Hamish Crawshaw Wins WPT Vietnam to Continue Fantastic Year
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The Asia-Pacific portion of the World Poker Tour got rolling with WPT Vietnam and Hamish Crawshaw continued his torrid 2019 by besting the field of 373 entries in the VN$55M (~$2,300) Main Event.
Crawshaw got VN$3,782,723,000 (~$162,600) for the win, and it's his third six-figure score this year. Previously, he made the final table of Aussie Millions and then won the Star Sydney Championship.
Official Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize | ~Prize in $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamish Crawshaw | VND 3,782,723,000 | $162,657 |
| 2 | Huynh Tan Dung | VND 2,648,278,000 | $113,876 |
| 3 | Michael Seymour | VND 1,702,497,000 | $73,207 |
| 4 | Chen Da Jia | VND 1,118,174,000 | $48,081 |
| 5 | [Removed:532] | VND 861,108,000 | $37,028 |
| 6 | David Erquiaga | VND 712,404,000 | $30,633 |
The strong turnout produced a prize pool of about $780,000. A few notables cashed, including Alan Lau, Jimmy Guerrero.
However, neither would make the official final table of six. Instead, the most notable names would be Crawshaw and PokerStars Pro [Removed:532], making his first WPT final table despite having more than $1 million in recorded live earnings. The chip leader was Huynh Tan Dung with a little shy of 90 big blinds.
Final Table Action
Crawshaw's road to victory started with a very lucky hand as he got pocket tens in against the pocket queens of David Erquiaga early on. While the flop and turn came clean for Erquiaga, he would see a ten fall on the river to doom him in sixth place, according to the live updates.
Then, Crawshaw didn't need to get lucky as he found the ace-king when [Removed:532] shoved a little over 20 big blinds with ace-seven. The last two aces arrived on the flop to give [Removed:532] a shot at a chop in addition to seeking a seven, but Crawshaw just made aces full of kings on the river to ice it and take control of 40% of the chips.
Chen Da Jia made a short stack work for awhile then ran K♣10♣ into the A♣Q♣ of Crawshaw, who would follow by sending Michael Seymour packing a level later with Q♦Q♥ over A♠9♦.
That set up a heads-up match with Huynh, who caught fire early on to move into a slight lead. However, the local hero got caught bluffing the turn and river with air on 2♠J♥5♠10♣J♦, as Crawshaw called with 5♥3♥ and Huynh had to show his 8♥6♣.
Huynh made a fight of it over the next two hours, but he'd ultimately get ground down to about seven big blinds. Forced to shove with A♠3♠, his run would end when Crawshaw paired up with Q♣9♦ and then turned trips to seal it.
