HomeFull house at opening day of the inaugural Asian Poker Tour Vietnam Hanoi as players poured in the Grand Loyal Poker Club for an early taste of what the brand has to offer. Kicking off the festivities was the Mystery Bounty tournament featuring a VN₫ 1 Billion guarantee. In the mad rush, that figure was crushed very early on, just halfway through the first flight. When it all wrapped up, 293 entered across two flights for a sweetened prize pool of VN₫ 2,273,680,000 (~US$ 98,000).
Dang Duy Thanh
Action resumes on Wednesday, June 8 promptly at 12 noon. Headed back to the felt are the 69 survivors led by Vietnam’s Dang Duy Thanh who bagged up 300,000 at Flight A. Also racking up hefty stacks were Pham Hai Son and Shardul Parthsarathi.
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Dang Duy Thanh | Vietnam | 300,000 | 10 | 6 |
| 2 | Pham Hai Son | Vietnam | 251,000 | 7 | 8 |
| 3 | Shardul Parthasarathi | India | 251,000 | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | Nhat Nguyen | Vietnam | 240,500 | 18 | 2 |
| 5 | Nguyen Huu Manh | Vietnam | 223,000 | 7 | 1 |
| 6 | Nguyen Bao Duc | Vietnam | 190,500 | 12 | 7 |
| 7 | Le Minh Phuc | Vietnam | 185,000 | 12 | 3 |
| 8 | Vu Duc Thinh | Vietnam | 176,500 | 10 | 3 |
| 9 | Nguyen Van Cuong | Vietnam | 167,500 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | Tuan Hu Truc | Vietnam | 164,000 | 7 | 5 |
| 11 | Vu Minh Duc | Vietnam | 160,000 | 12 | 4 |
| 12 | Nguyen Manh Kien | Vietnam | 160,000 | 11 | 2 |
| 13 | Nguyen Van Sang | Vietnam | 158,000 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | Tran Hai Ha | Vietnam | 156,500 | 6 | 2 |
| 15 | Alok Birewar | India | 154,000 | 9 | 5 |
| 16 | Dennis Ng | Hong Kong | 150,500 | 9 | 2 |
| 17 | Vu Minh Hai | Vietnam | 141,000 | 8 | 2 |
| 18 | Nguyen Quynh Thu | Vietnam | 134,500 | 11 | 5 |
| 19 | Jasven Saigal | India | 132,500 | 9 | 3 |
| 20 | Nguyen Nam Duong | Vietnam | 129,500 | 8 | 9 |
| 21 | Do Kwan Nam | Korea | 129,000 | 18 | 1 |
| 22 | Pham Van Trung | Vietnam | 128,000 | 10 | 7 |
| 23 | Vu Tien Thanh | Vietnam | 125,000 | 8 | 8 |
| 24 | Nguyen Quang Huy | Vietnam | 123,000 | 6 | 1 |
| 25 | Chien Than | Vietnam | 120,000 | 10 | 9 |
| 26 | Nguyen The Nhuong | Vietnam | 119,500 | 6 | 9 |
| 27 | Dang Quang Thi | Vietnam | 115,500 | 11 | 3 |
| 28 | Tran Van Tai | Vietnam | 114,500 | 9 | 6 |
| 29 | Tran Manh Hung | Vietnam | 111,500 | 10 | 2 |
| 30 | Paul Elliott | Australia | 104,000 | 8 | 1 |
| 31 | Minh A Nguyen | Vietnam | 99,000 | 18 | 3 |
| 32 | Nguyen Tuan Hung | Vietnam | 99,000 | 11 | 8 |
| 33 | Ankit Kumar Jajodia | India | 96,000 | 8 | 6 |
| 34 | Fung Kwun Fung | Hong Kong | 90,500 | 8 | 5 |
| 35 | Hoang Trung Thanh | Vietnam | 89,000 | 8 | 4 |
| 36 | Nguyen Vu Cuong | Vietnam | 86,500 | 18 | 5 |
| 37 | Vaibhav Sharma | India | 86,500 | 11 | 6 |
| 38 | Tran Duc Son | Vietnam | 86,000 | 10 | 8 |
| 39 | Nguyen Duc Minh | Vietnam | 84,500 | 9 | 1 |
| 40 | Ng Minh Hoang | Vietnam | 81,000 | 10 | 1 |
| 41 | Vu Ta Nhat | Vietnam | 80,000 | 18 | 7 |
| 42 | Terry Nguyen | Vietnam | 80,000 | 6 | 6 |
| 43 | Nguyen Manh Hao | Vietnam | 79,500 | 6 | 5 |
| 44 | Huynh Ngoc Cuong | Vietnam | 73,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 45 | Anthony Abram | Australia | 73,000 | 7 | 6 |
| 46 | Viet Nhat Tran | Vietnam | 70,500 | 9 | 8 |
| 47 | Florent Benlloch | Malta | 70,000 | 7 | 9 |
| 48 | Nguyen Hien Hoa | Vietnam | 65,000 | 10 | 5 |
| 49 | Peter Kiem | USA | 63,500 | 9 | 7 |
| 50 | Robert N Kiss | USA | 63,000 | 6 | 3 |
| 51 | Hung Phan | Vietnam | 62,000 | 18 | 8 |
| 52 | Nguyen Tien Son | Vietnam | 58,000 | 7 | 4 |
| 53 | Nguyen Van Hau | Vietnam | 57,000 | 7 | 7 |
| 54 | Le Son Vietnam | Vietnam | 56,000 | 12 | 8 |
| 55 | Doan Quang Thinh | Vietnam | 54,500 | 12 | 1 |
| 56 | Nguyen Quang Hai | Vietnam | 54,000 | 18 | 6 |
| 57 | Do Van Phuong | Vietnam | 50,500 | 11 | 4 |
| 58 | Dang Hung Duong | Vietnam | 50,000 | 12 | 2 |
| 59 | Trinh Nhim | Vietnam | 49,500 | 9 | 4 |
| 60 | Nguyen Duc Hieu | Vietnam | 48,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 61 | Tien Quyet Pham | Vietnam | 47,500 | 12 | 5 |
| 62 | Anton Widjaya | Indonesia | 47,000 | 9 | 9 |
| 63 | Do Van Hai | Vietnam | 45,000 | 10 | 4 |
| 64 | Minh Nguyen | Vietnam | 44,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 65 | Nguyen Quy Bang | Vietnam | 42,500 | 7 | 3 |
| 66 | Gene Chia | Singapore | 39,500 | 18 | 4 |
| 67 | Chirag Sodha | India | 38,500 | 11 | 1 |
| 68 | Le Tan | Vietnam | 30,500 | 12 | 6 |
| 69 | Luu Danh Tuan | Vietnam | 29,500 | 6 | 4 |
Buy in: VN₫ 8,800,000 (~US$ 380)
Guarantee: VN₫ 1,000,000,000 (~US$ 43,125)
Entries: 293
Prize pool: VN₫ 1,394,680,000
Bounty pool: VN₫ 879,000,000
ITM: 30 places
Flight A: 40 advanced out of 186 entries
Flight B: 29 advanced out of 107 entries
The final chase is to the money round which starts at 30th place. Once that is reached, the bounty rewards will be in play. This is where the drama intensifies as players hunt down the largest mystery prizes. The most coveted are the three VN₫ 176,500,000 (~US$ 7,612) top bounty prizes. One of them will be reserved for the final table. Of course, we can’t discount the main prize pool where the ultimate champion is set to pocket VN₫ 325,600,000 (~US$ 14,000). The winner will also bring home the first ever APT Hanoi trophy and will take pole position in the Player of the Series race.
Payouts in VN₫
| 1st | 325,600,000 |
| 2nd | 217,080,000 |
| 3rd | 150,910,000 |
| 4th | 109,000,000 |
| 5th | 81,510,000 |
| 6th | 62,910,000 |
| 7th | 49,960,000 |
| 8th | 40,700,000 |
| 9th | 33,920,000 |
| 10th | 28,270,000 |
| 11th-12th | 23,560,000 |
| 13th-15th | 19,630,000 |
| 16th-18th | 16,360,000 |
| 19th-22nd | 13,630,000 |
| 23rd-27th | 11,360,000 |
| 28th-30th | 9,470,000 |
| 176,500,000 |
| 176,500,000 |
| 176,500,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 29,000,000 |
| 11,700,000 |
| 11,700,000 |
| 9,800,000 |
| 9,800,000 |
| 9,800,000 |
| 8,100,000 |
| 8,100,000 |
| 8,100,000 |
| 6,800,000 |
| 6,800,000 |
| 6,800,000 |
| 6,800,000 |
| 5,600,000 |
| 5,600,000 |
| 5,600,000 |
| 5,600,000 |
| 5,600,000 |
| 4,800,000 |
| 4,700,000 |
| 4,700,000 |