APPT National (60,000 PHP)

Another early position raise is executed by Filipino Renniel Galvez as he pumps it to 12,000 from UTG. Japan's Takumi Odomi in the +1 and Karia Siddharth from BB join in.

The flop is 2♥ 3♦ 5♦ as Siddharth and the original raiser Galvez check. Odomi takes the betting lead for 14,000 as the Indian folds. Galvez, though, check-raises to 42,000 and Odomi makes the call. The turn is the 5♣ as Galvez shoves his remaining 178,000 to the middle. Odomi squirms in his seat and burns two YTime Cards before yileding to the Filipino's aggression.

The pot almost double's Galvez's stack.

The APPT National resumes today, October 23, 2024 at Okada Manila with Day 2 starting at 11am. Out of the 398 entries, 60 players return for a shot at the PHP 4,080,000 (~US$ 70,600) top prize.

Buy in: PHP 60,000 (~US$ 1,038)

Guarantee: PHP 15,000,000 (~US$ 262,000)

Entries: 398

Prize pool: PHP 20,847,240 (~US$ 361,640)

ITM: 60 players

The player to watch is APPT champion Florencio Campomanes who enters with a towering 701,000 stack. Campomanes has already captured two APPT shard trophies in his career and has also reached the final table of the recently concluded APPT Open.

Other players to watch for are Gary Thompson and Edgar Asehan - both players have consistently run deep at multiple APPT events, APPT Open champion Matthew Wakeman, Mini High Roller champion Thomas Ward, Taiwanese ace Nevan Yu Chung Chang, and Okada Kickoff champion Czardy Rivera.

The plan today is to play down to the final table. Day 2 opens with blinds at 2000-4000 ante 4000.

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