HomeDay 2 is a wrap and in its wake fell a load of players leaving only 20 with chips. At the top was Poland’s Michal Polchlopek trailed closely by Malaysia’s Alex Lee. Chip counts and all the next stage info below.
Total entries: 160
Prize pool: VND 5,820,000,000 (~US$ 250,500)
ITM: 16 places
20 remaining
Chips in play 8,000,000
Average stack 400,000
Chip counts by table/seat
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 11 | Soo Jo Kim | Korea | 310,000 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Mr. Mgo (Nguyen Quang Minh) (DB) | Vietnam | 198,000 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Hyunil Hong (SB) | Korea | 208,000 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Peng Yang (King) (BB) | China | 668,000 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Sam Beesley | England | 426,000 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | Seitaro Aso | Japan | 691,000 | 1 | 6 |
| 16 | Hwang Sang Yeon | Korea | 153,000 | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | Meherzad Munsaf (SB) | India | 389,000 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | David Erquiaga (BB) | Philippines | 523,000 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Tanja Vujanic | Australia | 300,000 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 | Ng Cheuk Fan | Hong Kong | 149,000 | 2 | 4 |
| 19 | Quan Nguyen | Vietnam | 124,000 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Nguyen Thanh Binh | Vietnam | 546,000 | 2 | 7 |
| 1 | Michal Polchlopek (DB) | Poland | 800,000 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | Harry Duong | Vietnam | 513,000 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Alex Lee (DB) | Singapore | 790,000 | 3 | 2 |
| 18 | Michitaka Sekine (SB) | Japan | 134,000 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Terry Nguyen (BB) | Vietnam | 575,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | Lok Ching, Li | Hong Kong | 111,000 | 3 | 8 |
| 13 | Xiao Yu Cheng | China | 298,000 | 3 | 9 |
Chip counts by rank
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Michal Polchlopek | Poland | 800,000 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | Alex Lee | Singapore | 790,000 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Seitaro Aso | Japan | 691,000 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Peng Yang (King) | China | 668,000 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Terry Nguyen | Vietnam | 575,000 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Nguyen Thanh Binh | Vietnam | 546,000 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | David Erquiaga | Philippines | 523,000 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Harry Duong | Vietnam | 513,000 | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | Sam Beesley | England | 426,000 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | Meherzad Munsaf | India | 389,000 | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | Soo Jo Kim | Korea | 310,000 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Tanja Vujanic | Australia | 300,000 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | Xiao Yu Cheng | China | 298,000 | 3 | 9 |
| 14 | Hyunil Hong | Korea | 208,000 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Mr. Mgo (Nguyen Quang Minh) | Vietnam | 198,000 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Hwang Sang Yeon | Korea | 153,000 | 1 | 7 |
| 17 | Ng Cheuk Fan | Hong Kong | 149,000 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 | Michitaka Sekine | Japan | 134,000 | 3 | 5 |
| 19 | Quan Nguyen | Vietnam | 124,000 | 2 | 6 |
| 20 | Lok Ching, Li | Hong Kong | 111,000 | 3 | 8 |
A big pot of 115k was already in the middle when we got there. The board was 2♠ 10♦ 5♣ 6♣ 3♣, mp Seitaro Aso bet 45k, button Nguyen Quang Minh (Mr Ngo) raised to 85k, Aso tanked using two time banks then made the reluctant call. Mr Ngo quickly mucked. Aso showed Q♣ Q♦ and celebrated his big call and big scoop. Aso now at 742k.
95k was in the pot and a board J♣ 5♠ 2♠ A♠ laid out. Cutoff Meherzad Munsaf and button David Erquiaga checked. The river 9♣, Munsaf check-called a 30k bet. Erquiaga showed A♦ 3♥, Munsaf mucked. Erquiaga up to 535k, Munsaf dropped to 324k.
After losing some chips to Tanja Vujanic that hardly dented his stack, Alex Lee went back on the grind to drive his stack to nearly 800k. One of the pots was against Harry Duong who raised to 14k from hijack, Lee called from cutoff. At the flop 3♦ 3♠, Duong get 25k, Lee raised to 72k, Duong called. On the turn 10♦, Duong checked, Lee slid out 65k, Duong folded and was down to 444k.
Another pot was raised by Lee to 16k, called by bb Terry Nguyen. At the flop 6♣ Q♥ K♦, Terry check-called at 17k bet. On the turn 7♠, Terry checked, Lee bet 44k, this time Terry folded.
Lee chunked down Iori Yogo in a blind versus blind hand. On a full board 2♥ 8♠ 9♦ 5♠ 6♥, sb Lee bet 85k, Yogo called. Lee had J♠ 7♣ straight. Yogo mucked.
The hand opened with a 14k raise by button Seitaro Aso but when short stacks sb Hwang Sang Yeon (78k) and bb Jeonggyu Cho (106k) shoved, Aso folded. Hwang 7♠ 7♥, Cho A♦ 2♦, the board ran 4♠ 4♦ 10♥ 7♦ 2♣ full house and a double up to Hwang.
Cho was down to his last 28k and went all in with A♠ 9♠. He was called by Seitaro Aso who said “favorite hand” while showing 5♣ 3♣. The hand was indeed good with two fives showing up to eliminate Cho.
Three-way action, pot at 48k as the players stared down a flop 8♠ 6♣ 9♦. They all checked and the turn came A♦. Beesley bet 25k, no callers. He is up to 445k.
The largest stacked player at table 3 is Alex Lee however we can’t seem to catch him win a hand. We did see him lose to Tanja Vujanic. With 51k in the pot, the board showed 8♥ 3♥ 6♣ 3♦ 7♥, bb Lee bet 15k, utg Vujanic raised to 46k, Lee announced all in, snap-called by VUjanic to put herself at risk. At the showdown, Lee had 9♥ 6♥ flush, Vujanic shipped it with A♥ J♥ nut flush. She boosted up to 310k.
Entering the new roudn, Nguyen Thanh Binh doubled up David Erquiaga to go down to 416k while Erquiaga rose to 400k. Nguyen made up some of the lost chips by railing Choi Eng Loong. Action folded to the small blind Nguyen who limped, bb Choi jammed 120k, Nguyen tank-called.
Nguyen Q♠ J♥
Loong A♥ 10♦
The board ran 10♣ K♣ J♠ 5♥ 7♠ for a higher pair to Nguyen. He is back up to 542k.
Andres Korn had it all out front with K♦ K♥ with Harry Duong challenging with A♥ K♣. An ace showed up.
