APT Vietnam Hanoi Loyal 2022 Main Event


Day 2 is a wrap! 56 players remaining

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

Tran Hai Ha ships the three-way

Level: 17 Blinds: 2K-4K Ante: 4K

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.


Kenny rails Mr Tao

Level: 17 Blinds: 2K-4K Ante: 4K

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.


Ito Akira doubles up through Norbert Koh

Level: 17 Blinds: 2K-4K Ante: 4K

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 battle, Nguyen Hai Phong ships it

Level: 17 Blinds: 2K-4K Ante: 4K

Short stacks Mr Sugar J Kand 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 chunks Pan Yue Feng

Level: 16 Blinds: 1500-3000 Ante: 3000

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. 


Ha Van Thien cracks kings with two-outer

Level: 16 Blinds: 1500-3000 Ante: 3000

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.


Anuphad Khong Dechudomkul ships a double and more

Level: 16 Blinds: 1500-3000 Ante: 3000

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.


Pham Tien Dung gets paid for his straight

Level: 16 Blinds: 1500-3000 Ante: 3000

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.