HomeAPT Kick-Off Vietnam turned up 61 entries for Day 1B of the featured CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENT. Combining this with Day 1A entries (76) sums up 137 entries so far. That number is expected to grow with registration open for two hours in Day 2. Calling out to everyone that missed the mark in the starting days, to fence-sitters, short stacks, and players still headed to partner venue Pro Poker Club, don’t miss out! The tournament guarantees a juicy VND 6,000,000,000!
Buy-in: VND 38,500,000 (~US$ 1,700)
Guarantee: VND 6,000,000,000 (~US$ 258,400)
Day 2 starting time: 1pm
Opening blinds: 600 – 1200 ante 1200 (Level 9)
Level duration: 60 minute intervals
Registration: closes at the start of Level 11 @ 315PM local time
Day 2 info
Starting day entries: 137
Qualifiers: 71
Chips in play: 6,850,000
Average stack: 96,478
Bagging time: end of Level 16
Live updates begin at 315pm
You can view the list of qualifiers via this link —> Championship Event Day 2 list
Top 5 players
| Rank | Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| 1 | Seitaro Aso | Japan | 319,600 | 9 | 3 |
| 2 | Nguyen Tien Thanh “Terry” | Vietnam | 309,200 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Zhewen Hu | China | 248,300 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Harry Duong | Vietnam | 231,600 | 7 | 6 |
| 5 | Kim Dongkyu | Korea | 204,500 | 6 | 5 |
Vietnam pro Harry Duong bags Day 1B chip lead
Bagging up the largest stack in Day 1B was local pro Harry Duong with 231,600 in chips. This was good enough to earn him overall fourth rank entering Day 2. Duong is a very well known player at the APT. He won the tour’s Asian Series Cambodia 2012 Main Event.
Other APT decorated champions also through via this heat were Yohwan Lim, Linh Tran, and Punnat Punsri. Several recent side winners made the cut as well: Vincent Kwun Ngai Li, Nguyen Duc Bien, Nguyen Quang Minh (Mr Ngo), and the hot running Lu Zheng Hao who has already claimed two side event titles.
Day 1B survivors
| Harry Duong | Vietnam | 231,600 |
| Kim Dongkyu | Korea | 204,500 |
| Do Hoang Long | Vietnam | 156,000 |
| David Erquiaga | Philippines | 153,800 |
| Nguyen Quang Huy | Vietnam | 150,000 |
| Keon Yong Ma | Korea | 143,200 |
| Vincent Li | Hong Kong | 136,700 |
| Ng Cheuk Fan | Hong Kong | 136,200 |
| Mr Ngo (Nguyen Quang Minh) | Vietnam | 132,100 |
| Song Daewoong | Korea | 113,400 |
| Sumit Sapra | India | 111,800 |
| Lu Zheng Hao | Singapore | 106,900 |
| Alexander Okruzhnoy | Russia | 103,000 |
| Huu Duc Nguyen | Vietnam | 97,800 |
| Slaven Popov | Bulgaria | 96,600 |
| Nguyen Van Dung | Vietnam | 91,400 |
| Hieu Ngo | Vietnam | 82,100 |
| Andres Korn | Argentina | 73,700 |
| Nguyen Van Viet | Vietnam | 66,100 |
| Justin Skolholt | United States | 62,300 |
| Johannes Hoeld | Germany | 60,000 |
| Le Ngoc Khanh | Vietnam | 59,600 |
| Punnat Punsiri | Thailand | 58,600 |
| Lim Yohwan | Korea | 56,600 |
| Li Shuo | China | 54,300 |
| Piet Pape | Germany | 53,200 |
| Tautvydas Jonikas | United States | 50,100 |
| Linh Tran | Vietnam | 49,800 |
| Nguyen Duc Bien | Australia | 48,500 |
| Mohammed Ladau | United Kingdom | 39,400 |
| Tanja Vujanic | Australia | 38,900 |
| Yuho Doh | Korea | 36,600 |
| Kjell Ove Dyb | Norway | 25,500 |
| Jose Espinoza | Peru | 22,200 |