Flight A of the APPT Warm Up Main Event featuring a PHP 5 Million guarantee played out today at the Pokerstars LIVE room at Okada Manila, Philippines. A total of 88 entered across the ten levels of registration and played nearly nine hours before the bubble burst to signal the end of day.
The 14 surviving players are the first advance to the next round – Day 2 – which takes place on Saturday, July 13, 2024, and are the first to be ensured a piece of the pot.
Benhur Ybarsabal Tops Flight A
Setting the bar high for the next heat is Benhur Ybarsabal of the Philippines with 338,000 (68 bb). Ybarsabal was in danger of elimination two busts before ITM with his pocket Kings outdrawn on the turn by Christian Lortie’s two pair. However, the board paired on the river to give Ybarsabal the higher two pair. To take the lead, Ybarsabal knocked out Adrianto Tan on the bubble.
On Ybasabal’s tail is Taiwan’s Liao Po Hsun with 279,000 (56 bb), and rounding out the top three is Oleg Mordassov of Switzerland with 249,000 (50 bb).
You can read up on some of the exciting action of Flight A via the live reports.
End of Flight A Chip Counts
| Benhur Ybarsabal | 338,000 |
| Liao Po Hsun | 279,000 |
| Oleg Mordassov | 249,000 |
| Ziqiang Li | 228,000 |
| Guillermo Ricarte | 219,000 |
| Gilson Chan | 195,000 |
| Masashi Fukunaga | 188,000 |
| Ashley Patterson | 177,000 |
| Kunwoo Kim | 174,000 |
| Mark Almusajin | 147,000 |
| Christian Lortie | 147,000 |
| Seunggeon Shin | 130,000 |
| Jae Geun Lee | 94,000 |
| Ronato Alcano | 72,000 |
Up next is Flight B on Thursday, July 11, 2024 starting at 1pm. Buy in is PHP 16,500 (~USD 280). Following that flight are two more chances on Friday July 12, 2024.
Dates: July 10 – 14, 2024
Buy in: PHP 16,500 (~USD 280)
Guarantee: PHP 5,000,000 (~USD 85,290)
ITM: 15% of the field
Flight A: 88 entries / 14 ITM
Flight B: Thursday, July 11
Flight C: Friday, July 12
Flight D Turbo: Friday, July 12
Day 2: Saturday, July 13
Final Day: Sunday, July 14
APPT Warm Up Main Event Kicks Off Today In Manila, Philippines
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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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