THB 37,000 Championship Day 1a | 2025 WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition

08-01-2025 22:55 UTC+7

Po Takes From Lu

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Yung Hui Po took on Chi-Hsien Lu and bet the 8♠5♥3♠ flop for 7,500, which Lu check-called. They headed to the 8♥ turn and Lu checked again, Po bet 21,000 and forced out the big stack.

Another larger stack on the table belongs to Danish player Frederik De Linde Farrington, who sits well above the average.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chi-Hsien Lu	310,000 163,500	163,500
Frederik De Linde Farrington	270,000 230,000	230,000
Yung Hui Po	130,000 130,000	130,000

Tags: Chi-Hsien Lu Frederik De Linde Farrington Yung Hui Po

Level: 14

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 5,000

08-01-2025 23:02 UTC+7

Song Goes Big With Runner-Runner

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Over on table 38, a three-way all-in unfolded with Yanpeng Song putting his already big stack to use.

Guyue Wang: A♥Q♣ All in
Aung Khaing Min: A♣Q♥ All in
Yanpeng Song: J♦10♦

The A♠7♣3♦J♠10♠ board gave Song two pair on turn and river to knock out two opponents.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yanpeng Song	460,000 460,000	460,000
Guyue Wang	Busted
Aung Khaing Min	Busted

Tags: Aung Khaing Min Yanpeng Song

08-01-2025 23:08 UTC+7

Player	Chips	Progress
Chenxiang Miao	485,000 320,000	320,000
Cheng Xu	300,000 50,000	50,000
Benjamin Mages	260,000 15,000	15,000
Gregory Winyard	245,000 245,000	245,000
Chenxu Zhang	230,000 230,000	230,000
Peilong Pan	195,000 195,000	195,000
Zhiyu Wang	170,000 170,000	170,000
Konstantin Lichagin	140,000 95,000	95,000

Wang Takes From Naser

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

With some 100,000 in the middle to the K♠3♥2♣Q♣A♣ river, Saleh Naser checked and Shaoji Wang then bet 40,000. Naser called rather swiftly and then mucked when he was shown the 8♣6♣ for a flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shaoji Wang	440,000 175,000	175,000
Saleh Naser	75,000 40,000	40,000

Tags: Saleh Naser Shaoji Wang

Level: 15

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

08-01-2025 23:25 UTC+7

Sawai Doubles Through Liang

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Hideo Sawai jammed from the small blind for 50,000 and Weining Liang called out of the big blind with the covering stack.

Hideo Sawai: 8♠6♠ All in
Weining Liang: A♠K♠

The inferior suited combo got there on the 9♥8♣5♥10♥2♣ runout to survive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Weining Liang	210,000 210,000	210,000
Hideo Sawai	105,000 105,000	105,000

Tags: Hideo Sawai Weining Liang

08-01-2025 23:32 UTC+7

Kang Triples At The Very End

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Heng Kang was all-in for only 55,000 with the A♥K♣ and looked up by Jindain Saharat for his last 128,000 with the 10♦10♥. They were both covered by the chip leader Yanpeng Song, who had some outs for a double knockout holding the K♦Q♦.

The board ran out K♠4♦2♦J♣7♠ and Kang tripled, while Saharat was eliminated in the side pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yanpeng Song	680,000 220,000	220,000
Heng Kang	175,000
Jindain Saharat	Busted

08-01-2025 23:36 UTC+7

Mai Binks the River

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Taewoo Kim raised to 12,000 and Fen Mai called from two seats over. Sathien Dhatchayankul then pushed all-in for 80,500 and Weichi Liu did so for 90,000 in the next seat. It folded back to Kim who folded and mentioned he would have called if no other player had been involved. Mai had both his opponents barely covered and called, asking for a "triple up".

Sathien Dhatchayankul: A♣K♠ All in
Weichi Liu: 8♥8♠ All in
Fen Mai: J♣10♣

After the 9♥7♥3♦ flop, Mai predicted that Liu would hit a set that would give him the straight. The 5♣ turn was a blank but the J♠ river gave Mai the double knockout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Ragot	360,000 185,000	185,000
Fen Mai	320,000 320,000	320,000
Taewoo Kim	165,000 35,000	35,000
Sathien Dhatchayankul	Busted
Weichi Liu	Busted

Tags: Fen Mai Sathien Dhatchayankul Taewoo Kim Weichi Liu

08-01-2025 23:41 UTC+7

Day 1a Completed

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Some 119 players out of 525 entries have finished the end of level 15 and will be bagging up their chips as soon as the final hands are completed. They have also been informed already to return at 6 p.m. local time the following day to finish in the money which means 66 players going through. The very same then also applies for Day 1b, which is slated to commence at the very same time as well.

Assorted chip counts and a recap of today's action is to follow.