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The two-day High Roller: Megastack highlight attracted 83 entries (52 unique) across thirteen levels of registration and only 12 contenders geared to make it through to the final round. It took roughly fifteen hours on the floor before the action drew to a close with UK's Ryan Plant bagging the overall lead. Plant has already booked a stellar run at this season's games, having won the first USOP elite trophy at the Superstar Challenge. The British pro earned his best live cash amounting to VN₫ 2,180,000,000 (~US$ 88,600) for his victory, and remains on the hunt for a third USOP title.

Date: September 17 to 18, 2024

Buy in: VN₫ 77,000,000 (~US$ 3,080)

Guarantee: VN₫ 2,100,000,000 (~US$ 85,520)

Entries: 83 (52 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 5,461,400,000 (~US$ 222,410)

ITM: 12 players

Chips in play: 20,750,000

Average stack: 1,729,167 (35 bb)

Blinds: 25,000-50,000 ante 50,000

Remaining players: 12

Day 1 of the High Roller: Megastack has been running on the felt since 12 noon with players definitely in for a long grind. 23 contenders out of the 83 entry field remain in battle ,with Vietnam's own Toan Chan Truong stacking well over the pack. The day's action is set to conclude once ITM is reached at 12 players.

Date: September 17 to 18, 2024

Buy in: VN₫ 77,000,000 (~US$ 3,080)

Guarantee: VN₫ 2,100,000,000 (~US$ 85,520)

Entries: 83 (52 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 5,461,400,000 (~US$ 222,410)

ITM: 12 players

Chips in play: 20,750,000

Average stack: 902,173 (45 bb)

Blinds: 10,000/ 25,000 ante 25,000

Remaining players: 23

Chips in play: 23,400,000

Average stack: 3,342,857

Blinds: 50,000-100,000 ante 100,000

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USOP Hai Phong - High Roller 6 Max

Date: September 16-17, 2024

Buy in: VN₫ 66,000,000 (~US$ 2,640)

Guarantee: VN₫ 1,800,000,000 (~US$ 73,140)

Prize pool: VN₫ 6,598,800,000 (~US$ 268,130)

Entries: 117 (71 unique)

ITM: 18 places

Final Table Payouts

1st VN₫ 1,700,000,000

2nd VN₫ 1,100,000,000

3rd VN₫ 765,000,000

4th VN₫ 545,000,000

5th VN₫ 405,000,000

6th VN₫ 310,100,000

7th VN₫ 243,200,000

Festival Results: https://somuchpoker.com/usop-hai-phong-2024-festival.../

Chips in play: 23,400,000

Average stack: 3,342,857

Blinds: 60,000-120,000 ante 120,000

Final Table Payouts

1st VN₫ 1,700,000,000

2nd VN₫ 1,100,000,000

3rd VN₫ 765,000,000

4th VN₫ 545,000,000

5th VN₫ 405,000,000

6th VN₫ 310,100,000

7th VN₫ 243,200,000

Event resumes at 12:30pm on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 and will be livestreamed on USOP’s YouTube channel.

Chips in play: 23,400,000

Average stack: 2,127,272 (35 bb)

Blinds: 30,000-60,000 ante 60,000

Remaining players: 11

Chips in play: 23,400,000

Average stack: 1,300,000 (43 bb)

Blinds: 15,000-30,000 ante 30,000

Remaining players: 18

With blinds creeping up at the High Roller Championship, Konstantin Held three-bet shoved his last 12 bb holding Q♠ J♥ and was stopped in 3rd place by the bulldozing Bogdan Andrei Munteanu with A♥ K♦ .

We are now heads up between Bogdan and Jia.

Buy in: VN₫ 150,000,000 (~US$ 6,000)

Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 101,850)

Entries: 34 (28 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 4,474,400,000 (~US$ 182,295)

ITM: 5 places

Payouts

1st VN₫ 1,700,000,000 (~US$ 69,260)

2nd VN₫ 1,100,000,000 (~US$ 44,815)

3rd Konstantin Held - VN₫ 745,000,000 (~US$ 30,350)

4th Le Ngoc Minh - VN₫ 529,000,000 (~US$ 21,550)

5th Max Buschmann - VN₫ 400,400,000 (~US$ 16,315)

Chips in play: 8,500,000

Blinds: 40,000-80,000 ante 80,000

Average stack: 4,250,000 (53 bb)

The High Roller Championship is down to 4 players having just lost Max Buschmann who was down to crumbs. Though he managed to bring it up to 11 bb, it quickly vanished when he pushed on the small blind with T♦ 8♠ that did not get past big blind William Jia's Q♠ J♣ .

Four players remaining.

Buy in: VN₫ 150,000,000 (~US$ 6,000)

Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 101,850)

Entries: 34 (28 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 4,474,400,000 (~US$ 182,295)

ITM: 5 places

Payouts

1st VN₫ 1,700,000,000 (~US$ 69,260)

2nd VN₫ 1,100,000,000 (~US$ 44,815)

3rd VN₫ 745,000,000 (~US$ 30,350)

4th VN₫ 529,000,000 (~US$ 21,550)

5th Max Buschmann - VN₫ 400,400,000 (~US$ 16,315)

Chips in play: 8,500,000

Blinds: 25,000-50,000 ante 50,000

Average stack: 2,125,000 (42 bb)

Unable to gain any momentum, Tommy Kemter watched his stack go from double digit blinds down to 3 bb. He sent it all in with A♦ A♥ , got called by William Jia with K♦ J♦ , the board came 6♦ 2♣ 5♦ T♦ K♠ , the flush sent him out on the bubble.

Five players remaining. All are ITM.

Buy in: VN₫ 150,000,000 (~US$ 6,000)

Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 101,850)

Entries: 34 (28 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 4,474,400,000 (~US$ 182,295)

ITM: 5 places

Payouts

1st VN₫ 1,700,000,000 (~US$ 69,260)

2nd VN₫ 1,100,000,000 (~US$ 44,815)

3rd VN₫ 745,000,000 (~US$ 30,350)

4th VN₫ 529,000,000 (~US$ 21,550)

5th VN₫ 400,400,000 (~US$ 16,315)

Chips in play: 8,500,000

Blinds: 25,000-50,000 ante 50,000

Average stack: 1,700,000 (34 bb)

Buy in: VN₫ 55,000,000 (~US$ 2,200)

Entries: 57 (43 unique)

Prize pool: VN₫ 2,622,000,000 (~US$ 106,560)

ITM: 9 places

*Relief Collection: VN₫ 171,000,000 (~US$ 6,950)

Payouts

1st VN₫ 830,000,000 (~US$ 37,330)

2nd VN₫ 551,200,000 (~US$ 22,400)

3rd VN₫ 368,400,000 (~US$ 14,970)

4th VN₫ 256,100,000 (~US$ 10,408)

5th VN₫ 185,800,000 (~US$ 7,550)

6th VN₫ 141,200,000 (~US$ 5,738)

7th VN₫ 112,300,000 (~US$ 4,565)

8th VN₫ 94,000,000 (~US$ 3,820)

9th VN₫ 83,000,000 (~US$ 3,373)

The final 9 players return on Friday, September 13, 2024 at 12pm.

It's bagging time at the High Roller Charity Event with three players falling to wrap up the day at ITM with 9 players remaining. Here is how it went down.

At 12 remaining, Hoang Hai Nam won the flip against Mingcong Chen with K♥ Q♣ pairing the queen to dust 8♦ 8♣ .

Next to go was Pham Ngoc Tuan who first climbed from 3 bb to 14 bb then fell to Xiaosheng Zheng with A♥ K♥ dominating A♣ T♣ .

The bubble round took only four hands to complete with William Jia calling Martin Sedlak's three-bet shove. Jia was ahead throughout with A♣ K♠ over A♥ J♣ on a board Q♦ 7♥ Q♣ 8♥ 4♦ .