APPT National (60,000 PHP)

It didn't take long for China's Chen Zhen to complete the task begun by Finn Penderak of Germany in dispatching Filipino pro Renniel Galvez. In fact, Penderak also offered an initial assist.

Folded to Galvez in the +2 position, the Filipino shoved his remaining stack of 76,000 and got called by Penderak on the D. But Chen re-popped it to 150,000 from the SB and still got called by the German.

The flop came J♥ J♦ 8♠ . Chen led out for 115,000 and Penderak folded.

Galvez was initially thrilled to see he was ahead with Q♦ 8♦ against his opponent's K♠ Q♠ .

However, the turn was the 9♣ and the river was the T♥ to have Chen emerge victorious via a backdoor straight.

Chen also joins the seven digit circle with the win.

Filipino pro Renniel Galvez had the action folded to him on the CO and raised to 32,000. In the SB, Finn Penderak of Germany re-raises all-in for 381,000 and sends Galvez into the tank so long that he needed to use two Time Bank cards before deciding to call.

Penderak turns over A♥ Q♦ while Galvez has J♣ J♥ .

The flop automatically swung things around in favor of the German: Q♣ 5♣ 8♥ and the subsequent cards were 5♦ and 6♠ .

Galvez now drops to well below ten BB on the hit.

Here are the chip-leaders entering the upcoming blinds - 4,000/8,000 (8,000):

Finn Penderak of Germany shows Siddiq Hassaan of Pakistan the door after a raise and a 3-bet shove and call resulted in Penderak tabling J♠ J♦ and Hassaan one point back with T♣ T♠ .

The board made it official: 6♠ 2♦ Q♠ 9♠ K♥ .