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

08-03-2025 12:37 UTC+7

Sun Knocks Out Belianin

Christian Zetzsche

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

Georgii Belianin had jammed several times but was not called, until Haoran Sun looked him up for what appeared to be just under ten big blinds preflop.

Georgii Belianin: 8♦7♦ All in
Haoran Sun: 5♠5♣

The pocket pair remained ahead all the way on the 9♥4♠3♥K♠A♦ board to knock out Belianin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Haoran Sun	540,000 66,000	66,000
Georgii Belianin	Busted

Tags: Georgii Belianin Haoran Sun

08-03-2025 12:42 UTC+7

Next Batch of Day 1b Casualties

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Christian Zetzsche

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Xixiang Luo	Busted
Sapapipatpong Thanapol	Busted
Li-Chen Tsai	Busted
Deep Patel	Busted
Thanh Pham	Busted
Po-Lun Chao	Busted
Fabien Baldelli	Busted
Jiang Ci-Cheng	Busted
Nattapat Pintola	Busted
Robert Mayeuski	Busted
Min Tun Tun	Busted
Punnasit Kittichaicharoen	Busted

Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

08-03-2025 12:48 UTC+7

Kumar Eliminated by Ben Shushan

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Christian Zetzsche

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

Nishant Kumar had flopped top pair with the K♦8♦ on K♣9♣7♣ but still had a mountain to climb against the K♠Q♣ of Itzhak Ben Shushan. The Q♠ turn sealed his fate to make the 9♠ river a bittersweet formality.

Player	Chips	Progress
Itzhak Ben Shushan	350,000 145,000	145,000
Nishant Kumar	Busted

Tags: Itzhak Ben Shushan Nishant Kumar

08-03-2025 12:53 UTC+7

Mahanta Gets River Value From Manukov

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Christian Zetzsche

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

On the river of a J♥10♥5♦3♦K♠ board, Raktim Mahanta bet 80,000 out of the big blind. Emil Manukov on the button needed two time bank extensions before making the call but couldn't beat the Q♦9♦ of Mahanta for the king-high straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Raktim Mahanta	400,000 284,000	284,000
Emil Manukov	275,000 34,000	34,000
Fendy	185,000 227,000	227,000

Tags: Emil Manukov Raktim Mahanta

08-03-2025 12:57 UTC+7

Huang Busts; Nguyen Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

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

Ciaran Farrell jammed from the small blind into the big blind of Junyu Huang, who called all-in for a shade over nine big blinds-

Junyu Huang: A♦7♠ All in
Ciaran Farrell: 8♦5♦

The K♣J♦8♠3♦K♥ board delivered the eight for Farrell to score the knockout.

Shortly after on the same table, Alex Wice three-bet jammed with the covering stack out of the big blind and Linh Nguyen called as the initial raiser.

Linh Nguyen: A♦Q♦ All in
Alex Wice: K♥J♥

Wice asked for a king and got one with the K♠9♠5♦ flop. Nguyen regained the lead on the A♣ turn and survived thanks to the 4♦ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ciaran Farrell	560,000 180,000	180,000

Linh Nguyen	220,000 145,000	145,000
Alex Wice	195,000 144,000	144,000
Junyu Huang	Busted

Tags: Alex Wice Ciaran Farrell Junyu Huang Linh Nguyen

Level: 19

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 16,000

08-03-2025 13:04 UTC+7

Third Batch of Day 1b Eliminations

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Christian Zetzsche

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

The field has plummeted to 105 hopefuls and slowly but surely enters the crucial stage near the money bubble with an average of now 16 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xiaochuang Zhai	Busted
Hyundong Lee	Busted
Jacky Ye	Busted
Po-Yu Chen	Busted
Zhe Zeng	Busted
Soichiro Okada	Busted
Calvin Tan	Busted
Yun Tian Ao	Busted
Javed Ansari	Busted
Yinsheng Yang	Busted
Zi Sheng Teo	Busted

08-03-2025 13:11 UTC+7

Nguyen Busts Two With Kings

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Christian Zetzsche

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

Daniel Malkin and Yao Yao got their chips into the middle with the former having only 38,000 in the small blind. Both were looked up by Thi My Phuong Nguyen from under the gun.

Daniel Malkin: 6♣4♥ All in
Yao Yao: A♥J♥
Thi My Phuong Nguyen: K♥K♦

The 10♠9♣7♠9♠3♠ board delivered four spades and neither player had one, keeping pocket kings ahead for the double knockout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thi My Phuong Nguyen	550,000 228,000	228,000
Yao Yao	Busted
Daniel Malkin	Busted

Tags: Daniel Malkin Thi My Phuong Nguyen Yao Yao

08-03-2025 13:15 UTC+7

Updated Counts in the Field

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Christian Zetzsche

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Haoran Sun	875,000 335,000	335,000
Sebastian Mornhinweg	750,000 573,000	573,000
Feng Xu	675,000 478,000	478,000
Lu Jin	600,000 305,000	305,000
Dan Wu	475,000 120,000	120,000
Yuxin Niu	475,000 252,000	252,000
Guillem Segarra	425,000 400,000	400,000
Pierre Mothes	350,000 30,000	30,000
Raiden Kan	325,000 223,000	223,000
Clement Cure	300,000 90,000	90,000