The first round of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Vietnam Opener Event logged in a total of 355 entries over three starting days with 45 players advancing to the money round. Bagging up the overall big stack was Day 1C leader Tran Duc Steve of 418,000 (104 bb), trailed by Day 1B leader Daniel Tighe with 99 bb. The players now enter the second stage of the race where the first WPT Prime Championship package is up for grabs!
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Date: October 6 to 7, 2023
Venue: Crown Poker Club, Hanoi, Vietnam
Buy in: ₫11,000,000 (~US$ 450)
Guarantee: ₫3,000,000,000 (~US$ 123,000)
Day 1A Entries: 56 (37 unique) / 7 advance
Day 1B Entries: 182 (135 unique) / 23 advance
Day 1C Entries: 117 / 15 advance
Prize pool: VN₫3,443,500,000 (~US$ 141,210)
Day 2 qualifiers: 45 players (ITM 12.5%)
| Tran Duc Steve | Vietnam | 418,000 |
| Daniel Tighe | Ireland | 395,000 |
| Anthony Cierco | France | 277,000 |
| Pradeep Sharma | India | 252,000 |
| Ding Pin | China | 247,000 |
| Yeh Hung Wei | Taiwan | 241,500 |
| Romain Bier | France | 235,500 |
| Lê Văn ĐứC ( Ksđ ) | Vietnam | 235,000 |
| Zhi Wen Deng | China | 232,500 |
| Kaoru Kishimoto | Japan | 227,000 |
| Amit Kaushik | India | 217,500 |
| Hà Văn Thiên ( ThiệN Hà ) | Vietnam | 212,000 |
| Deepankur Giupta | India | 207,000 |
| Nguyen Tuan Hoang | Vietnam | 188,500 |
| Nguyen Phuong Ngoc | Vietnam | 188,500 |
| Lawford Edwards | Australia | 185,000 |
| NguyễN Văn DầN | Vietnam | 185,000 |
| Bazerli | France | 181,000 |
| PhạM TiếN Dũng | Vietnam | 181,000 |
| Yao Ya Di | China | 164,000 |
| Vũ ĐứC Trung | Vietnam | 154,000 |
| NguyễN Văn Dương | Vietnam | 150,000 |
| Leonard Yannick | France | 146,000 |
| Song Yong Jun | Korea | 145,500 |
| NguyễN ĐứC CườNg | Vietnam | 144,000 |
| NguyễN Minh ĐứC | Vietnam | 142,000 |
| Quang Nguyen | Vietnam | 134,000 |
| Le Nhu An | Vietnam | 125,500 |
| Dinh Van Tien | Vietnam | 124,000 |
| TrầN HảI Hà | Vietnam | 120,500 |
| Waki Yasuhiro | Japan | 104,000 |
| Vũ Tá NhấT | Vietnam | 104,000 |
| Aleksei Varashev | Russia | 98,500 |
| Hoàng ĐạI Thiên | Vietnam | 97,000 |
| Manoj Pentakota | India | 90,500 |
| Romain Morvan | France | 85,500 |
| Sumit Sapra | India | 82,000 |
| Klay Chen | China | 74,000 |
| Đỗ Anh Tài ( Thp ) | Vietnam | 74,000 |
| NguyễN TiếN Thành ( Cđx ) | Vietnam | 70,000 |
| Jaruplavath | India | 62,500 |
| Avneesh Munjal | India | 43,500 |
| Giang Apple | Vietnam | 27,500 |
| Yixuan Dang | China | 26,000 |
| NguyễN Hòa | Vietnam | 6,000 |
Payouts in VN₫
| 1 | 727,000,000 |
| 2 | 510,000,000 |
| 3 | 327,500,000 |
| 4 | 213,000,000 |
| 5 | 164,000,000 |
| 6 | 136,000,000 |
| 7 | 114,000,000 |
| 8 | 93,000,000 |
| 9 | 73,000,000 |
| 10-12 | 61,500,000 |
| 13-15 | 52,000,000 |
| 16-18 | 43,000,000 |
| 19-21 | 36,000,000 |
| 22-24 | 29,000,000 |
| 25-27 | 25,000,000 |
| 29-36 | 21,000,000 |
| 37-45 | 17,500,000 |
Day 1B recap
Day 1B was the largest heat with 182 runners taking to the felt at Crown Poker Club in Hanoi, Vietnam. Many noteworthy players in the field and advanced to the next round, among them were Australia’s Anthony Cierco, Taiwan’s Yeh Hung Wei, India’s Amit Kaushik, and locals Le Van Duc, Nguyen Nang Quang, Ha Van Thien.
Closing the heat with the largest stack was Ireland’s Daniel Tighe who knocked out two players before the bubble round. His first takedown was a big one with 
dominating 
to add 30 bb to his stack. The next was the pre-bubble bust with button attempting to steal by shoving nearly 20 bb with 
only to fall to Tighe’s 
on a Ten-high board.
The bubble round ran 18 hands before Ha Van Thien knocked out short stacked Chan Chin Hei who was all in for 1.5 bb with 
. Chan missed the board completely, Ha shipped it with 
mid pair.
Day 1C recap
The last flight registered 117 entries which was more than enough to boost the prize pool to over VN₫ 3.44 Billion. Tran Duc Steve raced up an enormous 418,000 to send him to the top of the overall Day 2 counts. Day 1C ended with Nguyen Huu Vinh risking his last 7 bb with 
only to be dominated out of the running by Ding Pin with 
.
Upcoming WPT Vietnam MAIN EVENT
WPT Vietnam Passport to the World Championship features 32 trophy events with the festival headliner Main Event running from October 12 to 16 2023. It is highlighted by a VN₫ 12,000,000,000 (~US$ 492,000) guarantee. In addition to a nice fat payout, the champion will receive a 2023 WPT World Championship US$ 10,400 entry and hotel package with the finale to be held at Wynn in Las Vegas this December.
Other Events to Win Prime Championship Packages
Players can also secure WPT Prime Championship packages via these events:
Event 11: Survivor Bounty 8 Max – ₫30M/bounty – October 9 to 11, 2023
Event 18: High Roller 2 Day Event Warm Up – October 11 to 12, 2023
Event 27: Crown Poker Club Superstack Classic – October 15 to 16, 2023
Event 28: High Roller 2 Day Event – October 15 to 16, 2023
*WPT Prime Championship – 3 PACKAGES!! – October 15, 2023
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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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