UK’s Ryan Plant Wins First Elite Trophy At USOP Hai Phong Superstar Challenge

Ryan Plant at USOP Hai Phong
Ryan Plant

Earlier today, U Series of Poker unveiled its newest hardware, the Elite Champions Trophy and just moments ago, the first one was captured by UK’s Ryan Plant at the Superstar Challenge. Along with the trophy Plant won VN₫ 2,180,000,000 (~US$ 88,600), the biggest live tournament score for his poker career. In a brief chat with the newly minted Plant, he shared,

“This is my biggest score in live poker. I won the Mini High Roller last USOP Danang but the trophy is better this time. We made a joke with our friend that that’s what we want to play for, it’s like the nicest trophy.”

With everyone at the table highly decorated, Plant felt his toughest competition were his friend Max Buschmann and Abhinav Iyer. 

“Abhi is pretty good. We had similar stacks, then with my Ace-Kings versus pocket Kings, I got a lucky ace on the turn.”

Abhinav Iyer at USOP Hai Phong
Abhinav Iyer

At three-handed, with Plant and Iyer near even in chips, they engaged in a preflop war that ended with Plant calling Iyer’s five-bet shove. Plant had AcKs, Iyer with KcKd, the board ran Jc10d10sAh7c. After the count,Iyer still had 1 bb left.

On the next hand, Nguyen Van Binh was all in for his last 6 bb with As5h, Iyer joined in with Qc7s, Plant called with 8d8c. The board was 5s4d10h3s4s for a double knockout victory.


The Superstar Challenge was a two-day affair running from September 13 to 14, 2024. Day 2 saw the return of the final 9 players out of the 68-entry field. Here are the numbers and how they placed.

12 SS Challenge FT USOP Hai Phong 02884

Buy in: VN₫ 120,000,000 (~US$ 4,800)
Guarantee: VN₫ 3,000,000,000 (~US$ 121,930)
Entries: 68 (47 unique)
Prize pool: VN₫ 7,159,040,000 (~US$ 290,960)
ITM: 10 places

Place Player Flag Payout in VN₫
1 Ryan Plant UK 2,180,000,000
2 Nguyen Van Binh Vietnam 1,454,000,000
3 Abhinav Iyer India 965,000,000
4 Max Buschmann Germany 670,000,000
5 Yuanxi Chen Singapore 480,000,000
6 Do Xuan Huan Vietnam 360,000,000
7 Tao Wei Chang Taiwan 295,000,000
8 Huu Dung Nguyen Vietnam 265,000,000
9 Xudong Yang China 250,000,000
10 Minh A Nguyen Vietnam 240,000,000

Watch the race to victory via the livestream.

Links:

USOP Hai Phong – News
USOP Hai Phong – Daily Updates
USOP Hai Phong – Schedule / Player Guide 
USOP Hai Phong – Photos 
USOP Hai Phong – Festival Results

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