APT - Main Event - VND 10,000,000,000 GTD Day 1/B (45 mins)

Filipino poker pro Lester Edoc has won the Single Day High Rollers Event. After clinching the chip lead at the final 5 he ran over the table to clinch his 16th APT title.

Single Day High Rollers Payouts

1. Lester Edoc ₫689,930,000 ($29,231.86)

2. Yake Wu ₫497,030,000 ($21,058.82)

3. Power Fang ₫323,070,000 ($13,698.98)

4. Alok Birewar ₫243,780,000 ($10,336.89)

5. Felix Weis ₫189,340,000 ($8,028.49)

6. Niroshan Loganathan ₫146,740,000 ($6,215.93)

7. Ang Mei San ₫115,970,000 ($4,912.50)

8. Jun Hao Wu ₫89,940,000 ($3,809.87)

9. Tran Van Tai ₫71,000,000 ($3,010.53)

We are down to 3 players in the Single Day High Rollers event.

In sixth place we saw the bust out of Niroshan Loganathan. The Canadian squeezed all-in after a raise of Lester Edoc and a call by Felix Weis. Edoc comes over the top to put Weis all-in, but he quickly makes the fold. Edoc shows K♠ K♥, while Loganathan opens A♠ 9♠. No ace from space for Loganathan as the board runs out Q♠ 3♥ 2♦ 4♣ J♣. Niroshan Loganathan busts in 6th (₫146,740,000).

Felix Weis got cripped by runninng into the K♥ K♣ Jake Wu. In the next hand Weis would be eliminated from the tournament by Edoc. For Weis this was his last day in Hanoi. This 5th place is a good way to finish his series (₫189,340,000).

Our 4th place finisher was Alok Birewar. He got very unlucky after getting his 21 big blind stack in the middle with K♠ Q♥ and receiving a call by Lester Edoc's K♦ J♥. A jack on the flop sealed the fate of Birewar. The Indian received ₫243,780,000 for his 4th place.

Another jam packed day inside the VSOP Poker Club Hanoi today. On the schedule, APT Main Event Day 1B. After 205 entries on Day 1A, Day 1B saw a total of 175 entries. This means we are on a total of 380 entries, while Day 1C and Day 1D are still on the schedule tomorrow. The guaranteed prize pool of 10 billion Vietnamese Dong ($423,395.41) is going to get smashed as we are only 30 more entries away from breaking the guarantee.

On Day 1B we saw many familiar faces back in the field. APT Da Nang Main Event champion Doosik Nam from Korea gave it a try today. He busted pretty early on, jumped into the High Roller event, but after a bust out there he jumped back into the Main Event. In the end Nam qualified for Day 2 with a stack of 43,800. We expect Nam might give it another try tomorrow and see if he can qualify with a bigger stack.

Besides the former Main Event champion we saw several other big names join the action. Dave "Spade" Erquiaga, Sergey Rybachenko (photo), Johan Hirvonen, William Kang, Thanh Phat Nguyen, Ngoc Dai "Mr.Big" Nguyen, Thomas Lind, and William Ysmael.

The biggest pot of the day was a battle between Dave Erquiaga and Phashant Bhutoria. In a pot of 170.000 all the chips went into the middle on a board of J♥ Q♦ 7♣ 6♥. Erquiaga was holding K♥ K♦, but saw that Bhutoria flopped a set with J♣ J♥. No help for the Filipino pro and Bhutoria jumped into the chip lead. On the last level of the day the Indian won a few more pots, which saw him finish with a stack of 247,500.

TOP-10 CHIP COUNTS MAIN EVENT DAY 1B

1 Phashant Bhutoria 247,500

2 Victor Em 236,600

3 Phan Dinh Nam 221,400

4 Hai Phong Nguyen 204,600

5 Tuan Nguyen 180,800

6 William Kang 178,000

7 Jinlong Hu 158,100

8 Seung Hun Ko 157,200

9 Yiu Yeung Leung 154,900

10 Thanh Phat Nguyen 152,600

APT HANOI 8 FEBRUARY SCHEDULE

Event 14: APT - Main Event - Flight 1C (30-min Levels) 11:00 AM - 25,000,000 + 2,500,000

Event 23: Single Day High Roller - 8 Max 11:30 AM - 40,000,000 + 4,000,000

Event 24: Women's Event 12:00 - 4,000,000 + 400,000

Event 14: APT - Main Event - Flight 1D (30-min Levels) 17:00 PM - 25,000,000 + 2,500,000

Event 25: Hyper Turbo - 8 Max 18:30 PM - 15,000,000 + 1,500,000

Event 26: Tick Tock (Levels decrease every hour 20/15/10/5) 19:30 PM - 4,000,000 + 400,000

Keng Yong Tan was grinding his short stack for a while and could not spin it up, hitting the rail shortly afterward.

We passed by him on our way to the table and he flashed a grin after bursting the bubble. The Singaporean will certainly play more events this week. We wish him good fortune!

A redraw for the final nine took place following Tan’s departure. Players are guaranteed a min-cash of ₫71,000,000 ($3,009.89).

1 Phashant Bhutoria 247,500

2 Victor Em 236,600

3 Phan Dinh Nam 221,400

4 Hai Phong Nguyen 204,600

5 Tuan Nguyen 180,800

6 William Kang 178,000

7 Jinlong Hu 158,100

8 Seung Hun Ko 157,200

9 Yiu Yeung Leung 154,900

10 Thanh Phat Nguyen 152,600

11 Ha Van Thien 150,900

12 Hung Manh Tran 148,600

13 Johan Patrik Hirvonen 148,000

14 Xiang Guang Chang 147,800

15 Manh Tuong Ha 143,700

16 Karolis Cekauskas 140,300

17 Yuhan Liu 135,000

18 Aleksei Ignatev 131,600

19 Trinh Anh Dung 125,800

20 Nguyen Dang Lam Hong 122,800

21 Van Tien Pham 122,300

22 Hung Duong Dang 120,200

23 Ta Khanh Linh 116,900

24 Aleksei Opalikhin 116,700

25 Nguyen Van Bao 113,900

26 Nguyen Anh Minh 108,500

27 Tuan Tai Nguyen 108,200

28 Aaron Lim 104,500

29 Sergey Rybachenko 101,800

30 Kenju Wata 101,800

31 Minhyung Lee 99,900

32 Ha Woojong 97,000

33 Petr Rudnev 95,800

34 Duc Trung Dinh 95,400

35 Ngoc Minh Le 95,100

36 Jeong Ho Hwang 95,100

37 Van Phuong Nguyen 94,900

38 Shunsuke Tsuji 90,600

39 Dmitrii Gnusaev 82,900

40 Oliver Biles 81,900

41 Anton Kotliar 81,800

42 Nguyen Huu Dung 80,900

43 Trong Nghia Nguyen 76,000

44 The Dan Chu 74,400

45 Samuel Koon San Low 68,700

46 William Ysmael 68,600

47 Dinh Tien Thanh 65,300

48 Tran Huy Phong 63,400

49 Van Hai Do 59,600

50 Thai Son Hoang 58,100

51 Oleg Mordassov 57,100

52 Evgenii Chernyi 56,900

53 Peter Kiem 56,600

54 Thomas Erik Lind 52,600

55 Leila Novruzova 49,000

56 Lim Wai Cheung 48,700

57 Van Phinh Nguyen 47,300

58 King Sing Lau 45,800

59 Anh Tai Do 44,700

60 Doosik Nam 43,800

61 Bini Yoo 43,400

62 Ryota Hirono 43,400

63 Chun Kit Lee 43,200

64 Van Phu Nguyen 43,200

65 Tu Thanh Le 39,400

66 Seungmook Jung 36,100

67 Trong Hieu Ngo 35,900

68 Dinh Van Tien 32,300

69 Manh Linh Nguyen 31,000

70 Jean-Kristophe Guillette 30,300

71 Tom Richard Alner 26,400

72 Duc Anh Nguyen 26,300

73 Yuan Jan Wang David 25,100

74 Teddy Pham 21,200

While we are working on the list of survivors of Day 1B we can let you know we are on the bubble of the Single Day High Rollers.

Table 17

Tran Van Tai

Lester Edoc

Felix Weis

Ang Mei San

Yake Wu

Table 18

Keng Yong Tan

Powen Fang

Jun Hao Wu

Niroshan Loganathan

Alok Birewar

Day 1B of the Main Event has officially ended.

In total 175 entries were made on Day 1B. Out of those 175 entries 74 made it to Day 2.

The average chip stack is 94,595. More information on Day 1B survivors will follow in a bit.

Hung Duong Dang just picked up a pot worth around 45k, during the announcement we are playing the last three hands of the day.

Dang won a pot from Minhyung Lee, the Korean mucked after Dang showed K♦ Q♦ on 6♠ K♠ 4♦ A♥ J♣.

We arrive at table 5 where we see a battle between the 3rd place finished in the APT Sunday Special Dmitrii Gnusaev (photo) and Filipino cash game specialist William Ysmael.

A pot of around 35k created Q♠ 2♦ 9♥ Q♥. Gnusaev leads 4,5k into Ysmael. He checks his cards one more time before throwing them in the muck.

A decent sized pot goes Gnusaev's way while we are in the last minutes of Day 1B.

The Single Day High Rollers is down to the final 16 players.

Nine players will be in the money.

Familiar faces still: Lester Edoc, Mike Takayama, Kumal Patni, Jun Hao Wu, Felix Weis, and Niroshan Loganathan.