WPT Vietnam Passport to World Championship: Team India Makes Its Mark By Clinching 3 Trophies

From October 6 to 16, 2023, the World Poker Tour (WPT) hosted its final event of Season XXI in Asia at Crown Poker Club Hanoi. The eleven-day festival distributed 32 trophies and a total of 9 packages to the upcoming World Championship and Prime Championship. The event attracted an impressive 4,448 entries and generated a total prize pool of VND 74,871,972,000. The crowning achievement of the festival was the Main Event, which Sorawit Suriyakarn shipped with a prize of VND 3,856,400,000.

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The festival featured players from over eight countries, with the host nation dominating the winner’s circle. Team India made its mark, securing three prestigious trophies. The spotlight shone brightly on Sriharsha Doddapaneni (won Event 7: Megastack High Roller), Sameer Agarwal (won Event 14: PLO Turbo), and Meherzad Munsaf (won Event 24: Freezeout). Here is a glimpse of Team India’s scores:

 

Event 1: WPT Opener

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Date: October 6 to 8, 2023
Buy in:  VND 11,000,000 (~US$ 450)
Guarantee: VND 3,000,000,000 (~US$ 123,000)
Entries: 355
Prize pool: VND 3,443,500,000 (~US$ 141,210)
ITM: 45 players

Winner: Anthony Cierco (Won VND 657,500,000)

Team India Cashes:

  • Deepankur Gupta  (5th for VND 164,000,000)
  • Avneesh Munjal (8th for VND 93,000,000)
  • Pradeep Sharma  (13th for VND 52,000,000)
  • Amit Kaushik (22nd for VND 29,000,000)
  • Manoj Pentakota (25th for VND 25,000,000)
  • Raju Jaruplavath (36th for VND 21,000,000)
  • Sumit Sapra (40th for VND 17,500,000)

Event 4: Turbo

Date: October 6, 2023

Buy in: VND 4,400,000 (~US$ 180)

Players: 30 (23 unique)

Prize pool: VND 116,400,000 (~US$ 4,775)

ITM: 7 places

Winner: Tran Thanh (Won VND 43,700,000)

Team India:

  • Amit Kaushik (4th for VND 13,800,000)

Event 6: Superstack

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Date: October 8, 2023

Buy in: VND 8,800,000 (~US$ 360)

Entries: 84 (63 unique)

Prize pool: VND 651,840,000 (~US$ 26,730)

ITM: 11 places

Winner: Jehanne Jeremy Laurent (Won VND 192,140,000)

Team India:

  • Saluja Pratibh (7th for VND 27,000,000)
  • Kurkhepally Mahadeva (8th for VND 22,000,000)

 

Event 7: Megastack High Roller

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Date: October 8 to 9, 2023

Buy in: VND 55,000,000 (~US$ 2,255)

Guarantee: VND 2,000,000,000 (~US$ 82,000

Entries: 52 (37 unique)

Prize pool: VND 2,522,000,000 (~US$ 103,420)

ITM: 8 places

Winner: Sriharsha Doddapaneni (Won VND 824,500,000)

Event 11: Survivor Bounty 8-Max

Date: October 9 to 11, 2023

Buy in: VND 16,500,000 (~$675)

Guarantee: VND 3,000,000,000 (~$123,000)

Total entries: 524

Prize pool: VND 4,374,700,000 (~US$ 179,400)

Bounty pool: VND 3,180,000,000 (~US$ 130,400)

Bounties: 107

ITM: 67 players

Winner: Dong Yixuan (Won VND 1,154,700,000)

Team India Cashes:

  • Deepak Bothra (11th for VND 214,500,000)
  • Munjal Avneesh (23rd for VND 121,000,000)
  • Sharma Nishant (26th for VND 116,500,000)
  • Sumit Sapra (61st for VND 17,500,000)

Event 14: PLO Turbo

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Date: October 9, 2023

Buy in: ₫11,000,000

Entries: 20 (15 unique)

Prize pool: ₫194,000,000

ITM: 4 places

Winner: Sameer Agarwal (Won VND 87,000,000)

Event 17: Megastack VND 500M GTD

Buy in: VND 8,800,000 (~US$ 360)

Guarantee: VND 500,000,000 (~US$ 20,500)

Entries: 112 (87 unique)

Prize pool: VND 869,120,000 (~US$ 33,640)

ITM: 14 places

Winner: Nguyen Huu Vinh  (Won VND 237,620,000)

Team India:

  • Ashish Ahuja (11th for VND 21,500,000)

Event 18: High Roller 2 Day Warm Up

Date: October 11 to 12, 2023

Buy in: VND 66,000,000 (~$2,700)

Guarantee: VND 2.500,000,000 (~$102,520)

Entries: 138 (91 unique)

Prize pool: VND 8,031,000,000 (~US$ 329,367)

ITM: 18 places

Winner: Song, Li (Won VND 1,950,100,000)

Team India:

  • Nishant Sharma (5th for VND 500,000,000)

Event 19: Big Bounty

Date: October 11 to 12, 2023

Buy in: VND 11,000,000 (~US$ 450)

Entries: 101 (70 unique)

Prize pool: VND 474,700,000 (~US$ 19,390)

Bounty pool: VND 505,000,000 (~US$ 20,630)

ITM: 13 places

Winner: Konechnyi Ivan (Won VND 133,700,000)

Team India:

  • Pratibh Saluja (4th for VND 42,500,000)
  • Amit Kuashik (9th for VND 13,500,000)
  • Rahul Melwani (11th for VND 11,500,000)

Event 22: PLO

Date: October 12, 2023

Buy in: VND 13,500,000 (~US$ 540)

Entries: 33 entries (25 unique)

Prize pool:

ITM: 6 places

Winner: Tran Hanh (Won VND 137,120,000)

Team India:

  • Sameer Agarwal (4th for VND 42,000,000)
  • Alok Birewar (6th for VND 23,000,000)

 

Event 23: Deepstack Turbo

Date: October 12, 2023

Buy in: VND 6,600,000 (~US$ 270)

Entries: 73 (57 unique)

Prize pool: VND 424,860,000 (~US$ 17,355)

ITM: 10 places

Winner: Sergei Iablokov (Won VND 130,360,000)

Team India:

  • Alaparthy Prasad (5th for VND 29,000,000)
  • Ankit Wadhawan (10th for VND 13,000,000)

 

Event :24: Freezeout

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Date: October 13, 2023

Buy in: VND 7,700,000 (~US$ 315)

Players: 69

Prize pool: VND 468,510,000 (~US$ 19,140)

ITM: 9 places

Winner: India’s Munsaf Meherzad (Won VND 148,510,000)

 

Event 26: Pepang’s Deepstack Turbo

Buy in: VND 8,800,000 (~US$ 360)

Entries: VND 107 (87 unique)

Prize pool: VND 830,320,000 (~US$ 33,950)

ITM: 14 places

Winner: Phan Huu Minh (Won VND 198,000,000)

Team India:

  • Sriram Subramanian (14th for VND 18,500,000)

 

Event 28: High Roller 2 Day Event

Buy in: VND 66,000,000 (~US$ 2,700)

Guarantee: VND 1,000,000,000 (~US$ 40,860)

Entries: 166 (104 entries)

Prize pool: VND 9,661,200,000 (~US$ 394,735)

ITM: 21 places

Winner: Ramsden Jacque Patrick (Won VND 2,312,700,000)

 

Team India:

  • Avneesh Munjal: (10th for VND 224,000,000)

Event 30: The WPT Superstack Closer

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Buy in: VND 8,800,000 (~US$ 360)

Guarantee: VND 1,000,000,000 (~US$ 40,860)

Entries: 144 (106 entries)

Prize pool: VND 1,117,400,000 (~US$ 45,655)

ITM: 18 places

Winner: Ha Manh Tuong (Won VND 281,440,000)

 

Team India:

  • Chhikara Himanshu (8th for VND 33,500,000)
  • Vishal Ojha (12th for VND 24,500,000)
  • Deepankur Gupta (13th for VND 21,500,000)

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