APT - Main Event - VND 10,000,000,000 GTD Day 1/A (60 mins)

After ten hours of play Day 1A of the APT Main Event has come to an end. The 11 AM start was not for everyone, but during the day the VSOP Poker Club got more packed by the minute. By the end of the day a total of 205 entries were made. The huge turnout means the guaranteed prize pool of 10 billion Vietnamese Dong is already filled by 5 billion, while three more starting flights are on the schedule in the coming two days!

Familiar faces that would join day 1A were Martin Finger, Mike Takayama, David Erquiaga, Lester Edoc, Andres Vasquez, Maxim Sorokin, Kunal Patni, Ahmed Ibrahimi, and Feng Zhao.

Russian poker pro, Maxim Sorokin was chip leading Day 1A for most of the day, but in the end was surpassed by Xixiang Luo(388,200).

APT Main Event Day 1A Top-10:

1 Xixiang Luo 388,200

2 Maxim Sorokin 330,700

3 Hai Nam Hoang 267,600

4 Tsz Hing Ng 266,800

5 Artsiom Panasiuk 213,000

6 Phuong Ngoc Nguyen 200,300

7 Trung Ha Nguyen 196,700

8 Tran Thanh Van 195,700

9 Hoan Cong Le 187,000

10 Tran Huy Hoang 183,200

Day 1B of the APT Main Event starts tomorrow at 11 AM.

The 7 February APT Schedule:

Event 16: Monday Madness - Single Re-Entry Final Day 11:00 - ₫15,000,000 + 1,500,000

Event 19: Single Day High Roller - 8 Max 11:30 - ₫40,000,000 + 4,000,000

Event 20: Tuesday Tempest - Single Re-Entry 12:00 - ₫10,000,000 + 1,000,000

1 Xixiang Luo 388,200

2 Maxim Sorokin 330,700

3 Hai Nam Hoang 267,600

4 Tsz Hing Ng 266,800

5 Artsiom Panasiuk 213,000

6 Phuong Ngoc Nguyen 200,300

7 Trung Ha Nguyen 196,700

8 Tran Thanh Van 195,700

9 Hoan Cong Le 187,000

10 Tran Huy Hoang 183,200

11 Xiaohua Fu 173,900

12 Zhao Feng 170,100

13 Vu Chau Duong 166,000

14 Assem Kulseitova 165,100

15 Christopher Mateo 159,600

16 Nguyen Nang Quang 153,300

17 Pranav Bagai 147,000

18 Nguyen Viet Anh 144,500

19 Huu Son Pham 138,300

20 Thanh Hai Nguyen 137,100

21 Daisuke Goto 135,600

22 Martin Finger 133,700

23 Praveen Dwarkanath 132,400

24 Ahmed Ibrahimi 127,000

25 Hyungkook Shin 124,100

26 Yosuke Takagi 122,100

27 Thai Bao Vu 112,000

28 Van Hien Dang 111,900

29 Lok Ching Li 110,900

30 Mike Takayama 106,100

31 Bao Sheng Woon 104,100

32 Jason Lau 103,100

33 Hung Cuong Phan 100,700

34 Trung Hieu Nguyen 99,100

35 Fung Kong 98,300

36 Robert Nemeskeri-Kiss 97,900

37 Guillem Segarra 97,400

38 Le Viet Hung 96,600

39 Tai Yin Ian Au-Yang 94,000

40 Powen Fang 93,300

41 Joonhee Yea 92,600

42 Zarvan Tumboli 91,700

43 Vincent John Wilson 89,800

44 Jun Hao Wu 87,700

45 Xianling Chen 87,300

46 Yew Fei Lee 87,200

47 Wai Kin Suen 86,600

48 Alok Pradip Birewar 85,900

49 Artem Utevskii 82,500

50 Doan Quang Trung 82,500

51 Andrei Budykin 81,100

52 Takuma Sasaki 76,500

53 Nikolay Ponomarenko 74,100

54 Aleksei Varashev 72,200

55 Zou Zhi Guang 69,100

56 Andres Vasquez 62,400

57 Yves Thalmann 61,700

58 Kunal Patni 60,500

59 Yake Wu 60,300

60 Jiaxing Feng 59,200

61 Duc Minh Nguyen 56,700

62 Tien Long Bui 54,700

63 Kwok Chun Yip 51,800

64 Jonas Magdalinski 48,500

65 Van Lich Vu 48,300

66 Raiden Yew Fatt Kan 45,900

67 Quang Huy Nguyen 45,100

68 Hoang Tu Phan 40,200

69 Nguyen Vu Cuong 38,200

70 Ngo Khoa Anh 31,300

71 Hoang Viet Dang 21,500

72 Sang Yeon Hwang 18,200

Day 1A of the APT Main Event is a wrap.

We will have a full list of all the survivors and their chip counts in a few minutes.

We are only a few minutes away from the end of the day when Zou Zhi Guang is all-in again.

This time the Chinese pushed all-in against Trung Ha Nguyen when the board reads A♠ 3♦ 9♠ 2♠. Nguyen put out a bet of 40k and this made Guang go all-in for 134k.

Nguyen has Guang covered and thinks it over for a while before folding. The Vietnamese shows Guang the K♠. Guang let his opponent know he was way behind and flashes him his Q♠ T♠.

We just roamed around the room when Christopher Mateo told us he could have been on a stack of over 300k!

Mateo got it in with aces preflop after his neighbor went all-in with ten nine. The Filipino poker pro snap called, but the board run out badly for Mateo as his neighbor made a straight and won a pot of 160k.

In the last level of the day we see the biggest cooler of the day. Van Lich Vu gets it all-in with his A♠ A♦ against Zou Zhi Guang's K♠ K♦.

Vu plays around 150k before the start of the hand, while Guang started the hand with 66k.

A loud cheer goes through the room when Guang sees the K♥ in the window followed by a 6♣ 9♥.

Vu silently is observing the runout: T♠ J♣. He accepting the situation with class, while Guang is dancing of happiness behind him.

We arrived at the last level of Day 1A.

Level 10 is a repeat of level 9.

BBA 600/1200/1200.

Entries 83/205.

Average stack 98,795.

Just before entering the last level of the day, we lost Dave "Spade" Erquiaga in a cooler situation.

On a board of 4♦ A♦ 2♠ J♣ all the chips go in the middle. Erquiaga shows A♥ J♥, but sees the bad news when Dwarkanath shows 2♥ 2♣. No help on the river for Erquiaga. We will see the Filipino pro tomorrow in Day 1B.

When we walked by table 1 we noticed Maxim Sorokin is playing a lot less chips than 30 minutes ago. The Russian lost more than 100k of his chips while Pranav Bagai is seat 9 plays a lot more chips compared to the last time we saw him.

We heard some noice coming from table 26, and when we arrive Seungmook Jung just stood up and walked out.

We saw Ng's K♠ K♦ lay in front of him while the chair Jung was in was showing J♣ J♠.

The K♥ A♦ 9♥ made Jung already leave his seat. He didn't miss much as Jung was dead on the turn 2♣.

Tsz Hing Ng is again over 200k.