HomeMore trophies were grabbed at APT Kick-Off Vietnam 2020 with first time tour winners Vijaykumar Ramasamy closing out the Pot Limit Omaha event and Kovantsev Viacheslav claiming the Deep Stack Turbo 1. Congratulations to the winners! We’ve got recaps for you below. Official awarding will take place at 3pm on Monday, January 13 at partner venue Pro Poker Club.
Additionally, everyone that reached the money in those events earned points towards the APT Player of the Series race. You can view the current standings via the link below. In the lead is Kick-off event winner Van Tiep Nguyen who also cashed at the PLO event.
APT Player of the Series leaderboard
Vijaykumar Ramasamy wins the Pot Limit Omaha
Buy-in: VND 7,700,000 (~US$ 330)
Entries: 19
Prize pool: VND 129,010,000 (~US$ 5,500)
ITM: 4 places
Not many takers for the early afternoon’s Pot Limit Omaha event especially with the Main Event on its first day. Still, 19 swiveled up for a prize pool of VND 129,010,000. Five hours later, it was down to the bubble round with five remaining. Ryan Revai was able to bring his short stack back into fighting form to deny Pierre Yves Faivre a piece of the pot.
Ryan Revai
With the money at hand, Revai continued his ascent, knocking out Sean Tan however he lost a significant chunk to Vijaykumar Ramasamy when his top two pair was out-flipped on the turn with a higher two pair. After the fall of Kick-off winner Van Tiep Nguyen in 3rd place, it was heads up between Revai and Ramasamy. Several exchanges led to an ICM deal with VND 5,000,000 set aside and the trophy. Ramasamy went on to win it. All in preflop:
Revai A♥ A♦ 6♠ J♦
Ramasamy 4♣ 5♥ 7♣ 7♥
The board J♣ 9♣ 9♥ 10♣ 4♥ for a winning flush.
Payouts
1st Vijaykumar Ramasamy – Malaysia – VND 51,900,000 (deal made)
2nd Ryan Revai – Canada – VND 45,050,000 (deal made)
3rd Van Tiep Nguyen – Czech Republic – VND 19,670,000
4th Sean Tan – Singapore – VND 12,390,000
Kovantsev Viacheslav wins the Deep Stack Turbo 1
The late afternoon event Deep Stack Turbo 1 was the first fast-action game on offer. It rounded up 45 to the poker green for a prize pool of VND 261,900,000. Russian player Kovantsev Viacheslav claimed his first-ever APT title and VND 82,180,000 (~US$ 3,500).
Buy-in: VND 6,600,000 (~US$ 285)
Entries: 45
Prize pool: VND 261,900,000 (~US$ 11,300)
ITM: 8 places
Picking up the action from the bubble round, the first three hands were claimed by Viacheslav. On the fourth hand, Nguyen Quang Huy denied Viacheslav. Nguyen’s K♥ Q♣ won the flip against 10♥ 10♣ with two kings quickly showing up on the flop. The loss of chips didn’t slow down the bulldozing Russian. He proceeded to knock out Dingha Hung on the bubble with K♣ Q♥ partnering up the lady on the turn to dust J♠ J♦. This formed the final 8 table. You can watch the final 8 action via our media channels APT Twitch and APT YouTube. We also have a brief recap below.
The final 8 rush to the finish line seemed more like a near victory for the underdogs. Almost every player booted had their better hand turn south. Starting with George Valentin (seat 6), he risked it with A♠ Q♥ however initial shover Lu Zheng Hao (seat 1) got lucky when his Q♦ 10♣ both pairing up. Crippled, Valentin proceeded to lose the rest of his stack to Hao who once again improved from a lesser hand.
Another lucky player was short stacked Song Daewoong (seat 2) who pushed 5♦ 4♦ and defeated Nguyen Quang Huy‘s (seat 3) 6♥ 6♣ when the board ran 7♣ 2♦ 3♦ A♦ 9♦ for a beauty straight flush. Lim Hong Wei‘s (seat 8) better K-8 hand failed him against Viacheslav’s Q-4 suited when a queen showed up. He was railed in 7th place. Hao doubled up Daewoong with A♦ 8♠ losing to K♦ Q♥ king on the flop. Several hands later, Daewoong claimed the rest of Hao’s chips but this time Daewoong did have a better starting hand holding pocket sevens that further improved to a full house against A-8 offsuit.
At five remaining, Ta Duy Quoc Chinh (seat 7) outdrew Nguyen Huu Cao Tri (seat 5) for a double up holding A♣ J♥ flush on a board 5♣ 7♥ 4♥ 5♥ K♥ to overtake 6♥ 6♣. This gave Chinh enough ammunition to eliminate Huy leaving four in battle. Then from the small blind, Tri pushed with J♦ 10♣ but big blind Chinh had A♦ 7♦ to end Tri’s run.
Three-handed was dominated by Daewoong who picked up numerous pots to lead for the first time. On the flip side, despite the number of busts Chinh delivered, he was grinded down to the shortest stack. He eventually took a stand with A♥ 2♣ but couldn’t get past Viacheslav’s A♣ 10♣.
Heads up arrived and it took only one hand for Viacheslav to nail it down. The final board was 8♥ J♥ A♥ Q♦ 3♥. Daewoong was the aggressor until the river where he checked. Viacheslav shoved with Q♥ 2♣ flush, Daewoong tank-called for his tournament life with 9♣ 7♥ lower flush, and it was game over.
Payouts
1st Kovantsev Viacheslav – Russia – VND 82,180,000
2nd Song Daewoong – Korea – VND 54,790,000
3rd Ta Duy Quoc Chinh – Vietnam – VND 38,090,000
4th Nguyen Huu Cao Tri – Vietnam – VND 27,510,000
5th Ng Quang Huy – Vietnam – VND 20,570,000
6th Lu Zheng Hao – Singapore – VND 15,880,000
7th Lim Hong Wei – Singapore – VND 12,610,000
8th George Valentin – Romania – VND 10,270,000