The record breaking 2024 World Series of Poker $10K Main Event World Championship completed another day of eliminations with the field trimmed significantly while simultaneously avoiding the bubble. From a record turnout of 10,112 players, that amassed a $94,041,600 prize pool, after Day 3 only 1,524 remained which is just seven spots from ITM of 1,517 players.
Once again, a long list of Asians pulled through, ten bracelet winners were among them with several in great shape and several in danger entering Day 4.
Asia Big Stacks And Bracelet Winners
Based on the reports by onsite media Pokernews, 87 Asians survived Day 3 led by America-based Chinese national Tony Ren Lin in the top 10. Lin is one of China’s one of most decorated players with $11.3 Million in cashes collected from all over the world. Lin currently sits with 195 bb. Another Chinese flag bearer in great shape is the highly decorated Biao Ding who boasts $10.7 Million in live tournament earnings. Ding currently sits in 47th rank with 141 bb.
Not too far behind is Japan’s Takumi Matsumoto ranked 14th in chips. Unlike Lin and Ding, Matsumoto only has three live cashes amounting to $4,680. With a massive 184 bb, Matsumoto is on the way to locking up a career best cash. Also bagging up a mighty stack is Yudai Futai of 150 bb. Futai is looking to improve from last year’s impressive 122nd Main Event finish.
As we comb down the rung, a total of ten Asian bracelet holders will be returning. The highest ranked is Japan’s Naoya Kihara with 127 bb. Kihara is followed by Taiwan’s Carlos Chang with 125 bb, Hong Kong’s Danny Tang sits with 122 bb, and China’s Yang Zhang is ranked 100 with 113 bb. Other golden champs in the running are double bracelet winner from India Santhosh Suvarna (40 bb), Hong Kong’s Dicky Tsang (78 bb), China’s Yue Du (58 bb), and triple bracelet winner Anson Tsang (32 bb).
For double bracelet winner from Hong Kong Wing Po Liu (16 bb), recently minted WSOP ladies champion Shiina Okamoto (14 bb), and Vietnam’s Thai Ha (13 bb), they all have their work cut out to stay in the running for the world title.
Other Asian Notables In The Field
In addition to the names mentioned above are Asia notables to watch for:
- South Korea’s Jangkyu Lee was Asia’s top ranked player at the end of Day 2. Lee returns with 102 bb.
- Hong Kong’s Ivan Hon Cheong Lee sits with 93 bb.
- India’s Tarun Goyal was Asia’s second ranked leader at the end of Day 2. His strong run continued with a healthy 92 bb bagged.
- Malaysia’s Michael Soyza charged up the ranks to rack up 83 bb.
- Philippines lone flag-bearer Moses Saquing holds the fort with 60 bb.
- Japan’s Hiroyuki Noda is one of the country’s high rollers, he returns with 53 bb.
- South Korea’s rising star Dae Woong Song nearly won a bracelet last year. He sits with 40 bb.
- Quan Zhou is one of the most recognized players from China and some say is overdue for a WSOP title. Zhou returns with 32 bb.
- Taiwan’s Eric Ting Yi Tsai has been running hot since last year and nearly won a WSOP bracelet in Europe last November. Tsai enters with 29 bb.
- Another Taiwan star to watch for is Justin Chu who sits with 18 bb.
Japan: Akinobu Maeda, Ryoh Hasegawa, Tomoyo Ando, Tomoki Terashima, Hiroki Nawa, Tomoki Matsuda, Kosaki Akashi, Masaki Nakamura, Kosei Ichinose, Dohang Na, Hiroki Shibata, Ryuta Ogawa, Akira Hashimoto, Kyusuke Nagami, Sergio De Lisboa, Atsushi Yorimoto, Eiji Suzuki, Atsushi Takeuchi, Shinsuke Mitsugi, Ichiro Izutsu, Tasuku Maruo, Kiyoshi Eda, Hisashi Yamanouchi, Haruhiko Shinohara, Takashi Sugo
China: Chong Yu, Wai Kit Lo, Xuangui Wu, Haoshan Huang, Ma Li, Hongru Zhang, Yake Wu, Yuan Yu, Chan Ying, Ping Lin, Jingwei Guo, Jianfeng Sun, Zheyu Wang, Dian Shi, Xiaotong Yu, Fan Zhang, Jiayu Ruan, Sen Mu, Jie Wu, Xu Wei
South Korea: Sangwon Ko, Fabien Antho Gun, Jimyeong Kim
Taiwan: Ta Wei Tou, Kuan Yu Lin, Chi Jen Chen, Tung Tsai
Malaysia: Puan Tong, Natalie Teh
India: Kavin Shah, Siddarth Singhvi
Vietnam: Teddy Pham, Quang Pham
Singapore: Yuze Ding
Hong Kong: Dennis Ng
Bangladesh: Yordan Dichev
