APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Main Event 2018


Nguyen Hoanh Trang doubles up his short stack

Level: 27 Blinds: 20000-40000 Ante: 5000

Short stacked Nguyen Hoanh Trang moved all in with 2 2 and Tzu Chieh Lo called with 5 5. The board came down 2 4 Q 9 7 for a set and double up to Nguyen. He is now over 1.1M.


Dang Xuan Canh doubles up through Hai Chuot

Level: 27 Blinds: 20000-40000 Ante: 5000

Dang Xuan Canh raised to 100k from utg seat, two seats over Hai Chuot three-bet to 200k, then back to Dang who called. At the flop 6 7 9, Dang checked, Chuot shoved, and snap-call from Dang.

Chuot 10 10 overpair
Dang 6 6 set

The turn 9 and river K were not the outs Chuot needed to overtake and Dang doubled up to near 1.5M. Chuot dropped to around 1.2M.


Tzu Chieh Lo vs Vu Duc Trung

Level: 27 Blinds: 20000-40000 Ante: 5000

Another raise war at the unofficial final table. Tzu Chieh Lo aka Bruno raised to 80k, Vu Duc Trung three-bet to 200k, Lo four-bet to 375k, and Trung folded. Lo up to 1.34M and Trung down to 1.05M.


Lien Kang Feng wins the battle of the blinds

Level: 27 Blinds: 20000-40000 Ante: 5000

Action folded all the way around the table to small blind Dang Xuan Canh who limped in. Big blind / chip leader Lien Kang Feng raised to 140k. Dang answered back with a three-bet to 380k, then Lien announced all in. Dang quickly folded. And the richer get richer. Dang down to 700k.


Eliminations 11th – 15th

Level: 26 Blinds: 15000-30000 Ante: 5000

Eliminations 11th – 12th – VND 135,030,000

11th Nguyen Thanh Nha – Vietnam
12th Oeyestein W.B. Nordii – Norway

Eliminations 13th – 15th – VND 115,410,000

13th Devesh Thapar – India
14th Johannes Felix Hoeld – Germany
15th Nguyen Van Dung – Vietnam


Chip leader update

Level: 26 Blinds: 15000-30000 Ante: 5000

We are currently on break. The leader at the moment is Lien Kang Feng with 2.225M. Next is Hai Chuot with 1.8M. There are 10 players remaining. They will play down to the official Final 8.


Nguyen Thanh Nha goes up and out

Level: 26 Blinds: 15000-30000 Ante: 5000

Nguyen Thanh Nha has been the shortest stack at his table for some time and with the table now short-handed, it was decreasing much faster. He finally moved all in with A Q and got called by Lien Kang Feng with A 7. The board ran 2 8 3 J K for a double up however, it didn’t last.


The next hand saw him all in with K Q and Dang Xuan Canh called with A Q. Dang dominated the whole ride to the river to send Nguyen out in 11th place.
With that, we are now at the unofficial final table of ten players.


Choong Kian Weng vs Tran Duc Phuong

Level: 25 Blinds: 12000-24000 Ante: 4000

Choong Kian Weng and Tran Duc Phuong seem to always be battling for a pot with each one winning their fair share. Here’s one of those hands….

Choong raised to 50k and big blind Tran defended. At the flop 2 Q 2, Tran checked, Choong c-bet 50k, and Tran called. On the K turn, both checked. Then on the 3 river, Tran led for 77k and Choong called. Tran had Q 6 pair but Choong had better K 9 for top pair.


Lien Kang Feng takes command with over 2.5M

Level: 25 Blinds: 12000-24000 Ante: 4000

Lien Kang Feng

After Lien Kang Feng took a sizable amount of Johaness Hoeld’s stack, he proceeded to eliminate Devesh Thapar to climb up to 1.9M. On fire, Minh Le tried to slow down the charging Lien but got hit instead.

The hand kicked off with Lien raising to 50k from the utg and Le called from the button. At the flop K 10 6, Lien bet 60k, and Le flatted. On the 4 turn, Lien c-bet 80k and this time Le opted to raise to 200k. Lien called. Then on the river 7, Lien checked, Le bet 250k, and Lien called. Le opened Q J missed draw and Lien won it with K 10 two pair. Lien over 2.5M.