HomeHarry Duong won’t be bringing home a second APT championship title. He met his end at the hands of Guan Tian Liang. It was all in preflop with Guan’s A♠ K♠ winning the race against Duong’s Q♦ Q♣. A king showed up on the turn.
Zhou Jiu Ping is getting close to a million chips. He eliminated Andrew Tai with A♥ Q♥ winning the flip against J♥ J♣ with the board running 10♠ Q♠ K♦ 4♦ J♠. Zhou now at 930k.
Quang Nguyen opened to 21k from mid-position, cutoff Fan Chi Fu and bb Harry Duong called. At the flop 8♠ 6♠ 5♦, all checked. The turn 10♥, Duong led out 27k, both Quang and Fan called. On the river 2♠, Duong slowed to a check, Quang fired 55k, Fan folded, Duong tank-called. Quang had 10♠ Q♠ flush, Duong mucked.
Havin had just 66k several hands past, Nguyen Thanh has now doubled up to 300k. His second double up was through Kajornnut Prirungreung. It was all in preflop with Nguyen holding J♥ J♣ and Kajornnut behind with 7♦ 7♠. The board was clean.
First Vietnamese to get a bump was Nguyen Thanh. He risked his 66k stack holding 4♦ 6♦, Kenta Hino called with A♦ K♥. The board ran 2♦ 6♠ A♣ 8♦ 4♠ for a winning two pair to Nguyen.
Next was Nguyen Nam Duong all in for 136k with A♣ A♥. He was doubled up by Low Zi Cheng with 5♣ 5♦ on a board of 6♦ 8♥ 9♣ 4♣ A♦.
Huge takedown for Manoj Pentakota… or shall we say takedowns with two players falling simultaneously. The hand kicked off with utg+1 Pentakota raising to 16k, called by button Fan Chi Fu, sb Tran Huy Hoang shoved, bb Jimmy Yar shoved, Pentakota called, Fan opted to fold.
Pentakota A♥ K♥
Tran A♦ 8♠
Jimmy Yar 10♦ 10♠
The board ran K♣ 2♠ A♠ 5♣ J♥ for sweep sweep. Pentakota skyrocketed to 1.4M. Doesn’t look like anyone is even close to that number.
Manoj Pentakota and Aaron Sing Keung Li were all in preflop. Pentakota with K♠ K♣, Li with J♥ 9♥, the board came K♥ Q♣ 5♣ A♦ 5♠. Out went Li while Pentakota climbed to 630k.
Kajornnut Prirungrueng
Kajornnut Prirungrueng sent Rubin Labroo packing up while sending his own stack to 510k. The board completed to K♠ K♣ 7♥ 3♠ A♠ with 120k brewed prior. Kajornnut bet 30k, Labroo shoved, Kajornnut tanked then made the call. Labroo showed his J♣ 9♣ bluff and busted to Kajornnut’s 5♠ 6♠ flush.
Double up for Tung Nguyen against Tso Wei. Catching the action on a board showing A♥ 3♥ 10♣ 4♥ and 100k brewed, Nguyen checked, Tso Wei bet 43k, Nguyen shoved, was called.
Tso Wei 10♥ 9♥
Tung K♥ Q♥
The river 8♥ ended the hand and Nguyen happily shipped. Tso Wei dropped to 220k. Nguyen up to 450k.