PPWC: Alpheus Chan ends Main Event Day 1B at the top of 46 survivors; William Ysmael close behind

It was an action-packed Sunday at the PPPoker World Championship with Main Event Day 1B dragging out 143 players to host venue Resorts World Manila. The draw of course was none other than the meaty PHP 20 Million (US$382,000) guaranteed prize pool. By the end of the scheduled 10 hours of play, only 46 had chips to bag. Owning the leader’s status was Canada’s Alpheus Chan with 273,500 in chips.

During the first half of the day, Chan eliminated WSOP champion Mike Takayama, one of the most well-known figures in Philippine poker. In the latter half, he delivered a double knockout with his spiking royalty on the board to bounce out and . Chan has now overtaken Day 1A chip leader Abhinav Iyer (230,400) and will be the player to catch up to for Day 1C players.

Trailing close behind the leader is Filipino pro William Ysmael with 266,500. Ysmael catapulted to the top of the rankings after taking down German pro Marvin Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier raise-shoved on the river board . Ysmael found the guts to call it and shipped the massive pot with over . Ysmael takes second rank in the combined starting days.  

The only other player to settle above the 200k marker was Ireland’s Mark Gruendemann with 204,100. Gruendemann’s stack swung all day until his paid off with a straight to ship all of a player’s stack. He completes the top three leaders of the day.

Other notable players coloring the survivors list were: Lester Edoc, Alex Lee, Kiat Lee, John Tech, Tzai Wei Phua, Ying Lin Chua, Si Yang Phua, and Hung Sheng Lin.

You can read up on the action the Day 1B Live Updates post.

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Day 1B chip counts

No.	Name	Chip Count	Nationality
1	Alpheus Tin Ho Chan	273,500	Canada
2	Ysmael William Lim	266,500	Philippines
3	Mark Gruendemann	204,100	Ireland
4	Daniel Lankford Smith	185,900	New Zealand
5	Marquez Richard Serrano	184,300	Philippines
6	Lester Edoc	178,000	Philippines
7	Mendoza James Uy	173,600	USA
8	Alex Lee Xiang Wei	148,700	Singapore
9	Pena Jharome Capito	145,200	Philippines
10	Olsson Per Douglas	143,600	Philippines
11	Guillem Ivan	138,100	Spain
12	Samuel Santa Puche	130,000	Spain
13	Kim Choong Kon	128,400	Korea
14	Haydar Merih Arkun	121,500	Turkey
15	Lee June Kiat	115,100	Malaysia
16	John Zendrick De Guzman Tech	110,900	Philippines
17	Loo Junzhong	107,000	Malaysia
18	Tan Yongquan	104,400	Singapore
19	William Tjokroprawiro	100,800	Indonesia
20	Georges Chehade	88,800	Lebanon
21	Benedict Koh Gek Chiang	84,000	Singapore
22	Rajeev Kanjani	82,800	India
23	Inclan Elijah John Legarde	82,100	Philippines
24	Dypvik Borge	79,200	Norway
25	Yoo Yong Hyun	74,900	Korea
26	Phua Tzai Wei	60,700	Lebanon
27	Khalife Hanna	60,500	Lebanon
28	Witcha Wïtoonchart	56,600	Thailand
29	Ugur Ozgur Secilmis	53,300	Turkey
30	William Allyn Schrodeder	50,100	USA
31	Chua Ying Lin	47,000	Malaysia
32	Benjamins Gregory	45,200	Netherlands
33	Ruben Mar Ongnclamares	45,100	Philippines
34	Vamerdino Abad Magsakay	44,100	Philippines
35	Usawad Pakinai	43,800	Thailand
36	Yammin Tarek Jack	41,200	Denmark
37	Damrongsak Pruksakit	40,600	Thailand
38	Teoh Ming Hong	39,200	Malaysia
39	Phua Si Yang	39,200	Singapore
40	Orjan Skommo	34,200	Norway
41	Lin Hung-Sheng	29,800	Taiwan
42	Joseph Ty Sia	26,800	Philippines
43	Ong Jingxiang	26,400	Singapore
44	Moses C Saquing	23,400	Philippines
45	Joven Ingente Huerto	22,200	Philippines
46	Tor Anton Welo	16,900	Norway

All of these players advance to Day 2 taking place on Tuesday, February 19 at 12pm.

Day 1B casualties

With the field downsized considerably from 143 to 46 players, the list of fallouts included well known players: Pete Chen, Linh Tran, Lim Yohwan, Pham Bao, Simon Burns, Gabriela Belisario, Florencio Campomanes, Marcuss Liow, Kai Paulsen, Dhanesh Chainani, and Sumit Sapra. All is not lost though, they will have one more chance to get back in the running with Day 1C (last starting day) coming up next.

Day 1C is on Monday, February 18 at 2pm. Buy-in is PHP 55,000 (US$ 1,050) So far, a combined total of 68 players out of the 207 runners have advanced to this upcoming elimination round.

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Article by Tricia David