Ian Lee wins!

Following a grueling four hour heads up battle, Malaysia’s Ian Lee emerged victorious over Vietnam’s Phan Quang Thai to capture the title and the coveted first prize of CROWN 7,120,000,000 (~USD 287,677)! The final hand was Lee A10 and Phan Quang Thái K7, board ran QJ245.  This milestone win was Lee’s career first poker major.

“It’s really amazing, after so many hours, the opponents were all so great and all very skillful. It really takes perseverance to take it down. This is the first win of my life. I just can’t believe it. I meditate at every break. It’s all about mindset.”

The record breaking USOP Danang 2024 Main Event attracted a field of 1,702 entries to build the richest USOP prize pool of CROWN 44,575,300,000 (~USD 1,800,000).

Date: March 28 to April 1, 2024
Buy in: CROWN 30M (~$1,235)
Guarantee: CROWN 15B (~$614,500)
Total entries: 1,702
Prize pool: CROWN 44,575,300,000 (~$1,8M)
ITM: 213 players

Place Player Flag Payout in CROWN
1 Ian Lee Malaysia 7,120,000,000
2 Phan Quang Thai Vietnam 4,916,000,000
3 Gabriel Carter UK 3,422,000,000
4 Thomas Ward New Zealand 2,504,200,000
5 Fan Ying Kan China 1,877,100,000
6 Chun Hao Zhang China 1,512,000,000
7 Truong Vu Tran Khanh Vietnam 1,230,700,000
8 Buyu Sakurai Japan 960,300,000
9 Alok Birewar India 712,800,000
10 Anthony Lewis USA 501,300,000
11 Do Tuan Phong Vietnam 501,300,000
12 Le Giang Nam Vietnam 501,300,000
13 Le Ngoc Minh Vietnam 389,400,000
14 Hyo Seok Park Korea 389,400,000
15 Seung Hun Ko Korea 389,400,000
16 Tae Hyoeng Kim Korea 302,300,000
17 Jun Ma China 302,300,000
18 Chang Xiang Guang Malaysia 302,300,000
19 Ledong Zhou China 244,800,000
20 Beng Wei Ong Malaysia 244,800,000
21 Tuan Anh Nguyen Vietnam 244,800,000
22 Cheuk Him Tsang Hong Kong 202,000,000
23 Taylor Guy UK 202,000,000
24 Sishu Peng China 202,000,000
25 Vamerdino Magsakay Philippines 166,100,000
26 Jian Xiang David Soin Singapore 166,100,000
27 Soo Jo Kim Korea 166,100,000
28 Garson Bernard Francis France 142,900,000
29 Sehoon Jin France 142,900,000
30 Anh Dung Trinh Vietnam 142,900,000
31 Tien Thanh Dinh Vietnam 142,900,000
32 The Nguyen Bui Vietnam 142,900,000
33 Jaegwang Kim Korea 142,900,000
34 Juhyung Son Korea 142,900,000
35 Junsoo Yun Korea 142,900,000
36 Xiao Tong Yu China 142,900,000
37 Baiyu Ni China 128,200,000
38 Jacob Philip Johnston Canada 128,200,000
39 Mr.Nattapon Chaimungkhun Thailand 128,200,000
40 Hai Ha Tran Vietnam 128,200,000
41 Xiaosheng Zheng China 128,200,000
42 Duy Anh Nguyen Vietnam 128,200,000
43 Joseph Sanghyon Cheong USA 128,200,000
44 Danh Tuan Luu Vietnam 128,200,000
45 Vitalii Polikarpov Russia 128,200,000
46 Yasuhiro Waki Japan 117,700,000
47 Mark Kavaleu Korea 117,700,000
48 Jiyoung Kim Korea 117,700,000
49 Dongmyung Ham Korea 117,700,000
50 Darragh Curtin Ireland 117,700,000
51 Young Ho Bae Korea 117,700,000
52 Yingrui Ge China 117,700,000
53 Xiaochun Gu China 117,700,000
54 Devid Berlin Lithuania 117,700,000
55 Changjun Kim Korea 110,600,000
56 Minh Thanh Nguyen Vietnam 110,600,000
57 Rene Mar Buscagan David Philippines 110,600,000
58 Boskovic Drasko Serbia 110,600,000
59 Tan Khoa Nguyen Vietnam 110,600,000
60 Rishi Mehra India 110,600,000
61 Woosung Kang Korea 110,600,000
62 Linnea Matilda Sofia Singapore 110,600,000
63 Hyungwoon Kim Korea 110,600,000
64 Duc Hieu Nguyen Vietnam 103,500,000
65 Yankai Zhang China 103,500,000
66 Youhyun Kim Korea 103,500,000
67 Quang Trinh Do Vietnam 103,500,000
68 Andrei Budykin Russia 103,500,000
69 Hon Cheong Lee Hong Kong 103,500,000
70 Mangkone Sanaphanith Laos 103,500,000
71 Frederic Bolliet France 103,500,000
72 Le Anh Tuan Hoang Vietnam 103,500,000
73 Minh Dat Dang Vietnam 97,300,000
74 Crossley Young Thomas Indonesia 97,300,000
75 Alexander Puchalski Canada 97,300,000
76 Michael Gordon Smith Canada 97,300,000
77 John Bon Phan USA 97,300,000
78 Chen Yu Hung Taiwan 97,300,000
79 NgọC Quoc Bao Pham Vietnam 97,300,000
80 Thanh Luong Dang Vietnam 97,300,000
81 Wonchul Bae Korea 97,300,000
82 Younghee Park Korea 91,100,000
83 Hong Quan Nguyen Vietnam 91,100,000
84 Danny Huynh Australia 91,100,000
85 Seongchan Jeon Korea 91,100,000
86 Aleksei Ignatev Russia 91,100,000
87 Dac Dung Duong Vietnam 91,100,000
88 Hyun Sup Kim Korea 91,100,000
89 Minh Hoai An Nguyen Vietnam 91,100,000
90 Quang Tien Phung Vietnam 91,100,000
91 Peng Chen China 85,900,000
92 Jun Li Ireland 85,900,000
93 Minsung Jun Korea 85,900,000
94 Jungsup Yun Korea 85,900,000
95 Julian Andrew Warhurst Australia 85,900,000
96 Aliaksandr Shylko Belarus 85,900,000
97 Tien Dung Nguyen Vietnam 85,900,000
98 Quang Hoang Nguyen Vietnam 85,900,000
99 Woojin Sung Korea 85,900,000
100 Yejun Kim Korea 80,700,000
101 Min Kwan Chae Korea 80,700,000
102 Duc Kien Tran Vietnam 80,700,000
103 Seokjun Lee Korea 80,700,000
104 Wooyoung Lee Korea 80,700,000
105 Buhui Zhi China 80,700,000
106 Chien Tung Wu China 80,700,000
107 Kijun Baek Korea 80,700,000
108 Sangyoon Kim Korea 80,700,000
109 Adam Samir Kharman Australia 76,500,000
110 Gallego Raul Martinez Spain 76,500,000
111 Zeyu Chen China 76,500,000
112 Yixuan Dong China 76,500,000
113 Quang Hieu Nguyen Vietnam 76,500,000
114 Cankai Zhang China 76,500,000
115 Jingyi Wang China 76,500,000
116 Ngoc Thai Huynh Vietnam 76,500,000
117 Ming Huang Korea 76,500,000
118 Yong Kim Korea 72,300,000
119 Nguyen Mai Vietnam 72,300,000
120 Win Meng Tan Malaysia 72,300,000
121 Minh Hai Vu Vietnam 72,300,000
122 Quiyao Dong China 72,300,000
123 Zhaotian Cai China 72,300,000
124 Lukasz Jaroslaw Jankowski Poland 72,300,000
125 Jingzhi Wang China 72,300,000
126 Nishant Kishanlal Sharma India 72,300,000
127     68,700,000
128 Minsu Jun Korea 68,700,000
129 Van Wijk Armon Australia 68,700,000
130 Dongyeon Lee Korea 68,700,000
131 Duc Anh Nguyen Vietnam 68,700,000
132 Zijun Zhang China 68,700,000
133 Seongsu Kong Korea 68,700,000
134 Daehyung Lee Korea 68,700,000
135 Mr Wiriya Sumransom Thailand 68,700,000
136 Scott Aron Shore Canada 65,100,000
137 Mr.Sukhum Kiwanont Thailand 65,100,000
138 Seongwook Song Korea 65,100,000
139 Poltavets Sergei Russia 65,100,000
140 Jangho Moon Korea 65,100,000
141 Manh Hung Nguyen Vietnam 65,100,000
142 Jianbin Shao China 65,100,000
143 Loong Hui Teo Singapore 65,100,000
144 Zhi Jian Ooi Malaysia 65,100,000
145 Viet Tien Nguyen Vietnam 62,000,000
146 Ngoc Son Nguyen Vietnam 62,000,000
147 Antoine Phan Vietnam 62,000,000
148 Zhenbo Xu China 62,000,000
149 Tien Dung Pham Vietnam 62,000,000
150 Weng Chih Matthew Chan Singapore 62,000,000
151 Van Thai Nguyen Vietnam 62,000,000
152 Jun Young Park Korea 62,000,000
153 ĐứC Linh Đinh Vietnam 62,000,000
154 Bo Xu China 58,900,000
155 Amit Kaushik India 58,900,000
156 John Brady New Zealand 58,900,000
157 Dicky Siu Hang Tsang Hong Kong 58,900,000
158 Milan Stojkovic Australia 58,900,000
159 Dhaval Mudgal India 58,900,000
160 Thành HảI NguyễN Vietnam 58,900,000
161 Changxiao Yan China 58,900,000
162 Manish Lakhotia India 58,900,000
163 Shaohua Luo China 56,400,000
164 Dongxia Liu China 56,400,000
165 Haitao Luan China 56,400,000
166 Wanghee Lee Korea 56,400,000
167 Renhao Yao China 56,400,000
168 Kwok Kit Chiu Hong Kong 56,400,000
169 Chunhui Ji China 56,400,000
170 Mark Flynn Gavin Ireland 56,400,000
171 Yingcong Chen China 56,400,000
172 Tran Minh Tan Pham Vietnam 53,900,000
173 Mengran Wang China 53,900,000
174 Young Whan Bae Korea 53,900,000
175 Changhwan Lee Korea 53,900,000
176 Laury Vanlerberghe France 53,900,000
177 Jiaqi Teng China 53,900,000
178 Christos Chronis Australia 53,900,000
179 Manh Cuong Le Vietnam 53,900,000
180 Wei Chun Liu China 53,900,000
181 Minh Thang Tran Vietnam 52,100,000
182 James Frank Ireland 52,100,000
183 Matthew Henry Bevin Australia 52,100,000
184 Woobeen Lee Korea 52,100,000
185 Thanh Ha Duong Vietnam 52,100,000
186 Tong Li China 52,100,000
187 Gouliang Wei China 52,100,000
188 Van Linh Vu Vietnam 52,100,000
189 Pradeep Nudurumati India 52,100,000
190 Jun Huang China 50,300,000
191 Haoyu Huang China 50,300,000
192 Seunghyeon Son Korea 50,300,000
193 Jingwei Hu China 50,300,000
194 Fen Mai Hong Kong 50,300,000
195 Jin-Hoon Lee Korea 50,300,000
196     50,300,000
197 Bo Chen China 50,300,000
198 Trung Ha Nguyen Vietnam 50,300,000
199 Xuan Khanh Dao Vietnam 49,400,000
200 Minku Kim Korea 49,400,000
201 Luan Le Tan UK 49,400,000
202 Valerii Daniliants Russia 49,400,000
203 Mr.Uten Ungchusak Thailand 49,400,000
204 Bao Diep Kyle Vne 49,400,000
205 Evgenii Chernyi Russia 49,400,000
206 Huu Soai Nguyen Vietnam 49,400,000
207 Jooree Kim Korea 49,400,000
208 Thanh Hai Nguyen Vietnam 48,500,000
209 Hoang Nam Nguyen Vietnam 48,500,000
210 Jungrae Noh Korea 48,500,000
211 Sinwoo Kim Korea 48,500,000
212 Chun Ho Edward Yam Hong Kong 48,500,000
213 Minh Hoai An Nguyen Vietnam 48,500,000