APT Kick Off Vietnam 2020 Main Event


Vu Dang doubles up through Huu Tuan

Level: 20 Blinds: 4000-8000 Ante: 8000

Huu Tuan Nguyen raised then called a three-bet by short stacked Yu Dang. At the flop 8 8 7, all of Yu Dang’s chips went in. Yu was ahead 9 9, Nguyen K Q, the turn 9 ensured the double up to Yu. Nguyen dropped to 328k, Yu up to 320k.


Chip count update

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

28 remaining
Chips in play 9,113,700
Average stack 325,489

Chip count by table

Table 1
Nguyen Pham Duy Khanh 185k
Hwang Sang Yeon 260k
Qian Xubo 713k
Bin Zhang 102k
LIn Chen Kun 785k
Pham Trung Kien 180k
Alexander Okruzhnoy 140k

Table 2
Yuwen Pan 780k
Kim Dongkyu 350k
Tuan 500k
Ray Yik Chiu 69k
Xiao Yucheng 136k
Zhang Lei 215k
Jet Zhang Liang 60k

Table 3
Huu Tuan Nguyen 365k
Francis Garson 708k
Yu Dang 195k
Kovantsev Viacheslov 95k
Minh Le 119k
Linh Tran 200k
Hwang Hyun Sub 265k

Table 4
Harry Duong 335k
Prince Shek 330k
Sumit Sapra 325k
Brandon Mifsud 380k
Rayhaan Adam 735k
Edgar Antezana 190k
Siow Kim Foh 330k


Minh Le doubles up

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

Short stacked Minh Le all in with A 6 and bb Kovantsev Viacheslov put the challenge with J 10. The board ran K 2 7 2 4 for a double up to Minh to 119k.


Prince Shek takes from Rayhaan Adam

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

On a flop 5 7 J, bb Rayhaan Adam checked, Harry Duong bet 26k, Prince Shek called, Adam raised to 55k, Duong folded, Shek called. On the turn K, Adam checked, Shek shoved, Adam folded while showing J. Shek rose to 330k, Adam slipped to 735k.


Lin Chen Kun ends Slaven Popov

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

Another bust out at table 1, this time it was Slaven Popov who just ended Sim Jae Kyung one hand prior. Popov had A Q, Lin had Q Q, the board ran Q-5-K-A-3. Lin shipped it to rise to 703k.


Qian Xubo boots Follet

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

One of the day’s entering chip leaders, Antoine Follet, fell hard at the hands of Qian Xubo. Action saw Xubo open then call a three-bet by Follet. At the flop Q-5-8, Follet c-bet, Xubo called. On the turn a 4 showed up, Follet checked, Xubo bet, Follet jammed, called by Xubo. Follet had A-4 bottom pair, Xubo Q-J top pair. The river was 10. Xubo soared to 810k.


Short stacks drop out

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

After the fall of Benjamin Song, it was down to 4 tables of 9 each. Justin Skovholt, Nguyen Duc Bien, Michitaka Sekine, and Seitaro Aso drop.


Benjamin Song rivered out by Lin

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

On a flop 10 6 7, sb Benjamin Song and bb Lin Chen Kun had it all out front. Song ahead with 7 7 set, Lin had 10 7 two pair. The turn Q kept Song ahead but the river 10 awarded Lin the two-outer to improve to a full house. Song eliminated, Lin up to 580k.


Bubble bursts! Meherzad Munsaf eliminated

Level: 19 Blinds: 3000-6000 Ante: 6000

Short stacked Meherzad Munsaf all in with A 8, called by big blind A 9, the board ran a wild A 8 4 for two pair to Munsaf, but the turn 9 gave Hwang a higher two pair. And with the river J, the bubble burst.