HomeThe field is down to 22 players which means everyone is now guaranteed to walk away with a minimum VND 76,340,000. They hunt down a seat to the Final 8.
Payouts
| 1st | 1,823,500,000 |
| 2nd | 1,215,660,000 |
| 3rd | 845,110,000 |
| 4th | 610,410,000 |
| 5th | 456,490,000 |
| 6th | 352,310,000 |
| 7th | 279,770,000 |
| 8th | 227,940,000 |
| 9th | 189,950,000 |
| 10th | 158,290,000 |
| 11th-12th | 131,910,000 |
| 13th-15th | 109,930,000 |
| 16th -18th | 91,600,000 |
| 19th-22nd | 76,340,000 |
No bubble round with two players falling. Sumit Sapra eliminated shorty Dang Van Thien with K♥ Q♣ spiking the king to outdraw A♠ 3♣. The next to go was Minh Beo who went all in on the button with K♦ 5♦, got called by small blind Thomas Ward and big blind Rijad Hasani. At the flop 4♥ 3♣ 5♥, a small side pot started with Ward Ward betting 30k and called. On the turn 6♣, more chips dropped. On the river J♠, Ward checked, Hasani bet 91k, Ward tanked then opted to call.
Ward A♦ 2♦ straight
Hasani 7♠ 6♦ higher straight
Ward dropped to 385k, Hasani chipped up to 900k.
First break of the day, 25 players left. Here are the top 10 in chips.
Tran Nam Trung – 1,270,000
Dang Duy Thanh – 870,000
Rijad Hasani – 655,000
Le Anh Minh – 650,000
Thomas Ward – 540,000
Katsu was all in with 2♥ 2♠ and was sweating it against Minh Beo’s A♥ K♠. When the board ran 6♦ 9♠ J♥ 8♥ Q♠, Katsu celebrated the win and doubled up to 164k.
Another all in preflop with big hands tabled. Thomas Ward with K♥ K♦, Pham Bao J♠ J♦, the board ran 10♦ 8♥ 3♠ K♣ 3♥ to further improve the already dominating kings. Ward chipped upt to 650k, Pham plunged to 60k.
All in between Huu Tuan Nguyen 10♦ 10♣ and Le Van Dien aka Kenny A♥ Q♦ saw a board A♠ Q♠ J♠ A♣ 7♠ for a double up to Kenny to 209k. Nguyen plunged to 28k then busted to Tran Nam Trung two hands later.
All in preflop with Nguyen Manh Hung with K♣ Q♠ dominated by Dang Duy Thanh’s A♥ Q♣. Both players hit the board 5♠ A♣ 6♦ K♦ 10♥ with Dang hitting a higher pair to ship it and send Nguyen packing. Dang up to 800k.
Action folded around to the small blind Nguyen Hoang Huy who sent his 73K short stack in with A♣ 3♠, big blind David Erquiaga put him at risk with K♣ 6♠. Nguyen sighed in relief when the board ran clean for a double up to 196k.
At table 32, Alex Lindop was all in with 10♥ 10♣, was dominated by Dinh Tien Thanh’s K♣ K♥. No help arrived on the board to send Lindop packing. Dinh shipped it to climb to 740k.
At table 31, on a flop 5♦ 9♣ 4♠ Pham Tien Dung was all in with 5♠ 7♠, was behind Tran Nam Trung’s J♥ J♠. The turn 6♦ and river 10♦ were not the outs Pham needed to depart before the money. Tran zoomed to 1.17M to take the lead.