Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: 30,000 No Limit Hold'Em Eight-Handed Day 1 leaderboard, payouts, prizemoney

Kieran Francis

Triton Poker Vietnam 2023: 30,000 No Limit Hold'Em Eight-Handed Day 1 leaderboard, payouts, prizemoney image

Several titans of poker at the top of the leaderboard after day one in the 30,000 No Limit Hold'Em Eight Handed event at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Vietnam.

Ivan Leow award leader (player of the year) Stephen Chidwick is sitting pretty in the top 10 alongside other dangerous professionals Michael Addamo, Linus Loeliger, Nick Petrangelo, Sam Greenwood and Seth Davies.

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American Brian Kim is the chip leader with the winner of the tournament set to win the first million-dollar score at the Triton Vietnam stop - a whopping 1.195 million.

There was 171 initial entrants with 31 players remaining and 23 places to be paid.

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30,000 No Limit Hold'Em Eight-Handed leaderboard after Day 1 

Field remaining: 31/171

Places paid: 23

Average stack: 1,100,100 (44BB)

Blind level at end of day: 10k/25k/25k

View structures for all tournaments here.

Place Name/Country Chips BBs
1. Brian Kim (USA) 2,770,000 111
2. Seth Davies (USA) 2,215,000 89
3. Dao Minh Phu (Vietnam) 2,195,000 88
4. Linus Loeliger (Switzerland) 1,870,000 75
5. Nick Petrangelo (USA) 1,760,000 70
6. Sam Greenwood (Canada) 1,680,000 67
7. Jans Arends (Netherlands) 1,650,000 66
8. Stephen Chidwick (UK) 1,430,000 57
9. Anson Ewe (Malaysia) 1,370,000 55
10. Michael Addamo (Australia) 1,345,000 54

Other notable stacks

Place Name/Country Chips BBs
12. Daniel Dvoress (Canada) 1,210,000 48
18. Jonathan Jaffe (USA) 925,000 37
23. Adrian Mateos (Spain) 715,000 29
26. Erik Seidel (USA) 455,000 18
27. Nacho Barbero (Argentina) 395,000 16
28. Webster Lim (Malaysia) 375,000 15

Notable eliminated players

Finish position Name/Country Prizemoney
32. Joao Vieira (Portugal) Nil
43. Timothy Adams (Canada) Nil
54. Michael Rocco (USA) Nil
59. Patrik Antonius (Finland) Nil
61. Sam Grafton (UK) Nil
68. Isaac Haxton (USA) Nil
69. Dan Smith (USA) Nil
72. Wiktor Malinowski (Poland) Nil
73. Fedor Holz (Germany) Nil
74. Steve O'Dwyer (Ireland) Nil
77. Jason Koon (USA) Nil
79. Chris Brewer (USA) Nil
80. Mikita Badziakouski (Belarus) Nil
82. Justin Bonomo (USA) Nil
89. Michael Watson (Canada) Nil
102. Ana Marquez (Spain) Nil
103. John Juanda (Indonesia) Nil
110. Philip Nagy (USA) Nil

Payouts for 30,000 No Limit Hold'Em Eight-Handed

Total prizepool: 5.13 million

Position Prizemoney
Champion 1,195,000
2nd 807,000
3rd 538,000
4th 441,000
5th 353,700
6th 275,000
7th 203,000
8th 149,000
9th 119,000
10th-11th 100,000
12th-13th 87,200
14th-15th 79,500
16th-17th 71,800
18th-20th 64,600
21st-23rd 59,500

Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.