APT Super High Roller (600,000 PHP)

Five-handed Vincent Huang opened from early-position and it folded around to Renji Mao in the big blind who decided to jam his remaining 490,000 chips. After a few seconds of deliberation time, Huang said he is "ready to gamble" and made the call.

Vincent Huang: 7♦ 7♣

Renji Mao: 4♠ 4♣

The board A♥ T♥ 5♦ A♠ 2♠ did not bring any help to Mao who busted in a disappointing 11th place.

Renji Mao limped in from the small blind and Vincent Huang checked to take it into the streets.

On the flop of A♥ A♦ 5♣, Mao bet 50,000 and Huang made the call to see the Q♣ turn, where the action went check-check.

A K♥ dropped on the river, and Mao bet 35,000. However, Huang raised to 175,000 this time, forcing Mao tossed his cards into the muck.

William Teoh is the Day 1 chip leader of the PHP 600,000 (~USD $10,300) APT Super High Roller. The Malaysian won a massive pot against second-in chips John Matsuda late in Day 1, putting him in a great starting position for Day 2.

A total of 59 entries (42 unique) led to a total prize pool standing at a mouth-watering PHP 32,621,100 (~USD $545,560) and the eventual winner taking home a PHP 9,785,100 (~USD $166,350) top prize.

Teoh accumulated a total of 3,550,000 in chips over the sixteen 40-minute levels played. A fourth place in this tournament would mean a career-high score for him. He achieved his best score at the 2022 APT Manila Championship which he finished in second position for PHP 2,797,700.

Second in chips with 1,770,000 finished the New Zeeland professional Vincent Huang. Throughout the day he could be seen chipping up nicely, never losing any huge pots. Closely following him comes seasoned pro Paulius Plausinaitis with 1,390,000. Other notable names making it to Day 2 include Jordan Westmorland (1,245,000), Nevan Chang (1,070,000), Thomas Ward (1,030,000), and Daniel Neilson (765,000).

Out of the 12 remaining players, 8 will make it to the money, but all eyes will be on the glorious Lion Trophy. For sure, it will be an action packed day which can either be followed on the live blog or via the live stream.

Here are the chip counts of the 12 remaining players.

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With around 100,000 chips in the middle, the board showed 7♣ 4♣ 7♥ A♠ Q♠ . Renji Mao bet 75,000 from the cutoff before Nevan Chang check-called from the big blind.

Mao turned over A♦ T♦ for turned two pair, making Chang throw his cards back to the dealer without showing.