Nguyen Manh HungYou would have thought it was already the festival headliner seeing the sea of heads at the Mini Main Event. Over three Day 1 flights, it drew 1,112 entries to amass record high VN₫ 11,649,300,000 (~USD 470,600) prize pool for this event. Vietnam’s own Nguyen Manh Hung clinched it for his largest career score to date of VN₫ 1,810,000,000 (~USD 73,000) and first USOP win.
After a lengthy 13+ hours, Nguyen Manh Hung emerged victorious at the record breaking USOP Danang 2024 Mini Main Event, pocketing a career high payout of 1,8B CROWN (~$73,000). Nguyen with A10 defeated Yu Xiao Tong at heads up with K9 and the final board 967 7 A
. This was Nguyen’s first USOP title.
For runner up Yu, his comeback from just 5 bb also awarded a billion, walking away with a career high score of ~1B CROWN (~$43,000).
Date: March 25 to 27, 2024
Buy in: 12,000,000 CROWN (~$494)
Guarantee: 3,000,000,000 CROWN (~$121,000)
Entries: 1,112 (826 unique)
Prize pool: 11,649,300,000 CROWN (~USD 470,600)
ITM: 138 players
Payout Final Table
| Place | Player | Flag | Payout in CROWN | ~USD |
| 1 | Nguyen Manh Hung | Viet Nam | 1,810,000,000 | 73,013 |
| 2 | Yu Xiao Tong | China | 1,066,000,000 | 43,001 |
| 3 | Lee Jung Hyun | Korea | 715,300,000 | 28,854 |
| 4 | Zhi Yuan Xu | China | 530,900,000 | 21,416 |
| 5 | Bartlomiej Swieboda | Poland | 417,900,000 | 16,858 |
| 6 | Giuseppe Murabito | Italy | 332,500,000 | 13,413 |
| 7 | Chou Yu Hinh | Taiwan | 264,600,000 | 10,674 |
| 8 | Lu Wei Chen | Taiwan | 216,500,000 | 8,733 |
| 9 | Wang Hao Zhao | China | 185,000,000 | 7,463 |
