Asian Poker Festival has arrived! The first day of the series have achieved great support from players everywhere. 6 tournaments have taken place, with hot poker actions. Here, we introduce the recap of the first day.

FREEROLL EVENT - ZERO TO HERO
The first event to take place, a freeroll named Zero To Hero, has found its champion only after 4 hours of play. Nguyen Van Dai shipped the 25M VND Main Event Ticket .
 

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EVENT #1: KICK OFF DAY 1A
140 entries were made into the Event #1: Kick Off Day 1A (6.6M VND Buy-in). 18 players fought into the money. Shengchao Zhu held the chip lead place, with a handful 474.000 chips.
 
There was also an interesting incident happened on the pure bubble. Lee Wai Huen and Manfred were both eliminated in the hand-for-hand phase, however they were on different tables. The tournament director then decided they would chop up the min cash prize of the tournament in the beginning of Day 2.
 

 

EVENT #2: HIGH ROLLER WARM-UP

With lots of surprise, the Event #2: High Roller Warm-up has reached 133 entries. The guaranteed prize pool of 1B VND has been crushed, as the actual prize money reached 3.8B, nearly 3 times bigger. After hours of poker, the championship of the first High Roller event of APF belonged to Renato Villanueva JR. The final table payouts are:

Payout #2 High Roller Warmup -133 entries (Deal ICM final 3 players )

1. Renato Villanueva JR : 687.000.000 VND

2. Wang Chen - 701.000.000 VND

3. Ha Van Thien : 710.000.000 VND

4. Sua Sung ER - 244.000.000 VND

5. William Jia - 186.700.000 VND

6. Doan Quang Trung - 155.000.000 VND

7. Chen MingCong - 135.000.000 VND

8. Wen Zhi - 120.700.000 VND

9. Chen Wei - 104.000.000 VND

EVENT #3: BIG BOUNTY

The bounty structure also drew lots of attentions. After a deal has been made, Fan Quncheng shipped the first place, earning 78M VND. The final table payouts are:

1. Fan Quncheng - 77.600.000

2. Phạm Duy Thành - 81.000.000

3. Deng Yue - 60.500.000

4. Jaswantlal - 25.300.000

5. Bingo Atsuhiro - 19.100.000

6. Yong - 16.200.000

7. Naoki Yashiro - 14.100.000

8. Magadan - 12.500.000

9. Thong Wigita - 11.000.000

EVENT #4: HYPER TURBO

Jerald Sam, a pro outlasted every other opponent to claim his first APF championship. He eliminated Nguyen Viet Bao in the heads-up place, to win 36M VND.

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EVENT #5: WIN THE BUTTON

The newly learned poker structure, Win The Button, also made its way to APF Vietnam 2023. Players have shown competence and performed great, aggressive poker. After all, Baxooka from Singapore took the first place with the money prize of 57M VND, outweighing his runner-up counterpart, Huy Tat, who lost in the 20M pay jump heads-up.