HomeThe APT Summer Festival Hanoi 2022 is down to it last days at the Vietnam Series of Poker (VSOP). The series has been ongoing since July 12 and will run through Jul 24. A total of 18 side event trophies out of 27 have been claimed. The latest winners were Ha Van Thien, Tran Thanh Tung, and Amit Kaushik. Here are the highlights.
HA VAN THIEN takes down the Super Bounty Hunter
The two-day Super Bounty Hunter was a big hit with 158 runners hunting down scalps that paid out a lucrative VN₫ 3M per kill. This amassed a VN₫ 1,226,080,000 prize pool with VN₫ 474M set aside for bounty rewards. Day 1 ended when the final 8 was formed.
The game resumed today, clocking in at five hours. Nguyen Van Hoang carried in the chip lead and raced up to 4th place. Among the final three was Nguyen Doan Trung Hieu aka Pickle Rick who jumped into this event immediately after busting out 8th at the Main Event. Hieu was knocked out in 3rd place by Ha Van Thien to bring about heads up. Thien was ahead in chips, and as the blinds climbed to an average of 17 BB, short stacked Le Cong Vuong shoved on a flop 5♣ 10♣ 10♠ with a flush draw 3♣ 7♣, Thien had 4♣ 4♠, the turn A♠ and river K♠ sealed the win for Tien.
Thien lifted his first ever APT win along with the VN₫ 173,550,000 first prize and an additional 8 bounties amounting to VN₫ 24,000,000. The new champ walked away with a combined VN₫ 197,550,000 (~US$ 8,422).
Buy in: VN₫ 8,800,000 (~US$ 375)
Entries: 158
Prize pool: VN₫ 752,080,000 (~US$ 32,065)
Bounty pool: VN₫ 474,000,000 (~US$ 20,209)
ITM: 27 places
Final table payouts
1st Ha Van Thien – Vietnam – VN₫ 173,550,000
2nd Le Cong Vuong – Vietnam – VN₫ 115,710,000
3rd Nguyen Doan Trung Hieu – Vietnam – VN₫ 80,440,000
4th Nguyen Van Hoang – Vietnam – VN₫ 58,100,000
5th Le Hoang Khanh – Vietnam – VN₫ 43,450,000
6th Tu Le – Australia – VN₫ 33,530,000
7th Nguyen Thi Nhuong – Vietnam – VN₫ 26,630,000
8th Le Xuan Long – Vietnam – VN₫ 21,700,000
TRAN THANH TUNG wins the NLH Single Day
The No Limit Hold’em Single Day was the biggest side event attraction with 79 putting up the VN₫ 7,700,000 (~US$ 330) buy in. The bubble burst on Tuan Tran who shoved with J♠ 10♣ that missed the board against Norbert Koh’s A♦ Q♣. Koh went on to reach 12th place.
Among the players that reached the final table were the reigning Player of the Series winner Tran Duc Son and India’s Ankit Wadhawan who was on his fourth series cash. Tran fell in 8th place while Wadhawan went on to reach the final three. Korea’s Jeon Byeong Cheol had just eliminated Li Dinh Hung (4th) to open the round with a towering stack.
Jeon Byeong Cheol
Running second was Tran Thanh Tung aka “hHhCPCTeamPro” with a healthy stack while Wadhawan was sitting on <7 BB. With only push or fold for Wadhawan, he proceeded to win two shoves against the leader with the second one A♥ 10♠ dominating A♣ 9♠. With Cheol on the downswing, the rest of his chips were claimed by Tran to start heads up. Throughout the final race, Tran stayed well ahead of Wadhawan. The last hand saw Tran A♠ J♦ luck out on Wadhawan’s A♦ K♣ when the board ran Q♠ 8♠ 6♣ J♠ 4♦. Tran earned VN₫ 145,700,000 (~US$ 6,210) and his first ever APT trophy.
Buy in: VN₫ 7,700,000 (~US$ 330)
Entries: 79
Prize pool: VN₫ 536,410,000 (~US$ 22,870)
ITM: 14 places
Final table payouts
1st Tran Thanh Tung – Vietnam – VN₫ 145,700,000
2nd Ankit Wadhawan – India – VN₫ 97,130,000
3rd Jeon Byeong Cheol – Korea – VN₫ 67,530,000
4th Li Dinh Hung – Vietnam – VN₫ 48,770,000
5th Dang Duy Thanh – Vietnam – VN₫ 36,470,000
6th Le Dinh Hai – Vietnam – VN₫ 28,150,000
7th Luong Viet Thai Duong – Vietnam – VN₫ 22,350,000
8th Gregory Kuhnast – Germany – VN₫ 18,210,000
9th Tran Duc Son – Vietnam – VN₫ 15,180,000
AMIT KAUSHIK delivers two double KOs at the Deep Stack Hyper Turbo
The Deep Stack Hyper Turbo was done and dusted in a fast four hours. Amit Kaushik emerged victorious to claim his first ever APT win and series fourth side event title for India. Down to the final 6 players, average was just 13 BB, chip leader Kaushik knocked out two players simultaneously with A♠ 6♥ trips on a running board 6♣ Q♠ 6♠ 9♥ 7♣. He beat Nguyen Dinh Hung‘s J♥ 3♣ and Jeong Seon Han‘s Q♣ 3♥.
Moments later, Kaushik tank-called all in and again booted two players with a single bullet. Kaushik had A♦ 9♠, Se Han Park had K♦ 10♦, and Myoung Joo Lee with 5♥ 5♠. An ace found the board to quickly bring about heads up. Kaushik was ahead of Quang Vu nearly 4:1 but still had a tough time shutting him down. Instead, Vu doubled up twice to even up. The players opted on an even deal with VN₫ 5 Million and the trophy set aside for the eventual winner. Kaushik went on to ship it with A♦ 2♦ dominating Q♥ 2♥.
Buy in: VN₫ 4,400,000 (~US$ 188)
Entries: 49
Prize pool: VN₫ 190,120,000 (~US$ 8,105)
ITM: 9 places
Payouts
1st Amit Kaushik – India – VN₫ 50,645,000*
2nd Quang Vu – Vietnam – VN₫ 45,645,000*
3rd Se Han Park – Korea – VN₫ 26,770,000
4th Myoung Joo Lee – Korea – VN₫ 19,340,000
5th Jeong Seon Han – Korea – VN₫ 14,460,000
6th Nguyen Dinh Hung – Vietnam – VN₫ 11,160,000
7th Rei Onuki – Vietnam – VN₫ 8,860,000
8th Sungyoon Bae – Korea – VN₫ 7,220,000
9th Vamerdino Magsakay – Philippines – VN₫ 6,020,000
*Heads up deal