The second Elite Trophy has been captured and to none more deserving than Romania’s Bogdan Munteanu at the High Roller Championship! Munteanu dominated Jia 3:1 at heads up, and despite both players still deep, the final hand arrived as a flip. Jia three-bet all in holding 
, Munteanu called with 
, the board came 
.
“I am very happy, and the trophy is really beautiful. It’s my first time in Asia, first time at USOP, the atmosphere is great, I love it. My friends were coming and told me it’s a great spot so I decided to come along. I am from Romania but I was actually in Greece vacationing and I decided to fly over just for this event. It has been a very good year so far for me.”
It wasn’t an easy ride though for Munteanu who admitted,
“This tournament was very tough, the toughest final table lineup that could have been for me. All players were professional. In the end, I got some good chances and I played well so here we are!”
Watch the race to victory via the livestream:
High Roller Championship – LIVESTREAM
Buy in: VN₫ 150,000,000 (~US$ 6,000)
Guarantee: VN₫ 2,500,000,000 (~US$ 101,850)
Entries: 34 (28 unique)
Prize pool: VN₫ 4,474,400,000 (~US$ 182,295)
ITM: 5 places
1st Bogdan Munteanu – VN₫ 1,700,000,000 (~US$ 69,260)
2nd William Jia – VN₫ 1,100,000,000 (~US$ 44,815)
3rd Konstantin Held – VN₫ 745,000,000 (~US$ 30,350)
4th Le Ngoc Minh – VN₫ 529,000,000 (~US$ 21,550)
5th Max Buschmann – VN₫ 400,400,000 (~US$ 16,315)
Munteanu’s rise began at 7-handed, rising from 16 bb to 61 bb. Two of the winning hands were up against the leader Le Ngoc Minh. The larger of which was when he tank-called the river bet on a board 
. Le had 
to play the board, Munteanu outkicked with 
. The other hand was a double up through recent Superstar Challenge champion Ryan Plant with 
dominating 
.
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