Chengshan Wu Conquers USOP Vietnam 2026 Mini Main Event

The

U Sequence of Poker (USOP) Vietnam 2026 Ha Lengthy Bay

Mini Most important Occasion simply wrapped up on the world-class

InterContinental Ha Lengthy Bay Resort

with China’s

Chengshan Wu

lifting the trophy and pocketing the primary place prize of VND 3 billion (~USD 113,760).

Chengshan Wu Secures First USOP Title and Profession-Greatest Money

The

Mini Most important Occasion

noticed 5 Day 1 beginning flights unfold by the primary two days that attracted a complete of 1,061 entries and generated a complete prize pool value VND 18,122,220,000 (~USD 687,195), simply crushing the unique VND 15 billion assure.

A complete of 134 survivors superior to the Day 2, with every assured a minimal VND 35,000,000 (~USD 1,325) – almost doubling their VND 20 million (~USD 760) buy-in.

Day 2 Highlights

Getting into the day because the chip chief was Vietnam’s Tuan Anh Nguyen with 1,384,000 chips amassed from flight Day 1D. Nguyen’s stack and match life was underneath risk although from his irresponsible conduct. Throughout the cash bubble of his flight, Nguyen confirmed his playing cards to different gamers when the ground instructed him not to take action. He was given a warning, however continued to commit the error.

Nguyen was penalized for one hand with a stern warning that if he repeated this infringement of pulling his playing cards off the desk, then he would face disqualification from the occasion.

Getting into Day 2 sizzling on his heels was South Korea’s

Wongyu Kang

, who bagged a detailed second with 1,168,000 chips (117 massive blinds). These two have been the one ones to enter Day 2 as millionaires.

Different high stacks belonged to Wu (660,000) who topped flight Day 1A and was awarded a VND 60 million bonus for the trouble. Day 1B chip chief Kaiyu Zhu of China bagged 565,000 chips and took residence the VND 50 million bonus.

The Remaining Desk Battle

The ultimate desk was fashioned after eight hours of play when Yongyi Liu discovered a pure demise to the blinds to bust out as the ultimate desk bubble boy. Liu’s stack was earlier crippled after his straight misplaced to the flush of Quang Thang Do and he by no means recovered.

Laos’

Mangkone Sanaphanith

entered the ultimate desk because the chip chief with 7,100,000 chips. His closest rival was American

Dakota Anderson

with 6,100,000, adopted by Van Tam Vu of Vietnam with 4,775,000.

The primary two ranges of the ultimate desk have been affected person and cautious with little or no dangers taken. Chips exchanged backwards and forwards with out a lot showdown motion.

It was on the very first hand after the primary break of the ultimate desk that the primary closing desk casualty occurred when China’s

Wang Chen

was busted out by Nhu An Le of Vietnam in ninth place.

It didn’t take lengthy earlier than Vietnam’s Than Minh Nguyen exited in eighth place, being eradicated by a surging Sanaphanith.

Aditya Sushant

of India was the subsequent to exit after almost two hours of play when he misplaced a flip to Do to complete in seventh place.

In a wild collection of occasions that led to the unlikely exit of Sanaphanith, the Laotian participant who had led many of the closing desk out of the blue hit the rail. Sanaphanith relinquished his lead when he took heavy injury in opposition to the pocket rockets of Do. That was rapidly adopted by a hero name in opposition to straight on the flop of Wu that went all fallacious, resulting in his elimination in sixth place.

Fifth place fell to the short-stacked Anderson, who was anticipated by many to fall earlier. Anderson managed the pay bounce fantastically however couldn’t spin his quick stack any additional. The strain of the blind ranges lastly took its toll on his stack, and he was busted by Wu when Anderson made a determined all-in shove.

Vu completed in fourth place, additionally hitting the rail by the hands of Wu. Le held the shortest stack throughout three-handed play and wasn’t capable of finding a double-up, finally bowing out in third place to Do, which arrange the heads-up match in opposition to Wu.

Heads-Up: Wu vs Do

Wu had the slight benefit getting into heads-up play with 21 million chips to the 16 million of Do.

It took round half-hour of heads-up play earlier than Wu was formally topped the champion. Wu by no means relinquished the lead and utilized fixed strain to Do all through, inflicting Do’s stack to dwindle slowly.

Lastly, Wu took it down when each gamers agreed to place their chips in preflop with Do in danger. Wu’s ace-four discovered an ace on the flop and held cleanly in opposition to the pocket sevens of Do to assert the championship title of the Mini Most important Occasion.

The win marks Wu’s greatest dwell money and rockets his complete dwell earnings to over USD 250,000. That is additionally his first USOP title, bettering on his third place end in a NLH – Hyper Turbo occasion throughout

USOP Hai Phong 2024

.

In the meantime, Do earned a runner-up end of VND 2,050,000,000 (~USD 77,735), which improves his complete dwell earnings to over USD 200,000. This additionally stands as Do’s most vital profession rating to this point.

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All photographs courtesy of USOP.