HomeDay 2 of the Championships Event is in the books! Out of the 94 players that started the day, only 29 remained with Vietnam’s Nguyen Tuan Anh bagging up a stack that dwarfed all others. Nguyen was the only player that crossed the seven-digit marker, bagging up an enormous 1,309,000 stack. (View in Vietnamese)
Nguyen Tuan Anh, chip leader
The APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Championships kicked off two days ago with players piling in at Pro Poker Club for the second featured tournament of the series – the Championships Event. With 213 total entries, each one at a buy-in of VND 33,000,000, it amassed another lucrative festival prize pool worth VND 6,198,300,000. Today’s Day 2 action saw pieces of the pie claimed with payouts starting at 36th place.
The big story of Day 2 was of course Nguyen Tuan Anh and his gigantic stack. Nguyen had a late game surge that saw his stack balloon to massive proportions during the final four tables. In fact, Nguyen was tabled with two other players also with heavy stacks, Paul Hong and Wei Cheng Yin, both advanced to Day 3. To cross into the million range, Nguyen went head-to-head against Hong a few times where he earned the biggest pot of the day on a bluff holding A-K. (Read up on it in the Live Updates)
Two APT major title-holders also made it through Day 2, Malaysia’s Choong Kian Weng and Hong Kong’s Kit Kwan Kwok. Both players nursed short stacks for a majority of the day then managed to chip up to reach par by bagging time.
Other notables in the lineup were Day 2’s entering chip leader Nguyen Van Canh, recent Main Event 2nd placer Minh Le, and past Main Event finalists Le Ngoc Khanh and John Paredes.
To relive some of the Day 2 action, just head over to the Live Updates.
Here are the final 29 players advancing to Day 3:
| Kwok Kwan Kit | Hong Kong | 356,000 | 1 | 1 |
| Nguyen Tuan Anh | Vietnam | 1,309,000 | 1 | 2 |
| Takao Shimizu | Japan | 196,000 | 1 | 3 |
| Wei Cheng Yin | Taiwan | 681,000 | 1 | 5 |
| Paul Hong (DB) | New Zealand | 479,000 | 1 | 7 |
| Le Ngoc Khanh (SB) | Vietnam | 543,000 | 1 | 8 |
| Duong Nguyen (BB) | Vietnam | 110,000 | 1 | 9 |
| Minh Le | Vietnam | 146,000 | 2 | 2 |
| Choong Kian Weng | Malaysia | 405,000 | 2 | 3 |
| “20FEB” | Vietnam | 221,000 | 2 | 4 |
| Nguyen Thanh Nha (DB) | Vietnam | 219,000 | 2 | 5 |
| Gao Li Chao (SB) | China | 340,000 | 2 | 6 |
| Nguyen Duc Giao Linh (BB) | Vietnam | 407,000 | 2 | 7 |
| Nguyen Van Canh | Vietnam | 458,000 | 2 | 8 |
| Tran Uy Thanh | Vietnam | 425,000 | 2 | 9 |
| Hieu Tran | Vietnam | 474,000 | 3 | 1 |
| Mouline Charly | France | 197,000 | 3 | 2 |
| Nguyen Thi Hien Hoa (DB) | Vietnam | 153,000 | 3 | 3 |
| Cao Ngoc Anh (SB) | Vietnam | 615,000 | 3 | 4 |
| Lars Jurgens (BB) | Germany | 181,000 | 3 | 5 |
| Yuri Odagiri | Japan | 167,000 | 3 | 6 |
| Tran Son Thach | Vietnam | 598,000 | 3 | 7 |
| Quang Phung | Vietnam | 370,000 | 4 | 1 |
| Tan Wah Meng Roi (DB) | Singapore | 465,000 | 4 | 2 |
| John Paredes (SB) | Peru | 209,000 | 4 | 3 |
| Hoe Guofeng (BB) | Singapore | 174,000 | 4 | 4 |
| Takeo Hanayama | Japan | 64,000 | 4 | 5 |
| Son Putin | Vietnam | 305,000 | 4 | 7 |
| Thong Trinh | Vietnam | 383,000 | 4 | 8 |
Player that fell in the money were:
30th Yohwan Lim – Korea – VND 49,070,000
31st Yik Yin Chiu – Hong Kong – VND 49,070,000
32nd Yoichi Useugi – Japan – VND 49,070,000
33rd Oystein Waldemar – Norway – VND 490,070,000
34th Pham Quang Huy – Vietnam – VND 49,070,000
35th Phua Tzai Wei – Singapore – VND 49,070,000
36th Johannes Felix Hoeld – Germany – VND 49,070,000
The Championships Event resumes on Saturday, July 21 at 1pm. They will play down to the Final 8 players. Action begins at Level 18 blinds 5K-10K ante 1K. Average stack is 367,241 with 10,650,000 total chips in play.