Kenny 'Chopuh' Huynh Wins World Series of Poker Online $400 No-Limit Hold'em Event

Kenny ‘Chopuh’ Huynh outlasted a field of 2,545 total entries to win the 2020 World Series of Poker Online $400 no-limit hold’em event. The New Jersey resident earned $133,857 and his first WSOP gold bracelet as the champion of this event. This is the largest recorded score of his tournament career.

This event attracted 1,757 unique players, who re-entered 788 times to create a final prize pool of $916,200. The top 371 finishers made the money, cashing for at least $641. Among the big names to make the money in this event were all-time bracelet leader Phil ‘Lumestackin’ Hellmuth (310th – $733), four-time bracelet winner Mike ‘Mouth123’ Matusow (88th – $1,374), Matt ‘Berkey11_S4Y’ Berkey (75th – $1,466), 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan ‘bitc0in’ Riess (70th – $1,649), WPT champion Justin ‘tamaratibles’ Young (30th – $3,482), and bracelet winner and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event champion Galen ‘turkmalloy’ Hall (25th – $4,398).

Kenneth ‘KBconcepts’ Phillips was out in front by the time the field was narrowed down to the final table of nine. Paul ‘Debt2Me’ Gunness was the first player knocked out at the final table, running A4 into the pocket jacks of Michael ‘namhtiw1’ Whitman. Gunness paired his fours but failed to improve any further and was sent home with $11,361. Michael ‘vapor098’ Federico followed Gunness to the virtual rail moments later. He got the last of his chips in with AJ, only to run into the AK of Whitman. Two kings on the flop increased Whitman’s lead in the hand, and a blank on the turn left Federico drawing dead. He earned $14,659as the eighth-place finisher, while Whitman overtook the chip lead.

Huynh won a big pot off of Phillips to climb up the leaderboard, and then secured his place at the top of the counts by knocking out Whitman in a big preflop coinflip. Whitman held pocket nines and was upagainst the A-K of Huynh. Both players made a straight on the turn, but it was Huynh’s ace-high straight that took down the pot. Whitman finished in seventh place, earning $19,149 for his strong showing in this event.

Huynh furthered his lead by knocking out Hunter ‘Hunt_Dizzle’ Frey in sixth place. He picked up Q10 in the hijack and min-raised to 480,000. Frey called with J9 from the big blind and the two saw a flop of JJ7. Frey checked his trips and Huynh continuation bet 420,000. Frey called and the turn brought the A, giving Huynh both a flush draw and a gutshot straight draw. The rest of the chips went in on the turn and Huynh made his flush on the river with the 6. Frey was awarded $25,287 for his deep run.

Kennth ‘KBconcepts’ Phillips’ run in this event came a conclusion when he lost a preflop race with A10 up against the 77 of Vincent ‘meatball44’ Ablahani. Neither player improved and Ablahani’s pocket pair locked up the pot. Phillips earned $33,625 as the fifth-place finisher.

Sang “youngkoi” Lee also ended up with his tournament life on the line in a preflop coinflip situation. Lee held JJ and was called by Huynh, who had been dealt AK. Huynh took the lead on an ace-high flop. Lee was unable to regain the advantage and hit the rail in fourth place ($44,985).

The next major clash took place after the final three players all saw a flop of A62 after Vincent ‘meatball44’ Ablahani had min-riased to 560,000 from the button and the two players in the blinds had made the call. Matthew ‘610610’ Berger checked from the small blind and Huynh checked behind. Ablahani bet 1,120,000. Berger called and Huynh got out of the way. The Q hit the turn and Berger checked. Ablahani bet 2,572,500 and Berger check-raised all-in. Ablahani called with AQ for top two pair, but Berger showed 66 for a flopped set. The river was the 10 and Ablahani was knocked out in third place, taking home $60,744.

With that Berger took roughly a 2:1 chip lead into heads-up play against Huynh. By the time the final hand was health, Huynh had managed to turn the tables to hold a solid lead of his own. Huynh limped on the button with 63 and Berger checked with 96. The flop came down 654 and Beger checked. Huynh bet 472,500 and Berger called. The 6 on the turn gave both players trip sixes. Berger checked and Huynh bet 1,181,250. Berger check-raised to 3,150,000. Huynh called and the 2 completed the board. Berger checked and Huynh, with a straight made on the river, moved all-in. Berger called with his trip sixes, only to find that his hand was second best. He earned $82,733 as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts awrded at the final table:

Huynh photo credit: Borgata Poker Blog.

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