Poker Dream Manila: Wai Keong Yong tops Main Event Day 1A; Jinlong Hu,Wei Hsiang Yeu, Wooseok Kim, Darren Yu win trophies

Things are heating up at Poker Dream Manila with the Main Event drawing in players for a shot at the PHP 20,000,000 guarantee. Among the 141 Day 1A attendees were notables Marc Rivera, Ngoc Anh Cao, Florencio Campomanes, Seungsoo Jeon, Sang Nguyen, Moses Saquing, Sriharsha Doddapaneni, and Poker Dream founder Winfred Yu.

After a lengthy thirteen hours of play, only 22 advanced to Day 2 with Malaysia’s Wai Keong Yong bagging the chip lead of 421,000 (53 bb). Another highlight of the day was the Lucky Draw that saw Ewe Eng Soon win his Main Event entry buy in back.

More action ahead as Day 1B takes the floor on Friday, May 5, 2023 at Newport World Resorts. Cards in the air at 1pm. Registration closes at 8:20pm. This is followed by the last flight, Day 1C Turbo which kicks off at 8pm. Registration closes at 11:30pm.

You can read up on the Day 1A action and today’s Day 1B and Day 1C via the Live Updates on Somuchpoker.

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Event winners

Jinlong Hu wins the Mystery Bounty for PHP 900,000

The past two days has also seen four players walk away with Poker Dream trophies. China’s Jinlong Hu shipped the Mystery Bounty for a payout of PHP 900,000. That’s not including the five bounties he won amounting to over PHP 600K. Hu defeated fellow countryman Chuning Tan at heads up. You can read up on the action via the SMP Live Updates.

Buy in: PH₱ 36, 000 (~US$ 36,000)
Guarantee: PH₱ 5,000,000 (~US$ 90,240)
Total entries: 267
Prize pool: PH₱ 5,187,276 (~US$ 93,620)
Bounty pool: PH₱ 3,204,000 (~US$ 57,825)
ITM: 41 players

Final table payouts

Place	Player	Flag	Payouts in PH₱
1	Jinlong Hu	China	900,000
2	Chuning Tan	China	810,000
3	Edgar Asehan Jr.	Philippines	496,000
4	Hiromasa Teraoka	Japan	399,076
5	Vamerdino Magsakay	Philippines	312,100
6	Bell John Perez	Philippines	234,800
7	Tian Yu Lee	Taiwan	171,000
8	Jason Kyle Magbanua	Philippines	124,300
9	Masashi Yoshikawa	Japan	105,000

*Heads up deal, play for trophy and PH₱ 100K

Wei Hsiang Yeu wins the Single Day High Roller

Buy in: PH₱ 200,000 (~US$ 2,670) 
Entries: 44
Prize pool: PH₱ 7,853,120 (~US$ 141,730)
ITM: 6 places

Place	Player	Flag	Payouts in PH₱
1	Wei Hsiang Yeu	Malaysia	2,670,000
2	Wai Keong Yong	Malaysia	1,845,000
3	William Jia	Australia	1,177,120
4	Rolands Norietis	Latvia	904,000
5	Sang Van Nguyen	Vietnam	707,000
6	Valeriy Pak	Uzbekistan	550,000

Chip leader Wooseok Kim awarded the NLH/PLO title

Buy in: PH₱ 30,000 (~US$ 550)
Entries: 31
Prize pool: PH₱ 811,890 (~US$ 14,650)
ITM: 5 places

*Heads up deal, trophy awarded to the chip leader

Place	Player	Flag	Payouts in PH₱
1	Wooseok Kim	Korea	267,300*
2	Jun Takada	Japan	240,000*
3	Marvin Sumendap	Indonesia	132,000
4	Keita Takashima	Japan	95,390
5	Enrico De Rosa	Italy	77,200

Darren Yu takes down the Mystery Bounty Turbo

Buy in: PH₱ 15,000 (~US$ 275
Entries: 77
Prize pool: PH₱ 600,908 (~US$ 10,845)
Bounty pool: PH₱ 385,000 (~US$ 6,950)
ITM: 11 places

*Bounties not included

Place	Player	Flag	Payouts in PH₱
1	Darren Yu	Philippines	165,300
2	Raymundo Gomez Jr	Philippines	116,908
3	Richard Marquez	Philippines	77,000
4	Harun Mzb	Brunei	59,200
5	Yuki Tsumura	Japan	46,900
6	Shun Kawakami	Japan	36,700
7	Linh Dieu Phuong Nguyen	Vietnam	28,900
8	Yuta Onishi	Japan	22,600
9	Sum Lih Jian	Malaysia	17,200
10	Tung Duy Nguyen	Vietnam	15,100
11	Edwin Dela Cruz	Philippines	15,100