youtube

facebook

twitter

instagram
[smartslider3 slider=""][smartslider3 slider=""]

Bogdan Munteanu Wins Elite Trophy At USOP Hai Phong High Roller Championship

Bogdan Munteanu at USOP Hai Phong
Bogdan Munteanu

The second Elite Trophy has been captured and to none more deserving than Romania’s Bogdan Munteanu at the High Roller Championship!

“I am very happy, and the trophy is really beautiful. It’s my first time in Asia, first time at USOP, the atmosphere is great, I love it. My friends were coming and told me it’s a great spot so I decided to come along. I am from Romania but I was actually in Greece vacationing and I decided to fly over just for this event. It has been a very good year so far for me.”

It wasn’t an easy ride though for Munteanu who admitted,

“This tournament was very tough, the toughest final table lineup that could have been for me. All players were professional. In the end, I got some good chances and I played well so here we are!”

Watch the race to victory via the livestream:
High Roller Championship – LIVESTREAM

Buy in: VN₫ 150,000,000 (~US$ 6,000)
Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 101,850)
Entries: 34 (28 unique)
Prize pool: VN₫ 4,474,400,000 (~US$ 182,295)
ITM: 5 places

1st Bogdan Munteanu – VN₫ 1,700,000,000 (~US$ 69,260)
2nd William Jia – VN₫ 1,100,000,000 (~US$ 44,815)
3rd Konstantin Held – VN₫ 745,000,000 (~US$ 30,350)
4th Le Ngoc Minh – VN₫ 529,000,000 (~US$ 21,550)
5th Max Buschmann – VN₫ 400,400,000 (~US$ 16,315)

USOP Hai Phong High Roller Championship Final Table
USOP Hai Phong High Roller Championship Final Table

Entering Day 2 with the final 9 returning out of 34 entries, it wasn’t until 7-handed did Munteanu begin his ascent, rising from 16 bb to 61 bb. Two of the winning hands were up against the leader Le Ngoc Minh. The larger of which was when he tank-called the river bet on a board 9h3s9s8s8d. Le had 2h2c to play the board, Munteanu outkicked with KcJc. The other hand was a double up through recent Superstar Challenge champion Ryan Plant with 8h8s dominating 3c3d.

Bubble at USOP Hai Phong HR Championship
Bubble at USOP Hai Phong HR Championship

Plant went on to fall in 7th place, was followed out by short stacked Tommy Kemter on the bubble. and soon after, short stacked Max Buschmann also exited to collect the first payout of the tournament.

Le Ngoc Minh at USOP Hai Phong
Le Ngoc Minh

At four-handed, Munteanu pressured Le with shoves on the small blind, Le finally took a stand and called Ac7c. Though ahead of Munteanu’s KdJh, the board came 7dKh4c3cJd for Le to end in 4th place.

Bogdan Munteanu at USOP Hai Phong
Bogdan Munteanu at USOP Hai Phong

Now backed by a massive stack, Munteanu continued the grind, amassing over 70% of the chips in play. On the flipside, Konstantin Held dropped on two big pots against the leader and eventually lost the rest of it to him as well with QsJh unable to get past AhKd. At heads up, Munteanu dominated William Jia 3:1, and despite both players still deep, the final hand arrived as a flip. Jia three-bet all in holding AhQc, Munteanu called with 7d7c, the board came 2s4s10dAs7s.


Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function tribe_is_event_query() in /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp-child/functions.php:588 Stack trace: #0 /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp/inc/loop/single-style1.php(98): bottom_banner_rotator() #1 /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp-child/single.php(11): include('/home/somuchpo/...') #2 /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include('/home/somuchpo/...') #3 /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once('/home/somuchpo/...') #4 /home/somuchpo/public_html/index.php(17): require('/home/somuchpo/...') #5 {main} thrown in /home/somuchpo/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp-child/functions.php on line 588