APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh 2019 Championships Event


Lauren May Watts doubles through Solomon Lee

Level: 10 Blinds: 1000-1500 Ante: 1500

A lucky double up for the lone female in the field. Action saw utg+1 Solomon Lee raise to 3500, sb William Kang called, bb Lauren May Watts shoved, Lee shoved as well, Kang folded.

Watts A 8
Lee A Q

The board ran 3 5 10 8 10 for a pair spiked by the lady. She doubled up to 60k while Lee dropped to 30k.


Chen Dajza versus Jimmie Javier; boxed card trashed

Level: 10 Blinds: 1000-1500 Ante: 1500

Button Jimmie Javier raised to 3500, big blind Chen Dajza three-bet to 11k, Javier called. As the flop was about to be felted, an A was turned the wrong way in the deck – called a boxed card – and it was tossed to the muck pile. The flop 10 7 J landed, both players checked. On the turn Q, Chen bet 11k, Javier called. The river J, Chen sent out 30k, Javier tank-folded.


Four way limp pot for Punnat Punsri

Level: 10 Blinds: 1000-1500 Ante: 1500

APT Korea Seoul 2019 Championships Event winner is here in Vietnam to defend his title. Punnat Punsri is the most recent Championships Event winner. He entered with a healthy stack today and added more to climb to 175k. The hand saw a four-way limped pot and a flop 4 7 A. Action folded to the cutoff David Erquiaga, he bet 3500, Punsri and Nguyen Dane Long called. The turn 2, Punsri led for 7500 and won the pot with no callers.


Day 1B chip leaders face off

Level: 10 Blinds: 1000-1500 Ante: 1500

Cao Ngoc Anh

The top two big stacks from Day 1B got involved in a fairly fat pot. The board was K 6 2 A and 31.5k in the middle. Hiroshi Nishiyama banged out a 20k bet, Cao Ngoc Anh raised it to 60k, Nishiyama tanked then folded. Nishiyama down to 110k, Cao Ngoc up to 290k.


Registration closed! Freezeout stage begins

Level: 10 Blinds: 1000-1500 Ante: 1500

That’s it! Registration is closed for the Championships Event. We will have the official prize pool and payouts up as soon as it is on the screens. The freezeout stage has just begun. They play to the end of Level 16 – that’s another 7 hours of play before bagging up. Good luck to all!


Day 2 Chip Counts and Seat Draw

Day 2 Chip Counts and Seat Draw

Opening blinds: 600 – 1200 ante 1200 (Level 9)
Level duration: 60 minutes
Total chips in play: 7,974,700
Average stack: 110,759
Game time: 1pm

Qualifiers: 72 players (2 double qualifiers chips to be removed from play)

Rank Name Country Chips Table  Seat
1 Joseph Talamayan Philippines 562,500 6 1
2 Nishiyama Hiroshi Japan 249,800 5 5
3 Cao Ngoc Anh Vietnam 243,900 5 7
4 Oliver Helm New Zealand 219,000 4 3
5 Huynh Tan Dung Vietnam 207,500 7 2
6 Tobias Napel Netherlands 190,400 2 3
7 Richard Marquez Philippines 188,800 10 2
8 Choi Yun Lam Kevin Hong Kong 183,600 7 5
9 Le Ngoc Khanh Vietnam 171,700 1 7
10 Chen Dajza China 169,700 9 4
11 Soo Jo Kim Korea 169,400 10 1
12 Tran Huy Hoang Vietnam 169,100 8 5
13 William Kang UK 168,800 11 3
14 Laksh Pal Singh India 166,800 8 4
15 Binh Minh Vietnam 163,000 6 6
16 Tran Son Thach Vietnam 159,200 8 2
17 Bobby Zhuo Xinghua Singapore 151,600 1 4
18 Manoj Pentakota India 146,400 10 5
19 Nguyen Dane Long Vietnam 145,300 2 7
20 Punnat Punsri Thailand 142,500 2 2
21 Frank Lillis Ireland 140,300 10 4
22 Tanaka Masatoshi Japan 137,300 6 5
23 Dave Erquiaga Philippines 132,800 11 1
24 Mansour Matloubi United Kingdom 128,000 8 6
25 Terry Nguyen Vietnam 126,000 2 1
26 Nguyen Nam Duong Vietnam 120,200 3 1
27 Iy-Wey Xie Germany 116,100 3 2
28 Yong Hyun Yoo Korea 113,500 2 5
29 Sumit Sapra India 108,700 11 5
30 Ashish Munot India 107,000 6 7
31 Daniel Smith New Zealand 104,900 4 6
32 Macaron Tran Vietnam 104,000 5 6
33 Dao Ngoc Nam Vietnam 103,700 6 3
34 Lee Seok Young Korea 103,700 10 6
35 Zhou Jia Ping China 102,800 5 3
36 Vazbhav Sharma India 99,800 9 3
37 Yoichi Uesugi Japan 98,400 4 2
38 Yu Dang Japan 95,700 4 5
39 Eugene Co Philippines 94,400 3 5
40 Pham Bao  Vietnam 93,900 8 3
41 Shoma Ishikawa Japan 93,300 7 4
42 Kong Seong Su Korea 89,600 6 4
43 Soo Han Ryn Korea 88,200 2 4
44 Kim Hakdo Korea 87,400 4 7
45 Quang Nguyen Vietnam 85,300 7 1
46 Yang Peng (King) China 84,300 2 6
47 Conor Odriscoll Ireland 83,000 7 6
48 Vyn Vietnam 81,000 5 1
49 Huu Dung Nguyen Vietnam 80,600 11 2
50 Je Hun Hong Korea 78,100 9 5
51 Tuy Nguyen Vietnam 72,000 8 7
52 Satheshkumar Muthu Singapore 63,500 8 1
53 Vamerdino Magsakay Philippines 63,500 7 3
54 Van Phinh Nguyen Vietnam 62,900 11 6
55 Punnat Punsri (2x qualif) Thailand 60,900 3 3
56 Hrai Doong Vietnam 60,600 4 4
57 Christopher Mateo Philippines 58,700 5 2
58 Manish Lakhotia India 57,500 1 5
59 Thananat Therdtakoonrat Thailand 47,700 9 6
60 Linh Tran Vietnam 47,500 3 4
61 Vu Duc Trung Vietnam 41,800 1 3
62 Pham Hui Minh Tz Vietnam 40,800 7 7
63 Tran Huy Tien Vietnam 39,300 3 6
64 Nguyen Quang Huy Vietnam 37,100 1 6
65 Jimmie Javier Philippines 36,600 9 2
66 Pham Quoc Anh  Vietnam 35,300 3 7
67 Choi Invtce Korea 30,000 5 4
68 Wayne Heung Hong Kong 27,900 10 3
69 Lauren May Watts England 26,200 11 4
70 Tso Wei Hong Kong 25,600 6 2
71 Solomon Lee Malaysia 24,500 1 2
72 Khom Phan Vietnam 24,000 1 1
73 Long Lam Vietnam 14,700 9 1
74 Dung Huynh (2x qualif) Vietnam 14,400 4 1