Final Day
Lai Xin Hua Eliminated In 4th Place - PHP 1,685,000

Lai Xin Hua has been dealt his final hand with Jose Colada shutting him out in 4th place.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LX Lai Xin Hua | A♠9♠ | busted |
JC Jose Colada | A♥K♥ | 1,700,000(283 BB) |

Jose Colada Doubles Up

Jose Colada is all in for 560,000 and doubles up through Lai Xin Hua.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
JC Jose Colada | A♦7♥ | 1,200,000(200 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | J♦T♦ | 710,000(118 BB) |
Lai Xin Hua Doubles Up Again

Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
JC Jose Colada | Q♣9♥ SB | 1,100,000(183 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | K♥J♠ BB | 840,000(140 BB) |
Lai Xin Hua Rivers It To Survive

Down to 2 bb, Lai Xin Hua goes all in and Mike Takayama attempts to eliminate.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LX Lai Xin Hua | Q♥6♥ | 630,000(105 BB) |
MT Mike Takayama | A♦K♣ | 5,600,000(933 BB) |
Straight For Lai Xin Hua

Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LX Lai Xin Hua | Q♣T♣ | 830,000(17 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | A♠J♠ | 1,275,000(26 BB) |
Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MT Mike Takayama | 5,500,000(110 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 2,800,000(56 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,810,000(36 BB) |
LE Lester Edoc | 1,800,000(36 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 1,200,000(24 BB) |
Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MT Mike Takayama | 4,230,000(106 BB) |
LE Lester Edoc | 2,175,000(54 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 1,880,000(47 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,810,000(45 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 1,240,000(31 BB) |
Another Pot For Mike Takayama

Lai Xin Hua opens 60,000, Ronald Haverkamp three-bets 200,000, big blind Mike Takayama flats, and Lai opts to fold. The flop J♣ 6♥ 6♠ is checked, Takayama bets 300,000 on the turn 4♣ , no takers.
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MT Mike Takayama | 2,700,000(90 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,475,000(49 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 165,000(6 BB) |
Final Table Formed

Player | Chips |
---|---|
MT Mike Takayama | 2,400,000(80 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 1,915,000(64 BB) |
LE Lester Edoc | 1,785,000(60 BB) |
CL Ching Li Lok | 1,545,000(52 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,240,000(41 BB) |
PS Park Seonghun | 935,000(31 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 450,000(15 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 360,000(12 BB) |
RM Richard Marquez | 315,000(11 BB) |
Huge Double Up For Mike Takayama

Intense hand opens with Lai Xin Hua raising 70,000 from hijack, cutoff Mike Takayama calls, small blind Ronald Haverkamp three-bets 280,000, Hua calls, Takayama four-bets all in for 1,090,000, Haverkamp calls, and after tanking, Hua folds and shows Q♦ Q♥ .
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
MT Mike Takayama | A♣A♦ | 2,310,000(77 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | Q♣Q♠ | 185,000(6 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,130,000(38 BB) |
Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
---|---|
LE Lester Edoc | 1,850,000(62 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 1,840,000(61 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 1,415,000(47 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 1,275,000(43 BB) |
MT Mike Takayama | 1,040,000(35 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 940,000(31 BB) |
PS Park Seonghun | 690,000(23 BB) |
VM Vamerdino Magsakay | 675,000(23 BB) |
VB Vinayak Bajaj | 375,000(13 BB) |
RM Richard Marquez | 360,000(12 BB) |
CL Ching Li Lok | 315,000(11 BB) |
Rommel Angeles Misses The Board

Rommel Angeles open shoves 175,000, Vinayak Bajaj calls, big blind Lai Xin Hua joins the shove for 380,000, Bajaj gets out of the way.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
RA Rommel Angeles | Q♠J♣ | busted |
VB Vinayak Bajaj | 860,000(43 BB) | |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 9♥9♦ | 760,000(38 BB) |
Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
---|---|
VB Vinayak Bajaj | 1,380,000(86 BB) |
MR Martin Rundulf Gonzales | 1,100,000(69 BB) |
MD Michael De Leon | 1,080,000(68 BB) |
LE Lester Edoc | 806,000(50 BB) |
RA Ronato Alcano | 775,000(48 BB) |
VM Vamerdino Magsakay | 752,000(47 BB) |
RM Richard Marquez | 751,000(47 BB) |
DB Daniel Benor | 635,000(40 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 483,000(30 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 480,000(30 BB) |
SB Scott Black | 463,000(29 BB) |
PS Park Seonghun | 450,000(28 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 402,000(25 BB) |
MT Mike Takayama | 355,000(22 BB) |
CL Ching Li Lok | 305,000(19 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 216,000(14 BB) |
KK Kitson Kho | 168,000(11 BB) |
SA Seitaro Aso | 163,000(10 BB) |
RA Rommel Angeles | 123,000(8 BB) |
Keisuke Shibachi Falls To Aces

Utg Lai Xin Hua starts the action with a 33,000 raise, utg+1 Richard Marquez calls, small blind Keisuke Shibachi re-raises 100,000, Hua folds, Marquez calls.
At the flop 8♥ 2♥ 7♠ , Keisuke continues for 75,000, Marquez calls, they head to the turn 7♦ . Keisuke fires 95,000, Marquez shoves, Keisuke commits the remaining 165,000 stack.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
KS Keisuke Shibachi | Q♦Q♥ | busted |
RM Richard Marquez | A♣A♥ | 880,000(55 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 402,000(25 BB) |
Lai Xin Hua Wins The Three Way

Four players build a pot of 108,000 and head to a flop 9♦ 8♣ K♦ . Blinds check to hijack Czar Ian Marcos who bets 56,000, Lai Xin Hua calls, small blind checks, big blind Uday Duggal shoves for 107,000. Back to Marcos with a bigger jam of 518,000, Hua uses up five time-banks then makes the with 199,000 behind.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LX Lai Xin Hua | A♦7♦ | 587,000(49 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | K♠J♥ | 518,000(43 BB) |
UD Uday Duggal | T♦7♣ | busted |
The turn 2♦ secures the nut flush for Hua and with the river 6♦ , Hua ships it while railing Duggal in the process.
Lai Xin Hua Doubles Up And More

Keisuke Shibachi opens, cutoff Czar Ian Marcos and button Lai Xin Hua call, big blind Rommel Angeles shoves 422,000. Only Hua calls with just 79,000 total.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
LX Lai Xin Hua | K♦J♠ | 212,000(18 BB) |
RA Rommel Angeles | J♦J♣ | 343,000(29 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 543,000(45 BB) | |
KS Keisuke Shibachi | 220,000(18 BB) |
Random Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
---|---|
MR Martin Rundulf Gonzales | 847,000(85 BB) |
VC Victor Chong | 810,000(81 BB) |
MD Michael De Leon | 780,000(78 BB) |
VB Vinayak Bajaj | 767,000(77 BB) |
PS Park Seonghun | 702,000(70 BB) |
LE Lester Edoc | 535,000(54 BB) |
VM Vamerdino Magsakay | 510,000(51 BB) |
JC Jose Colada | 495,000(50 BB) |
SB Scott Black | 450,000(45 BB) |
CL Ching Li Lok | 380,000(38 BB) |
RM Richard Marquez | 365,000(37 BB) |
RH Ronald Haverkamp | 365,000(37 BB) |
RA Rommel Angeles | 361,000(36 BB) |
DB Daniel Benor | 360,000(36 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | 350,000(35 BB) |
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 283,000(28 BB) |
GR Gabriel Roh | 277,000(28 BB) |
SA Seitaro Aso | 260,000(26 BB) |
LW Louis Wong | 255,000(26 BB) |
FO Francisco Osuna | 248,000(25 BB) |
MR Maxwell Rosete | 240,000(24 BB) |
UD Uday Duggal | 187,000(19 BB) |
LH Lin Hao (2) | 185,000(19 BB) |
KS Keisuke Shibachi | 162,000(16 BB) |
IS Isidro Sifuentes | 46,000(5 BB) |
Bubble Round: Lai Xin Hua Wont Be Bluffed

Czar Ian Marcos kicks off the hand for 13,000 and small blind Lai Xin Hua calls. When the board completes A♠ K♦ 2♥ 3♣ 9♥ , Marcos fires every street - 14,000, 27,000, and unloads it all on the river for 308,000, Lai check-calls it down and exposes Marcos's bluff.
Player | Hand | Chips |
---|---|---|
CI Czar Ian Marcos | 5♣9♣ | 197,000(33 BB) |
LX Lai Xin Hua | A♥Q♦ | 342,000(57 BB) |