A week of games has quickly gone by at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Vietnam – Passport to the World Championship. The festival has been ongoing at the Crown Poker Club Hanoi since October 6 and runs until 16, 2023. More trophies were claimed last night and another WPT Prime Championship Package snatched up. Here are the latest winners and results.
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Ivan Konechnyi rises from 4 bb to Big Bounty champion
At the two-day Big Bounty event, Russian player Ivan Konechnyi was down to just 4 bb during the bubble round and managed to stay afloat to reach ITM and advance to Day 2. As one of the 13 returning players, Konechnyi found his way to the final table however with no change in his stack.
The final table was where Konechnyi outshined that by three-handed, massive stacked Khoi Nguyen could not stop the Russian’s strong run. Nguyen fell to Konechnyi to bring about heads up.
Konechnyi was ahead over 4:1 in chips however Nguyen Kim Trung Son was a formidable opponent landing two double ups.
Though the gap tightened, Konechnyi kept his foot out front. The final hand was Konechnyi 
, Nguyen 
. The board ran 
.
Based on Hendon Mob, this was Konechnyi’s first live win. He pocketed the ₫133,700,000 top prize and six bounties amounting to ₫30,000,000 for a combined ₫163,700,000 (~US$ 6,690) payday.
Buy in: ₫11,000,000 (~US$ 450)
Entries: 101 (70 unique)
Prize pool: ₫474,700,000 (~US$ 19,390)
Bounty pool: ₫505,000,000 (~US$ 20,630)
ITM: 13 places
*Bounties not included
| 1 | Konechnyi Ivan | ₫133,700,000 |
| 2 | Nguyen Kim Truong Son | ₫88,500,000 |
| 3 | NguyễN Khôi | ₫60,000,000 |
| 4 | Saluja Pratibh | ₫42,500,000 |
| 5 | Batkhuyag Batmunkh | ₫31,000,000 |
| 6 | Lin Jianwei | ₫23,500,000 |
| 7 | Qian Xiaoyang | ₫18,500,000 |
| 8 | Deng Zhiwen | ₫15,500,000 |
| 9 | Kaushik Amit | ₫13,500,000 |
| 10 | Duy Ho | ₫13,500,000 |
| 11 | Wong Cho Fung Alan | ₫11,500,000 |
| 12 | Sembrano Alvin Jeff | ₫11,500,000 |
| 13 | Melwani Rahul Sham | ₫11,500,000 |
Song Li wins the High Roller 2 Day Warm Up and WPT Prime Championship Package
China’s Song Li emerged victorious at the High Roller 2 Day Warm Up to claim the ₫1,950,100,000 (~US$ 79,660) top prize plus a WPT Prime Championship Package worth $2,850. Watch the thrilling final table race via the Crown Poker Club YouTube channel
The event drew a stellar field of 138 entries for a guarantee crushing prize pool of ₫8,031,000,000 (~US$ 329,367). The top 18 places earned a cut. Tran Van Hung led at the start of Day 2 with 31 returning. The bubble burst on Romain Morvan whose 
were cracked by Chen Mingcong’s 
. Chen spiked the two-outer on the turn 
. It was all in at this point. The river 
ended Morvan.
Chen went on to reach the final table and finished in 6th place. For the day’s entering chip leader Tran, he finished 3rd. The title came down between Song Li and Le Ngoc Minh. Song carried in the advantage and never relinquished. The final hand was a cooler with Song’s 
dominating Le’s 
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41TUv8jlnZg&t=297s
Date: October 11 to 12, 2023
Buy in: ₫66,000,000 (~$2,700)
Guarantee: ₫2.500,000,000 (~$102,520)
Entries: 138 (91 unique)
Prize pool: ₫8,031,000,000 (~US$ 329,367)
ITM: 18 places
| 1 | Song, Li | China | ₫1,950,100,000 |
| 2 | Le Ngoc Minh | Vietnam | ₫1,346,500,000 |
| 3 | Tran Van Hung | Vietnam | ₫941,000,000 |
| 4 | Nguyen Duc Hieu (Tony) | Vietnam | ₫676,000,000 |
| 5 | Nishant Sharma | India | ₫500,000,000 |
| 6 | Chen, Mingcong | China | ₫380,500,000 |
| 7 | John Tech | Philippines | ₫299,000,000 |
| 8 | Tim Schimmel | Germany | ₫242,000,000 |
| 9 | Nguyen Van Duong | Vietnam | ₫202,500,000 |
| 10 | Park Yu Cheung (Sparrow) | Hong Kong | ₫202,500,000 |
| 11 | Nguyen Huu Tuan | Vietnam | ₫175,000,000 |
| 12 | Santiago Sorano | Spain | ₫175,000,000 |
| 13 | Victor Chong | Malaysia | ₫156,000,000 |
| 14 | Hyun Sup Kim | Korea | ₫156,000,000 |
| 15 | Yuhang Chen | China | ₫143,500,000 |
| 16 | Albert Nguyen | Canada | ₫143,500,000 |
| 17 | Nguyen Van Sang | Vietnam | ₫136,500,000 |
| 18 | Zhang Cankai | China | ₫136,500,000 |
Hanh Tran wins the PLO
The Pot Limit Omaha event attracted 33 entries with only six earning a portion of the ₫384,120,000 (~US$ 15,700) prize pool. The title came down between two PLO pros, Hanh Tran and Terry Gonzaga. In the end, Tran prevailed to add another trophy to his big collection.
Buy in: ₫13,500,000 (~US$ 540)
Entries: 33 entries (25 unique)
Prize pool: ₫384,120,000 (~US$ 15,700)
ITM: 6 places
| 1 | Hanh Tran | Austria | ₫137,120,000 |
| 2 | Terry Gonzaga | Philippines | ₫91,000,000 |
| 3 | Jereld Sam En Zhi | Singapore | ₫60,500,000 |
| 4 | Sameer Agarwal | India | ₫42,000,000 |
| 5 | Yasuhiro Waki | Japan | ₫30,500,000 |
| 6 | Alok Birewar | India | ₫23,000,000 |
Sergei Iablokov wins Deepstack Turbo
After busting out of Main Event Day 1A, Russian player Sergei Iablokov jumped in the Deepstack Turbo as one of the last of the 73 runners to sign up. He went on outduel fellow countryman Anatolii Gorbushin at heads up to capture his first recorded live title and a payout of ₫130,360,000 (~US$ 5,325).
Also reaching a milestone was USA’s Duy Ho who cashed at this event to breach $1,000,000 in live earnings on Hendon Mob.
Buy in: ₫6,600,000 (~US$ 270)
Entries: 73 (57 unique)
Prize pool: ₫424,860,000 (~US$ 17,355)
ITM: 10 places
| 1 | Sergei Iablokov | Russia | ₫130,360,000 |
| 2 | Anatolii Gorbushin | Russia | ₫87,000,000 |
| 3 | Quang Vu Dinh | Vietnam | ₫58,000,000 |
| 4 | Vo Dinh Thanh | Vietnam | ₫40,000,000 |
| 5 | Alaparthy Prasad | India | ₫29,000,000 |
| 6 | Duy Ho | USA | ₫22,000,000 |
| 7 | Nguyen Thanh Tung | Vietnam | ₫17,500,000 |
| 8 | Xiaohui Tan | China | ₫15,000,000 |
| 9 | Dicky Siu Tsang | Hong Kong | ₫13,000,000 |
| 10 | Ankit Wadhawan | India | ₫13,000,000 |
Super High Roller – Day 1 results
Buy in: ₫107,000,000 (~US$ 4,370)
Guarantee: ₫2,000,000,000 (~US$ 81,700)
Entries: 65 (44 unique)
Prize pool: ₫6,305,000,000 (~US$ 257,580)
ITM: 9 places
Day 2 – 14 players
| Jaesung Lee | 2,105,000 |
| Chen Peng | 1,725,000 |
| Chu Chi Jen | 1,635,000 |
| Hyun Sup Kim | 1,435,000 |
| Chen Ming Cong | 1,410,000 |
| Kim Dong Kyu | 1,265,000 |
| Yeh Hung Wei | 1,165,000 |
| Ho Koon Leong | 1,045,000 |
| Vishal Ojha | 1,015,000 |
| Tian Hao Zheng | 935,000 |
| Victor Chong | 780,000 |
| Yuhang Chen | 715,000 |
| Pham Duy Anh | 695,000 |
| Shin Hyeon Ho | 325,000 |
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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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