Main Event

10,000 ante

On a board showing J♠ 8♣ 7♠ 2♣ and 50,000 in the pot, small blind Artem Utevskii bets 25,000, big blind Minseong Cho raises to 75,000, Utevskii folds.

Having just paid a double up to Radbone, Artem Utevskii gained a full boost of his own. Action opened with lojack Dinh Manh Hung raising to 12,000, cutoff Utevskii three-bet to 33,000, back to Dinh who shoved well covering Utevskii. No thinking needed, Utevskii calls and opens A♠ K♠ , Dinh has A♥ 5♦ . The board runs 7♥ 8♥ 2♣ Q♣ K♥ .

On a flop 8♣ 2♥ J♠ and 30,000 in the pot, hijack Artem Utevskii overbets 50,000, small blind Tom Radbone check-raises all in. Utevskii calls with J♥ T♥ , Radbone ahead with Q♦ J♣ , the turn 5♠ and river 9♠ is good for a double up to Radbone.

Welcome to Day 2 of the Main Event! The Main Event drew 499 entries over three starting days to more than crush the PHP 20M guarantee. The 77 returning players are now looking at a prize pool of over PHP 28.7 Million. We will have the official number and payout breakdown for you once that’s been made available. Today’ stage will play down to the Final 9 players. Leading the race is Ryan McAllister with a towering 777,000 stack which is equivalent to 129 bb. Live updates begin at 1pm.

Wai Keong Yong ends Main Event Day 1A as chip leader 

After 13 hours of play, the first flight of the Main Event concluded with 22 players and Wai Keong Yong up top with 421,000.

3000 ante

Two nice pots for Junho Kim. The first pot sees a flop 6♣ 7♣ 9♣ and a hefty 60,000 in the middle, lojack Kim and cutoff Artem Utevskii check. Same action on the turn 5♣ , but on the river 8♥ , lojack bets 30,000, Utevskii folds.

On the next hand, lojack Youngsoo Yang raises to 7,000, small blind Kim calls. On the flop Q♣ T♦ 6♦ , Kim check-calls a 6,000 c-bet. On the turn A♣ , Kim check-calls 11,000. Then on the river 3♦ both check. Kim has A♦ 9♣ top pair beating Yang’s 5♥ 5♠ .

1000 ante

All in preflop, Thijs Hilberts A♥ K♠ , Artem Utevskii 4♦ 4♣ , and Xiao Oi A♦ 7♣ . The board runs 8♣ 2♦ 4♥ 6♦ 9♥ for the small pair to improve further.

400 ante

Button Seungsoo Jeon raises to 900, small blind Artem Utevskii calls. At the flop 2♠ 5♥ 7♠ , Utevskii check-calls a 1,300 bet from Jeon. On the turn 2♣ same action with a 3,000 bet called by Utevskii. On the river 4♣ , Jeon shoves, this time no call from Utevskii

6,000 ante

Cutoff Artem Utevskii raises to 12,000, button Gai Lax Lim three-bets to 34,000, big blind Lijun Zhang calls, back to Utevskii who jams, both Lim and Zhang fold.

5,000 ante

Hijack raises to 10,000, button Artem Utevskii three-bet jams, short stacked big blind Ricardo Torres joins the shove, this pushes out hijack. Utevskii opens A♠ K♠ , Torres T♦ 4♣ , with the board running J♠ J♥ 3♥ 5♥ 4♥ , Torres pairs his small card to triple up.