 156 |
| Kim Dong Kyu | Korea | 805,000 | 134 |
| Ngoc Anh Cao | Vietnam | 795,000 | 133 |
| Ha Trung Nguyen | Vietnam | 646,000 | 108 |
| Anuj Yadav | India | 643,000 | 107 |
| Ta Son Tung | Vietnam | 630,000 | 105 |
| Rajasekhar Puttamsetty | India | 580,000 | 97 |
| Nang Quang Nguyen | Vietnam | 564,000 | 94 |
| PhạM ĐứC Minh | Vietnam | 562,000 | 94 |
| Akshay Nasa | India | 552,000 | 92 |
For the full list of chip counts, head to the MAIN EVENT – CHIP COUNTS
Payouts
| Rank | Prize (in VND) | Prize (in USD) |
| 1 | 4,173,000,000 | $177,764 |
| 2 | 2,785,000,000 | $118,637 |
| 3 | 2,060,000,000 | $87,753 |
| 4 | 1,539,000,000 | $65,559 |
| 5 | 1,161,000,000 | $49,457 |
| 6 | 885,000,000 | $37,700 |
| 7 | 681,000,000 | $29,010 |
| 8 | 530,729,000 | $22,608 |
| 9-10 | 417,000,000 | $17,764 |
| 11-12 | 331,000,000 | $14,100 |
| 13-14 | 266,000,000 | $11,331 |
| 15-16 | 216,000,000 | $9,201 |
| 17-20 | 177,500,000 | $7,561 |
| 21-24 | 147,500,000 | $6,283 |
| 25-32 | 124,000,000 | $5,282 |
| 33-40 | 105,500,000 | $4,494 |
| 41-48 | 90,500,000 | $3,855 |
| 49-56 | 79,000,000 | $3,365 |
| 57-64 | 69,500,000 | $2,961 |
| 65-72 | 62,000,000 | $2,641 |
| 73-80 | 56,000,000 | $2,386 |
| 81-88 | 51,000,000 | $2,173 |
| 89-104 | 46,500,000 | $1,981 |
| 105-120 | 43,000,000 | $1,832 |
| 121-132 | 40,500,000 | $1,725 |
| 133-143 | 39,000,000 | $1,661 |
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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