APT Main Event (85,000 PHP)

Laurence Hall opened for 3,200 on the button and was met with an all-in shove from Jaegeol Cho, who put his tournament life on the line. Hall, sitting comfortably with one of the largest stacks in the field, made the call without hesitation.

Jaegeol Cho: J♣ J♥

Laurence Hall: A♠ 2♣

The flop came 5♣ 4♠ 9♠ , keeping Cho's jacks in the lead but giving Hall potential outs with an overcard and a gutshot straight draw. The turn K♥ and river 2♥ didn’t connect with Hall, allowing Cho’s jacks to hold. Cho sighed with relief as he secured a crucial double-up.

Good morning, poker fans!

The stage is set, players are ready, and Day 2 of the PHP 85,000 APT Main Event is set to kick off at 11:00 am local time. Survivors from all four opening flights will return to compete together.

After making it through the opening flights, a total of 369 players bagged up their chips and will take their seats in the Grand Ballroom for Day 2. Registration remains open until play starts at 11:00 am. Contestants will play through ten 60-miutes levels untill the bubble burst.

Shortly after registration closes, the payouts will be calculated and converted roughly to USD, then posted on the APT blog.

The top ten stacks going into Day 2 can be found below.

A full APT Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw can be found by CLICKING HERE.

There will be a feature table for live streaming (with a 30-minute delay), which you can access by clicking the links below.

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Flight B of the APT Manila Main Event just concluded its action here at the City of Dreams in Manila. A total of 257 entries were recorded, who all coughed up the PHP 85,000 buy-in for their chance to earn a payout from the gigantic PHP 100,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. However, there were only 110 survivors after ten levels, who will be advancing to compete again on the Day 2 leg, which plays out on Sunday, November 3.

It brings the total number of entries in the Main Event up to 663, which includes entries from Flight A, plus 157 qualifiers.

Out of today's advancing players, Laurence Hall of Australia bagged the biggest stack with a total of 312,000 chips. The Melbourne native has had a stellar poker career in Australia and is now taking the opportunity to play in events around Asia that provide much bigger prizes and payouts, such as here in the Asian Poker Tour. Hall has amassed a nearly US$ 300,000 dollars in total live earnings and a deep run in this APT Main Event will certainly improve his standings to push past that line.

Jeonghan Lee of South Korea ranked second in the counts with 232,100, while Jeorge Lagatuz rounded up the top three with a count of 228,000 chips.

Lee has four APT cashes from way back in 2015 and 2017. Lee's last APT cash was a third-place finish in the APT Manila NLH High Rollers Event in 2017. Perhaps, it's about time he cashed another big one.

Lagatuz of the Philippines already cashed in the first event of this APT Manila with a 27th-place finish in the Philippines National Cup. Perhaps this is the time he gets a deeper run, maybe even a championship.

Other significant names from Flight B that will advance to Day 2 are Lester Edoc of the Philippines (113,100), who sits at third in the Philippines All-Time Money List. Edoc also just recently won the APT Manila No Limit Hold'em - Hyper Turbo Win the Button event just a few days ago.

Rex Clinkscales of the USA (123,300) has over US$ 1.8 Million is total live earnings and a deep run in this main event may see him pass the 2M mark.

Elliot Damashek of the USA (102,100) was the runner-up in the Vietnam National Cup of the APT Hanoi BIllions series last December 2023.

Zhen Chen of China (135,700) has made over $200,000 in six tournament cashes just this October 2024. Two of those were first place finishes that cashed a combined $US 167,000.

Craig Cooper of the UK (100,600) made significant cashes earlier this October at the APT Taipei Poker Classic and is hunting down some payouts from APT Manila.

Matthew Chan of Singapore (67,100) has cashed in APT events in Vietnam and Taiwan, and looks to add the Philippines to the list.

Meanwhile, some notables who failed to make the cut today were recent APT Manila Single Day High Roller Mystery Bounty winner John Matsuda of Japan, Mystery Bounty Hunter final table-ist Magnus Martin of Scotland, recent APT SUper High Roller champion William Teoh of Malaysia.

So far, there are a total of 192 players (82 Flight A, 100 Flight B) who advanced to compete for the APT Main Event Day 2 on November 3. That number will surely increase with 2 more flights to launch tomorrow. The APT Main Event Flight C opens at 11:00 AM of November 2 with Flight D later in the day at 6:00 PM.

Here are the the top ten chip counts of Flight B APT Manila Main Event:

A full APT Main Event Flight B Survivor list can be found by CLICKING HERE.