Opening day Monster Stack draws 194 entries; CoinPoker Super High Roller sees 28 runners

APT Vietnam 2018 rocked the house with the Monster Stack Event and the CoinPoker Super High Rollers bringing everyone to the tables of Pro Poker Club. We’ve got recaps below on those events. 

CoinPoker Super High Rollers 

The CoinPoker Super High Rollers event saw 24 players pony up the VND 107,500,000 buy-in with 4 of them firing a second bullet. Registration is still open for one level on tomorrow’s final day so we won’t have the official prize pool up until that closes. 19 players bagged up today. See chip counts below: 

Victor Chong – 1,193,000

Sahil Agarwal – 1,126,000

Raghav Bansal – 980,000
Dylan Wilkerson – 815,000
Pete Yen Han Chen – 742,000
Tzua Wei Phua – 694,000
Soo Jo Kim – 655,000
Chan Tsun Ming – 561,000
Minh Le – 550,000
Markus Garberg – 544,000
Huu Dung Nguyen – 539,000
Long – 486,000
Michael Kim Falcon – 475,000
Dang Van Hien – 401,000
Danny Tang – 322,000
Jarod Minghini – 318,000
Takao Shimizu – 315,000
Wu Kui Song – 271,000
Paul Hong – 205,000

*Game resumes at 1pm on Saturday, October 6, 2018. Blinds pick up at Level 9, 5,000-10,000 ante 10,000.

Monster Stack

The festival doors opened with the Monster Stack event. This is one of the APT’s highly popular events. A total of 194 entries charged in, and at VND 11,000,000 each, this created a very healthy opening day prize pool of VND 1,881,800,000. The money will start flowing tomorrow with the top 33 places paid and the eventual winner looking at a sweet payout of VND 405,520,000. Players bagged up at the end of Level 13. Amassing the largest stacks were Vietnam’s Huy Coshet and India’s Kunal Patni.

Huy Coshet

Kunal Patni

Among the other players through were Tetsuya Tsuchikawa, Julien Tran, Hieu Ngo, Norbert Koh, Yik Yin “Ray” Chiu, Steffen Endres, Natalie Teh, Nguyen Tien Son, Jin Yong, and Eugene Co. 

Action resumes at Level 14, blinds 1000-2000 ante 2000. Cards in the air at 1pm