India’s Meherzad Munsaf stole the spotlight at Day 1B of the U Series of Poker MAIN EVENT as he topped the 48 Day 1B survivors with a chip stack of 989,000 (65 bb). Munsaf has been seen at the festival since opening day with a few cashes already under his belt. Getting warmed up proved very effective as he earned the second overall spot in the Day 2 chip counts. Multi-decorated USOP high roller champion Hoang Hai Nam bagged up the heat’s second largest of 854,000 (57 bb).
Other players seen in action were USOP Main Event champions Edwin Dela Cruz and Vishal Ojha. For the latter Ojha, he bagged up 314,000 (21 bb) however not so fortunate for Dela Cruz who fell on the bubble. During the hand, WPT Prime Vietnam champion Nguyen Duy Thuc three-bet jammed with 
, Dela Cruz risked his lesser 11 bb stack with 
, the board ran 
for a victorious nut flush to Nguyen.
USOP is ongoing beachside at Furama Resort in the stunning coastal destination of Danang, Vietnam. The second of four heats drew 382 to bring the cumulative total to 690 entries. With buy in at VN₫ 25,00,000 (~$1,057), the guarantee has been reached and any entry from here on is icing!
Next up are the final two flights, Day 1C and Day 1D (turbo), both taking place on Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 12pm and 6pm. Expect the lines to be long and a wall to wall house so get there early to avoid being an alternate. As added perk, players seated during Level 1 will receive a USOP hoodie in yellow or blue while supplies last.
*Every Main Event flight plays down to ITM of 12.5% of the field. Check the player guide for all the info and tournament structure.
Day 1B results
Date: November 24, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 25,00,000 (~$1,057)
Guarantee: VN₫ 15,000,000,000 (~$622,150)
Entries: 382 (286 unique)
ITM: 48 players
Chips in play: 15,280,000
Average stack: 318,333
Day 1B closing blinds: 10,000-15,000 ante 15,000
| Mehersad Munsaf | 989,000 |
| Hoang Hai Nam | 854,000 |
| Wong Ka Fai | 775,000 |
| Amit Kaushik | 720,000 |
| Guy Taylor | 633,000 |
| Nguyen Trung Ha | 622,000 |
| Seong Uk Huh | 584,000 |
| Aditya Singh | 575,000 |
| Farhad Aghayev | 497,000 |
| Deng Zhi Wen | 494,000 |
| Tianhao Zheng | 486,000 |
| Bui Anh Khoa | 476,000 |
| Nguyen Duy Thuc | 474,000 |
| Nguyen Hoang Long | 449,000 |
| Jingwei Guo | 400,000 |
| Pavel Kuznetsov | 368,000 |
| Nguyen Thi Bao An | 361,000 |
| Chen Yong Qi | 355,000 |
| Nguyen The Anh | 332,000 |
| Vishal Ojha | 314,000 |
| Sean Tan | 300,000 |
| Phu Te Te | 286,000 |
| Lee Wooyoung | 281,000 |
| Meremans Antoine | 261,000 |
| Pham Bao | 258,000 |
| Xu Wei | 257,000 |
| Hieu Ngo | 234,000 |
| Tran Thi Xuan Ha | 210,000 |
| Florent Remi | 197,000 |
| Ming Huang | 195,000 |
| Lee Wai Huen | 194,000 |
| Tan Kwang Chung | 188,000 |
| Sangmin Lee | 184,000 |
| Jae Wook Shin | 153,000 |
| Sishu Peng | 152,000 |
| Moo Jae | 149,000 |
| Tran Thinh | 147,000 |
| Siddharth Karia | 145,000 |
| Kabir Khattar | 145,000 |
| Wooseok Kim | 141,000 |
| Oliver Biles | 111,000 |
| Vu Thai Bao | 102,000 |
| Ian Modder | 101,000 |
| Kai Hung Hu | 90,000 |
| Goh Chee Kiong | 82,000 |
| Grant Gardner | 79,000 |
| Mohit Bohra | 51,000 |
| Aladin Reskallah | 42,000 |
For the Day 2 qualifier list, head to USOP Danang – Live Updates Main Event Day 2
Links:
USOP Danang Main Event VN₫ 15 Billion guaranteed kicks off! – November 23 to 27, 2023
USOP Danang – Festival Results
USOP Danang – Coverage
USOP Danang – Photos
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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