APPT Manila Championship (165,000 PHP)

Flight A of the APPT Manila Championship wrapped up after 11 levels and nearly 12 hours of tournament poker. 59 hopefuls out of 165 total entries will be moving on to Day 2, inching their way closer to a payout from the guaranteed prize pool of PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850). Flight B will play tomorrow with the survivors of those joining the "Flight A Fifty-Nine" for Day 2.

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

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

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

Entries: 165

Starting Stack: 50,000

Average Stack: 139,831

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

Remaining players: 59

Here's a look at the Flight A chip counts:

Thijs Hilberts made a min-raise from under the gun with 5 players calling behind from the hi-jack all the way to the big blind. 6 players are treated to a flop of A♥ 7♥ Q♣ . Action is checked to Marco Espela at the cut-off who bets 10,000, but is re-popped to 18,500 by Hilberts while everyone else folds. Espela makes the call to see an 8♦ turn. Hilberts shoves all-in for his last 53,700 and Espela doesn't take the challenge.

Flight A of the APPT Manila Championship has played through 7 levels. 83 players still remain out of 133 total entries, who paid the PHP 165,000 (~US$ 2,850) buy-in for a chance to win a share from the PHP 55,000,000 (~US$ 960,850) guaranteed prize pool.

Georgis Skarparis is the current chip leader with 186,000. Former chip leader Rishi Mehra dropped to second in chips with a healthy stack of 164,400. Edilberto Gopez rounds up the top three with 152,200.

Date/s: October 23 to 27, 2024

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

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

Entries: 83/133

Starting Stack: 50,000

Marco Espela raised to 500 from the cut-off and Chirag Shah defended the big blind for both players to see a flop of T♣ 7♦ T♦ . Both players check to see a 5♣ turn. Shah check-calls the 1,300 bet from Espela to see a J♦ river. Both players check and Shah turns over J♣ 7♥ while Espela taps the table for a nice hand and mucks his cards.

Mitani Jun raised to 600 from under the gun with Marco Espela calling from the button and Rocky Paradise defending the big blind to see a flop 5♥ 3♣ J♠. Espela and Paradise check-call the 1,000 bet from Mitani to see a K♦ turn. All check to see the Q♥ river, and then all three check again for a three-way showdown.

Rocky Paradise flips over A♠ Q♠ and Mitanni and Espela don't bother to show their losing hands.