After eight rounds of play, Day 2 ended with 56 players bagging up chips. Congratulations to the day’s survivors! Closing with the lead was Vietnam’s Ngoc Anh Cao with a monstrous 676,500. We will have the chip counts posted shortly along with a recap.
Ngoc Anh Cao | Vietnam | 676,500 | 22 | 2 |
Phachara Wongwichit | Thailand | 540,000 | 23 | 8 |
Ashish Munot | India | 522,500 | 31 | 7 |
Huynh Ngoc Cuong | Vietnam | 507,000 | 21 | 8 |
Pham Tien Dung | Vietnam | 481,000 | 32 | 8 |
Nam Phong | Vietnam | 398,000 | 20 | 8 |
Nguyen Quang Minh | Vietnam | 345,000 | 21 | 6 |
Vaibhav Sharma | India | 341,500 | 32 | 4 |
Ankit Kumar Jajodia | India | 318,500 | 30 | 1 |
Yuthana Boonorm | Thailand | 292,000 | 20 | 3 |
Nguyen Quang Huy | Vietnam | 286,000 | 32 | 2 |
Frank Tielens | Holland | 276,000 | 22 | 7 |
Norbert Koh | Singapore | 275,500 | 23 | 3 |
Phan Trong Linh | Vietnam | 275,000 | 22 | 6 |
Nguyen Van Trung | Vietnam | 275,000 | 20 | 5 |
Feng Yu | China | 262,500 | 32 | 3 |
Yin Mingbao | China | 260,000 | 22 | 5 |
Kenny | Vietnam | 246,500 | 31 | 6 |
Choai | Vietnam | 244,500 | 31 | 1 |
Tran Hai Ha | Vietnam | 222,000 | 31 | 3 |
Thomas Ward | New Zealand | 209,500 | 30 | 8 |
Tian Ha Hung | Vietnam | 200,000 | 23 | 5 |
Teddy Pham | Vietnam | 199,000 | 20 | 6 |
Thien Ha | Vietnam | 198,500 | 31 | 8 |
Nguyen Van Xuan | Vietnam | 184,000 | 22 | 1 |
Quang Vu | Vietnam | 182,000 | 23 | 4 |
Tung Red | Vietnam | 182,000 | 32 | 7 |
Tran Huy Hoang | Vietnam | 177,000 | 30 | 6 |
Huu Dung Nguyen | Vietnam | 174,000 | 21 | 7 |
Hoang Anh Tuan | Vietnam | 174,000 | 32 | 1 |
Metasit Pratipsangkom | Thailand | 169,500 | 21 | 1 |
Anuphad Khong Dechudomkol | Thailand | 167,000 | 23 | 1 |
Giao Linh | Vietnam | 166,000 | 21 | 5 |
Nguyen Hai Phong | Vietnam | 155,000 | 23 | 6 |
Sam Nguyen | Vietnam | 154,500 | 30 | 5 |
Do Hoang Anh | Vietnam | 152,000 | 22 | 4 |
Kajornnut Prirungrueng | Thailand | 151,500 | 32 | 6 |
Akira Ito | Japan | 135,000 | 20 | 4 |
Anton Widjaya | Indonesia | 130,500 | 22 | 8 |
Phom Van Tien | Vietnam | 122,000 | 32 | 5 |
Royal Flush | Vietnam | 120,000 | 20 | 7 |
KSY | Vietnam | 118,000 | 21 | 3 |
Nguyen Van Chien | Vietnam | 109,000 | 30 | 2 |
Plam Huy Hoang | Vietnam | 104,000 | 31 | 4 |
Nguyen Nam Duong | Vietnam | 102,000 | 21 | 4 |
Dc Nguyen | Vietnam | 101,000 | 22 | 3 |
Nguyen Hai Manh | Vietnam | 98,500 | 23 | 7 |
Nguyen Tien Son | Vietnam | 97,000 | 31 | 2 |
Khoi Nguyen | Vietnam | 73,500 | 30 | 7 |
Vu Duc Trung | Vietnam | 70,000 | 30 | 3 |
Terry Nguyen | Vietnam | 68,000 | 21 | 2 |
He He | Vietnam | 65,000 | 23 | 2 |
Tharit Nanthana | Thailand | 63,500 | 20 | 1 |
Shardul Parthasarathi | India | 47,500 | 20 | 2 |
Takuya Sato | Japan | 35,500 | 31 | 5 |
Vu Minh Hai | Vietnam | 35,000 | 30 | 4 |
Terry Nguyen opened from utg with a min-raise, acting next Ohashi Masaya shoved his short stack, Tran Hai Ha joined the jam, and Nguyen called to put them both at risk.
Nguyen Q♣ Q♠
Masaya 9♦ 9♥
Tran A♦ K♥
When the flop came K♦ 2♥ 3♥, Tran celebrated, and with the turn 6♥ and river A♣, he fist pumped the victory. He is up to 170k, Nguyen dropped to 210k, Masaya busted.
Utg player Pham Hong Phuc raised to 9k, to his immediate left a desperate Mr Tao shoved his 41k short stack, next to him Kenny called, and with no other customers, it was heads up.
Kenny A♥ K♦
Mr Tao A♦ 9♣
The board ran 3♠ 7♦ 7♣ Q♠ 7♠ to award Kenny the pot as Mr Tao packed up. Kenny chipped up to 150k.
Norbert Koh min-raised to 8k, two spots over Ito Akira three-bet shoved 67.5k, action folded back around to Koh who called.
Akira 10♦ 10♠
Koh 5♦ 5♠
No bad beat on the board of 8♠ 4♥ 9♦ 9♥ 7♣ for a happy double up to Akira. He is up to 145k, Koh dipped to 196k.
Short stacks Mr Sugar J♥ K♦and Nguyen Hai Phong A♥ Q♣ were all in preflop. The board ran 9♥ 2♣ 2♦ 3♥ 9♦ for no sugar for Mr Sugar. Nguyen shipped it to rise to 120k.
Phachara Wongwichit and Pan Yue Feng went head to head resulting in a massive double up for the Thai pro. The hand opened with hijack Feng raising to 7k, from cutoff Wongwichit three-bet to 21k, Feng called. On the flop 10♥ 2♣ 5♥, Feng check-called a 34.5k c-bet by Wongwichit. On the turn 4♣, Wongwichit fired 75k, Feng check-jammed, snap-called by Wongwichit.
Feng A♠ 10♦
Wongwichit J♣ J♠
The river 9♠ didn’t improve Feng’s hand to plummet to 25k. Wongwichit skyrocketed to 520k.
From utg Chien Than raised to 6500, three-bet to 17k by Ha Van Thien, button player four-bet jammed for 52k total, only Thien called. Thien had 6♠ 6♥, the at-risk player opened a dominating K♦ K♠, the board ran 4♦ 4♣ Q♠ 3♣ 6♦ for a rivered full house to Thien. He shipped the pot and climbed to 191k.
Preflop action saw utg Nang Quang Nguyen min-raise, called by mid position Alok Birewar and big blind Anuphad Khong Dechudomkul. At the flop 5♣ Q♥ 10♠, Nguyen c-bet 8k, and was called by both players. On the turn Q♠, all three checked it and the river came 8♥. Khong Dechudomkul checked, Nguyen checked, Birewar bet 35k, back to Khong Dechudomkul who then shoved his 53.5k stack. This was enough to get Nguyen to fold while Birewar called. Khong Dechudomkul turned over his J♣ 9♣ straight beating Birewar’s Q♦ J♦ trips. Nguyen showed his folded A♣ A♥. Khong Dechudmokul chipped up to 154k.
On a board 8♣ 7♦ 6♥ 5♥ K♥, Pham Tien Dung bet 80k, Nguyen Quang Minh called then paid upon seeing the 10♦ 9♥ straight. Pham back up to 388k, Nguyen dropped to 158k.