WPT Vietnam: Pradeep Sharma bags Opener Day 1A lead; Haisheng Qiu, Michael Newby, Tran Than Hung win trophies

The highly awaited World Poker Tour World Championship is drawing near and to help players secure seat(s) cheap is via WPT Vietnam Passport to World Championship which is currently ongoing at the Crown Poker Club in Hanoi, Vietnam. Up to 10 packages are guaranteed – 8 WPT Prime Championship packages and 2 WPT World Championship packages. The first package can be won at the WPT Opener. The first of three flights has already completed. We have those results below including the first side event winners.

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WPT Opener – Day 1A

Kicking off the games was the WPT Opener which boasts a ₫3 BN guarantee and the coveted WPT Prime Championship package. Throughout the eight levels of registration, 56 entered. The heat concluded at the fall of Sriran Subramanian on the bubble to Romain Bier with dominating . Seven players bagged up and advanced to the money round.

Among the survivors Bier bagged up 235,500 (58 bb) placing him in second rank, just behind India’s Pradeep Sharma with 252,000 (63 bb). This was another impressive performance by Sharma who two months back, claimed two trophies at WPT Prime Taiwan. Also on top form was WPT Prime Taiwan runner up Yannick Leonard who advanced with a healthy 146,000 (36 bb) stack.

The survivors have a one day break before returning for Day 2. They await the results of Day 1B and Day 1C, both heats running on Saturday, October 7 at 11am and 4pm.

Buy in: ₫11,000,000 (~US$ 450)
Guarantee: ₫3,000,000,000 (~US$ 123,000)
Day 1A Entries: 56 (37 unique)
Day 2 qualifiers: 7 players (ITM 12.5%)

Pradeep Sharma	India	252,000
Romain Bier	France	235,500
Nguyen Tuan Hoang	Vietnam	188,500
Yannick Leonard	France	146,000
Le Nhu An	Vietnam	125,500
Aleksei Varashev	Russia	98,500
Klay Chen	China	74,000

Haisheng Qiu wins High Roller Warm Up for first WPT win

The first high roller event was a hot item with 54 ponying up the ₫33,000,000 (~US$ 1,350) buy in. China’s Haisheng Qiu looked to be a sure win as he carried a monstrous stack into the final table however after multiple clashes with Nguyen Nang Quang, he was behind at heads up 72 bb to 36 bb. 

On the second heads up hand, with a board that completed , Nguyen fired2 bb (flop) and 6 bb (turn), Qiu check-called after tanking and won it with , Nguyen was bluffing and commented “Wow, good call.”

Qiu’s momentum continued winning two more decent pots to slightly edge Nguyen. The final had was Qiu , Nguyen , the board ran low. Qiu locked  up his first ever WPT win and a payout of ₫513,400,000 (~US$ 21,000).

Buy in: ₫33,000,000 (~US$ 1,350) buy in
Entries: 54 (35 unique)
Prize pool: ₫1,571,400,000 (~US$ 64,440)
ITM: 8 places

1	Haisheng Qiu	China	513,400,000
2	Nguyen Nang Quang	Vietnam	343,000,000
3	Tran Van Hung	Vietnam	228,000,000
4	Tian Hao Zheng	China	159,000,000
5	Tran Van Quang	Vietnam	115,000,000
6	Yunkyu Song	USA	87,000,000
7	Nguyen Huu Tuan	Vietnam	69,000,000
8	Nguyen Van Duong	Vietnam	57,000,000

Michael Newby wins the Cheap Freeze 

UK’s Michael Newby was the last player standing at the Cheap Freeze to capture the day’s second trophy and the ₫51,320,000 (~US$ 2,100) top prize. Newby outlasted the 52-player field defeating Akihito Morita at heads up. The final hand was all in preflop, Newby , Morita , the board ran . 

Buy in: ₫3.300,000 (~US$ 135) buy in
Players: 52
Prize pool: ₫151,320,000 (~US$ 6,200)
ITM: 7 places

1	Michael Newby	UK	51,320,000
2	Akihito Morita	Japan	34,300,000
3	Nguyen Tien Thanh	Vietnam	22,900,000
4	Nguyen Minh Duc	Vietnam	15,900,000
5	Yixuan Dong	China	11,500,000
6	Tran Duc Kien	Vietnam	8,600,000
7	Tran Thai Duy	Vietnam	6,800,000

Tran Thanh Hung closes out the Turbo

Tran Thanh Hung continued his impressive winning streak by claiming yet another trophy, this time at the evening’s Turbo event. Tran’s penchant for victory seems unstoppable as he consistently triumphs (at least once) at every festival he attends. For his latest win, Tran heavily dominated at heads up and defeated Nguyen Vu Lam with spiking the queen to bust .

Buy in: ₫4,400,000 (~US$ 180) buy in
Players: 30 (23 unique)
Prize pool: ₫116,400,000 (~US$ 4,775)
ITM: 7 places

1	Tran Thanh Hung	Vietnam	43,700,000
2	Nguyen Vu Lam	Vietnam	29,100,000
3	Vu Ta Nhat	Vietnam	19,400,000
4	Amit Kaushik	India	13,800,000
5	Nguyen Van Dan	Vietnam	10,400,000

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