APPT Manila Championship (165,000 PHP)

Vietnam's Hieu Ngo opens the action with a 40,000 raise from UTG and gets called by chip leader John Edward Perry in the HJ. From the CO, Joris Michl of the Netherlands 3-bets all-in for 625,000 as Hieu decides to fold. Perry goes into the tank and uses one of his six allotted Time Banks for this phase. The Australian opts to call.

With Perry hitting trips on the flop, Michl was drawing dead on the turn and the Dutchman crashes out in 26th place.

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APPT Manila Championship remaining players:

Event #31 APPT Manila Championship

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

Venue: Okada Manila, Parañaque City, Philippines

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

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

Prize Pool: PHP 59,922,720 (~US$1,028,270)

Entries: 416

Players ITM: 63

Total Chips in Play: 20,800,000

Average Stack: 742,857

Blinds: 8,000/16,000 (16,000)

Remaining players: 28

After a series of preflop raises, the pot between Joris Michl of The Netherlands and local hopeful Martin Gonzales comes down to a virtual coinflip.

Gonzales' boat keeps him afloat as Michl takes a moderate hit.

The Korean actually flopped the nut straight but Campomanes had the cards necessary to reverse the situation and nailed it on the turn. Lee will now have a story to tell as he now heads to the sidelines for good.

With the action folded to him on the HJ, Kim Dohwan of Korea takes the opportunity to go for it all by shoving his stack of 73,000. On the D, however, Joris Michl of the Netherlands makes the call.

Kim turns over A♣ Q♠ while Michl shows 7♠ 7♥ .

The flop padded the Dutchman's lead: 7♣ K♠ 3♣ and by the time the 9♠ arrived on the turn, the Korean was drawing dead. The river card was the 2♦ as Kim is busted on Michl's set on the flop.

Two Day 1 flights including some last minute Day 2 registrants brought the final total entries to 416, each of whom coughed up the buy-in of PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850) to take part in APPT Manila Championship main event. The total entries built the prize pool to PHP 59,922,720 (~US$ 1,027,000), surpassing the PHP 55,000,000 guarantee. 102 players are still competing with 63 guaranteed a minimum payout of PHP250,000 (~US$ 4,285). Of course, all eyes are focused on the grand prize of PHP 11,610,000 (~US$ 200,000).

Of the 102 players remaining, Moses Saquing of the Philippines stands as the chip leader with 744,000 chips. Flight B chip leader Kim Kiyoung is staying on course with the second biggest stack with 711,000. Rounding up the top three is John Edward Perry with 538,000. 14 Levels have been played so far with 7 more to go before the survivors bag their chips for another leg on Day 3 tomorrow. There's still a lot more poker and anything can happen.

APPT Manila Championship (Day 2, October 25)

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

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

Prize Pool: PHP 59,922,720 (~US$ 1,027,000)

Entries: 416

Starting Stack: 50,000

Average Stack: 203,900

Blinds: 1,500/3,000 Ante 3,000

Remaining players: 102

ITM: 63

Here are the present chip leader as registration is set to close after the current break.

APPT Championship Chip Leaders:

Vam Magsakay min-raised to 2,000 from the hi-jack and got Georgios Skarparis at the button and Joris Michl from the small blind to call. All three players were present a flop of 3♠ 5♦ J♠. Action was checked to the raiser, and Magsakay obliged them with a 3,000 bet. Both called to see a 3♦ turn. This time around it was only Michl who check-called the 8,000 bet from Masgsakay. After the 9♠ river was dealt, Michl checked the option to Magsakay, who pushed all-in for the last 16,100. Michl took a last peek at the hole cards and chucked them to the muck pile.