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Ha Van Thien shoved with A♦ J♠ and big blind Francis Garson woke up with 10♦ 10♥. He called and won it when the board ran Q♦ 4♦ 3♦ K♣ 6♥. Thien laddered up to VN₫ 80,180,000.
Tu Le was all smiles after his A♥ 6♥ gamble improved to a flush to double up through Alok Birewar Q♣ 5♣. The board was J♣ 9♥ 4♥ 5♥ J♠. Lu climbed to over 400k.
Nguyen Trong Nghia is the 2k who survived to reach the money round after winning multiple forced bets. He just won another two forced bets to bring his stack from 2k to 22k, then a double up to 84k.
Forced bet on the big blind he had 10♠ 6♠, Tu Le with A♥ 10♦, the board ran 6♥ 7♦ J♦ 8♦ J♥. The next forced all in was on the small blind with 2k, he had J♦ 2♥, Thien Ha with 7♥ 7♣, the board ran J♣ 9♣ 6♠ 2♣ 6♦ for a higher two pair.
Up to 22k, Nghia doubled up again, this time through Robert Kiss with A♠ Q♣ dominating K♦ 9♣ throughout. He is up to 84k equivalent to 5 BB.
Akshay Nasa three-bet jammed with A♠ Q♣ and was dominated both in chips and in hole cards with Deepak Bothra holding A♣ K♠. The board ran 10♥ 4♣ 5♥ 2♠ K♦ for 29th place to Nasa and a payout of VN₫ 66,820,000.
Prize pool and payouts
Buy in: VN₫ 38,500,000 (~US$ 1,640)
Guarantee: VN₫ 4,000,000,000 (~US$ 172,300)
Entries: 288
Prize pool: VN₫ 9,777,600,000 (~US$ 416,866)
ITM: 29 places
| 1st | 2,298,440,000 |
| 2nd | 1,532,270,000 |
| 3rd | 1,065,210,000 |
| 4th | 769,380,000 |
| 5th | 575,380,000 |
| 6th | 444,070,000 |
| 7th | 352,630,000 |
| 8th | 287,310,000 |
| 9th | 239,420,000 |
| 10th | 199,520,000 |
| 11th | 166,260,000 |
| 12th | 166,260,000 |
| 13th | 138,550,000 |
| 14th | 138,550,000 |
| 15th | 138,550,000 |
| 16th | 115,460,000 |
| 17th | 115,460,000 |
| 18th | 115,460,000 |
| 19th | 96,220,000 |
| 20th | 96,220,000 |
| 21st | 96,220,000 |
| 22nd | 96,220,000 |
| 23rd | 80,180,000 |
| 24th | 80,180,000 |
| 25th | 80,180,000 |
| 26th | 80,180,000 |
| 27th | 80,180,000 |
| 28th | 66,820,000 |
| 29th | 66,820,000 |
It is down to 29 players, all of them in the money. Here are the big stacks:
Shardul Parthasarathi – 1.7M+
Deepak Bothra – 1.64M
Mark Remnant – 1.48M
Ankit Wadhawan – 1.1M+
Hue Dang – 1.1M
It took over an hour and a half, roughly 40 hands, for the bubble to burst and when it did, it was Quach Chi Cong on the losing end. On a board 6♣ J♣ 8♣ 10♦, Cong was all in, Garson and Chien Than checked. The river 8♥, Than bet for a side pot but Garson folded. Cong had 5♥ 5♣, Than had a commanding 8♠ 8♦ quads. Cong was eliminated on the bubble.
Short stacks surviving with Le Cong Vuong doubling up through Mark Remnant. It was all in on a turn board A♦ K♣ 3♥ 10♦, Vuong had 3♣ 3♦ set, Remnant with 2♦ 4♦ draw. The river was 2♠.
Nguyen Trong Nghia is still in the running despite being down to just 2k. From the small blind he was forced all in and showed A♣ K♥ that dominated Akshay Nasa’s A♦ Q♣. The board ran out Q♥ K♣ 5♥ 10♠ J♦ for a split pot.
One orbit later, Nguyen was back on the big blind, he was all in with Q♣ 10♥, button Nasa had K♦ 6♥, the board ran all clubs for a winning flush to Nguyen and a pot of 10k.