While the Ace Poker League (APL) Manila Main Event was hunting down its final 9 players, running alongside was the Mini Main Event featuring a PHP 3 Million guarantee. Across two flights, 191 turned up to boost the pot to a richer PHP 3,520,130 (~$63,435). Only 29 advanced to the final day led by Malaysia’s William Teoh with a monstrous 214 bb stack, that’s more than double his nearest challenger. With this massive artillery, Teoh has the best chance of walking away with the title and pocketing the PHP 758,430 (~$13,665) top prize.
Teoh’s rise began at 4 players to ITM when he spiked the gutshot against Seokho Lee. Hand opens with a min-raise of 6,000 by Lee, hijack Teoh three-bets 16,000, then proceeds to bet every street 30,000, 55,000, and all in on the river 
. Lee calls him down and shows 
, Teoh with 
straight.
Teoh pumped in more chips by booting Yan Tang with 
all in on a flop 
winning the race against 
. The turn was 
and river 
. Flight A ended with Junne Pamplona (pictured above} 
dominating McEdwin Montanes to pop the bubble.
Over at Flight B, Belov Sviatoslav closed the day as chip leader after first cleaning out Alex Taneo by cracking with 
straight on a board 
then did the same to Joseph Talamayan on the bubble with 
over 
on a board 
.
The Mini Main Event title-chase begins at 12pm on Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 2Ace Poker Manila in Manila, Philippines.
Buy in: PHP 20,000 (~$360)
Guarantee: PHP 3,000,000 (~$54,060)
Entries: 191
Prize pool: PHP 3,520,130 (~$63,435)
ITM: 29 players
End of Day 1 – 29 players
| William Teoh | 856,000 |
| Belov Sviatoslav | 419,000 |
| Jonald Garcia | 332,000 |
| Sandy Cea | 324,000 |
| Choi Dongwoo | 323,000 |
| Kim Younghyun | 283,000 |
| Christopher Mateo | 275,000 |
| Raymundo Gomez | 254,000 |
| Ryan Jerico Platon | 252,000 |
| Junnie Pamplona | 209,000 |
| Sean Kristoffer Manalon | 203,000 |
| Yu Hyunmook | 197,000 |
| Marvin Cerbito | 191,000 |
| Orly Dequina | 190,000 |
| Michael Bueza | 166,000 |
| Noh Eundong | 148,000 |
| Chierro De Leon | 137,000 |
| Park Jong Chul | 128,000 |
| Renniel Galvez | 119,000 |
| Chogo Kento | 112,000 |
| Diana Tan | 111,000 |
| Elmer Kalaquian | 85,000 |
| Chang Chia Wei | 83,000 |
| Yburan Alejevel | 82,000 |
| Yang Zhixin | 78,000 |
| Luke Pangan | 67,000 |
| Lee Gibaek | 51,000 |
| Matsuda Michihiko | 44,000 |
| Jose Ruzzel | 33,000 |
Payouts
| 1 | ₱758,430 |
| 2 | ₱510,100 |
| 3 | ₱359,700 |
| 4 | ₱291,600 |
| 5 | ₱230,700 |
| 6 | ₱175,200 |
| 7 | ₱127,900 |
| 8 | ₱93,500 |
| 9 | ₱77,400 |
| 10-11 | ₱65,600 |
| 12-13 | ₱58,400 |
| 14-15 | ₱53,000 |
| 16-17 | ₱47,600 |
| 18-20 | ₱42,300 |
| 21-23 | ₱38,700 |
| 24-27 | ₱35,100 |
| 28-29 | ₱31,500 |
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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