APT - Main Event - VND 10,000,000,000 GTD Day 1/D (30 mins)

Like the last days the cards in the VSOP Poker Club were in the air at exactly 11 AM. On the schedule Day 1C of the Main Event at 11 AM, and a Day 1D flight at 5 PM. The guaranteed prize pool of 10 billion Vietnamese Dong got shattered by the first level of Day 1C as 45 players registered already before the start of the day. Out of a combined 260 entries today 124 would make it to Day 2.

A total of 155 entries on Day 1C, made sure the poker room was packed. Many familiar faces would try took make it to Day 2. We saw the likes of Ashish Munot, Lester Edoc, Grant Gardner, and Benjamin Sai all trying to build a stack. Last year’s champion Shardul Parthasarathi would join the action as well. The Indian would survive the day with two times starting stack.

While many big names in the industry were there, none of them was able to build a huge stack. That honor goes to Vietnamese poker professional Huy Thanh Le (photo). He will bring a bag of 224,700 to Day 2 tomorrow. He is closely followed by his countryman Quang Minh Nguyen (218,000) and Tran Van Thai (212,400).

Day 1D, which started at 5 PM, received a total number of 105 entries. This brings the total number of entries for the APT Hanoi Main Event to 640. This number can still grow as the registration closes at 10:59 AM tomorrow.

The Day 1D chip lead goes to Haito Luan (photo) from China. He survived the day with 196,000. Other familiar names that would make it to Day 2 on this last flight were Phan Minh Duc (159,000), Florencio Campomanes (85,500), and Dave Erquiaga (60,300).

Day 2 of the APT Hanoi Main Event will resume at 11 AM local time (GMT+6). All the action will also be available on the live stream.

1. ₫987,960,000

2. ₫692,500,000

3. ₫457,280,000

4. ₫359,420,000

5. ₫289,800,000

6. Dinh Tien Van ₫225,820,000 ($9,529.49)

7. Aaron Lim ₫178,770,000 ($7,544.01)

8. Bao Sheng Woon ₫139,250,000 ($5,876.28)

9. Quang Thai Do ₫105,380,000 ($4,441.55)

10. William Ysmael ₫86,560,000 ($3,648.33)

11. Van Phinh Nguyen ₫86,560,000 ($3,648.33)

12. Xue Jie Pang ₫77,150,000 ($3,251.71)

13. Yuhan Liu ₫77,150,000 ($3,251.71)

1 Haito Luan 196,000

2 Jeorge Lagatuz 184,800

3 Duc Kieu Hung Nguyen 169,000

4 Anh Tuan Tran 167,700

5 Truong Toan Chan 161,000

6 Phan Minh Duc 159,000

7 Sanh Bao Huy Thai 150,700

8 Quang Huy Nguyen 150,300

9 Takuya Suzuki 135,700

10 Ngoc Anh Cao 130,400

11 Yamato Komura 108,100

12 Hung Pham 99,300

13 Nguyen Thi Thuy Duong 96,000

14 Nikita Luther 95,600

15 Koji Inoue 94,600

16 Huynh Ngoc Cuong 93,200

17 Do Duc Hieu 88,100

18 Cheol Jae Lee 86,900

19 Jasven Saigal 85,700

20 Florencio Campomanes 85,500

21 Howe Sean Tan Chung 84,000

22 Nguyen Manh Hao 82,800

23 Elmer Kalaquian 82,100

24 Vincent Kwun Ngai Li 80,500

25 Duc Anh Nguyen 71,900

26 Xuan Dat Mai 70,900

27 Dinh Hai Le 67,500

28 Hai An Nguyen 65,000

29 Junnie Pamplona 64,700

30 David Erquiaga 60,300

31 Huidong Gu 59,700

32 Junam Lee 58,700

33 Pham Ngoc Tu 58,500

34 Manh Cuong Ngo 54,000

35 Yong Kiang Foo 53,700

36 Sumit Sapra 51,000

37 Le Van Dien 50,500

38 Wai Kit Tong 50,500

39 Cezar Quiambao Ii 44,400

40 Koon Siu Dennis Ng 40,000

41 Junya Yamaguchi 40,000

42 Van Quang Tran 40,000

43 Theng Aik James Leong 39,500

44 Kelvin Tang 38,800

45 Aiman El-Said 23,300

46 Kosei Fujiwara 14,500

47 Thanh Dat Pham 11,200

The Single Day High Rollers are down to the final 5.

Our Main Event Day 2 chip leader Xixiang Luo (photo) is also the chip leader at the final five. He is closely followed by Pranav Bagai from India.

Xixiang Luo 2,800,000

Pranav Bagai 2,450,000

Le Cong Vuong 2,070,000

Phuong Ngoc Nguyen 1,630,000

Ngoc Minh Le 460,000

In the last hand of the day Women's Event champion Ferlyn Cabaling got busted by Pham Ngoc Tu.

After Tu went all-in he told her "let's gamble!", and Cabaling was interested. Her last 27,000 went into the middle with J♠ T♥. Tu shows A♠ Q♠.

The Q♥ in the window kills the rails excitement, but the K♣ 2♠ brings cheers to the rail! Cabaling still has seven outs and the J♦ on the turn even adds two more outs. Nine outs, but the river 6♦ was not one of them. Maybe we see Cabaling back tomorrow.

Cezar Quiambao is on his very first poker trip abroad, and he is having a blast. The Filipino just won a decent pot non-showdown.

Quiambao leads out 16,500 in a 24,000 pot. The board at this moment reads 2♦ 6♦ K♣ 7♣. Quang Huy Nguyen, known for a big fan of draws, is in the tank. The Vietnamese covers Quiambao, but he seems impressed by the bet and lets it go.

With this pot Quiambao most likely will survive Day 1D.

We arrived in the last level of the day in the Main Event.

BBA: 600/1200/1200.

Entries: 51/105.

We are about to go into the last level of the day in the Main Event when we see Pau raise to 2,500. He gets 3-bet to 7,500 by his neigbor Yong Kiang Foo. Pau only on 21,400 goes all-in and Foo shows him the bad news.

Foo: A♣ A♥.

Pau: Q♠ Q♥

A cruel setup for the Spaniard and after the flop it was all over: A♦ A♠ K♠. Pau did shout out for a jack of spade, but the 3♥ on the turn stopped Pau's dream to create the ultimate comeback in poker history. Pau will re-enter tomorrow he told us.

Every player hates to visit value town. Newest citizen of value town? Dave Erquiaga. On a board of 9♠ 9♥ 3♥ 4♦ 2♦ his opponent Huynh Ngoc Cuong bets out 9,000 in a pot of 13,000. Erquiaga makes the tank-call, and sees the bad news. Cuong shows him A♠ A♥.

Erquiaga down to starting stack again.

We are down to the final 12 players of the Single Day High Rollers.

The bubble got broken due to the bust out of Takayoshi Nemoto.

The first player to bust out in the money was Yuhan Liu (photo). He will bring home ₫77,150,000 ($3,279.25).