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

08-02-2025 18:39 UTC+7

Appledorf Sends Misawa Packing

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Yukihito Misawa had started the day near the bottom of the leaderboard and stuck around for nearly two levels when he got it in for around ten blinds against Howard Appledorf.

Yukihito Misawa: K♠Q♥ All in
Howard Appledorf: A♦Q♣

The inferior hand failed to connect with the J♦5♠3♠8♥7♣ board and Misawa was the next to go.

Player	Chips	Progress
Howard Appledorf	480,000 130,000	130,000
Yukihito Misawa	Busted

Tags: Howard Appledorf Yukihito Misawa

08-02-2025 18:44 UTC+7

Game Over for Phua

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Soon after his previous double-up, Isaac Phua was all-in and received multiple callers. Hai Long Hoang bet the Q♥5♣3♦Q♣6♣ river to isolate and Phua showed his A♠5♠. Hoang had been ahead preflop with A♣10♣ and rivered the flush to score the knockout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hai Long Hoang	270,000 60,000	60,000
Isaac Chern Chze Phua	Busted

Tags: Hai Long Hoang Isaac Phua

Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

08-02-2025 18:48 UTC+7

More Early Casualties on Day 1a

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Another two tables broke quickly with several average stack players bowing out including Liang Chen and Junliang Chen, as the money bubble will soon approach.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohit Gupta	Busted
Ang Kai Loon	Busted
Maxime Tantaro	Busted
Aseem Jain	Busted
Junliang Chen	Busted
Tong Tan	Busted
Fei He	Busted
Wei Wei Zhou	Busted
Liang Chen	Busted
Yanjie Li	Busted

Tags: Liang Chen

08-02-2025 18:50 UTC+7

Deng Busts Xu

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

In a battle of the blinds between two short stacks, Biao Deng was all-in against Wei Xu with the latter at risk.

Wei Xu: K♠10♦ All in
Biao Deng: A♣9♠

The A♥10♥7♦ flop gave both players a pair and the 6♥ turn changed nothing. Deng was the player to improve with the 8♠ river as he made the ten-high straight for good measure.

Player	Chips	Progress
Biao Deng	160,000 26,000	26,000
Wei Xu	Busted

Tags: Biao Deng Wei Xu

08-02-2025 18:55 UTC+7

Tantaro Eliminated by Sawai

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Chenxiang Miao raised to 28,000 from under the gun and Hideo Sawai called. Adrien Tantaro jammed for 82,000 in the small blind and both bigger stacks called.

They checked down the 10♠7♥3♠2♠8♣ board and Tantaro showed the K♥Q♥, which was beaten by Miao's A♦Q♠. However, Sawai had the best of it with the A♥K♦ and won the three-way pot with ace-king high.

"I had the nuts, pocket deuces," Weining Liang mentioned in the table chat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hideo Sawai	450,000 176,000	176,000
Chenxiang Miao	370,000 48,000	48,000
Adrien Tantaro	Busted

Tags: Adrien Tantaro Chenxiang Miao Hideo Sawai Weining Liang

08-02-2025 19:00 UTC+7

Thailand Recognizes Poker as a Sport Ahead of WPT Prime

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Poker just took a massive step forward in Thailand, and the timing couldn’t be better.

Just before the WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition kicked off in Bangkok, the Thai government has officially recognized poker as a sport, marking a landmark moment for the game in Southeast Asia.

The move gives the WPT Prime stop some serious momentum as it becomes the first international poker tournament hosted under the country’s new sports classification.

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08-02-2025 19:04 UTC+7

Lechev Eliminated by Wang

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Over on table 33, the chips went in preflop and Dragomir Ivanov Lechev had the best of it for around 130,000 when he was up against Shaoji Wang.

Dragomir Ivanov Lechev: A♥A♦ All in
Shaoji Wang: K♥K♠

The clash of the two best pocket pairs favoured Wang on the 7♦6♠5♣K♣2♠ board and the Bulgarian bowed out just shy of making Day 2 through the opening flight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shaoji Wang	330,000 16,000	16,000
Dragomir Ivanov Lechev	Busted

Tags: Dragomir Ivanov Lechev Shaoji Wang

Level: 19

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 16,000

08-02-2025 19:08 UTC+7

Big Stacks and Bustouts on Day 1a

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Hao Zhang	750,000 412,000	412,000
Wei Jen Wang	725,000 277,000	277,000
Raja Puttamsetty	620,000 416,000	416,000
Yuan-Ting Fu	600,000 434,000	434,000
Kush Kataria	500,000 315,000	315,000
Makhmud Evloev	500,000 263,000	263,000
Zhiyu Wang	Busted
Tongyu Yuan	Busted
Ming Huang	Busted
Berry Henson	Busted
Biao Deng	Busted
Goh Nakanishi	Busted
Byungho Lim	Busted
Defeng Liu	Busted
Chenxu Zhang	Busted