APT Phu Quoc 2024: Deepankur Gupta Tops Main Event Flight A; Le Thanh Tung and Nelson Dong Bag Trophy Wins

The APT Phu Quoc 2024 Main Event festivities have officially kicked off at Corona Resort & Casino, Phu Quoc, with its first of four flights done and dusted. A total of 189 entries turned up across registration throughout the day, and capped with India’s Deepankur Gupta topping the charts as the action closed. Three more flights to the VND 25,000,000,000 (~USD 989,355) guaranteed Main Event games are due to follow with Flight B currently underway, running 45/60 minute blind levels. In part of the celebration, Day 3 of the festival likewise saw local runner Le Thanh Tung and Australia’s Nelson Dong capture maiden APT titles across the side events.

APT Phu Quoc 2024 – Schedule

APT Main Event Flight A Recap

With registration open throughout the day, numbers continued to pick up until the tenth level of play with the total reaching 189 initial entries (142 unique) by night’s end. Only 70 players out of that field survived the Day 1 play, led by Deepankur Gupta with a solid chip count of 307,800. The Indian pro stands to be the sole runner to breach the 300K mark, with second in position Dong Van Tan bagging a close 290,500 stack.

Local runners Nguyen Trung Quan, Bui Le Anh, and Le Buu Nghia, round up the top five counts, each stacking over five times the 40,000 starting stack. All survivors are geared to return to battle on Thursday, November 14th for the Day 2 games, joined by notables Chi Jen “Justin” Chu (147,300), China’s Peng Chen (144,500), Japan’s Motoyoshi Okamura (134,800), France’s Adrien Favre (122,500), South Korea’s Gab Yong Kim (97,600), and Australia’s John “Bert” Perry (90,300).

Other seasoned contenders who found a bag include India’s Ankit Ahuja (78,700), Kunal Patni (73,400), Julian Warhurst (31,700) and recent APT Super High Roller champion Win Meng Tan (23,200). Runners who wish to build a bigger stack are welcome to do so with players allowed to forfeit their stack until registration closes just before the start of Day 2.

APT Main Event Review

• Date/s: November 11-16, 2024
• Buy-in: VND 36,000,000 (~USD 1,415)
• Guarantee: VND 25,000,000,000 (~USD 989,355)
• Flight A: 189 entries, 70 qualified
• Flight B: Tuesday, November 12
• Flight C: Wednesday, November 13
• Flight D: Wednesday, November 13
• Day 2: Thursday, November 14
• Day 3: Friday, November 15
• Final Day: Saturday, November 16

APT Main Event Flight A Top Ten Survivors

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Le Thanh Tung Wins NL Hold’em Freezeout

A twelve hour grind paid off for local runner Le Thanh Tung as he walked away with VND 271,025,000 (~USD 10,710) in winnings, having closed out the victory at the NL Hold’em Freezeout. A total of 71 entries chimed in, generating a prize pool just shy of VND 1 million. With the full final table paid, Le banked the largest cut across the final rounds, taking with him the coveted APT trophy on display.

• Date/s: November 11, 2024
• Buy-in: VND 15,000,000 (~USD 590)
• Entries: 71 unique
• Prize pool: VND 929,745,000 (~USD 36,750)
• ITM: 9 places

NL Hold’em Freezeout Full Payouts

Nelson Dong Captures Maiden Win at Single Day High Roller

A one table field of nine runners vied for the Single Day High Roller games with Australia’s Nelson Dong emerging victorious for VND 452,560,000 (~USD 17,880) in prizes. His recent win stands to be a career first triumph, having successfully denied Shimizu Nozomu the title at the final duel. While Nozomu settled for a runner up finish, the Japanese runner didn’t walk away empty-handed, cashing the only other payout of VND 254,570,000 (~USD 10,060).

• Date/s: November 11, 2024
• Buy-in: VND 90,000,000 (~USD 3,540)
• Entries: 9 
• Prize pool: VND 707,130,000 (~USD 27,950)
• ITM: 2 places