HomeToday is the last day of the APT Vietnam 2018! We have plenty of exciting events lined up for everyone to enjoy at Pro Poker Club so come on over and jump in the festival’s final games! Two more trophies are up for grabs.
The day kicks off with a new one, the Short Deck Poker tournament. This new variation of Hold’em has been the fancy of the nosebleed high stakes players and now we bring it to the APT for the first time. Buy-in is VND 7,700,000. Read up on the Short Deck Poker rules here. Cards in the air at 1pm.
At 2pm, it’s the CoinPoker High Rollers Single Day – Shot Clock – event. This is the last event of the festival. For the first time, we will be introducing the shot clock to Vietnam. Buy-in is VND 43,000,000.
Shot Clock rules:
- The Shot Clock will be introduced after the close of registration, at six tables remaining.
- Once the Shot Clock has been introduced each remaining player will receive three (3) sixty (60) second Time Bank chips.
- Once a player hesitates for 3 seconds, the Shot Clock will begin with an initial thirty (30) second countdown.
- Once a player exhausts the initial thirty (30) second countdown, that player will immediately owe a Time Bank chip and will owe another one after sixty (60) seconds expires.
- Remaining eight (8) players will receive two (2) additional Time Bank chips.
- The Shot Clock will be paused if a player that has been put on the Shot Clock requests for a count of a bet that has multiple chips or multiple denominations or stacks.
- A player’s hand will be killed immediately after the time on the Shot Clock has expired and the player is out of Time Bank chips.
Full APT Vietnam 2018 schedule with detailed event structures.
MAIN EVENT – Race to the title
Today will also see the final 7 players of the MAIN EVENT race to the title. The prime tournament of the tour drew in 498 entries for a prize pool of VND 9,661,200,000.
Here are the finalists:
Seat 1 – Le Long Stephane – 3,710,000
Seat 2 – Tetsuya Tsuchikawa – 4,930,000
Seat 3 – Benjamin Gonzva – 4,220,000
Seat 4 – Vu Manh Phong – 1,755,000
Seat 5 – Quang Nguyen – 5,520,000 (chip leader)
Seat 6 – Teoh Ming Nguyen – 3,120,000
Seat 7 – Mei San Ang – 1,600,000
Average stack – 3,551,057
Chips in play – 24,857,400
Final day will resume with blinds at 50K-100K ante 100K. Action gets underway at 130pm. Live stream on APT Twitch and APT YouTube with a one hour delay.
You can read up on the previous days action in the LIVE UPDATES.
Day 1A recap
Day 1B recap
Day 1C recap
Day 2 recap
Final 7 payouts
1st VND 1,638,200,000
2nd VND 1,092,130,000
3rd VND 762,500,000
4th VND 555,030,000
5th VND 419,470,000
6th VND 327,860,000
7th VND 264,060,000
Come on over and cheer on the players!
Other Events
Two events will also be wrapping up from an overnight break, the CoinPoker High Rollers with 38 players returning out of the 104 entries. The top 18 places will earn a piece of the VND 5,044,000,000 prizepool with the eventual winner awarded the lion’s share VND 1,264,650,000 first prize.
Game resumes at Level 13 – blinds 1500 – 3000 ante 3000. Average stack is 109,473. Chips in play is 4,160,000. Top 5 leaders are:
Richard Marquez – 284,000
Konstantin Pogodin – 271,500
Vi Khoa – 266,000
Ken Okada – 236,500
Quan Nguyen – 222,000
The No Limit Hold’em 2 will also be on the floor with the final 8 players back on the felt at 1pm. This event turned up 83 entries for a prize pool of VND 644,080,000. Players are hunting down the VND 172,350,000 first place purse and one of the last trophies of the series.