APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh 2019 Main Event


Han Myoung Suk doubles up through David Tai

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

Three players limped, the big blind David Hsing Tai raised to 5200, two players called. At the flop 7 10 Q, Tai checked, Lee Seok Young betr 7k, Han Myoung Suk called, Tai shoved, Lee folded, Han called.

Tai K Q
Han A 8 nut flush

The turn 6 and river 2 completed the board. Han doubled up to 70k. Tai at 145k.


Sumit Sapra wins the raise war

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

Sumit Sapra

Utg David Hsing Tai opened for 1800, hijack called, cutoff Mark Gruendemann three-bet to 7k, big blind Sumit Sapra four-bet to 34k, two folds followed, Gruendemann tanked then folded as well while showing J J. Sapra didn’t show.


Good call by Quang Nguyen

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

22k in the middle and a board 8 A 3 8 10. Wai Chung Lam bet 11k, Quang Nguyen tanked then called. It was a good one with his A 2 winning over Lam’s bluff 6 7. Quang up to 130k.


Christopher Mateo pays the boat

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

Catching the action only on the river with Long Pro all in holding 9 7, called by bigger stacked Christopher Mateo with K 10. With the board showing 7 A 2 2 7, Mateo had to pay the double up. He is down to 48k.


Leaders and champions

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

Chip counts of decorated champions and chip leaders:

Chan Kian Bing – 255k
Hwang Seong il – 200k

Soo Jo Kim – 91k
Can Ngoc Anh – 45k
Alexis Lim – 18k
Christopher Mateo 48k


Brandon Yates an early riser

Level: 9 Blinds: 300-600 Ante: 600

Brandon Yates scored himself a nice pot at Level 9 with pocket kings earning him chips off Tran Huy Hoang. He rose to around 150k.


Hwang Seong Il doubles; Van Ngoc Binh plummets

Level: 9 Blinds: 300-600 Ante: 600

Looks like one of the day’s leaders, Van Ngoc Binh is back on earth. At the previous level, his big stack took a hard hit against Hwang Seong Il. The hand began with a raised pot preflop and the board showing K 5 7. Van Ngoc checked, Hwang bet 18k, Van Ngoc shoved, Hwang tank-called.

Van Ngoc 5 6
Hwang K 5

The turn 5 secured the win for Hwang with an improvement to a full house. River was Q. Hwang doubled up to 230k, Van Ngoc dropped to 80k.


Registration closed!

Level: 10 Blinds: 400-800 Ante: 800

That’s it! Registration is closed! We now enter the freezeout stage of the Main Event. We will have the official prize pool and payouts once it’s up on the screens. Looks like we have over 200 seated. Remaining players bag up tat the end of Level 16.

Good luck to all!


Day 2 qualifiers

Day 2 Qualifiers

Total entries: 402
Day 2 qualifiers: 204
Total chips in play: 10,050,000
Average stack: 49,264

Rank Name Country Chips Table  Seat
1 Van Ngoc Binh Vietnam 176,000 1 3
2 Chan Kian Bing Malaysia 156,700 20 3
3 Tai Hsing-Hsiung Taiwan 153,900 8 2
4 Anh Duy Vietnam 150,800 10 4
5 Kajornnut Prirunoreung Thailand 137,400 13 2
6 Guan Tian Liang China 135,200 7 2
7 Nguyen Pham Duy Khanh Vietnam 130,800 14 4
8 Ian Hawksby Australia 128,000 10 7
9 Makana Silva United States 124,000 23 1
10 Antonio Martins Portugal 123,700 25 6
11 Christoph Friesinger Austria 120,800 6 8
12 Ryusuke Kasawaki Japan 118,600 11 3
13 Lee Boon Han Malaysia 116,500 10 1
14 Vijay Kumar Malaysia 114,700 22 2
15 Terry Nguyen Vietnam 114,600 8 8
16 Tran Huy Hoang Vietnam 110,800 23 7
17 Hwang Seong Il Korea 110,200 1 7
18 Quang Nguyen Vietnam 104,800 11 2
19 Nguyen Duc Hai Vietnam 103,800 20 6
20 Le Long Stephane France 94,400 7 7
21 Tung Nguyen Vietnam 91,800 22 3
22 Joeren Kargo Toennquist Denmark 91,200 24 2
23 Yoon Chang Hwan Korea 89,800 4 7
24 Brandon Yates United States 88,800 23 6
25 Oliver Helm New Zealand 88,400 12 5
26 Tom Henricus Verbruggen Netherlands 88,000 24 1
27 Nguyen Quang Huy Vietnam 86,200 3 5
28 Reynold Ng Singapore 86,100 26 3
29 Loa Junzhong Malaysia 85,000 14 3
30 Dao Minh Phu Vietnam 83,500 5 8
31 Soo Joo Kim Korea 83,200 11 7
32 Andrew Tai Singapore 83,000 26 2
33 Vu Minh Tri Vietnam 82,200 25 2
34 Kim Au Australia 78,300 3 6
35 Lok Gino Hong Kong 76,900 22 1
36 Clarence Ngay Singapore 74,500 21 1
37 Tobias Napel Netherlands 74,400 6 5
38 Dang Van Hien Vietnam 73,500 10 5
39 Vu Duc Trung Razen Vietnam 73,000 8 3
40 Yonghyun Yoo Korea 71,900 17 6
41 Kim Ju Won Korea 71,300 25 4
42 Nguyen Vinh Trung Vietnam 70,700 16 7
43 Han Myoung Suk Korea 70,600 8 5
44 Nguyen Dang Long Vietnam 69,200 2 7
45 Solomon Lee Malaysia 69,000 18 7
46 Zannik Bosche Germany 68,100 3 2
47 Michael Fullmer Singapore 67,900 2 3
48 Xie Kunlei China 67,700 13 7
49 You Heung Youl Korea 65,600 14 6
50 Je Huw Hong Korea 65,200 24 3
51 Daiki Horikawa Japan 64,000 20 7
52 Chester Tan Singapore 62,400 7 4
53 Jimmy Yar Singapore 61,800 6 4
54 Jun Beum Chun Korea 60,200 11 4
55 Kim Seo Young Korea 59,600 21 5
56 Thai Nguyen Vietnam 58,800 25 3
57 Zhang Lei China 58,700 19 6
58 Nguyen Huu Duc Vietnam 58,500 13 1
59 Nguyen The Vinch Vietnam 57,900 22 5
60 Pham Dinh Nam Vietnam 57,100 22 8
61 Hong Kong Nguyen Canada 56,400 4 2
62 Cao Ngoc Anh Vietnam 56,400 17 1
63 Kong Seong Su Korea 55,300 20 4
64 Wayne Heung Hong Kong 54,800 9 2
65 Steven Green Australia 54,600 19 3
66 Justin Skovholt United States 54,500 20 8
67 Nong Mitchell United States 54,100 18 1
68 Chen Da Jia China 53,400 5 2
69 Long Lam Vietnam 52,700 22 6
70 Taku Yamamori Japan 51,600 1 4
71 Zhou Jia Tsing China 50,100 4 4
72 Ta Van Tung Vietnam 50,100 7 8
73 Jeong Bong Kil Korea 50,000 26 1
74 Fan Chi FU Taiwan 49,500 26 7
75 Sebastian Tan Shi Ting Singapore 49,100 24 4
76 Nguyen Nam Duong Vietnam 48,800 11 1
77 Tso Wei Hong Kong 48,500 23 4
78 Chan Hei Hong Kong 48,500 14 7
79 Chan Wing Kei Hong Kong 48,200 15 8
80 Sun Ka Ho  Hong Kong 47,800 16 5
81 Wang Jiabin China 47,800 4 5
82 Huecong Xu China 47,700 18 8
83 David Wai Ho UK 47,500 14 1
84 Shohei Miyazaki Japan 47,200 17 4
85 Huu Dung Nguyen Vietnam 46,000 15 6
86 Nam Pho Nk Vietnam 45,900 11 8
87 Huy Coshet Vietnam 45,900 17 7
88 Phan Quoc Thinh Vietnam 45,200 13 6
89 Manoj Pentakota India 45,100 12 7
90 Conor O’Driscoll Ireland 44,300 4 1
91 Navlani Sumit Harikishan India 44,300 10 3
92 Dung Huynh Vietnam 44,100 14 5
93 Pham Hung Cuong Vietnam 43,600 25 7
94 Nguyen Duc Vinh Vietnam 42,600 23 5
95 Chin Wei Khong Singapore 42,100 16 4
96 Woo Jin Lee Korea 41,500 25 1
97 Nguyen Thanh Hung Vietnam 41,500 1 8
98 Satheshkumar Muthu Singapore 41,500 20 5
99 Yang Dong Myeong Korea 41,400 23 2
100 Harry Duong Vietnam 41,400 3 1
101 Low Zi Cheng Singapore 41,200 25 5
102 Tran Son Thach Vietnam 41,200 15 4
103 Charles Lesmana Indoensia 41,200 5 6
104 Wai Chung Lam Hong Kong 41,000 11 5
105 Sumit Sapra India 40,100 8 1
106 Simon Ranke Germany 39,900 15 3
107 Huynh Thuy Thach Thao Vietnam 39,600 6 2
108 Suh Seong Hyun Korea 39,600 9 4
109 Alex Lee Malaysia 39,200 4 8
110 David Tang Australia 39,200 7 5
111 Thanh Ho United States 38,300 18 3
112 Liyuqing China 38,000 14 2
113 Phan Trong Linh Vietnam 37,900 12 6
114 Teng Chee Keong Singapore 37,800 15 7
115 Lee Seok Young Korea 37,400 8 4
116 Richard Mari UK 37,400 6 1
117 Kyeong Mm Fong Korea 37,000 5 5
118 Miao Jia  China 37,000 2 6
119 Matsuda Tomoki Japan 35,700 12 4
120 Yang Conghui Singapore 35,000 4 6
121 Soo Han Ryu Korea 34,700 24 6
122 Thang Vu Vietnam 33,000 5 3
123 George – Ul Ad Romania 33,000 2 5
124 Tran Khanh Vinh Australia 33,000 7 1
125 Amit Malaysia 32,500 9 8
126 Lee Choon Tuck  Malaysia 32,400 2 1
127 Hiruma Shinnosuke Japan 32,200 9 3
128 Kenta Hino Japan 32,000 4 3
129 Choi Yun Lam Kevin Hong Kong 31,800 21 3
130 Aigars Plicvs Latvia 31,700 19 2
131 Hwang Yujun Korea 31,600 21 4
132 Dung Huynh Vietnam 31,300 9 1
133 Ashish Munot India 31,100 20 2
134 Pengyu Lin China 30,900 21 8
135 Gauraw Sood India 30,600 2 4
136 Lim Chae Sung Korea 30,500 16 1
137 Nguyen Dai Phong Vietnam 30,500 17 5
138 Quan Da China 30,400 23 3
139 Quan Nguyen Vietnam 30,400 12 8
140 Wishiyama Japan 30,300 6 7
141 Xu Lei China 30,200 18 4
142 Peter Randle Australia 29,400 16 6
143 Yu Dang Japan 29,200 3 7
144 Samuel Lee Deering Australia 29,200 12 1
145 Khanh Vuong United States 28,700 6 6
146 Chris Morrison Scotland 28,600 24 7
147 Bryan Aik Yong Yu Singapore 28,600 3 3
148 Macaron Tran Vietnam 28,300 19 8
149 David Erquiaga Philippines 28,100 9 5
150 Malte Redschlag Germany 27,900 17 2
151 Chu Thai Thinh Vietnam 27,900 24 5
152 Pham Thanh Tung Vietnam 27,600 12 3
153 Guy Perkins Australia 27,500 22 4
154 Sachdaswani United States 27,300 9 7
155 Pham Quoc Anh Vietnam 27,000 26 4
156 Duc Dong Bui Vietnam 26,200 21 6
157 Kyle Bao Diep United States 26,100 7 6
158 Wei Jianan China 25,800 1 5
159 Choi Inkyu Korea 25,500 15 1
160 Nguyen Duc Hip Vietnam 25,000 1 2
161 Hwang Sung Min Korea 24,700 15 2
162 Nguyen Mahiung Vietnam 24,600 18 6
163 Frank Lillis Ireland 24,400 9 6
164 Nguyen Hanh Phong Vietnam 24,200 14 8
165 Lukas Rutkauskas Lithuania 24,200 20 1
166 Linh Tran Vietnam 23,600 18 5
167 Long Nguyen United States 23,500 1 6
168 Huu Tuan Nguyen Vietnam 23,200 13 4
169 Ang Boon Seng Singapore 21,900 5 7
170 Son Putin Vietnam 21,700 26 6
171 Timothy Goh Singapore 21,600 21 2
172 Mark Gruendemann Ireland 21,300 10 8
173 Hishashi Ogi Japan 21,100 11 6
174 Park Chank Ki Korea 20,900 7 3
175 Liu Chao China 20,800 13 8
176 Cheong Mun Wah, Andy Singapore 20,700 26 5
177 Tzu Ting Su Taiwan 20,600 6 3
178 Lee Sang In Korea 19,600 21 7
179 Bendict Koh Singapore 19,500 5 4
180 Nguyen Liu Thinh Vietnam 19,000 13 5
181 Norbert Koh Singapore 18,900 1 1
182 La Anh Tuan Vietnam 18,700 16 2
183 Antoine Ky Phan Vietnam 18,300 10 6
184 Gulnara Heaver Kazakhstan 18,200 19 4
185 Marius Zalpys Lithuania 17,900 17 3
186 Daniel Smith New Zealand 17,600 2 2
187 Greg Heaver Australia 17,200 19 1
188 Le Ngoc Khanh Vietnam 17,200 13 3
189 Kim Jang Soo Korea 17,000 19 7
190 Michitaka Otake Japan 16,900 3 4
191 Vaibhav Sharma India 16,100 5 1
192 Pham Bao Vietnam 14,400 22 7
193 Chinnarut Tamprateep Thailand 14,400 17 8
194 Chia Yu Chun Malaysia 11,600 2 8
195 Nhung Hoang Vietnam 10,000 16 8
196 Phan Hoang Tu Vietnam 9,900 15 5
197 Frederick Bolliet France 9,700 16 3
198 Bobby Zhuo Xing Hua Singapore 8,800 12 2
199 Kwok Yi Feng Singapore 8,500 3 8
200 Lee Jang Hee Korea 8,400 8 7
201 Yoon Chang Hwan Korea 8,100 8 6
202 Oh Ji Uk Korea 7,700 19 5
203 Yeo May Sum Malaysia 6,800 18 2
204 Choi Inkyu Korea 6,500 10 2