The Mini Main Event was a hot item on the menu with Day 1A drawing 195 players and 72 re-entries for a total of 267 runners. This was a fantastic start and a possible sign that the fields will be even heavier for the ensuing heats. The day closed with Tran Quoc Uy eliminating Hanna Azimai on the bubble with 
dominating 
.
Locking up the chip lead was South Korea’s Hwigon Park with 684,000. Helping him get there was a stunning straight. The hand initially saw a raised pot preflop 
that was checked by three players to the turn 
. Park bet then called a check-raise as one player folded. On the river 
, Park raised all in with 
straight and cleaned out the shorter stack who called with 
set.
Running one small blind behind was Lee Wai Huen with 678,000. This was another strong performance by Lee who topped the counts of the opening event and went on to draw the biggest bounty.
Date: November 20, 2023
Buy in: VN₫ 8,800,000 (~$372)
Guarantee: VN₫ 2,000,000 (~$82,950)
Day 1A entries: 267 (195 unique)
ITM: 33 players
Chips in play: 8,010,000
Average stack: 242,727
Day 1A closing blinds: 5,000-10,000 ante 10,000
| Hwigon Park | South Korea | 684,000 |
| Lee Wai Huen | Hong Kong | 678,000 |
| Tran Quoc Uy | Viet Nam | 484,000 |
| Milkty | Viet Nam | 438,000 |
| Ham Dong Myung | South Korea | 421,000 |
| Sung Ho Kim | South Korea | 385,000 |
| Amit Kaushik | India | 376,000 |
| Tung Zi Wei | Taiwan | 347,000 |
| Tsang Ka Shun | Hong Kong | 335,000 |
| Dat Duc Nguyen | Viet Nam | 319,000 |
| Vladimir Mikheev | Russia | 291,000 |
| Do Phong | Viet Nam | 281,000 |
| Andrew Hawes | Australia | 246,000 |
| Cuong Lee | Viet Nam | 238,000 |
| Ngo Minh Tien | Viet Nam | 236,000 |
| Vu Van Nam | Viet Nam | 234,000 |
| Ngoc Ha Nguyen | Viet Nam | 202,000 |
| Kyle Bao Diep | Viet Nam | 180,000 |
| Ng Tsun Yin | Hong Kong | 180,000 |
| Park Young Soo | South Korea | 169,000 |
| Xu Wei | China | 159,000 |
| Cao Van Son | Viet Nam | 142,000 |
| Leonard Yannick | France | 127,000 |
| Hong Rye Lee | South Korea | 125,000 |
| The Naing | Singapore | 125,000 |
| Seo Jin Hyeok | South Korea | 116,000 |
| Ton Van Viet | Viet Nam | 105,000 |
| Jeong Hyun Woo | South Korea | 94,000 |
| Nguyen Nhat Minh | Viet Nam | 86,000 |
| Baek Bo Ram | South Korea | 85,000 |
| Tai Weiliang | Singapore | 68,000 |
| Kabir Khattar | India | 61,000 |
| Phi Tien Sang | Viet Nam | 17,000 |
