Trung Quan Nguyen
Trung Quan Nguyen will go into Day 2 with 402,000 after ending the day at the top of the leaderboard in Flight B of the VND 10,000,000 APT Kickoff. There were a total of 132 entrants with just 19 getting through to Day 2 tomorrow.
Nguyen, who already has an APT Super High Roller title to his name from March of this year, ended up being the player to burst the bubble having knocked out short-stacked Xiaohua Fu with a rivered king again Fu’s ace-queen. Another key hand that catapulted him up the leaderboard was against Vamerdino Magsakay when Nguyen’s ace-king was all in pre-flop against the queen-ten of Magsakay.
Hot on his heels is the Russian Anatolii Gorbushin who has 392,000 and is looking to make his second final table on the APT. The Russian earned the bulk of his chips after a huge hand against Magsakay where his pocket aces rivered a bigger full house after the Filipino flopped a set of jacks.
Armon Van Wijk brings through a stack of 270,000 as he looks to win his second APT title and seventh final table. Wijk's title came in Hanoi just a matter of weeks ago in a Turbo event where he took the top prize of VND 65,300,400.
Kiwanont Sukhum
Thailand's Kiwanont Sukhum bagged up 111,000 as he seeks his third APT title. Sukhum took down the Mystery Bounty Hunter event in Taipei for a career-best score of TWD 1,173,100 (~$38,200) and had previously won a trophy here in Da Nang last December where he won a No Limit Hold'em event for VND 181,730,000.
Other notables to make it through to Day 2 were Linh Duong Ngo (301,000), Anuj Yadav (205,000), Chirag Sodha (200,000), and Christopher Huang (97,000).
The top ten stacks of Flight B can be found below, the shortest stack making it through to Day 2 was Huawei Liu with just 50,000.
A full APT Kickoff Flight B survivor list can be found by clicking here
Join us tomorrow at 12:15pm local time where we will play down to a winner.