APPT Manila Championship (165,000 PHP)

With action folded to the blinds, Edgar Asehan shoved all-in from the small blind for 57,000. Marc Anthony Joseph defended the big blind with a call for his remaining 52,500.

Edgar Asehan: 6♦ 6♣

Marc Anthony Joseph: A♣ 3♥

Board: 5♥ 7♠ 5♠ 8♥ 3♦

Prayers for an ace weren't answered by the poker gods, sending Joseph to the rail and boosting up the stack of Asehan.

Edgar Asehan raised to 1,300 from UTG+2, then completed the 4,500 re-raise of Jennifer Casell on the button. Both players are shown a flop of A♣ K♦ A♥. Asehan check-called the 1,500 bet of Casell to see a 5♣ turn. This time around, Asehan check-folded to the 5,000 bet of Casell, who wins a decent pot to stay afloat.

After a raising tug-of-war, Edgar Asehan called a 16,000 bet from Marc Anthony Joseph with his remaining 14,400.

Edgar Asehan: Q♠ Q♥

Marc Anthony Joseph: K♠ A♥

Board 6♠ 8♣ 2♠ 3♠ 7♣ .

Asehan wins the coin flip and doubles up.

Flight B of the APPT Manila Championship is now playing at the PokerStars Live poker room at Okada Manila. Dealers laid the cards on the felt at 12 noon with 11 one-hour levels to be played. So far 23 hopefuls made the PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850) buy-in to compete for a share of the PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850) guaranteed prize pool.

The weather report may be expecting a tropical storm, but that won't deter poker pros from around the world to seek their chance at winning one of the biggest main event pots in Philippine shores.

Some of the early registrants of Flight B include the likes of South Africa's Marc Anthony Joseph, who made a deep run on yesterday's Flight A, but caught a string of unlucky draws and missed the cut. Joseph was the champion of the NLH-Short Deck event at the U Series of Poker in Hai Phong, Vietnam last month. Joseph has nearly US$ 500K in total live earnings and a big win here should propel him past the half-million mark.

Rishi Mehra of Singapore is also back again from yesterday's disappointment. Mehra was the chip leader through most part of Flight A, but also ran into some unlucky moments. Hopefully, this time Mehra will be able to survive to Day 2. Mehra was a recent runner-up of the NLH APT High Roller 8 Max at the APT Taipei Poker Classic earlier this month, where he made his biggest cash of over US$ 100,000.

Andrej Nagy of Slovakia joins the field today, fresh from a 10th place finish in the PH15,000 NLH Mega Stack event of this series. Last month, Nagy also made an impressive runner-up finish in the NLH-Mystery Bounty event of the Manila Megastack 19 series.

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

Buy in: PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850)

Guarantee: PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850)

Entries: 28/28

Starting Stack: 50,000