THB 37,000 Championship Day 2 | 2025 WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition

THB 37,000 Championship

Day 2 Started

08-04-2025 12:20 UTC+7

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhiqiang Meng	1,350,000

Junjie Wang	1,250,000

Haiyang Zhang	1,205,000
Dongchen He	1,029,000

Wei Jen Wang	1,017,000
Shaoji Wang	950,000
Benjamin Mages	940,000
Ciaran Farrell	888,000

Haoran Sun	869,000
Che-Lun Liu	860,000
Jinhui Xiao	845,000
Philippe Clerc	810,000
Wei Cai	795,000
Jianwei Lin	788,000
Sebastian Mornhinweg	787,000
Kuan Han Lee	760,000
Sanket Sanganeria	749,000
Chi Wei Lo	734,000
Allen Nielsen	680,000
Chengcai Pan	667,000
Feng Xu	667,000
Miki Mori Amable	660,000
Hongzhuang Fang	660,000
Raja Puttamsetty	642,000
Jugal Java	638,000

Table	Seat	Player	Country/Region	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Shicheng Gu	China	245,000	12
1	3	Lu Jin	China	516,000	26
1	4	Jingwei Guo	China	335,000	17
1	5	Meemongkol Thanaphol	Thailand	42,000	2
1	6	Brian Coppola	United States	341,000	17
1	7	Bin Leng	China	252,000	13
1	8	Miki Mori Amable	Philippines	660,000	33
1	9	Benjamin Mages	Germany	940,000	47
1	10	Yu Zhu	China	172,000	9

2	1	Taewoo Kim	South Korea	247,000	12
2	2	Rentian Wei	China	90,000	5
2	3	Tzu-Han Chen	Taiwan	345,000	17
2	4	Dimitri Pijpers	Belgium	82,000	4
2	5	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	810,000	41
2	6	Artur Felk	Germany	420,000	21
2	7	Ooh Kian Yeow	Malaysia	190,000	10
2	8	Enrong Weng	China	96,000	5
2	9	Vincent Salaun	France	375,000	19
2	10	Viacheslav Poskonin	Russia	256,000	13

3	1	Sanket Sanganeria	India	749,000	37
3	2	Sathien Dhatchayangkul	United States	56,000	3
3	3	Thomas Simsen	France	258,000	13
3	4	Jianwei Lin	China	788,000	39
3	5	Jialiang Luo	China	232,000	12
3	6	Hung Yu Tsoi	Hong Kong	105,000	5
3	7	Elad Amar	Israel	373,000	19
3	8	Yukai Sun	China	80,000	4
3	9	Harsh Jhirmiria	India	505,000	25
3	10	Anyuan Zhong	China	320,000	16

4	1	Vincent Chauve	France	177,000	9
4	2	Makhmud Evloev	United States	615,000	31
4	3	Chengcai Pan	China	667,000	33
4	4	Young Jin Park	South Korea	154,000	8
4	5	Tong Tan	Singapore	630,000	32
4	6	Aung Myo		280,000	14
4	7	Hoai Lam Vu	Viet Nam	447,000	22
4	8	Liang Chen	China	5,000	0
4	9	Suwichak Bunma	Thailand	116,000	6
4	10	Khant Naing	Myanmar	383,000	19

5	1	Ken Ishio	Japan	145,000	7
5	3	Yan Xuan	China	261,000	13
5	4	Taehyung Park	Australia	228,000	11
5	5	Youngjae Cheon	South Korea	260,000	13
5	6	Craig Jones	United Kingdom	630,000	32
5	7	Feng Xu	China	667,000	33
5	8	Adrian Chua	Singapore	522,000	26
5	9	Yucheng Wang	China	107,000	5
5	10	Zan Huang	China	426,000	21

6	1	Atsunobu Konishi	Japan	516,000	26
6	2	Gregory Winyard	United Kingdom	220,000	11
6	3	Sebastian Brandqvist	Sweden	179,000	9
6	4	Chi Wei Lo	Taiwan	734,000	37
6	5	Yuan-Ting Fu	Taiwan	532,000	27
6	6	Shengwei Liang	Singapore	236,000	12
6	8	Hung-Lin Tseng	Taiwan	128,000	6
6	9	Stanislav Kulakov	Russia	295,000	15
6	10	Dominick French	Canada	475,000	24

7	1	Xiaobo Zhou	China	100,000	5
7	2	Kah Jun Chin	Malaysia	348,000	17
7	3	Jiajun Liu	China	512,000	26
7	4	Hongzhuang Fang	China	660,000	33
7	5	Shuang Luo	China	500,000	25
7	6	Ayumu Takado	Japan	159,000	8
7	7	Howard Appledorf	United States	180,000	9
7	8	Christian Mitchell	Australia	43,000	2
7	9	Hong Cai	China	450,000	23
7	10	Mario Fionda	United Kingdom	251,000	13

8	1	Nan Zhang	China	627,000	31
8	2	Mayo Morimitsu	Japan	109,000	5
8	3	Chenxiang Miao	China	579,000	29
8	4	Zhihong Li	China	462,000	23
8	5	Witwasin Saenthanajirachot	Thailand	238,000	12
8	6	Yong Zhao	China	268,000	13
8	7	Yi Liu	China	3,000	0
8	8	Anton Widjaya	Indonesia	444,000	22
8	9	Cheng-Yi Li	Taiwan	163,000	8

9	1	Wai Ching Chiang	Hong Kong	215,000	11
9	2	Yiping Zhang	China	235,000	12
9	3	Damien Kerneis	France	19,000	1
9	4	Liang Peng	China	348,000	17
9	5	Dmitry Suchkov	Russia	560,000	28
9	6	Paing Htet Kyaw	Myanmar	559,000	28
9	7	Le Tien Tung	Viet Nam	219,000	11
9	8	Zongguo Tian	China	140,000	7
9	9	Yi Zen Tan	Malaysia	109,000	5
9	10	Minming Du	China	335,000	17

10	1	Wei-Chen Lin	China	260,000	13
10	2	Shaohung Yu	Taiwan	251,000	13
10	3	Fang Chen	China	329,000	16
10	4	Karan Sawhney	India	75,000	4
10	5	Raiden Kan	Malaysia	291,000	15
10	6	Yuji Fukuda	Japan	465,000	23
10	7	Daisuke Abiko	Japan	75,000	4
10	8	Aung Khaing Min	Myanmar	100,000	5
10	9	Raja Puttamsetty	India	642,000	32
10	10	Cian Rea	Ireland	271,000	14

11	1	Mingzhe Zhang	China	254,000	13
11	2	Mingkwan Nattawut	Thailand	113,000	6
11	3	Xin Jin	China	255,000	13
11	4	Junhee You	South Korea	85,000	4
11	5	Thant Zin Myo	Myanmar	140,000	7
11	6	Zijing Zhan	China	245,000	12
11	7	Sergei Solovev	Russia	592,000	30
11	8	Pau Sanroma	Spain	61,000	3
11	9	Vikhyat Ahlawat	India	344,000	17
11	10	Doron Tzur	Israel	445,000	22

12	1	Yi Chieh Hsieh	Taiwan	302,000	15
12	2	Karan Sitlani	India	215,000	11
12	3	Hao Huang	China	535,000	27
12	4	Jiaxian Pan	China	175,000	9
12	5	Chao Tang	China	167,000	8
12	6	Hao Chen	China	303,000	15
12	7	Hanson Vaz	Portugal	102,000	5
12	8	Zaw Ko Ko	Myanmar	512,000	26
12	9	Itzhak Ben Shushan	Israel	584,000	29
12	10	Kaihua Zhang	China	195,000	10

13	1	Wanxin Lu	Taiwan	145,000	7
13	2	Frederik De Linde Farrington	Denmark	302,000	15
13	3	Eunwoo Sim	South Korea	378,000	19
13	4	Sebastian Mornhinweg	Germany	787,000	39
13	5	Duhan Lee	South Korea	290,000	15
13	6	Trung Chien Nguyen	Viet Nam	307,000	15
13	7	Chenxu Zhang	China	575,000	29
13	8	Gautam Abhay	India	139,000	7
13	9	Selim Oulmekki	France	392,000	20
13	10	Gene Tze	Singapore	157,000	8

14	1	Jiaxin Liu	China	226,000	11
14	2	Shibendu Saha	India	211,000	11
14	3	Jonathon Lay	Australia	184,000	9
14	4	Mikael Andersson	Finland	195,000	10
14	5	Chuan Feng	China	62,000	3
14	6	Ivan Doroshin	Russia	296,000	15
14	7	Konosuke Yoshimura	Japan	180,000	9
14	8	Yong Heng Liau	Malaysia	140,000	7
14	9	Viachaslau Baranouski	Belarus	490,000	25
14	10	Thiyam Singh	India	637,000	32

15	1	Chia-Chi Kuo	Taiwan	111,000	6
15	2	Vladislav Klepikov	Russia	432,000	22
15	3	Weining Liang	China	146,000	7
15	4	I-Hsuan Chou	Taiwan	19,000	1
15	5	Yauxin Chu	China	85,000	4
15	6	Shaoji Wang	China	950,000	48
15	7	Hsuan-Cheng Lai	Taiwan	234,000	12
15	8	Chunnuan Xu	China	255,000	13
15	9	Clement Cure	France	265,000	13
15	10	Vikram Sharma	India	131,000	7

16	1	Terai Tatsuhiko	Japan	193,000	10
16	2	Aseem Jain	India	315,000	16
16	3	Christian Cheng	United States	120,000	6
16	4	Ciaran Farrell	United Kingdom	888,000	44
16	5	Punjawat Yash	India	125,000	6
16	6	Amit Ashkenazi	Israel	536,000	27
16	7	Hao Wang	China	382,000	19
16	8	Xingzhe Li	China	150,000	8
16	9	Fen Mai	Hong Kong	214,000	11
16	10	Aditya Kesharwani	India	423,000	21

17	1	Hao-Shan Huang	China	365,000	18
17	2	Liyu Zheng	China	608,000	30
17	3	Hideo Sawai	Japan	404,000	20
17	4	David Chidraoui	United States	12,000	1
17	5	Junjie Wang	China	1,250,000	63
17	6	Jie Wang	China	172,000	9
17	8	Haoran Yang	China	372,000	19
17	9	Kai Cui	China	471,000	24
17	10	Shao-Ching Chen	Taiwan	193,000	10

18	1	Chiyuan You	China	491,000	25
18	2	Jingfang Luo	China	305,000	15
18	3	Jinhui Xiao	China	845,000	42
18	4	Likhitaumpai M	Thailand	165,000	8
18	5	Amornchai Singh Sachdev	Thailand	57,000	3
18	6	Fei Zheng	United Kingdom	415,000	21
18	7	Nicholai Tan	Singapore	526,000	26
18	8	Rahul Khanchandani	India	89,000	4
18	10	Galit Malkin	Israel	200,000	10

19	1	Manabu Sato	Japan	442,000	22
19	2	Lester Leung	Hong Kong	309,000	15
19	3	Katsumoto Sakaguchi	Japan	434,000	22
19	4	Sumit Advani	India	70,000	4
19	5	Chamanan Arthachinta	United States	278,000	14
19	6	Jesus Espinosa Fernandez	Spain	65,000	3
19	7	Lester Pinto	Singapore	325,000	16
19	8	Yuan Zhang	China	376,000	19
19	9	Ming Lei	China	491,000	25
19	10	Kuan Han Lee	Taiwan	760,000	38

20	1	Artem Kresiak	Russia	120,000	6
20	2	Karl Dias	Singapore	138,000	7
20	3	Paul Siu	Canada	209,000	10
20	4	Alex Lee	Singapore	340,000	17
20	5	Thi Hien Hoa Nguyen	Viet Nam	6,000	0
20	6	Dongchen He	China	1,029,000	51
20	7	Wai Roewe Lok	China	64,000	3
20	8	Danil Karpov	Russia	101,000	5
20	9	Philipp Zukernik	Canada	170,000	9
20	10	Haiyang Zhang	China	1,205,000	60

21	1	Mingyuan Zhang	China	286,000	14
21	2	Chinatsu Uda	Japan	173,000	9
21	3	Peilong Pan	China	75,000	4
21	4	Iurii Rassoshenko	Russia	180,000	9
21	5	Zhiqiang Meng	China	1,350,000	68
21	6	Allen Nielsen	Denmark	680,000	34
21	7	Sungmin Cho	South Korea	265,000	13
21	8	Lars Madsen	Denmark	120,000	6
21	9	Mykyta Savva	Ukraine	480,000	24
21	10	Kush Kataria	India	367,000	18

22	1	Zeyu Zheng	China	395,000	20
22	2	Hao Huang	China	405,000	20
22	3	Zhiping Wang	China	65,000	3
22	4	Chi Hang Chang	Taiwan	44,000	2
22	5	Suksomlert Taragon	Thailand	295,000	15
22	6	Hsin Lee	Taiwan	22,000	1
22	7	Wei Jen Wang	Taiwan	1,017,000	51
22	8	Chi Thanh Duong	Viet Nam	572,000	29
22	9	Yuanxin He	China	207,000	10
22	10	Bohao Huang	China	472,000	24

23	1	Chih Wei Chen	Taiwan	302,000	15
23	2	Manh Hung Nguyen	Viet Nam	185,000	9
23	3	Chuan Yu	China	526,000	26
23	4	Dan Wu	China	603,000	30
23	5	Nithiwat Santivorapong	Thailand	474,000	24
23	6	Hein Kyaw	Myanmar	84,000	4
23	7	Peng Wang	China	160,000	8
23	8	Dongdong Zhao	China	170,000	9
23	9	Zhuoan Li	China	190,000	10
23	10	Guillem Segarra	Spain	333,000	17

24	1	Yung Hui Po	Brunei	446,000	22
24	2	Chun Hao Hsiao	Taiwan	280,000	14
24	4	Pratik Modi	India	215,000	11
24	5	Khiem Nguyen Quang	Viet Nam	292,000	15
24	6	Cheng Xu	China	347,000	17
24	7	Dac Dung Duong	Viet Nam	168,000	8
24	8	Liang Wu	China	257,000	13
24	9	Dengdong Huang	China	139,000	7
24	10	Qinxi Yang	China	79,000	4

25	1	Pierre Mothes	Germany	218,000	11
25	2	Vijay Chawla	India	190,000	10
25	3	Nikhil Kedia	India	380,000	19
25	4	Chun Yu Yeh	Taiwan	76,000	4
25	5	Sin-Ren Chen	Taiwan	90,000	5
25	6	Hai Long Hoang	Viet Nam	517,000	26
25	7	Wooyoung Lee	South Korea	350,000	18
25	8	Yen-Tuan Chen	Taiwan	85,000	4
25	9	Thu Ra Naing	Myanmar	113,000	6
25	10	Artem Vezhenkov	Russia	235,000	12

26	1	Arjun Dhingra	India	330,000	17
26	2	Daniel Yuen	United Kingdom	151,000	8
26	3	Haojie Lu	China	45,000	2
26	4	Heng Kang	China	109,000	5
26	5	Zhiyi Feng	China	92,000	5
26	6	Raktim Mahanta	India	274,000	14
26	7	Ruiji Xie	China	571,000	29
26	8	Nicolas Ragot	France	587,000	29
26	9	Saier Jin	China	80,000	4
26	10	Haoran Sun	China	869,000	43

27	1	Zehua Han	China	45,000	2
27	3	Yiyu Zhou	China	130,000	7
27	4	Hein Aung	Myanmar	46,000	2
27	5	Imran Usmani	United States	391,000	20
27	6	Ba Phuc Le	Viet Nam	148,000	7
27	7	Meir Avganim	Israel	458,000	23
27	8	John Jurinak	Canada	250,000	13
27	9	Lili Tang	China	489,000	24
27	10	Yuxin Niu	China	469,000	23

28	1	Jugal Java	India	638,000	32
28	2	Vitalijs Andriksons	Latvia	218,000	11
28	3	Prisillia Woe	Indonesia	303,000	15
28	4	Xuwei Xing	China	150,000	8
28	5	Chi-Hsien Lu	China	540,000	27
28	6	Tanupat Punjarojanakul	United States	612,000	31
28	7	Sam Ameen	United Kingdom	148,000	7
28	8	Zikai Li	Singapore	68,000	3
28	9	Watchareeporn Jadyham	Thailand	154,000	8
28	10	Keith Ong	Singapore	240,000	12

29	1	Kunal Punjwani	India	151,000	8
29	2	Lei Wang	China	323,000	16
29	3	Clithon Taliwanth	South Africa	320,000	16
29	4	Hao Zhang	China	522,000	26
29	5	Chuan-Chen Tsang	Taiwan	180,000	9
29	6	Trin Phataraprasit	Thailand	110,000	6
29	7	Che-Lun Liu	Taiwan	860,000	43
29	8	Shaoming Li	China	343,000	17
29	9	Liangliang Tang	Singapore	55,000	3
29	10	Yi No Liu	China	119,000	6

30	1	Randy Oh	United States	160,000	8
30	2	Christopher Ryan	United States	380,000	19
30	3	Yu-Ping Lin	Taiwan	202,000	10
30	4	Wei Cai	China	795,000	40
30	5	Konstantin Lichagin	Russia	420,000	21
30	6	Thi My Phuong Nguyen	Viet Nam	460,000	23
30	7	Jianan Wei	China	406,000	20
30	8	Kjetil Engvoldsen	Norway	175,000	9
30	9	Linh Nguyen	Viet Nam	95,000	5
30	10	David Descieux	France	340,000	17

Welcome to Day 2 of the 2025 WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition Championship Event

Christian Zetzsche

History has been made in the Kingdom of Thailand with an enormous field of 2,337 entries for the first-ever official government-approved live poker tournament in the heart of Bangkok. Throughout four starting days, the THB 37,000 Championship Event of the inaugural 2025 WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition more than doubled the initial guarantee and generated 75,488,000 Thai Baht (~$2,325,052) in travel funds, which will be collected by the 292 players qualified for the penultimate tournament day.

Held in cooperation between PokerTalk Thailand and WPTGlobal, the event was held on the sixth floor of the Emsphere Mall at UOB LIVE with seventy tables total in play, filled to the brim with action in the past four days. This special event will crown a WPT Prime champion who takes home 11,477,000 Thai Baht value in travel funds along with the entry to the 2025 WPT World Championship in Las Vegas this upcoming December worth $10,400.

Leading the way are five players with a seven-figure stack at their disposal and four of them hail from China. Zhiqiang Meng leads with 1,350,000 followed by Junjie Wang (1,250,000), Haiyang Zhang (1,205,000), and Dongchen He (1,029,000). Also right above the million is Taiwan's Wei Jen Wang, however, there are also some international players among the chip leaders as well such as Benjamin Mages (940,000) and Ciaran Farrell (888,000).

Top 10 Chip Counts for Day 2

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Zhiqiang Meng	China	1,350,000	68
2	Junjie Wang	China	1,250,000	63
3	Haiyang Zhang	China	1,205,000	60
4	Dongchen He	China	1,029,000	51
5	Wei Jen Wang	Taiwan	1,017,000	51
6	Shaoji Wang	China	950,000	48
7	Benjamin Mages	Germany	940,000	47
8	Ciaran Farrell	United Kingdom	888,000	44
9	Haoran Sun	China	869,000	43
10	Che-Lun Liu	Taiwan	860,000	43

The blind levels will remain at a duration of 20 minutes each to comply with the gaming hour restrictions of the Thai law, which only permits six hours of play during weekdays from 6 p.m. local time until midnight. This should allow for up to 15 levels before bagging and tagging to likely bring the field down to the last two or three tables.

Recommencing blinds will be 10,000-20,000 with a big blind ante of 20,000 and the average stands at only sixteen big blinds. All players have locked up the Thai flag for their The Hendon Mob profile along with a min-cash worth 60,000 Thai Baht. Among them will be Canada's Dominick French, who advanced with 475,000 in chips and has earned a live score in 68 different countries with this result no matter where he finishes today.

The PokerNews live reporting team will try to capture as many of the key hands as possible, but expect incredibly fast-paced action throughout the day as the tournament races towards a conclusion on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. Poker enthusiasts from near and far can also follow the action on the social media channels of Poker Talk Thailand, which offers cards-up coverage and commentary in multiple languages on a security delay of 30 minutes.

Tags: Benjamin Mages Ciaran Farrell Dominick French Dongchen He Haiyang Zhang Haoran Sun Junjie Wang Shaoji Wang Wei Jen Wang Zhiqiang Meng

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

08-04-2025 18:07 UTC+7

Shuffle Up and Deal for Day 2

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

It was announced to all players that the first break today will be after the seventh level, during which the T-5,000 chips will be raced off. A maximum of 15 levels will be played or the action will stop at the final table, whichever of the two comes first.

Let's have ourselves a maniac Monday filled with all-in showdowns.

08-04-2025 18:10 UTC+7

Engvoldsen Flips to a Double

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Thi My Phuong Nguyen raised to 40,000 and then reluctantly called the preflop shove by Kjetil Engvoldsen for 175,000 total from two seats over.

Kjetil Engvoldsen: J♠J♦
Thi My Phuong Nguyen: A♣7♠

The board ran out 9♦8♠2♥K♣K♥ and Engvoldsen let out a loud "yessss".

Player	Chips	Progress
Kjetil Engvoldsen	400,000 225,000	225,000
Thi My Phuong Nguyen	285,000 175,000	175,000

Tags: Kjetil Engvoldsen Thi My Phuong Nguyen

08-04-2025 18:12 UTC+7

Chen Earns a Double As Well

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Artem Vezhenkov looked up Yen-Tuan Chen for four blinds with 3♥3♣ versus A♠K♥ and the Q♦9♥4♣K♦9♣ board paired up the short stack. Soon after on the same table, Chun Yu Yeh busted against Pierre Mothes as the early carnage of casualties commenced.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pierre Mothes	300,000 82,000	82,000
Yen-Tuan Chen	200,000 115,000	115,000
Artem Vezhenkov	150,000 85,000	85,000

Chun Yu Yeh	Busted

Tags: Artem Vezhenkov Chun Yu Yeh Pierre Mothes Yen-Tuan Chen

08-04-2025 18:19 UTC+7

Chang More Than Triples

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Chi Hang Chang jammed for 45,000 and faced the reraise to 110,000 by Chi Thanh Duong. Bohao Huang moved all-in over the top and Duong folded.

Chi Hang Chang: K♦J♠ All in
Bohao Huang: J♥J♦

The K♣Q♣9♠4♠7♦ runout provided the over card and Chang tripled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bohao Huang	525,000 53,000	53,000
Chi Thanh Duong	460,000 112,000	112,000
Chi Hang Chang	150,000 106,000	106,000

Tags: Bohao Huang Chi Hang Chang Chi Thanh Duong

08-04-2025 18:23 UTC+7

First Batch of Casualties on Day 2

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Among the casualties in the opening stages were three of the ten Thai players who reached the money in this event, having had to win the Freeroll qualifier to get into the tournament as per local regulations.

Player	Chips	Progress
Damien Kerneis	Busted
Wai Roewe Lok	Busted
Trin Phataraprasit	Busted
Sathien Dhatchayangkul	Busted
Meemongkol Thanaphol	Busted
Gene Tze	Busted
Chun Yu Yeh	Busted
Yukai Sun	Busted
Zehua Han	Busted
Zhuoan Li	Busted
Artem Kresiak	Busted
Amornchai Singh Sachdev	Busted
Jonathon Lay	Busted
Sumit Advani	Busted
Dac Dung Duong	Busted
David Chidraoui	Busted
Heng Kang	Busted
Zhiyi Feng	Busted
Mingkwan Nattawut	Busted