APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Main Event 2018


Chip leader update

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000-16000 Ante: 2000

There are 18 players remaining in the Main Event. Here are the current leaders:

Son Putin 1.25M
Bruno Lo 1.225M
Choong Kian Weng 1.12M
Minh Le 1M

*rough estimates

Average stack is 692K.


Tzu Chieh Lo takes some from the big stacked Thapar

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000-16000 Ante: 2000

Tzu Chieh Lo aka Bruno

Tzu Chieh Lo aka Bruno claimed a sizable pot against Devesh Thapar. Action preflop saw a hefty pot brewed in the middle. The flop ran 2 9 10. Bruno bet 125k and Thapar called. On the turn K and river K, no bet s were fired and Bruno won with Q Q as Thapar mucked.


Le Duc Anh tank-calls Wong Choon Sung

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000-16000 Ante: 2000

Le Duc Anh and Wong Choon Sung faced off with Anh opening with a 36k raise. Wong three-bet to 87k, and Anh called. At the flop 3 3 6, Anh checked to the aggressor Wong who took the change to shove his stack of roughly around 400k to put Ang at risk. Anh tanked for some time and eventually found the courage to call for his tournament life.

It was a good one with 10 10 ahead of Wong’s A Q. The turn 3 and river 7 kept Anh safe from elimination for a good double up.


Eliminations 23rd – 27th – VND 72,060,000

Level: 23 Blinds: 8000-16000 Ante: 2000

23rd (?)
24th Pham Trung Kien – Vietnam
25th Le Hoan Cong – Vietnam
26th Truong Mong Hoang – Vietnam
27th Byung Wook Anh – Korea


Eliminations 28th – 36th – VND 61,690,000

Level: 22 Blinds: 6000-12000 Ante: 2000

28th Nguyen Duh Anh Cuong – Vietnam
29th Benedict Koh – Singapore
30th Tran Duc Ngoc- Vietnam
31st Nguyen Hoa Thinh – Vietnam
32nd Jek Elon Everchal – Thailand
33rd Lee Sang Jik – Korea
34th Kwang Jin Lee – Korea
35th Teon Ming Hong – Malaysaia
36th Nguyen Duc Giao Linh – Vietnam


Short stacks dropping…

Level: 22 Blinds: 6000-12000 Ante: 2000

Son Putin sent Pham Trung Kien out of the race with K-10 winning on a board 5-Q-4-4-K. Hung Nguyen also fell, getting his last chips in with A-Q only to run into Eric Tsai’s A-K.

We are down to 23 players.


Vu Duc Trung doubled up by Oeystein Nordii

Level: 22 Blinds: 6000-12000 Ante: 2000

Vu Duc Trung

Vu Duc Trung called a raise by Oeystein Nordii preflop the dealer felted Q J 3. At this point, things heated up with Nordii leading out, Trung raising to 80k, Nordii three-bet shoved, and an instant call by Trung putting himself at risk.

Trung 3 3 set
Nordii A Q top pair

The turn 5 and river 10 completed the board and Trung doubled up.


Hai Chuot avoids the rail with quads

Level: 22 Blinds: 6000-12000 Ante: 2000

Hai Chuot

Just after doubling up Hung Nguyen, Hai Chuot got all his chips on a flop 9 8 6 while holding J J however his opponent, Lien Kang Feng had Q Q. Needing some luck from the poker gods, it came on the turn with the J improving him to a set and victory was ensured with J on the river for quads.


Hung Nguyen doubles up through Hai Chuot

Level: 22 Blinds: 6000-12000 Ante: 2000

Short stacked Hung Nguyen was all in with K J and was looked up by Hai Chuot with A 7. The board ran 9 J 2 5 8 for a winning pair to avoid elimination.