APPT Manila Championship (165,000 PHP)

Chin Wei Lim pushed the last 15,300 all-in and was called by Frd Aso Seitaro.

Chin Wei Lim: 7♦ 7♥

Frd Aso Seitaro: A♠ J♠

Board: T♠ 7♠ 3♦ 6♥ 9♥

Lim flopped a set, but the spades added some anxiety. Eventually, Lim was unscathed and doubled-up.

Frd Aso Seitaro made a min-raise then put all his 48,000 chips at risk following the all-in raise by Matthew Wakeman.

Frd Aso Seitaro: J♠ T♠

Matthew Wakeman: A♣ K♣

Board: 2♥ 9♦ Q♠ 8♥ 6♠

Seitaro made a straight to double up while Wakeman murmured unpleasant things to the poker gods.

While a typhoon rages around Manila, the poker action at Okada Manila for Flight B of the APPT Manila Championship is also creating its own storm. 142 entries for Flight B have met the buy-in requirement of PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850) in order to compete for a share of the PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850) guaranteed prize pool. 108 players are still battling it out for a chance to advance to the Day 2 leg tomorrow.

Patrick Crivell sits with the biggest stack at 138,300 and is followed closely by Emmanuel Derecho with 138,000. Rounding up the top three is Marc Anthony Joseph with 136,500, but that's just a spit away for Seonghun Jeong with a near-identical 136,000.

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

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

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

Entries: 108/142

Starting Stack: 50,000

Chan Truong raised to 1,000 from under the gun and was re-popped to 2,800 by Takumi Odani two seats over. Frd Aso Seitaro pushed the meter higher to 7,500 with Truong getting out of the way and Odani pushing it further to 16,500. Seitaro cranked it all the way and shoved all-in with Odani eventually giving up.

Seitaro bagged the huge pot without any card show.

The stormy weather hasn't slowed down the action in Flight B of the APPT Manila Championship here at Okada Manila. So far, there have been 94 entries making the buy-in of PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850) to compete for the guaranteed prize pool of at least PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850). 85 players are still on their seats, hoping to advance to Day 2 tomorrow. Leading the Flight is Japan's Frd Aso Seitaro with a chip stack of 160,000. Not that far behind is Jian Hui Giam with 136,000 chips and Seonghun Jeong with 124,000.

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

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

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

Entries: 85/94

Starting Stack: 50,000

The player from UTG+1 made it 700 to see a flop and got Frd Aso Seitaro at the hijack and Matthew Wakeman at the button to play. The flop opened 5♦ K♠ 3♦ with action checked to Wakeman at the button who bet out 2,500 and was called by Seitaro. Both are shown a 9♠ on the turn and both checked to see a 9♣ river. Seitaro bet out 4,500 and was called by Wakeman.

Sietaro flipped over A♠ J♣ for a pair of nines with an ace-high while Wakeman showed K♦ 8♦ for two-pair kings and nines to take down the pot.

Frd Aso Seitaro raised to 500 from UTG and got 3 callers including Ronald Ashely Lane at the hi-jack and the players on the button and the big blind. All four players saw a flop of 2♠ A♦ 7♦, then checked it down to see a 5♥ turn. The option was checked to Seitaro, who fired 1,600 and was raised by Lane to 4,000. The other players got out of the way and Seitaro made the call to see a K♦ turn. Seitaro check-raised the 6,500 bet of Lane to 16,000. Lane avoided and folded his hand.

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